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Big day today, I started the process towards my dream reef tank.
A little background... Back in 1988 I started in the marine hobby while I lived in Tampa, Florida. I started with a 20g marine fish tank, that went to a 55g, then a 90g. All the time I had marine fish. I ran a "wetdry" system on the 90 and did ok. I had to fight with ICK or velvet did the copper treatments and solved it. Lost half my live stock though. At this point I was pretty much bumming and we had our first child in 1990. So much going on, I made the call that it was time to vacate the hobby for now.
Fast forward nearly 30 years.. (ALLOT has changed) Today I made the call to jump back in and with both feet.
Below is a list of what I have and use. I update this list regularly.
Red Sea 625 XXL tank
Items in the tank
Reef Octopus Elite 200sss Protein Skimmer
Ecotech Vectra M2 DC return Pump x2 (one feeds accessories)
Ecotech Radion XR30 G4 Pros X3 and RMS (Radion Mounting system) with RMS wire hanging kit
Ecotech Light diffuser X3
Ecotech MP40WQD Quietdrive Propeller Pumps X4
Ecotech Reeflink
Ecotech battery back ups x2
4’ extension cables for 2 MP40s
Aquatop 500W TI heater
120lbs Marco Reefsaver
GHL Profilux 4e Mega Set 6e
GHL powerbars x3
GHL propeller breeze 4 fan unit
GHL leak detector unit with 3 sensors
GHL flow sensors x2
GHL KH Director and doser
GHL maxi doser (for auto water changes)
APC battery backup for GHL computer
Brightwell Xport bio brick X2
Pentair 40W UV sterilizer
BRS carbon reactor
Cobalt MJ 1200 pump (feeding carbon reactor)
Clearwater CW200 Algae Scrubber W/ light shields
Clearview lids tank cover
Under Cabinet LED Lighting
Icecap Kalk Stirrer
DaStaCo A-1 Calcium Reactor
What I plan to buy for the tank
Ion Director from GHL (if it ever makes it to market)
And more....
Other Items Purchased
Mixing containers
44g Brute Rubbermaid can
32g Brute Rubbermaid can
BRS 5 Stg 100GPD RO/DI
BRS 2 canister DI
Marineland 1200 Power head/Pump (to move water around)
Tunze 6105 for mixing water
Auto water change and Auto top off system
50g Rotomold tank
65g Rotomold tank
Pan World 50PX-X 1110gph pump
Lots of Murlock and John Guest fittings
Lots of PVC
Quarantine/Hospital items
20G Quarantine tank with Fluval HOB and Mover M900 Powerhead
10G hospital tank (for use with copper treatments only)
Ehiem heater for hospital tank
Salifert 35 HOB for Hospital tank
IM 10G tank for Coral QT
Tunze NANO ATO
AI Prime light for Coral QT (also light mount)
Cobalt 150W Heater X2
Fluval Air pump and cheap throw away air stones.
55g tank to house fish during ICK breakout
Seachem 110 HOB filter
20g Long tank QTing wrasse
Using these as a experiment in Hybrid TTM
2X 10g tanks
2X Seachem Tidal 55 filters
2X Ehiem heaters
Testing
Refractometer
Salifert test kits: No2, NO3, NH3, Alk, Calcium, Mag, Copper and everything else they make
Hanna testers: salinity, Alk, calcium, copper, PO4
Medications (all are on hand just in case)
Dr Tims First Defense
BA Fish Recover M
PraziPro
Copper Power
Seachem Focus
Seachem Kanaplex
API General Cure
API Furan-2
Cyciling items
MicroBacter7
Dr Tims one and only
Dr Tims Ammonium Chloride Solution
BioSpira
Home modifications
RO/DI system
RO drinking water system
Kitchen faucet to match RO faucet (gotta keep the wife happy)
2 20 Amp Electrical circuits
Consumables
Salt mix, Oceanic, Red Sea salt, Tropic Marin/Pro-Reef
And other small stuff I'm just not going to list because it's just to tedious and I'm lazy
Livestock
Paracheilinus carpenteri - Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse, M
Gramma loreto - Royal Gramma Basslet
Amphiprion ocellaris - Ocellaris Clownfish x 2
Centropyge potteri - Potter's Angelfish, M
Siganus unimaculatus - One Spot Foxface
Zebrasoma xanthurum - Purple Tang, M
Ctenochaetus strigosus - Kole Yellow Eye Tang
Ctenochaetus tominiensis - Bristletooth Tomini Tang
Pseudanthias squamipinnis - Lyretail Anthias, F
Genicanthus semifasciatus - Swallowtail Angelfish, F
1 Cleaner shrimp
1 blood shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
Snails, lots of snails...
Livestock casualties
1 Paracheilinus mccoskeri - McCosker's Flasher Wrasse, M (launch it's self out of the tank while I had the lid off. Flew 7 feet in the air and hit the tile)
1 Firefish, Purple (Died getting sucked into a cleaning hose)
1 Firefish, Red (died removing rock from DT to QT all fish due to ICK)
1 Chromis (powerhead victim)
1 Emerald crab (removed for eating zoas)
1 purple firefish (never survived QT)
2 red firefish (never survived qt)
1 Chromis (Uronema disease in QT)
Snails... (DOA.. powerhead... sucked up tank vac, and crawled out - baked)
Chromis viridis - Green Reef Chromis x 2 given away, living well in their new home.
