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ReeferMaddness843

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Hi, My names John and I have an addiction,
Been in the background doing tons of research in my first 6 months of a large tank setup. Ran freshwater got a while but then saw a friends reef and had to have one myself. Thanks to all the tips, advice, and suggestions from everyone indirectly. Been stalking long enough so figured why not finally join the forums. Ha. All info on my tank is listed in profile. I am far from knowing it all, but have learned a lot and glad to offer any advice as well as accepting of any constructive criticism. Thanks for creating a place that can really guide me in this hobby/addiction/problem. Lol.

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I have since removed the antheli from display and added a few pieces. Will try to get a pic of full setup added here in a bit.
 
My under stand 14gallon biocube with aio wall removed and turned into fuge. Has some chateo in back but doesn't seem to be growing. Sump section of tank as well.

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Tanks:
110 gallon tall display
20 gallon sump
14 gallon "biofuge"

Lighting:
Dual kessil 160we
Dual t5HO (1x10k, 1x420 actinic)
36" 14k led (had laying around so why not?)
Fluval aqua Sky fuge light

Stock List:
Fish:
Yellow tang
Clown pair
Royal gramma
2x blue damsels
Benggai Cardinal
Blue spotted goby
Coral beauty

Coral;
Toadstool leather
Mandarin Orange Zoa
GSP
Mystic Sunset Monti
Dragon eye Zoa
Green button paly
Purple/piny paly
Kenya tree
Orange/green/purple acans
Misc zoa colony
Green hammer
Green w/ blue tip torch
Green w/ purple tip frogspawn
Pink w/ green tip torch
Pink encrusting monti
Red monti cap
Green and orange ricordia
White bubble coral
Misc mush rock
Red/green maxi mini
Green highlighter (deep water) acro
Blasto Wellsi colony
OG Mummy eye chalice

In fuge:
Pink anthelia and purple mush

Misc clean up crew.

Equipment:
Eshoppe s-120 skimmer
Dual overflow
Eheim return
Eshoppe 300 overflow for fuge
Maxspect xf150 gyre
Jebao wp-10 x2
Temp probe/heater
I think that's it off top of head

Parameters: (steady)
SG: 1.026
Ca: 450
Alk 7-8 dkh
Nit: around 5-10 (softies and zoa love it)
Mag: 1400
 
Current setup. Removed the door from the stand to allow for a display fuge. Thanks to the dollar a gallon sale snatched up a 20L to replace the wife's 10Gal. Converting to all in one. Will start and link a new thread here once begin the build.

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IF YOU HAD TO OPERATE EVERYTHING ELSE MANUALLY, WHICH AUTOMATED SYSTEM WOULD YOU KEEP?

  • Auto top-off

    Votes: 62 57.4%
  • Automated dosing

    Votes: 7 6.5%
  • Mechanical filtration / roller filter

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Automated water testing

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • Automatic feeding

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Lighting schedule

    Votes: 21 19.4%
  • Controller and remote monitoring

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Leak detection and emergency shutoff

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Automatic water changes

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • None. I prefer to operate everything manually

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something else (explain in the comments)

    Votes: 1 0.9%
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