College's 8 gallon CADlight Mini Reef

[ReefingInCLE]

Hello All!

I started this tank on 9/4/2013

About me: I am a physical therapy graduate student, I will have my DPT in May 2015

About the tank:

Tank Equipment:

• CAD Lights 8 g Mini
• I ran the stock LED light for one year and it did fine with my LPS corals, I upgraded to a Nano Box Mini Tide in January 2015 (Love this light)
• Eheim Jager 50 Watt
• Floating thermometer
• CUC via reef cleaners (great service) of all snails mostly Florida ceriths and dwarf ceriths

Stock List:

1 clown fish
1 hammer coral (green tips)
1 duncan
1 neon green candy cane



Other Equipment I Use (FYI):

• API Master Liquid Test Kit - Saltwater
• Battery back up Air pump (for emergency use)
• Reef Crystals
• Refractrometer
• Revive Coral Cleaner
• Chemi-Pure Elite
• Poly Filter
• Maxi-Jet 900 (for mixing SW)
• Ammonium Chloride Solution (for cycling)
• Hydor 50W (for mixing SW)
• Mag-Float 30 (do not use)
• Dr. Tim's One and Only (used to cycle too ~ 1 month)
• Arag-Alive Special Grade Sand 10 lbs
• Gravel Vac
• 7 Pounds Bulk Reef Supply Reef Saver Rock
• Distilled water
• 5 gallon bucket

I do a 2 gallon water change every week. I run Chemi Pure Elite and poly filter in the first chamber. I feed my fish New Life Spectrum and Rod's Frozen Food every day or every other day. I feed my corals Rod's once a week or every other week. I manually top off my tank every other day.

Let me know what you think! You can see the coral growth overt the last year in the following pictures!




















Happy Reefing!

 

[ReefingInCLE]

Another pic with Nano Box and one showing the aluminum DIY stand I made for the light to mount on







Happy Reefing!

 

[ReefingInCLE]

Judging by the pictures and seeing that my hammer coral is touching the glass, Do you think I should frag my hammer coral?

 

[Tahoe61]

Those corals look like they are loving that tank. I would not frag yet, it looks too cool.

 

[Tom@HaslettMI]

I would not frag it either. May be move it to the back left corner and move the candycane to the front. Just a thpught.

Keep up the great work.

Tom