Andynz2000
Active Member
Well, I wasnt going to do a build thread but I guess I'll just use it as sort of a diary for myself!
I kept some tropical fish in highschool and hadnt kept fish for over 10 years. I wanted to try marine fish/corals because I've always thought they were so cool! It seems the Tech has come far
Set up is a aquaone minireef 120. 120L display tank and 30L sump.
Great white Gw5 skimmer, Illumagic blaze x mini, moray 2300 return pump, Eheim jager heater. Sedra sw4 wavemaker (2nd on on its way). Tunze Nano ATO and Tunze 8811 fuge light.
Initially I had some trouble with the durso standpip noise but managed to make a custom reverse durso in the sump with a ballvalve to reduce noise and the bubbles.
Cycled with 1.5ppm Ammonia and seachem stability initially, but then added Dr tims bacteria 2 weeks in. The nirites peaked at 0.6 and went down and ammonia closely followed. Nitrates were stealdily going up te whole time. Cycle took about 5/6 weeks and I redosed ammonia later in the cycle because the ammonia was stuck at 0.25 and wouldnt go down, but then upon redosing it processed it within 36 hours.
Did a big water change, with aquaforest reef salt.
Added fish today finally, two small clowns that initally stuck to the bottom corner but now they are swimming around a lot more. Also have two small plate corals, Fungia coral and a heliofungia. Two snails. The alk from my salt mix was 7 checked with both hanna checker and JBL, at a salinity of 1.025 so I am slowly dosing alk to get it up to 9.
Current parameters:
Temp 25
Salinity 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 4.7
Phos: 0
Alk: 7
PH: 8
Calc & MG: to come
I kept some tropical fish in highschool and hadnt kept fish for over 10 years. I wanted to try marine fish/corals because I've always thought they were so cool! It seems the Tech has come far
Set up is a aquaone minireef 120. 120L display tank and 30L sump.
Great white Gw5 skimmer, Illumagic blaze x mini, moray 2300 return pump, Eheim jager heater. Sedra sw4 wavemaker (2nd on on its way). Tunze Nano ATO and Tunze 8811 fuge light.
Initially I had some trouble with the durso standpip noise but managed to make a custom reverse durso in the sump with a ballvalve to reduce noise and the bubbles.
Cycled with 1.5ppm Ammonia and seachem stability initially, but then added Dr tims bacteria 2 weeks in. The nirites peaked at 0.6 and went down and ammonia closely followed. Nitrates were stealdily going up te whole time. Cycle took about 5/6 weeks and I redosed ammonia later in the cycle because the ammonia was stuck at 0.25 and wouldnt go down, but then upon redosing it processed it within 36 hours.
Did a big water change, with aquaforest reef salt.
Added fish today finally, two small clowns that initally stuck to the bottom corner but now they are swimming around a lot more. Also have two small plate corals, Fungia coral and a heliofungia. Two snails. The alk from my salt mix was 7 checked with both hanna checker and JBL, at a salinity of 1.025 so I am slowly dosing alk to get it up to 9.
Current parameters:
Temp 25
Salinity 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 4.7
Phos: 0
Alk: 7
PH: 8
Calc & MG: to come
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