Bumblebee Reef - 75G/30G (36Lx20Wx24H)

[mylertitchell]

The beginning of Year 4

This is my year…

Low Maintenance Community Mixed Reef

Goal for fish and coral is rainbow and living in harmony. Thriving instead of surviving so not heavy stocked.

Goal for tank is to run with simple minimal effort and to be able to handle self running if go on holidays for 1-2weeks, so fish inverts equipment all to take this into consideration. Eg. Fish survive off autofeeder only, glass be dirty, and skimmer lasts 1-2 weeks, so emptied prior and filter roll length checked.

Fish
- Pair Black Ice Clowns
- School Lyretail Anthias
- Marine Betta
- (Dalmatian Molly)
- Future: Dwarf Angel, Hog/Wrasse, Bottom (Goby/Blenny/Mandarin), Damsel?, Classic Nanos or with a twist? Eg. Black cap, helfrichi etc.

Critters
- Various Snails
- Various Crabs
- Shortspine Urchin
- Future: Cleaner/Blood Shrimp

Aquaforest
- SPS Bonsai
- Euphyllia Bonsai
- Anemone Bonsai
- Duncan Dwarf Bonsai
- Softies Waterfalls
- Mixed Sandbed (heavy on rock flowers around a dozen)
- Future: More SPS and Euphyllia, mushrooms and zoas, lobo/acan/fungai, encrusting lps/sps corals, gorgonians, GSP back wall

Equipment
- Hybrid Lighting
- Glass Scraper
- Web camera (full tank inc sump view)
- Autofeeder (Mixed Pellets)
- Pair of Wavemakers
- Filter Roller
- Skimmer (with auto shut off alarm)
- Ozone (15mg per hour 12:30am-5:30am)
- Dual Pumps (each running 1x turnover)
- Pair Titanium Heaters (with separate thermo control)
- ATO (with fully automatic res refill every Sunday)
- 5 channel Dosing Pumps (ATI 1, ATI 2, Kalk, Genesis Carbon, LaCl3), 4l res and kalk 25l res
- Semi Automatic Water Change (Float System, click button to turn equipment off, click to drain dirty water from sump with auto turn off at level, click button to add clean water auto turn off at level, click button to turn equipment on - can drain sump completely if want)
- RODI (Automatic fill ato and salt bin or kalk bin if required every Sunday if turned on (rodi and salt always on))

Routine
- Daily Scrape Glass, sanity check and enjoy
- Feed Frozen (Mysis/Krill) Daily
- Rest of Equipment as/when required (fornight/month/quarter)
- Test Monthly (weekly for particular element if made changes eg. Added fish or big coral etc) Test Alk, Nitrate and Phos with Hanna. Cal and Mag with Salifert (auto mag stirrer), Ph and Salinity and temp with Pens.

 

[mylertitchell]

37 Months

Tank is looking and performing as expected, has not needed anything except feeding, glass cleaning, blowing rocks/sand and emptying the skimmer. Right on Target.

One of the anthias never ate just lived in nooks since owned but is now eating well so that’s great. I believe I can already see who the alpha is going to be. Clowns paired nicely too.

Delighted to be seeing SPS Growth


Candy canes doing well, everything looking like there thriving, so on agenda now is either
- SPS Order
- Invert Order
- Fish Order
Think I should get out of house and go to a fish shop, as it deserves more movement. Considering more and more just load of nano community fish.

Not worried about high cal/mag. I did that and have stopped dosing ati 2, so can come down.