Hello all. I suffered massive casualties in my tank over the last few months - nearly all corals, all clams, almost all fish, so I took all the rock out, gave it an acid bath, cycled it, drained the tank until it had only 30g or so in it, just enough to cover what corals had survived, and then refilled the tank and sump with new water, about 70g added (so 100g total system volume). Added rock back in, did a bit of scaping, and here is what I came up with. It still has a LONG way to go, but it's going well so far.
Initial tank pictures, equipment, and livestock list:
Latest pics of system:
Equipment
Display tank:
Filtration:
Fish
SPS
Initial tank pictures, equipment, and livestock list:
Latest pics of system:
Equipment
Display tank:
- Deep Blue 80g Rimless Edge
- 48" x 24" x 16"
- 40g breeder, custom 1/4" glass baffles
- 36" x 18" x 16"
Filtration:
- SCA-303 protein skimmer
- 10" x 8" horizontal algae scrubber (lit by custom LED array, 28x 660nm, 6x 455nm)
- Two Tunze 6095 at 24v (100%)
- Custom 'evil cluster'
- 4x Bridgelux BXRA 950B 4000K neutral white
- 12x Luxeon M 450nm royal blue
- 12x Rebel 470nm blue
- 6x Rebel 490nm cyan
- 28x LEDGroupBuy 430nm hyper violet
- 2x 18" MakersLED heatsinks
- Meanwell LDD-H drivers on custom PCB
- Typhon controller
Fish
- 3x Chromis (Chromis viridis)
- Leopard wrasse female (Macropharyngodon meleagris)
- Powder brown tang (Acanthurus japonicus)
- Red scooter dragonet (Synchiropus stellatus)
- Yellow watchman goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus)
- Brittle Sea Star (Ophiocoma sp.)
- Candy striped pistol shrimp (Alpheus randalli)
- Dwarf cerith snails (Cerithium lutosum)
- Florida cerith snails (Cerithium altratum)
- Lettuce sea slugs (Elysia crispata)
- 5x Maxi-mini anemone (Stichodactyla tapetum)
- Mexican turbo snails (Turbo fluctuosa)
- Nassarius snails (Nassarius sp.)
- Nerite snails (Nerita sp.)
- Serpent stars (Ophiolepsis superba)
SPS
- Montipora (Montipora sp.)
- Pocillopora (Pocillopora sp.)
- Alveopora (Alveopora sp.)
- Blastomussa (Blastomussa merletti)
- Branching hammer (Euphyllia parancora)
- Bubble (Plerogyra sinuosa)
- Chalice (Echinophyllia aspera)
- Duncan (Duncanopsammia axifuga)
- Galaxea (Galaxea sp.)
- Goniopora (Goniopora sp.)
- Pearl bubble (Physogyra lichtensteini)
- Short tentacle plate (Fungia sp.)
- Sympodium (Sympodium sp.)
- Wall frogspawn (Euphyllia divisa)
- Wall hammer (Euphyllia ancora)
- Palythoa (Palythoa sp.)
- Zoanthids (Zoanthus sp.)
- Mushroom (Actinodiscus sp.)
- Ricordea (Ricordea florida)
- Purple brush gorgonian (Muriceopsis flavida)
- Cactus caulerpa (Caulerpa cupressoides)
- Codium (Codium sp.)
- Grape caulerpa (Caulerpa racemosa)
- Halimeda (Halimeda sp.)
- Pencil cap (Penicillus capitatus)
- Star grass (Halophila engelmannii)