Boochika
Active Member
I've been reefing for 2 years now but have moved homes in between. I feel I've never really got my tank settled and I'm sorta restarting a bit.
Right now I have some brand new zoas, an acan and frogspawn in the tank with an old purple tip frogspawn hanging on.
I've never been able to really get things right and it's been frustrating but I'm not one to give up easily, or at all.
My tank is an 80 gallon (48 x 18 x 24 or something like that) with 1 tunze 6105 ph and 1 koralia gen 3 powerhead (1500ph). I keep my flow around 1600-2000gph in the tank itself and have never really seen great polyp extension from LPS corals (which is what I'm aiming for and my favorite).
I use a kessil AP700 about 1 foot off the surface of the water at 40% intensity during the 4 hours of peak intensity throughout the day.
I have 2 clown fish which constantly spawn, 2 banggai cardinalfish which also recently mated and a plethora of snails and hermits. I have 1 tuxedo blue urchin as well. There is also a firefish and orchid dottyback to round out my livestock for now.
I'd like to add a tang (Kole eye or tomini) in the future and some BG chromis. Perhaps even some gobies as well.
I'll be looking for a lot of help (#reefsquad) and hoping to offer some of my lessons learned as well. I'm from southern california where it's been beautiful the past couple of weeks and I get fresh NSW from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Right now I have some brand new zoas, an acan and frogspawn in the tank with an old purple tip frogspawn hanging on.
I've never been able to really get things right and it's been frustrating but I'm not one to give up easily, or at all.
My tank is an 80 gallon (48 x 18 x 24 or something like that) with 1 tunze 6105 ph and 1 koralia gen 3 powerhead (1500ph). I keep my flow around 1600-2000gph in the tank itself and have never really seen great polyp extension from LPS corals (which is what I'm aiming for and my favorite).
I use a kessil AP700 about 1 foot off the surface of the water at 40% intensity during the 4 hours of peak intensity throughout the day.
I have 2 clown fish which constantly spawn, 2 banggai cardinalfish which also recently mated and a plethora of snails and hermits. I have 1 tuxedo blue urchin as well. There is also a firefish and orchid dottyback to round out my livestock for now.
I'd like to add a tang (Kole eye or tomini) in the future and some BG chromis. Perhaps even some gobies as well.
I'll be looking for a lot of help (#reefsquad) and hoping to offer some of my lessons learned as well. I'm from southern california where it's been beautiful the past couple of weeks and I get fresh NSW from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
