This week marks my first complete year in the reefing hobby, I have Fluval EVO 13.5 and this will show my progress over its first year. I learned a lot and faced some challenges but I am very happy with where my tank is now and excited to keep going in this hobby.
I'll start with where my tank is today and my equipment/maintenance schedule.
Full Tank Shot:
Top Down
SPS Land:
Acan Garden:
Euphylia "Garden"
Equipment:
Tank: Fluval Evo 13.5
Lighting: XR30G4 Pro w/ RMS Mount
ATO: Smart auto aqua ATO
Dosing Pump: Kamoer x1 dosing pump
Power Head: Korellia nano 240
Fuge Light: Chaetomax
Heater: Ehiem Jager 50W heater
Lid: Top lids lid
Filtration Setup:
Chamber 1: filter floss, chemipure blue
Chamber 2: fuge growing hair algae
Chamber 3: return and heater
Maintenance:
Dosing: 3.5ml of Tropic Marin All for Reef every day
Feeding: fish daily 1mm pellets, Reef Roids 1-2 times a week
Water Changes: 3 gallon water change (using Red Sea blue bucket) weekly.
Other: Change filter floss 2 times a week, Chemipure blue changed bi monthly, Clean pumps every 2-3 months, Clean glass when needed.
Lighting schedule: AB+ spectrum 12pm to 10pm
Fuge light on 6am - 10pm.
Livestock:
2 clown fish
1 blood cleaner shrimp
2 rock anenomes
1 bi color hammer
1 purple torch
1 wwc yellow tip acro
1 green Goniopora
1 war paint scoly
1 wwc grafted monti cap
1 Ora blue polyp monti cap
1 green acro
1 blue stag horn acro
1 green Duncan
1 platygyra
4 acan colonies
GSP on an island
Latest params Alk: 7.7 Ca: 435 Mag: 1430 Phos 0.01 Nitrate: 2 PH: 8.2
Now here is where it all started, first day with fish after cycling the tank: (8/5/19)
In September i got my first corals which have grown alot:
Later that month i got my first Acro!
In October when my tank hit the 3 month mark i got a bad case of Dinos!
I was able to clean it out without loosing anything by dosing Hydrogen Peroxide (.1ml/day) and doing a 3 day blackout.
By December my tank had mostly stabilized and things started to grow
March:
I have had a couple issues some of which I think were born out of impatience and lack of understanding:
-Lost an Acro Frag to STN, i don't think my tank params where stable at the point
-Lost the chalice coral which i think was placed to close to the torch coral
-My scoly is currently not doing well, I have been doing my best to save (lower light and flow) but its not working and I fear i will lose it.
I'll start with where my tank is today and my equipment/maintenance schedule.
Full Tank Shot:
Top Down
SPS Land:
Acan Garden:
Euphylia "Garden"
Equipment:
Tank: Fluval Evo 13.5
Lighting: XR30G4 Pro w/ RMS Mount
ATO: Smart auto aqua ATO
Dosing Pump: Kamoer x1 dosing pump
Power Head: Korellia nano 240
Fuge Light: Chaetomax
Heater: Ehiem Jager 50W heater
Lid: Top lids lid
Filtration Setup:
Chamber 1: filter floss, chemipure blue
Chamber 2: fuge growing hair algae
Chamber 3: return and heater
Maintenance:
Dosing: 3.5ml of Tropic Marin All for Reef every day
Feeding: fish daily 1mm pellets, Reef Roids 1-2 times a week
Water Changes: 3 gallon water change (using Red Sea blue bucket) weekly.
Other: Change filter floss 2 times a week, Chemipure blue changed bi monthly, Clean pumps every 2-3 months, Clean glass when needed.
Lighting schedule: AB+ spectrum 12pm to 10pm
Fuge light on 6am - 10pm.
Livestock:
2 clown fish
1 blood cleaner shrimp
2 rock anenomes
1 bi color hammer
1 purple torch
1 wwc yellow tip acro
1 green Goniopora
1 war paint scoly
1 wwc grafted monti cap
1 Ora blue polyp monti cap
1 green acro
1 blue stag horn acro
1 green Duncan
1 platygyra
4 acan colonies
GSP on an island
Latest params Alk: 7.7 Ca: 435 Mag: 1430 Phos 0.01 Nitrate: 2 PH: 8.2
Now here is where it all started, first day with fish after cycling the tank: (8/5/19)
In September i got my first corals which have grown alot:
Later that month i got my first Acro!
In October when my tank hit the 3 month mark i got a bad case of Dinos!
I was able to clean it out without loosing anything by dosing Hydrogen Peroxide (.1ml/day) and doing a 3 day blackout.
By December my tank had mostly stabilized and things started to grow
March:
I have had a couple issues some of which I think were born out of impatience and lack of understanding:
-Lost an Acro Frag to STN, i don't think my tank params where stable at the point
-Lost the chalice coral which i think was placed to close to the torch coral
-My scoly is currently not doing well, I have been doing my best to save (lower light and flow) but its not working and I fear i will lose it.
