55 Gal with a 10 Gal Fuge. Always a work in progress. Any comments, advice, and criticisms are always welcome! Just thought I'd share my setup.
A lot of livestock isn't pictured but right now I have: 1 lazy apistasia eating filefish, 2 chalk bass, 2 maroon clowns, 1 coral beauty, 1 splendid dotty, 1 lawnmower, 1 orange spot gobby. 2 skunk cleaners, 2 pithio crabs, 1 porcelain anemone crab, 1 white spot anemone shrimp, 1 tiger pistol shrimp, 2 emerald crabs. 2 maxi-minis, 2 RBTA, 1 haitian, 1 waratah. assorted corals. I've had a ton of luck, haven't lost a single fish or invert except for the 1 cleaner shrimp that was eaten by a nem (more on that later).
The biggest mistake I've made: putting the rock right in the middle of the tank (lengthwise). I have a ton of livestock that now lives where I can barely see them.
Currently have a bad bad apistasia problem. Waiting on Berghias from reeftown.
Massive shroom, about 3-4" across. Eats whole krill.
Waratah anemone. The picture doesn't do it justice, about 5" fully extended. Bright pink. Voracious eater. Ate one of my cleaners (I think after a failed molt.) Side question, when a feather duster has two heads is that two worms, or do they split at the mouth or what?
Splendid Dottyback photobombing some corals. Meat corals, aleveopora, enchinata, shrooms, pocci and acans are all doing really well in my system. Chalices & cyphastrea not so much.
One of two maxi-mini nems that went straight for the back of the tank and the white spot shrimp that joined him there.
Also in the back, Haitian.
Some corals, diying chalice
Cleaner shrimps, Goni seems to be doing well but we all know how that goes.
Bubble tip & maroon clown.
Testing stuff. Milwakuee salinity is my best purchase ever. Brine shrimp disc from BRS works really well!
Raspberry Pi is hooked up to display Apex stats at any time. Fluval LED has been relegated to collecting brine shrimp and lighting the testing area.
Apex & Trident. Wyze cam.
Poseidon phyto & pod culture kit. Another amazing purchase. This is my third week and I've gotten 3 full jugs of phyto and a ton of pods. I also dump some of the brine shrimp in with the pods to let them grow & feed a bit.
The mess under my tank... & fuge. Fluval is for mechanical filtration & makes it really easy to pop in some purigen or chemi-pure as needed. BRS biopellet & carbon reactors. CO2 scrubber. Eshopps nano skimmer. I purposely under-skim. I used to run a tank with no skimmer way back when & it worked well. This is my biggest work in progress right now. Eventually the tubes will all be replaced with silicone tubing and connect to a T so their is only one tube running back into the fuge. Still working out whether I can switch from 3 pumps I have now to 2 and still be able to tumble the bio pellets. I'm very new to plumping and it's like a foreign language to me.
Fuge. Kessil, mangroves, red macros, tons of bio media, crushed coral, & miracle mud. Also wayyyy too many pumps. Arrow crab (love them but never had the guys to put one in the display.)
Thanks for looking!!
A lot of livestock isn't pictured but right now I have: 1 lazy apistasia eating filefish, 2 chalk bass, 2 maroon clowns, 1 coral beauty, 1 splendid dotty, 1 lawnmower, 1 orange spot gobby. 2 skunk cleaners, 2 pithio crabs, 1 porcelain anemone crab, 1 white spot anemone shrimp, 1 tiger pistol shrimp, 2 emerald crabs. 2 maxi-minis, 2 RBTA, 1 haitian, 1 waratah. assorted corals. I've had a ton of luck, haven't lost a single fish or invert except for the 1 cleaner shrimp that was eaten by a nem (more on that later).
The biggest mistake I've made: putting the rock right in the middle of the tank (lengthwise). I have a ton of livestock that now lives where I can barely see them.
Currently have a bad bad apistasia problem. Waiting on Berghias from reeftown.
Massive shroom, about 3-4" across. Eats whole krill.
Waratah anemone. The picture doesn't do it justice, about 5" fully extended. Bright pink. Voracious eater. Ate one of my cleaners (I think after a failed molt.) Side question, when a feather duster has two heads is that two worms, or do they split at the mouth or what?
Splendid Dottyback photobombing some corals. Meat corals, aleveopora, enchinata, shrooms, pocci and acans are all doing really well in my system. Chalices & cyphastrea not so much.
One of two maxi-mini nems that went straight for the back of the tank and the white spot shrimp that joined him there.
Also in the back, Haitian.
Some corals, diying chalice
Cleaner shrimps, Goni seems to be doing well but we all know how that goes.
Bubble tip & maroon clown.
Testing stuff. Milwakuee salinity is my best purchase ever. Brine shrimp disc from BRS works really well!
Raspberry Pi is hooked up to display Apex stats at any time. Fluval LED has been relegated to collecting brine shrimp and lighting the testing area.
Apex & Trident. Wyze cam.
Poseidon phyto & pod culture kit. Another amazing purchase. This is my third week and I've gotten 3 full jugs of phyto and a ton of pods. I also dump some of the brine shrimp in with the pods to let them grow & feed a bit.
The mess under my tank... & fuge. Fluval is for mechanical filtration & makes it really easy to pop in some purigen or chemi-pure as needed. BRS biopellet & carbon reactors. CO2 scrubber. Eshopps nano skimmer. I purposely under-skim. I used to run a tank with no skimmer way back when & it worked well. This is my biggest work in progress right now. Eventually the tubes will all be replaced with silicone tubing and connect to a T so their is only one tube running back into the fuge. Still working out whether I can switch from 3 pumps I have now to 2 and still be able to tumble the bio pellets. I'm very new to plumping and it's like a foreign language to me.
Fuge. Kessil, mangroves, red macros, tons of bio media, crushed coral, & miracle mud. Also wayyyy too many pumps. Arrow crab (love them but never had the guys to put one in the display.)
Thanks for looking!!