mnat
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I had a huge 17 page long thread on my local board showing the whole build process, but it was wiped out when our server host vanished into thin air in the middle of the night. I figured I should have this on 2 sites in case this ever happens again.
We moved into our apartment July 1st of 2010 and setup the tank new then, so this tank is almost exactly one year old. The tank is a standard 45g cube not drilled and standard tank.
Equipment:
Aqua C remora HOB skimmer
CPR HOB fuge
Aquatinics TX5 5 bulb t5 (bulbs back to front ATI blue+, ATI aquablue, ATI purple, Ati aquablue, ATI blue+)
MP40 (turned down obviously) was put in to replace mp20
BRS Dual reactor (added down the line) running rox carbon and BRS GFO pellets
Marine magic dual doser (added down the line) dosing alk 8.3 an calcion both from Brightwell
Live rock was all cycled and added from our 20g tank so it is now three years old. Clean up crew is a motley assortment of nassarius snails, chestnut nassarius snails (big suckers), ceriths, nerites, trochus, blue legged hermits and scarlet hermits. There are also some emerald crabs running around in there to help combat our fight with bubble algae. They will be removed when this tank is moved hopefully shortly.
Corals: From every category, LPS, SPS, zoas, and NPS. Honestly too many to list out as many of you know and will see in the pictures. SPS is probably at least 50% of the tank and doing well.
Fish: My wife keeps a detailed spreadsheet of every fish and coral purchase so these dates are pretty accurate:
(None of these guys are over 2 inches)
Pair of spawning mandarins (trained onto frozen for 2 years plus)
Pair of picasso clowns (female came to live with us in late 2008, male in October 2009)
Four barnacle blennies (April 2011)
Pair of bangaii cardinals (tank raised we got them as babies in January I think)
Sunburst (spring 2010)
Helfrichi Firefish (fall 2010)
ORA gold assesor basslet (September 2009)
Yasha goby (march 2010)
ORA neon goby
We moved into our apartment July 1st of 2010 and setup the tank new then, so this tank is almost exactly one year old. The tank is a standard 45g cube not drilled and standard tank.
Equipment:
Aqua C remora HOB skimmer
CPR HOB fuge
Aquatinics TX5 5 bulb t5 (bulbs back to front ATI blue+, ATI aquablue, ATI purple, Ati aquablue, ATI blue+)
MP40 (turned down obviously) was put in to replace mp20
BRS Dual reactor (added down the line) running rox carbon and BRS GFO pellets
Marine magic dual doser (added down the line) dosing alk 8.3 an calcion both from Brightwell
Live rock was all cycled and added from our 20g tank so it is now three years old. Clean up crew is a motley assortment of nassarius snails, chestnut nassarius snails (big suckers), ceriths, nerites, trochus, blue legged hermits and scarlet hermits. There are also some emerald crabs running around in there to help combat our fight with bubble algae. They will be removed when this tank is moved hopefully shortly.
Corals: From every category, LPS, SPS, zoas, and NPS. Honestly too many to list out as many of you know and will see in the pictures. SPS is probably at least 50% of the tank and doing well.
Fish: My wife keeps a detailed spreadsheet of every fish and coral purchase so these dates are pretty accurate:
(None of these guys are over 2 inches)
Pair of spawning mandarins (trained onto frozen for 2 years plus)
Pair of picasso clowns (female came to live with us in late 2008, male in October 2009)
Four barnacle blennies (April 2011)
Pair of bangaii cardinals (tank raised we got them as babies in January I think)
Sunburst (spring 2010)
Helfrichi Firefish (fall 2010)
ORA gold assesor basslet (September 2009)
Yasha goby (march 2010)
ORA neon goby
