Ki & Tamir's 48g Reef

[Afkomjorgen]

I think its finally time to make a build thread for the tank that my partner and I share! We've had our tank up and running since Oct 2019. This is our first salt water tank and we've made some mistakes and learned a lot! We're certainly slowing down these days on additions, and trips to the LFS are filled with fewer temptations now that the tank is mostly 'full'.
We have a softie/lps dominated tank with just a few fish and inverts. We're learning a lot about what the tank likes vs chasing numbers and trends. We have a generally high nitrate tank (30+) and we are aiming to bring our P04 into a balance with it. We love our 'pests' and macro algae and think they add character and charm to the tank. Besides it would have taken me ages to fill all those rocks, thank goodness for nems.

Tank started: Oct 2019
Tank size : 48 gallons w/ 14 gallon sump (currently) ---- 28 gallon bowfront (previously)
Tank type: Aqueon Recife glass tank ; tank dimensions: 36"(W)x18"(D)x18"(H)

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Equipment:
-Aquatop Xyclone Protein Skimmer
- Fluval Sea Marine 3.0 LED 46 watts. 1950 lumens (double up with) LED 40w light bar that came with the tank
- Heater

Livestock:
- " Tamir " CB Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish Female - added 2019
- " Kirothius" CB Standard Ocellaris Clownfish Male - added 2019
- " Lhel " CB Orchid Dottyback - added 2022
- " Tamaki " Yellow Watchman Goby - added 2022
- " Jacques II " Cleaner Shrimp - added 2022

- Rainbow Bubble Tip Anemone - added January 2022

- Sebae anemone - added May 2022

- 2 Elephant Slugs - added 2022

CUC : Blue eye hermits, misc hermits, nassarius, cowries, turbos, oxtongue nerite, nerite, trocus, mithrix crab (sump friend)

Corals:
Frogspawn Coral - added Jan 2020

Kenya Tree Coral ( smaller now due to a poor reaction to fragging ) added January 2021

Devils Hand Coral - added Aug 2021

Hammer Coral - added Jan 2022

Alveopora added Dec 2022

Bi-color octospawn - Added Summer 2022

Clove polyps - added Jan 2022

Pavona added 2022

Mushrooms - added many many times over 2022 (1-22,12-22,12-28)

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RIP to the things we have not successfully been able to keep.
Many GSP and xenia frags, our duncans, attempts at SPS, and our beloved Bicolor Blenny "Neil" and Cleaner shrimp "Jacques I".

 

[Zach B]

Wow! Awesome progress on the tank, love the photos

 

[Afkomjorgen]

Updates!
Working at a salt water fish store so I’m adding more corals and we added a new fish!

Added:
Tomini Tang
Pom Pom crabs
Halloween Hermit
Electric blue leg hermit
Candy stripe pistol shrimp

A ton of new corals including some new hammers, another octospawn,acans, bowerbankiis, gorgonians etc

We have continued to have a majano problem and dispite using the majano wand to manually remove them, their numbers are steadily increasing still.
I’ve set up a tank in the garage and have ordered a raccoon butterfly. Anecdotal evidence from other reefers suggests that they are a natural majano predator. I’m moving corals off of rocks and rocks into the butterfly’s tank.
I hope for the best but it’s heartbreaking to tear up the rocks and aquascape

We have a new light that everyone seems to like
Amazon 150 light, can’t recall the name in this moment

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Updates!
Working at a salt water fish store so I’m adding more corals and we added a new fish!

Added:
Tomini Tang
Pom Pom crabs
Halloween Hermit
Electric blue leg hermit
Candy stripe pistol shrimp

A ton of new corals including some new hammers, another octospawn,acans, bowerbankiis, gorgonians etc

We have continued to have a majano problem and dispite using the majano wand to manually remove them, their numbers are steadily increasing still.
I’ve set up a tank in the garage and have ordered a raccoon butterfly. Anecdotal evidence from other reefers suggests that they are a natural majano predator. I’m moving corals off of rocks and rocks into the butterfly’s tank.
I hope for the best but it’s heartbreaking to tear up the rocks and aquascape

We have a new light that everyone seems to like
Amazon 150 light, can’t recall the name in this moment

Nice looking additions!

 

[Afkomjorgen]

Lots of mayhem in the last 6
5 months. Corals were being moved to a secondary tank to have majanos removed. A sponge in my largest rock died and caused a massive bacteria bloom blow out. It smelled like rotten death.
So 50% of my rocks were affected. I didn’t want to risk bringing any of that into my tank, since it nearly killed the fish in the secondary tank - they all got bleached or left outside for a month.
Then I started having back to rapid polyp bailout on my euphyllia. I took them to a friends to recover and did a 70% water change, changed out 50% of the sand, used an enormous amount of carbon and rowa phos, and am adding in microbacter 7 for some good bacteria. Rocks are back in but I suspect I’ll have some algae consequences from all this.

I rehomed my raccoon butterfly fish locally after she consistently ate mysis for 3 weeks.

No new additions, but happy to see that most of my inverts made it through the fiasco
I did lose my XL devils hand leather ):
Edit: I take that back. New - tuxedo urchin, yellow octospawn, some bowerbankii, and 2” crocea clam. Plate coral is looking super great

Currently re scaping the tank - it’s looked ugly and bare for the last 5 months my partner and I are really looking forward to putting it back together