reef jacob
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My name is Jacob pulsipher I'm 16 years old and have been really into reefing for about 3 years now.
Here is my 120 gallon dual overflow mixed reef that has been up and running for 16 months. It has a diy 40breeder with a reef octopus int 150 skimmer and a jebao dct- 1200. Bubble magus two part doser, dosing 10ml of red sea nopox and 220ml of calcium and alkalinity. I also dose red sea coral colors, and feed brs reef chili. I feed mysis and Hikari marine A. Water change schedule is basically when the tank needs it... idk Ive gotten very lazy and haven't done a water change since December.... The coral seems to be doing great and the red sea nopox is really working good and keeping low nutrients. I'm using red sea coral pro but I'm slowly switching to aquaforest salt.
Equipment list:
Reef Octopus int150 skimmer
bubble magus doser
1 jabeo pp-8
2 jebao wp-25
1 jebao dct-1200 return
8 bulb 48in sunblaze fixture with
3 ati blue plus, 3 ati coral plus, 2 ati purple plus this fixture puts out 400 par top of the tank 285 mid and 225 at the sand.
diy reef brite led strip that is controlled by my smart phone and slowly ramps up then ramps down
the led strip has 9 royal blue 3 watt leds and 9 uv 3 watt leds.
Genesis auto top off and reservoir top off which basically has a solenoid on the rodi which automatically refills the auto top off reservoir.
Finnex heater controller with a ehiem jager 300 watt heater
Fish:
6in blue hippo tang
6in sailfin tang
4in yellow tang
4in kole yellow eye tang
mated pair true percula that are 6 years old
two pajama cardinals that of them has been through 6 tanks and multiple ick and is at least 8-9 years old
five massive blue chromis that have been in a school for at least 3 years.
12in engineer goby
3in sixline wrasse
black and white chromis
overall 16 fish
Coral:
upscales microdalas
chips acro
joe the acro
cali tort
Oregon tort
diablo milli
green with purple tip stag
bali slimmer
setosa
palleta pink tip
fire digi
forest fire monti
jedi mind trix
red/orange monti
ora frogskin
red planet
cats pawl
hydrophora
acans
lobo
orange ricordias
amour of god palys
fire and ice zoas
bam bams
Christmas favia
several types of hammer
tricolor valida tort
cyphastria
pink birds nest
war coral
green duncans
candy canes
purple stylo
branching pavana coral
deep water acro
Miami hurricane chalice
red and white eye chalice
blue and orange chalice
Idaho grape
purple gorgonian
several no name acros
other no name sps and lps corals
inverts:
sand sifting star fish
clean up crew and use to have a huge 16in rainbow bubble tip anemone
all different types of snalis
cleaner shrimp
fire shrimp
This tank has been going for 16months and I know I don't have the fancy ati fixture or aquarium controller or eco tech pumps but what I have proven is that you can grow sps even doing the cheapest setup....
Here is my 120 gallon dual overflow mixed reef that has been up and running for 16 months. It has a diy 40breeder with a reef octopus int 150 skimmer and a jebao dct- 1200. Bubble magus two part doser, dosing 10ml of red sea nopox and 220ml of calcium and alkalinity. I also dose red sea coral colors, and feed brs reef chili. I feed mysis and Hikari marine A. Water change schedule is basically when the tank needs it... idk Ive gotten very lazy and haven't done a water change since December.... The coral seems to be doing great and the red sea nopox is really working good and keeping low nutrients. I'm using red sea coral pro but I'm slowly switching to aquaforest salt.
Equipment list:
Reef Octopus int150 skimmer
bubble magus doser
1 jabeo pp-8
2 jebao wp-25
1 jebao dct-1200 return
8 bulb 48in sunblaze fixture with
3 ati blue plus, 3 ati coral plus, 2 ati purple plus this fixture puts out 400 par top of the tank 285 mid and 225 at the sand.
diy reef brite led strip that is controlled by my smart phone and slowly ramps up then ramps down
the led strip has 9 royal blue 3 watt leds and 9 uv 3 watt leds.
Genesis auto top off and reservoir top off which basically has a solenoid on the rodi which automatically refills the auto top off reservoir.
Finnex heater controller with a ehiem jager 300 watt heater
Fish:
6in blue hippo tang
6in sailfin tang
4in yellow tang
4in kole yellow eye tang
mated pair true percula that are 6 years old
two pajama cardinals that of them has been through 6 tanks and multiple ick and is at least 8-9 years old
five massive blue chromis that have been in a school for at least 3 years.
12in engineer goby
3in sixline wrasse
black and white chromis
overall 16 fish
Coral:
upscales microdalas
chips acro
joe the acro
cali tort
Oregon tort
diablo milli
green with purple tip stag
bali slimmer
setosa
palleta pink tip
fire digi
forest fire monti
jedi mind trix
red/orange monti
ora frogskin
red planet
cats pawl
hydrophora
acans
lobo
orange ricordias
amour of god palys
fire and ice zoas
bam bams
Christmas favia
several types of hammer
tricolor valida tort
cyphastria
pink birds nest
war coral
green duncans
candy canes
purple stylo
branching pavana coral
deep water acro
Miami hurricane chalice
red and white eye chalice
blue and orange chalice
Idaho grape
purple gorgonian
several no name acros
other no name sps and lps corals
inverts:
sand sifting star fish
clean up crew and use to have a huge 16in rainbow bubble tip anemone
all different types of snalis
cleaner shrimp
fire shrimp
This tank has been going for 16months and I know I don't have the fancy ati fixture or aquarium controller or eco tech pumps but what I have proven is that you can grow sps even doing the cheapest setup....
