Funk's 75 Gallon Leather Forest

[Funkateer_1]

Getting back into a serious reef tank after just sitting back and running basic soft corals/macroalgae tanks. Wanted to keep it simple. I've ran Zeovit and other advanced probiotic methods, sulfur reactors, calcium reactors, balling salts. Just want something liverock driven and natural.

Tank has been running for about 2 weeks.

Tank: Aqueon 75 gallon. Purchased secondhand
Sump: Reefflex 300.
Filtration: Socks, 100+ pounds of established rock, 200 microns, Sulfur Denitrator w/ 1.25L of prill and 2L of aragonite.
Skimmer: Reef Octo Classic 150 w/ CO2 Scrubber
Flow: 1 x Tunze 6040 on a short pulse, 2 x Tunze 6045, 1 x Tunze 6055. Roughly 75x turnover. I like flow
Lighting 2 x Hydra 32. Running at 100%, 60% blues. 450ish par at top of rock.
Dosing: B-Ionic when I need it

Parameters
dKH about 9
CA 480ppm
MG 1350
NO3 - 20ppm
Salinity 1.025
Haven't checked anything else....

Fish:
Fu-Manchu Lion
Percula Clown Pair
Assorted White Damsel
Bluethroat Trigger
Harlequin Tusk
Queen Angel
Hippo Tang
Lawnmower Blenny
Common Foxface

I'll keep updating as the tank evolves.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along! What do you want to add to your tank in the future?

 

[Funkateer_1]

Following along! What do you want to add to your tank in the future?

Right now I wanted some bread and butter fish to get some bioload going. Actually grabbed some while my youngest was napping. Foxface for algae control, 3 firefish for dither fish and my whole family unanimously wanted Dory so got a Juvenile Hippo. Good to add first to help mitigate aggression plus if it ich's out I won't be super invested.

Down the road and when I get some serious stability will probably add a group of color. Maybe juvenille breams or possibly even a half dozen anthias. Would like a show Butterfly and angel once the corals start growing.

Also grabbed a nice chunk of photsynthetic sponge and a test acro. Looks kinda like a rosaria but man I am rusty on my taxonomy....

 

[Funkateer_1]

Fish are settling in. Juvenile Hippo is doing the best. Getting small, frequent feedings multiple times a day with selcon enriched food. Selcon has always been my secret sauce for fish wellness.

Fu-Manchu is finally perking up as well. Getting active and hunting. Looks like he regressed from eating prepared foods which is normal coming from the stress of moving to a new tank. Going to give him another week and they make the slog to go get ghost shrimp and re train.

 

[dakoop]

Totally misread the title of this thread

 

[Funkateer_1]

Totally misread the title of this thread

Whatever gets the clicks lol

 

[Funkateer_1]

Nothing too crazy going on. Going through a hair algae outbreak which I'm not to worried about. Added a tunze LED and put some caulerpa in the liverock chamber. Gonna fuge it. Adding daily doses of coral snow, running skimmer wet to help slowly starve it out. Added a few 'rescue' SPS and seeing color develop slowly. Cannot wait till the coralline grows and starting to get some consumption in the tank.

 

[Funkateer_1]

Added a Complexum gruveli. Always been intrigued with NPS and have successfully kept a lot in the past. Curious to see how this does. Either I got a new centerpiece or I lit a $100 bill on fire.

 

[Stephers]

Added a Complexum gruveli. Always been intrigued with NPS and have successfully kept a lot in the past. Curious to see how this does. Either I got a new centerpiece or I lit a $100 bill on fire.

How's it doing?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Added a Complexum gruveli. Always been intrigued with NPS and have successfully kept a lot in the past. Curious to see how this does. Either I got a new centerpiece or I lit a $100 bill on fire.

Great looking coral!

 

[Funkateer_1]

How's it doing?

It kept getting slapped around in the big tank and I was limiting food intake to deal with pretty aggressive hair algae that took over the 75g. I moved it into my 20 gallon no tech no water change swamp tank where it is doing much better. Opening up regularly and feeding well.

Little update on the tank.... Ran flucazonale to deal with the hair algae. Wiped out my macros in the fuge and killed some SPS but man did it work and work well. Took about 10 days to see results and in 2 weeks its mostly gone and the snails are cleaning up the rest. Letting the tank just vibe for a few months with minimal additions. On some special order lists for fish (Australian Stripey, Queen Angel, small Creolefish) so if they show up ill add them.

 

[Funkateer_1]

Update. Lots of hair algae that got out of control. Physical removal and a course of flucazonale and its been wasting away but patience and sea urchins should eventually beat it out. Not getting any reads on nitrates and phosphates due to the algae sucking it all. Elevated dKH to 10 and calcium 460-480 to encourage coralline growth which is starting to happen. Reduced LEDs to 20% as well. SPS are growing great, though not really adding any coral. Current fish list...

- Hippo Tang
- Clarkii Clown Pair (may relocate to 20g due to aggression)
- Bluethroat Trigger
- Lawnmower Blenny
- Foxface
- Harlequin Tusk
- Fu-Manchu

Still going to add:
- Queen Angel (juvi)
- Stripey Chub or a butterfly or two.


You can see 3 months of growth on the stylo here....

Dirty FTS

Tusk!

 

[Funkateer_1]

Added some new coral last few weeks and got this beauty.

 

[Funkateer_1]

Queenie is doing great!

 

[vandy]

Man I really hate being the fish police but that is a rough stocking list.. and looking at your video there is definitely some early aggression signs. Hopefully you have plans to upgrade the size in the next year!

 

[Funkateer_1]

Man I really hate being the fish police but that is a rough stocking list.. and looking at your video there is definitely some early aggression signs. Hopefully you have plans to upgrade the size in the next year!

Clowns gotta go. They are hard on the tusk and show no interest in the RBTA. Plan is to relocate them to the 20g where they can reign in terror by themselves. Once they are removed I want to add some wild caught perculas that are starting to show up on the lists again, those are fish that I have to QT due to their susceptibility to brook which im not equipped for. Everyone else are model citizens so far. Queen has shown some interest in the green acro so observing closely.

The tusk has put on size so may be the first to relocate, we shall see. I generally buy fish, grow them up and trade them in for something else.

 

[vandy]

Clowns gotta go. They are hard on the tusk and show no interest in the RBTA. Plan is to relocate them to the 20g where they can reign in terror by themselves. Once they are removed I want to add some wild caught perculas that are starting to show up on the lists again, those are fish that I have to QT due to their susceptibility to brook which im not equipped for. Everyone else are model citizens so far. Queen has shown some interest in the green acro so observing closely.

The tusk has put on size so may be the first to relocate, we shall see. I generally buy fish, grow them up and trade them in for something else.

sounds like you got a good plan then! Clarkii's definitely can be big bullies

 

[Funkateer_1]

Sumps getting crusty, macros growing and sponge growing everywhere. Filters coming to life

Pecking order is starting to get established. I gotta get those clowns out.

 

[Funkateer_1]

Little update. Clowns removed, began bubble scrubbing daily and seeing overall benefit. Algae continues to waste away.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Little update. Clowns removed, began bubble scrubbing daily and seeing overall benefit. Algae continues to waste away.

Glad the algae is going away!