A little background... Back in 1988 I started in the marine hobby while I lived in Tampa, Florida. I started with a 20g marine fish tank, that went to a 55g, then a 90g. All the time I had marine fish. I ran a "wetdry" system on the 90 and did ok. I had to fight with ICK or velvet did the copper treatments and solved it. Lost half my live stock though. At this point I was pretty much bumming and we had our first child in 1990. So much going on, I made the call that it was time to vacate the hobby for now.
Fast forward nearly 30 years.. (ALLOT has changed) Today I made the call to jump back in and with both feet.
Below is a list of what I have and use. I update this list regularly.
Red Sea 625 XXL tank
Items in the tank
Reef Octopus Elite 200sss Protein Skimmer
Ecotech Vectra M2 DC return Pump x2 (one feeds accessories)
Ecotech Radion XR30 G4 Pros X3 and RMS (Radion Mounting system) with RMS wire hanging kit
Ecotech Light diffuser X3
Ecotech MP40WQD Quietdrive Propeller Pumps X4
Ecotech Reeflink
Ecotech battery back ups x2
4’ extension cables for 2 MP40s
Aquatop 500W TI heater
120lbs Marco Reefsaver
GHL Profilux 4e Mega Set 6e
GHL powerbars x3
GHL propeller breeze 4 fan unit
GHL leak detector unit with 3 sensors
GHL flow sensors x2
GHL KH Director and doser
GHL maxi doser (for auto water changes)
APC battery backup for GHL computer
Brightwell Xport bio brick X2
Pentair 40W UV sterilizer
BRS carbon reactor
Cobalt MJ 1200 pump (feeding carbon reactor)
Clearwater CW200 Algae Scrubber W/ light shields
Clearview lids tank cover
Under Cabinet LED Lighting
Icecap Kalk Stirrer
DaStaCo A-1 Calcium Reactor
What I plan to buy for the tank
Ion Director from GHL (if it ever makes it to market)
And more....
Other Items Purchased
Mixing containers
44g Brute Rubbermaid can
32g Brute Rubbermaid can
BRS 5 Stg 100GPD RO/DI
BRS 2 canister DI
Marineland 1200 Power head/Pump (to move water around)
Tunze 6105 for mixing water
Auto water change and Auto top off system
50g Rotomold tank
65g Rotomold tank
Pan World 50PX-X 1110gph pump
Lots of Murlock and John Guest fittings
Lots of PVC
Quarantine/Hospital items
20G Quarantine tank with Fluval HOB and Mover M900 Powerhead
10G hospital tank (for use with copper treatments only)
Ehiem heater for hospital tank
Salifert 35 HOB for Hospital tank
IM 10G tank for Coral QT
Tunze NANO ATO
AI Prime light for Coral QT (also light mount)
Cobalt 150W Heater X2
Fluval Air pump and cheap throw away air stones.
55g tank to house fish during ICK breakout
Seachem 110 HOB filter
20g Long tank QTing wrasse
Using these as a experiment in Hybrid TTM
2X 10g tanks
2X Seachem Tidal 55 filters
2X Ehiem heaters
Testing
Refractometer
Salifert test kits: No2, NO3, NH3, Alk, Calcium, Mag, Copper and everything else they make
Hanna testers: salinity, Alk, calcium, copper, PO4
Medications (all are on hand just in case)
Dr Tims First Defense
BA Fish Recover M
PraziPro
Copper Power
Seachem Focus
Seachem Kanaplex
API General Cure
API Furan-2
Cyciling items
MicroBacter7
Dr Tims one and only
Dr Tims Ammonium Chloride Solution
BioSpira
Home modifications
RO/DI system
RO drinking water system
Kitchen faucet to match RO faucet (gotta keep the wife happy)
2 20 Amp Electrical circuits
Consumables
Salt mix, Oceanic, Red Sea salt, Tropic Marin/Pro-Reef
And other small stuff I'm just not going to list because it's just to tedious and I'm lazy
Livestock
Paracheilinus carpenteri - Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse, M
Gramma loreto - Royal Gramma Basslet
Amphiprion ocellaris - Ocellaris Clownfish x 2
Centropyge potteri - Potter's Angelfish, M
Siganus unimaculatus - One Spot Foxface
Zebrasoma xanthurum - Purple Tang, M
Ctenochaetus strigosus - Kole Yellow Eye Tang
Ctenochaetus tominiensis - Bristletooth Tomini Tang
Pseudanthias squamipinnis - Lyretail Anthias, F
Genicanthus semifasciatus - Swallowtail Angelfish, F
1 Cleaner shrimp
1 blood shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
Snails, lots of snails...
Livestock casualties
1 Paracheilinus mccoskeri - McCosker's Flasher Wrasse, M (launch it's self out of the tank while I had the lid off. Flew 7 feet in the air and hit the tile)
1 Firefish, Purple (Died getting sucked into a cleaning hose)
1 Firefish, Red (died removing rock from DT to QT all fish due to ICK)
1 Chromis (powerhead victim)
1 Emerald crab (removed for eating zoas)
1 purple firefish (never survived QT)
2 red firefish (never survived qt)
1 Chromis (Uronema disease in QT)
Snails... (DOA.. powerhead... sucked up tank vac, and crawled out - baked)
Chromis viridis - Green Reef Chromis x 2 given away, living well in their new home.
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