Red sea 350 , over a year in

[Vincent100]

Hi all
Well I've been a member on R2R for over a year now and I've never got round to doing a tank thread ......so let's do this lol

Redsea 350 , white stand , UK..I paid £1050 if I remember right
Tank is a upgrade from a 300 liter which was running for around 6 months ..I think

Lights
Tmc v2 iLumenair 1200
1 kessil ....not sure on the size but will picture
1 fluval aquasky led

Lights are on from 8 am to 8 pm , going from blue 8am to 9 am , sunrise 9 am to 11 am , full power 11am to 6 pm , sunset 6pm to 7pm , and blue 7pm to 8 pm ....and off

Equipment
4 jecod wave makers , 2 ..sw-4 , 2 sw-8

1 jecod return pump , not sure on the size but its massive lol

Canister filter running Triton carbon

Deltec skimmer ....very good skimmer

Simplyaquaria dual temp controller

Kamoer x4 doseing pump

Reactor running Triton AL99 phosphate remover ....off line at the min as it just cleans out the phos to much ....iv no readable po4 in my tank at the min because of this stuff

For doseing
Triton Core7, 1,2,3a,3b
I also dose Triton iodine and Triton manganese once a week by hand
Alk 8dkh
Cal 450ppm ish lol
Mag not sure anymore as I gave up testing it but will be well within range

Temp 25c
Salt , 1.025
I buy my RO and fresh salt water from my lfs .

I'v a sump divider from reef dreams in my sump so that I can have a section for my skimmer and a larger section for cheato


Live stock
Yellow tang
Yellow eye tang
Hippo tang ....sump awaiting new home as it's a lps killer
Flasher wrasse
2 clowns
Banggai cardinal
Ruby red dragonet
Goby , not sure what type but it's near enough see through
2 blue chromis
Blue cleaner wrasse

Clean up crew
Lots of different hermits
Lots of different snails
Conch
Big black Mithrax crab .
Cowrie
Tons of mini star fish

Pictures

 

[Vincent100]

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[Vincent100]

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[Vincent100]

More pic

 

[pelphrey]

Your display is amazing! Did you buy all of the coral as frags?

 

[Vincent100]

Your display is amazing! Did you buy all of the coral as frags?

Hi pelphrey
Yes my friend all of the sps apart from 2 were frags , most of the lps were frags to
I'm at the point now were I'm thinking about setting up a frag tank as I'm running out of space but can't stop myself from buying new sps frags...... addicted lol;Nailbiting

 

[Gweeds1980]

Stunning mate!! Looking forward to helping you make a bit of space lol...

 

[4FordFamily]

Wow that is gorgeous! Well executed and Red Sea Reefers are a handsome setup!

 

[greenhorn reefer]

1 year...frags....

 

[chevegan]

I don't think you have enough coral in there. You should dangle some pipe from the top straight down and glue frags to that as well

;Cat

 

[Antics]

A beautifully balanced mixed reef. It's always been hard for me to find that sweet spot between Lps and sps

 

[Vincent100]

Thanks guys

I don't think you have enough coral in there. You should dangle some pipe from the top straight down and glue frags to that as well

;Cat

Pipes dangling ,frags ......now that's an idea lol;Facepalm

 

[cpvince]

Lovely build. Were most of your coral tank transfers? If not, that's a heckuva lot of growth for just over a year!

 

[Vincent100]

Lovely build. Were most of your coral tank transfers? If not, that's a heckuva lot of growth for just over a year!

You got me thinking lol , looking at the tank today the only things I see are some brown and green palys that hitchhiked on some rock ....plus all my live rock and one clown and goby
Everything else has been bought new for this tank .....I must add iv lost alot of corals along the way but all part of learning I suppose

Gonna try and find a pic of the old tank and post it .....you'll laugh ;Nailbiting;Facepalm

 

[Vincent100]

Just got myself a new bit , just gone in the tank on the sand bed for a day or two , I'll take some more pic later once it settled

 

[greenhorn reefer]

Just got myself a new bit , just gone in the tank on the sand bed for a day or two , I'll take some more pic later once it settled

Is that a frag?

 

[greenhorn reefer]

Do you qt?

 

[Vincent100]

No I don't QT my corals , my lfs keeps all new stock in a tank for a few weeks before they are moved to the display tanks , it's a bare bottom tank so most critters can be seen .
It must work as iv not had anything bad turn yet and I've had nearly all of my stuff from them , i'v had maybe one or two tiny pest nems but I'm talking tiny ....most get zapped in the lfs qt tank lol

 

[Vincent100]

Is that a frag?

No not a frag ...cost me £80 , couple more bit that went into the display tanks today that I got my eye on aswell lol

 

[Vincent100]

Also got these shrooms today