New and Addicted!

[Buckster]

Hello and Welcome back to the hobby and to R2R!

 

[LouisianaReef]

Welcome to R2R

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R and the salty world. Sounds like good planning. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed.

 

[FrugalReefer]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[zheka757]

welcome to r2r

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board!

 

[ReefingGinger]

Hello everyone!

Well, after 14 years since my last aquarium (ADA Freshwater) I finally decided to start reefing!

The tank is 10 weeks old post one month cycle(no lights). The Zoa's are not fully open because I just changed the aqua scape.

Specs:

Innovative Marine 15G AIO w/stand
Aqua Illumination Prime 16 HD
Tunze Comline 9001
Aqua Illumination Nero 3
Reef Breeders Nautilus 300 Return
Tropic Marin Pro Reef Salt

Live Stock:
Clown
Fire Shrimp
Rainbow BTA, Rose BTA
GSP on back wall and growing fast... NO SURPRISE
12 Zoanthids:
Nirvana
Magician
Utter Chaos
Eagle Eye's
Twizzler (ish?)
Pink Diamond
Fire and Ice
Rasta
and a few I can't recall names/haven't identified yet
4 Trochus snails
4 Nassarius snails

Schedule (evolving quickly as I learn)

Monday: Morning/Afternoon feeding, AB+ 2ml

Tuesday: Morning/Afternoon feeding

Wednesday: Morning/Afternoon feeding, AB+ 2ml, feed corals and BTA's (Reef Roids/Reef Chilly and small Mysis Shrimp mix) BTA's get a thumb nail size of shrimp each

Thursday: Morning/Afternoon feeding

Friday: Morning/Afternoon, AB+ 2ml

Saturday: Morning/Afternoon, feed corals and BTA's (Reef Roids/Reef Chilly and small Mysis Shrimp mix) BTA's get a thumb nail size of shrimp each

Sunday: Morning/Afternoon, 50% water change and test water chemistry

Additional Thoughts

Currently running Activate Carbon/GFO(BRS brand) mix in mesh bag in overflow section. I had high phosphate a few weeks ago and GFO has resolved the issue.

I'm currently designing a custom 22 gallon aquamaxx peninsula system with custom stand and sump. Plan to have it up and running in a few months at most... I'll be sharing the build shortly! The current 15 Gallon will become a dedicated BTA display.

Cheers and super excited to join the community!

John

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[SPR1968]

Hi and welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[BanZI29]

Welcome to our little piece of the reef.
that is an awesome tank so far. excited to see your next build.

Welcome!!!

 

[ReefingGinger]

Welcome to our little piece of the reef.
that is an awesome tank so far. excited to see your next build.

Welcome!!!

Thank you! Looking forward to sharing the build/idea with everyone. I'll be sharing with first official tank thread + updates on current setup.

 

[ReefingGinger]

While checking out my tank last night I discovered 2 baby trochus snails in the tank! When I introduced the CUC 2.5 months ago they spawned in the tank almost immediately.

 

[jsker]

 

[RichWise73]

 

[CasperOe]

Welcome to R2R! Looks like you're off to a good start!

 

[ReefingGinger]

An update on my Innovative Marine 15 Gallon.

Bought my first stony corals!

Acan Lord
Hallucination Favia?
Unknown Favia
Frogspawn

A cool surprise, found a sponge growing under a Zoanthids colony! All the research I've done says there fine so long as they don't grow on corals??? I'll be keeping an eye on it to make sure it doesn't grow over zoanthid's. Can they be transplanted?

Loading up on corals for the soon to be completed DIY/Custom build Thread coming soon...
Test kits and AFR on the way!