Hey Everyone
Been meaning create a thread to document the journey of my tank for a while now. As of today (12 Feb 2019) my tank is been wet for about 10 months
I also run a youtube channel, check it out here https://www.youtube.com/c/reefnerd/
So to start off this first post I am going to outline my equipment, the journey so far, and some select full tank shots. Going forward I will post updates roughly monthly or whenever I have something interesting to post about.
Last Update 29 July 2019
Equipment
Tank - Neptunian Kube K90
Return Pump - Maxspect Turbine Duo
Flow - 1x Maxspect Gyre XF230 and 1x Glamorca GP02
Lighting - 2x Kessil A360X and Key Lighting T5HO Enhance Tube Bar (2x 39watt T5)
Filtration - RAIN2 Algae Turf Scrubber, Nyos Quantum 120 Skimmer, ~20 Small Marine Pure Cubes and 4 Mantis Bio Blocks
Auto Top Off/Auto Water Change - Auto Aqua Smart AWC
Heater - Forget the brand, ill look it up and edit this later... but its a titanium one I had a glass one that failed after less than 6 months
CO2 Scrubber - Pacific Sun Medium Size
Hmahli Phosphate Resin Reactor - Running BlueLife Phosphate RX Resin
Dosing - Pacific Sun Kore7th with KH Lab
I run Kalkwasser in an Avast Marine K1 Kalk Stirrer - 2L per day
I dose Randy's Recipe 1 mixed with Reef Anabolics Trace Program - currently about 45ml per day but lowering gradually as I turn up the calcium reactor more and more
Calcium Reactor - Pacific Sun AC-Nano
Water changes
Currently ~2.5 liters per day auto water change
Feeding
I have 3 different pellets mixed together in my autofeeder which spins 3 times a days
Every morning I add a small square of nori to a clip for the tangs
Once or twice a day I manually add a pinch of random flake foods
I add a cube of frozen every day (rotate between mysis, brine and others)
Coral Nutrition
Coral Essentials Black Label
AquaForest Coral nutrition range
Reef Anabolics Coral Nutrition Range
Every 2-3 days I add 1/4 of a teaspoon of reef roids to the frozen food and target feed it over my LPS
Livestock
2x clownfish
1x blue tang
1x yellow tang
2x Mandarins
1x Coral banded shrimp
1x Blood shrimp
1x Peppermint shrimp
Clean Up Crew
Bunch of stomatella snails (they breed in my tank)
2x Nassarius Snails
2x Strombus Snails
1x Sand sifting starfish
Coral - too many to document, look at the photos and ask me if you have a specific question
Pictures speak louder than words so here is a series of full tank shots to show my tank progression
June 2018
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019
March 2020
Sump
As at approx October 2018
As at July 2019
Algae Scrubber Growth
Been meaning create a thread to document the journey of my tank for a while now. As of today (12 Feb 2019) my tank is been wet for about 10 months
I also run a youtube channel, check it out here https://www.youtube.com/c/reefnerd/
So to start off this first post I am going to outline my equipment, the journey so far, and some select full tank shots. Going forward I will post updates roughly monthly or whenever I have something interesting to post about.
Last Update 29 July 2019
Equipment
Tank - Neptunian Kube K90
Return Pump - Maxspect Turbine Duo
Flow - 1x Maxspect Gyre XF230 and 1x Glamorca GP02
Lighting - 2x Kessil A360X and Key Lighting T5HO Enhance Tube Bar (2x 39watt T5)
Filtration - RAIN2 Algae Turf Scrubber, Nyos Quantum 120 Skimmer, ~20 Small Marine Pure Cubes and 4 Mantis Bio Blocks
Auto Top Off/Auto Water Change - Auto Aqua Smart AWC
Heater - Forget the brand, ill look it up and edit this later... but its a titanium one I had a glass one that failed after less than 6 months
CO2 Scrubber - Pacific Sun Medium Size
Hmahli Phosphate Resin Reactor - Running BlueLife Phosphate RX Resin
Dosing - Pacific Sun Kore7th with KH Lab
I run Kalkwasser in an Avast Marine K1 Kalk Stirrer - 2L per day
I dose Randy's Recipe 1 mixed with Reef Anabolics Trace Program - currently about 45ml per day but lowering gradually as I turn up the calcium reactor more and more
Calcium Reactor - Pacific Sun AC-Nano
Water changes
Currently ~2.5 liters per day auto water change
Feeding
I have 3 different pellets mixed together in my autofeeder which spins 3 times a days
Every morning I add a small square of nori to a clip for the tangs
Once or twice a day I manually add a pinch of random flake foods
I add a cube of frozen every day (rotate between mysis, brine and others)
Coral Nutrition
Coral Essentials Black Label
AquaForest Coral nutrition range
Reef Anabolics Coral Nutrition Range
Every 2-3 days I add 1/4 of a teaspoon of reef roids to the frozen food and target feed it over my LPS
Livestock
2x clownfish
1x blue tang
1x yellow tang
2x Mandarins
1x Coral banded shrimp
1x Blood shrimp
1x Peppermint shrimp
Clean Up Crew
Bunch of stomatella snails (they breed in my tank)
2x Nassarius Snails
2x Strombus Snails
1x Sand sifting starfish
Coral - too many to document, look at the photos and ask me if you have a specific question
Pictures speak louder than words so here is a series of full tank shots to show my tank progression
June 2018
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
February 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
June 2019
July 2019
August 2019
October 2019
November 2019
December 2019
March 2020
Sump
As at approx October 2018
As at July 2019
Algae Scrubber Growth
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