This has been a long time coming. This build is unique (for now at least) in that it has no light. My main goal with this aquarium was to get it up and cycling as soon as possible and add equipment as I went.
So I got the aquarium in July and got it cycling at the end of the month. In September I added 30 lbs of TBS live rock and 20 lbs of live sand into my refugium area with the hopes of seeding the entire system.
I’m aiming to get the lights by late spring, early summer. While it isn’t my intention for having no lights, I am hoping the long black out period and Tampa bay bacteria helps minimize any super ugly period when I get my lights. This will be a heavy SPS system.
I currently have an orchid dottyback, gold assessor, harp tail blenny and brown spotted spine-foot in the aquarium. I have a spotbreast angel, Lamarck’s Angel and Smith’s Blenny in QT.
Equipment:
- Innovative Marine 200-INT
- Bashea Prosump 48”
- Ecotech Vortech L2
- MP40 x3 (one more remains)
- Reefmat 1200
- Apex Pro
- Deltec 1000i
- 2 ATI Straton Pro 204s
To buy:
- Triden NP
- Trident
- Geos Calcium reactor
So I got the aquarium in July and got it cycling at the end of the month. In September I added 30 lbs of TBS live rock and 20 lbs of live sand into my refugium area with the hopes of seeding the entire system.
I’m aiming to get the lights by late spring, early summer. While it isn’t my intention for having no lights, I am hoping the long black out period and Tampa bay bacteria helps minimize any super ugly period when I get my lights. This will be a heavy SPS system.
I currently have an orchid dottyback, gold assessor, harp tail blenny and brown spotted spine-foot in the aquarium. I have a spotbreast angel, Lamarck’s Angel and Smith’s Blenny in QT.
Equipment:
- Innovative Marine 200-INT
- Bashea Prosump 48”
- Ecotech Vortech L2
- MP40 x3 (one more remains)
- Reefmat 1200
- Apex Pro
- Deltec 1000i
- 2 ATI Straton Pro 204s
To buy:
- Triden NP
- Trident
- Geos Calcium reactor
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