I will be hatching decapsulated bbs, and, I plan to research ways to mitigate the risk of disease while sharing the same water, but ultimately if it isn't in the cards, I have a sponge filter I can throw into the tank, or I can set up a second sump for this one
My wife wants to do this.
This has been a work in progress for a while, but I finally had two weeks of feeling well enough to devote energy to getting this set up. It shares a sump with my 10g reef and I plan to have more macro and a few gorgonians/other safe coral. I'm pretty happy with everything so far, though it will be a little bit before I'll be ready to get the livestock in it, but I'll update periodically
The set up was pretty easy, I plumbed both overflows down to a T connection to the sump, I did everything with 90* elbows , but I think 45s would have been a better choice to avoid any potential backflow (though I haven't had any noticeable backflow)
Very nice, looks greatMy partner bought me five dwarves before the tank was quite ready for them, but they seem to be doing well. It's still hooked into the bigger tank, but I have fans cooling the incoming water, the fans get it down to 74F and I bet with another set of fans I could get it cooler.
So far feeding enriched decapsulated baby brine from Algae barn. They will also take the decapsulated eggs on their own in a pinch, but I'm in the rhythm of hatching and enriching. Planning to upgrade my brine set up soon, but right now it's giving me ample supply, with most of the leftovers either washing down the overflow or being eaten by the gorgonians (which is super cool to watch.)
My plan is to do 1 gallon water changes every two days to keep the water quality up without totally stripping nutrients from the reef, but unfortunately I can't start out the gate with it due to the bryopsis treatment in the system. It makes me wish the timing had been better on getting stock, and have had a conversation with my partner about buying stuff for the tanks without talking to me first to make sure I've got everything ready.
More to come in the next few weeks
Thank you!
So far so good until the last few days. I lost several of the ponies while the heat was out along with a few other fish out of the main display. I'll try to get photos up here after I catch up with housework. Our power was spotty, but more on than off, but we had a gas valve issue, and had to go without heat monday and tuesday before someone finally came out wednesday evening to fix the gas valve on the furnace.
