Loving this thing so far. For $100 it came with the live rock, water and pods that had been in it, and the seller had added occasional biospira to keep it active -- it's an almost 5 year old system now:
It's the LED one, which is cool too. I stole a small piece of the advanced live rock and added it to the refugium in my 3 month old 55, too.
I had a smart power strip here, so I've plugged the lights into 3 ports that I can schedule, and I found an old iPod to control it -- fortunately the power strip also has USB ports to keep the iPod going all the time. It will sit dark and fallow for a week, then I'm planning to run PC2 for 12hours and add PC1 for 8-10 hours once there's livestock in it. I'm hoping that with the "moonlight" aspect of RFA spawning I can hopefully work the moonlight into the schedule.
My plan is to fill it with RFAs and 3 sexy shrimp, plus a Tuxedo Urchin and a CUC. I'm trying to figure out what the CUC should look like right now. I'd like to pick it up locally, rather than order online, as I feel like the kit that I got from reefcleaners last time around didn't fare well when shipping was delayed and it was below freezing for days.
My LFS has a few RFAs in stock, so I'm going to keep feeding this thing up to 2ppm ammonia to make sure it's in good shape, and maybe pick up a snail and a turbo snail.
My main tank is really intended to be a coral grow out tank, so it's in the basement. This thing is right in the living room -- even with the lights off and nothing but algae and rock in it, the burble is so soothing.
I'm more than ready to listen to any stocking thoughts or changes.
It's the LED one, which is cool too. I stole a small piece of the advanced live rock and added it to the refugium in my 3 month old 55, too.
I had a smart power strip here, so I've plugged the lights into 3 ports that I can schedule, and I found an old iPod to control it -- fortunately the power strip also has USB ports to keep the iPod going all the time. It will sit dark and fallow for a week, then I'm planning to run PC2 for 12hours and add PC1 for 8-10 hours once there's livestock in it. I'm hoping that with the "moonlight" aspect of RFA spawning I can hopefully work the moonlight into the schedule.
My plan is to fill it with RFAs and 3 sexy shrimp, plus a Tuxedo Urchin and a CUC. I'm trying to figure out what the CUC should look like right now. I'd like to pick it up locally, rather than order online, as I feel like the kit that I got from reefcleaners last time around didn't fare well when shipping was delayed and it was below freezing for days.
My LFS has a few RFAs in stock, so I'm going to keep feeding this thing up to 2ppm ammonia to make sure it's in good shape, and maybe pick up a snail and a turbo snail.
My main tank is really intended to be a coral grow out tank, so it's in the basement. This thing is right in the living room -- even with the lights off and nothing but algae and rock in it, the burble is so soothing.
I'm more than ready to listen to any stocking thoughts or changes.
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