LPS Dominant mixed with Soft Corals
Aquarium Profile and Equipment
- What type of saltwater aquarium is this?
- LPS Dominated
- Total Water Volume
- 32
- When did you start this tank?
- Sep 27, 2024
- What is your aquarium made of?
- Glass
- Aquarium Length (inches)
- 32.5
- Aquarium Width (inches)
- 15.75
- Aquarium Height (inches)
- 15.35
- Aquarium Overflow/Drain
- All In One Tank
- Aquarium Sump
- NO Sump
- Aquarium Stand
- Antique cabinet, solid wood
- Aquarium Controller
- NO
- Protein Skimmer
- YES
- Protein Skimmer Make and Model
- Fluval PS1
- Aquarium Reactors
- None
- Return Pump
- Fluval included pump
- What types of equipment are you using for water flow and circulation?
- Powerhead
- Water Flow and Circulation Equipment List
- Ecotech
- Aquarium Lighting
- LED
- Lighting Equipment List
- Fluval Marine 3.0
- Lighting PAR and Goals
- Use a custom lighting schedule that traps up for 2 hours and down for 4 during a 12 hour runtime
- Dosing Equipment Detail
- None
- Auto Top Off or ATO
- NO
- Aquarium Heating and Cooling
- I am using a heater or heaters
- Water Temperature
- 78
- Heating and Cooling Equipment Detail
- Titanium heater-Fluval
- Frag Tank Details
- None
- Additional Equipment Detail
- None
Aquarium Water Chemistry and Parameters
- pH Level
- 8.2
- Specific Gravity
- 1.023
- Nitrate or NO3
- 25
- Phosphate or PO4
- 0.90
- Calcium
- 420
- Alkalinity
- 8.9
- Magnesium
- 1440
- Salt Brand
- Reef Crystals
- Trace Element Dosing
- Red Sea as needed
Aquarium Natural and Mechanical Filtration
- Substrate
- Sand
- Substrate Level
- Shallow
- Live Rock
- 25
- Live Rock Type
- Carbisea
- Nutrient Export
- Protein Skimmer
- Carbon
- Water Changes
- YES
- Water Change Details
- 10 gallons per month - 5 gallons once in between
- Nutrient Export Details
- Let the tank do its thing
- Additional Maintenance Details
- Weekly glass cleaning and tip off if needed
Aquarium Tank Inhabitants (fish, coral, invert etc.)
- Fish List
- Cardinalfish
- Chromis
- Clownfish
- Goby
- Wrasse
- Total Fish
- 6
- Coral List
- LPS Coral
- Zoanthids
- Soft Coral
- Mushroom Coral
- Total Corals
- 30
- Invert List
- Anemone
- Crabs
- Shrimp
- Snails
- Urchin
- Total Inverts
- 20
- Livestock Detail
- Blue-Green Chromis, Six Line Wrasse, Pajama Cardinal, Diamond Goby, 2 Hybrid Orange Storm Clowns, hermits, cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, tuxedo urchin, emerald crab, margarita snails, nassarius snails, 3 RFA, Sherman BTA, mushrooms, lots of cool LPS and softies!
- Livestock Quarantine
- Coral
- Favorite Fish
- Had to be my funny clown pair but especially the Sherman guarding female!
- Favorite Coral
- My zoas
- Favorite Invert
- Tuxedo Urchin
- Never Livestock
- Mantis shrimp - killed everything on my very first reefing adventure years ago
Aquarium Nutrition (fish, coral, invert etc. feeding)
- Fish Feeding Frequency
- Every Other Day
- Coral Feeding Frequency
- Other
- Fish and Coral Feeding
- Flake
- Pellet
- Frozen
- Algae Strips
- What brands of foods are you feeding?
- Vitalis, Hikari, PE Mysis, Reef Roids, The Coral Ranch, Barrier Reef Labs, Phytoplankton
- Auto Feeder
- NO
Additional Aquarium Information
- What do you think are the keys to your success in reefing?
- Research and more research…listening to experts with way more experience, not being afraid to ask questions and a little bit of experimenting. Done so well that in month 8 I had to make the decision to upgrade (my current build thread has that) and the tank is still exploding in growth that things are literally running into each other now!
