ryanhopkinson
New Member
Started this project while I'm building my big tank, a budget reef tank with no testing to see how I get on. Im not doing any coral dipping either. It's all second hand apart from the light which I already had.
Custom tank 45cm x 45cm x 60cm tall
Jaebo sw80 wavemaker
Dd heater controller and 300w titanium heater
All pond solutions cannister filter with build in UV 1000lph
Few bits of rock I had lying about and a couple peices of small live rock from a friend.
I'm about a month In and the diatoms are slowly disappearing and some hair algae has made an appearance in its place. Only have a pair of clowns for now and I'm debating on 1 more resident. Have a few soft Corals that was either free or cost penny's. I'm not gonna do anything to the tank just let what I put in grow how it wants and where it wants!
Cleaning the sponges weekly on the cannister is getting abit tedious so I'm going to add a pre filter with the eheim quick attachments with filter floss in for ease of maintenence most likely will be changed every few days or at the most a week. The media in the cannister is aplhagrog (bought the filter set up so it was already cycled) and I've added 100ml of aquaforset carbon to In the filter aswell.
I've also added some caulerpa taxifolia to aid with nutrient export ontop of the weekly 10% water changes. I want to add a hob skimmer but the euro bracing it quite wide so I'll need to modify one most likely.
Up to now everything's looking great apart from the odd few polpys of palys that are annoyed presumably by the hair algae. I have had a couple aptasia that I have glued over but they've been the only hiccups up to now. If any more pop up I might leave them so I can get some berghia nudibranch and maybe some asteria starfish so I can add a harlequin shrimp. I'll most likely be adding an ato soon aswell as topping off everyday can get boring fast! Here's a few pictures of the set up!
I'll update any changes or new additions!
Custom tank 45cm x 45cm x 60cm tall
Jaebo sw80 wavemaker
Dd heater controller and 300w titanium heater
All pond solutions cannister filter with build in UV 1000lph
Few bits of rock I had lying about and a couple peices of small live rock from a friend.
I'm about a month In and the diatoms are slowly disappearing and some hair algae has made an appearance in its place. Only have a pair of clowns for now and I'm debating on 1 more resident. Have a few soft Corals that was either free or cost penny's. I'm not gonna do anything to the tank just let what I put in grow how it wants and where it wants!
Cleaning the sponges weekly on the cannister is getting abit tedious so I'm going to add a pre filter with the eheim quick attachments with filter floss in for ease of maintenence most likely will be changed every few days or at the most a week. The media in the cannister is aplhagrog (bought the filter set up so it was already cycled) and I've added 100ml of aquaforset carbon to In the filter aswell.
I've also added some caulerpa taxifolia to aid with nutrient export ontop of the weekly 10% water changes. I want to add a hob skimmer but the euro bracing it quite wide so I'll need to modify one most likely.
Up to now everything's looking great apart from the odd few polpys of palys that are annoyed presumably by the hair algae. I have had a couple aptasia that I have glued over but they've been the only hiccups up to now. If any more pop up I might leave them so I can get some berghia nudibranch and maybe some asteria starfish so I can add a harlequin shrimp. I'll most likely be adding an ato soon aswell as topping off everyday can get boring fast! Here's a few pictures of the set up!
I'll update any changes or new additions!
