Rails 72

[Railcar79]

Looks like I forgot to start a thread on my new build, so here goes:
I got me a AGA 72 bow, stand sump and return from a local reefer.
Current Setup:
Odyssea 4x54 T5HO light, Zoo Med 10k, Fluvial 18,000k, Zoo med actinic, and another t5 Actinic
72 Bow front with misc rock
Caribsea Seaflor Select substrate
AGA Megaflow Sump Model 2
Rio 1700+ return pump
2 800gph powerheads
Old style Reef Octopus 150 skimmer
Eheim Jager 150 heater
Digital Aquatics RKL Plus controller


Next post Livestock

 

[Railcar79]

Fish:
3 Chromis
Pair Misbar Clowns
Golden Rabbitfish
Hippo Tang
Royal Gramma
Flame Angel
Green Mandarin.

Inverts 2 Cleaner shrimp, Red and black sea star, emerald crab and misc hermits and snails, 1 quadracolor anem, 1 rbta.

 

[Railcar79]

More pics when I get home

 

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Left side

Center

Right Side

 

[revhtree]

Looks good! Nice job.

 

[Railcar79]

Thank You. If I can ever get done with these darn Cyno blooms, it would be great. Reefing on a budget isnt easy, but can be done.

 

[cdness]

Welcome to the budget reefer's club. I am a member as well ;) Your tank has less Cyano than mine does at the moment...

Looks nice for sure. Let me know when those blastos grow out enough to frag ;) See you Sunday with some more coral additions!

 

[Railcar79]

It has less cyno than it had had in months. Reduced feedings work to an extent, but I am feeding coral frenzy every other day to get the blastos and acans growing.

 

[larangcon]

Looking good...

 

[Railcar79]

 

[Railcar79]

Loaded up and growing, full of corals from R2R members Ragamuffin, CDNESS, Unique Corals, and Anemones clowns and corals in Washburn IA

 

[Railcar79]

Had a rockslide in the tank and had to rework the aquascape. New look gives more room for my precious Acans. Looking at adding a Acan Hille and some micromussa, if funding allows, to go with my acan enchinata, and my new acan lord. Adding a diamond goby too, since my snails are lazy and dont clean the sand very well.

 

[Railcar79]

Also got some progress with the cyano. Started biopellets, running a 1/4 cup pellets in a JNS alpha 2 reactor, Phosphate dropped from .35 to .09, nitrate down to 10.

 

[Railcar79]

I added some more livestock, Acan Hillae, some pink eye micromussa, and some more acans. Added some Zoos for flavor as well

Also updated my spreadsheet for my build. So far I am $1.044.88 into the system in actual components and equipment, and that includes buying a new Apex Lite system to control it all, and a titanium Heater, and upgrading to a Mag 7 return pump, and new 3/4 locline

I have 11 fish now, 3 chromis, a Blue Hippo, Golden Rabbitfish, Flame Angel, Royal Gramma, Mandarin, Pair of Misbar Mocha clowns, and a yellow head sleeper goby, 4 shrimp, too many hermits and snails to count.
59 seperate specamins of coral. Not heads, seperate corals.
And thanks to working in a coral shop part time, and a great local club I am only $415 invested into fish and livestock.

Now if I can just figure out this darn apex, I would be a whole lot happier

 

[Railcar79]

Ok so the Apex is online and doing its thing. Programming is still a PITA, but getting better. I have a Frag rack and the Jebao twin controller and a pair of WP10 on their way, going to pull the 800s out, and try Jebao. Since I added the goby, he has started doing his job (took a week and a half) but seems to love burying my frags. He scoops up a mouthful and hovers right over my frags on the sand, and buries them,. Hopefully the rack will save my Acan and a few zoa from him.

 

[Railcar79]

17 days since I sent the apex screen in for repair, still havent recieved it back, and now the PH probe is going whacky. I am starting to think controllers are more trouble than they are worth.