Hello felow reefers! So I decided to start documenting my RSR 350 journey of the past 4 years finally. Im constantly making tweaks, changes, and additions so I thought this would be the best way to document everything.
So, I began reefing around 7 years ago and started with a 60 gal cube. it was a hand-me-down tank from my friend who got me into reefing to begin with. It was a great size for a beginner and I definitely went through the learning curve everyone goes through. I really enjoyed the experiences despite several set backs in the begining. The tank equipment was a single Kessil A160we with controller, reef octopus skimmer, ATO, and a couple of hydor PHs with a wavemaker controller.
2016
2017
Fast forward to 2019 and we moved to to another house for our growing family. Unfortunately, the home we bought requires two months of remodeling so I had to get someone to agree for me to set up a temporary tank since the place we were staying at wouldn't allow the tank. So I moved all coral and fish to my friends house for two months while we got the house remodeled.
luckily we lost no fish or corals during the move or two months! After the house was finished I decided to up grade to a RSR 350 since now the space was available. One of my friends who owns a LFS got me a good deal and even helped move and install it to avoid any damage. He even time-lapsed the build here.
With the new tank installed I got a second kessil and decided to go bare bottom (best decision ever!).
June 2018
Fast forward to 2021 and here is the tank now
Oct 2021
Over the past year and a half the following changes took place:
Added equipment:
Aquatic Life T5 hybrid (3 Coral Plus and 1 Actinic)
3 Kessil A360
1Kessil A360N (for new Ritteri Nem)
15w UV sterilizer
Jebao doser
-Tropic Marin All-for-Reef: 4.5 ml/day
-NaNO3: 5ml/day
Red Sea Reefer Iodine + 2.5 ml/week (probably could add more...)
refugium with chaeto and calerpa racemosa
As you can see my passion is softies for their ease, rapid growth, and flow. They consume a large amount of nutrients so I do heavy feeding of two cubes of brine and LRS Fish Frenzy daily. There are also 13 fish in the tank but with the large amount of live rock (which I think is necessary for a tank like this) they spend most of the exploring all the crevasses looking for the abundant copepods. My fish stock currently is:
2 bonded mandarins (who spawn at night on an almost weekly basis)
3 clownfish
2 bonded Bangaii Cardinal fish (no successful hatches...yet)
1 Royal gramma
1 Starry Blenny
1 Purple dottyback
2 Fire gobies
1 Purple Fire goby
Inverts are:
1 sea hare
1 tuxedo urchin
3 tube worms
several feather dusters
Decorator crab
Nems:
several green rainbow nems
2 Ritteri (one is going through a cipro treatment...fingers crossed!)
2 rainbow mini-max nems
the softies are:
long polyp leather
several types of mushrooms
regular and branching GSP
purple clove polyps
green sinularias
green cabbage leather
golden plum gorg
purple ribbon gorg
Corky finger gorg
I'm sure I'm missing a few so I'll update as soon I figure out who is missing!
well that's about it...looking forward to updating this thread with the things I add or change as time goes.
So, I began reefing around 7 years ago and started with a 60 gal cube. it was a hand-me-down tank from my friend who got me into reefing to begin with. It was a great size for a beginner and I definitely went through the learning curve everyone goes through. I really enjoyed the experiences despite several set backs in the begining. The tank equipment was a single Kessil A160we with controller, reef octopus skimmer, ATO, and a couple of hydor PHs with a wavemaker controller.
2016
2017
Fast forward to 2019 and we moved to to another house for our growing family. Unfortunately, the home we bought requires two months of remodeling so I had to get someone to agree for me to set up a temporary tank since the place we were staying at wouldn't allow the tank. So I moved all coral and fish to my friends house for two months while we got the house remodeled.
luckily we lost no fish or corals during the move or two months! After the house was finished I decided to up grade to a RSR 350 since now the space was available. One of my friends who owns a LFS got me a good deal and even helped move and install it to avoid any damage. He even time-lapsed the build here.
With the new tank installed I got a second kessil and decided to go bare bottom (best decision ever!).
June 2018
Fast forward to 2021 and here is the tank now
Oct 2021
Over the past year and a half the following changes took place:
Added equipment:
Aquatic Life T5 hybrid (3 Coral Plus and 1 Actinic)
3 Kessil A360
1Kessil A360N (for new Ritteri Nem)
15w UV sterilizer
Jebao doser
-Tropic Marin All-for-Reef: 4.5 ml/day
-NaNO3: 5ml/day
Red Sea Reefer Iodine + 2.5 ml/week (probably could add more...)
refugium with chaeto and calerpa racemosa
As you can see my passion is softies for their ease, rapid growth, and flow. They consume a large amount of nutrients so I do heavy feeding of two cubes of brine and LRS Fish Frenzy daily. There are also 13 fish in the tank but with the large amount of live rock (which I think is necessary for a tank like this) they spend most of the exploring all the crevasses looking for the abundant copepods. My fish stock currently is:
2 bonded mandarins (who spawn at night on an almost weekly basis)
3 clownfish
2 bonded Bangaii Cardinal fish (no successful hatches...yet)
1 Royal gramma
1 Starry Blenny
1 Purple dottyback
2 Fire gobies
1 Purple Fire goby
Inverts are:
1 sea hare
1 tuxedo urchin
3 tube worms
several feather dusters
Decorator crab
Nems:
several green rainbow nems
2 Ritteri (one is going through a cipro treatment...fingers crossed!)
2 rainbow mini-max nems
the softies are:
long polyp leather
several types of mushrooms
regular and branching GSP
purple clove polyps
green sinularias
green cabbage leather
golden plum gorg
purple ribbon gorg
Corky finger gorg
I'm sure I'm missing a few so I'll update as soon I figure out who is missing!
well that's about it...looking forward to updating this thread with the things I add or change as time goes.
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