Hi all,
My wife and i have been keeping aquariums ever since we started dating and progressed to a reef tank 3-4yrs ago, we live in Melbourne Australia and our current tank which is a Red sea reefer 525XL is our second reef with our first being 70cm cube which equated to approx 80gal.
This tank has been running for nearly a year now and so far has had a few hiccups along the way and has been a bit slow to get started but i have to admit some of the lack of success has been due to my own laziness.
The tank is scaped using real reef rock and has a very shallow fine 1-2mm sand bed
Equipment includes:
Lighting:
ATI LED Powermodule 54watt 8 bulbs fixture
Circulation:
echo tech mp40wes
echo tech mp10qd
and an old hydor korallia 3000lph maybe?
Skimmer:
Vertex alpha 170
Return pump:
Ehiem compact 5000+
Water top off:
Tunze ozmolator
Temp control:
2x200watt aqua one heaters run off an external temp controller
Currently only dosing randy’s recipe
Alk, Cal and Mag and using Natural salt water for water changes.
Our tank is a mixed reef with a selection of soft coral, zoanthids, mushroom, lps and sps
Fish stocking is:
1 yellow tang
1 mystery wrasse
1 coral beauty
1 red fairy wrasse
1 blue spot blennie
1 starki damsel
2 percula clown fish
clean up crew consists of a variety of
trochus snails
stomatella snails
hermit crabs
collector urchin
Tank has had its ups and downs in the first year and battled an unknown algae outbreak after the initial cycle which was cleared up using vibrant, however after that i have been fighting outbreaks of cyano that seem to come back every few months.
Fish are all healthy and corals are encrusting and growing however my aim this year is to increase stability and try to improve coral color and obviously increase my coral collection.
Anyway hope you enjoy our tank and i will update with any new additions or changes to the tank.
Aidan and Mary
My wife and i have been keeping aquariums ever since we started dating and progressed to a reef tank 3-4yrs ago, we live in Melbourne Australia and our current tank which is a Red sea reefer 525XL is our second reef with our first being 70cm cube which equated to approx 80gal.
This tank has been running for nearly a year now and so far has had a few hiccups along the way and has been a bit slow to get started but i have to admit some of the lack of success has been due to my own laziness.
The tank is scaped using real reef rock and has a very shallow fine 1-2mm sand bed
Equipment includes:
Lighting:
ATI LED Powermodule 54watt 8 bulbs fixture
Circulation:
echo tech mp40wes
echo tech mp10qd
and an old hydor korallia 3000lph maybe?
Skimmer:
Vertex alpha 170
Return pump:
Ehiem compact 5000+
Water top off:
Tunze ozmolator
Temp control:
2x200watt aqua one heaters run off an external temp controller
Currently only dosing randy’s recipe
Alk, Cal and Mag and using Natural salt water for water changes.
Our tank is a mixed reef with a selection of soft coral, zoanthids, mushroom, lps and sps
Fish stocking is:
1 yellow tang
1 mystery wrasse
1 coral beauty
1 red fairy wrasse
1 blue spot blennie
1 starki damsel
2 percula clown fish
clean up crew consists of a variety of
trochus snails
stomatella snails
hermit crabs
collector urchin
Tank has had its ups and downs in the first year and battled an unknown algae outbreak after the initial cycle which was cleared up using vibrant, however after that i have been fighting outbreaks of cyano that seem to come back every few months.
Fish are all healthy and corals are encrusting and growing however my aim this year is to increase stability and try to improve coral color and obviously increase my coral collection.
Anyway hope you enjoy our tank and i will update with any new additions or changes to the tank.
Aidan and Mary
