JSB
Usually Confused
Got an email from R2R saying "share your tank", so I thought I would. This is my reasonably new, and currently only tank.
Get Wet Date: 15 October, 2011
Tank Specs:
Tank: Solana XL 60, Current USA
Lights: Ecotech Radion XR30w
Stand: p/o Solana XL 60
Sump: p/o Solana XL 60
Return: 1017 gph Jaebo
Powerheads: 2ea Ecotech Vortech MP10w ES
Skimmer: ASM G-1X
Media Reactor: BRS Carbon and Media Reactor, w/ MaxiJet 600
Heater: 2 x Eheim 250w (main and emergency)
Controller: Neptune Apex w/
Auto Top Off Pump: BRS Top Off Doser (50ml/min)
Power: TrippLite Omni1000 UPS
Rock/Sand/Livestock
Rock: 30# Pukani Dry Rock
Sand: 20# Carib-Sea Special Reef Grade Aragonite
Live Sand: 40# Carib-Sea Arag-Alive Special Grade
Coral: Fiji Leather, Numerous Ricordea and other mushrooms, Montipora Digitata, Montipora Capricornis (Orange, Purple, and Green), Stylophora (Candy Cane), Red Planet Acro, Green Slimer Acro, Pink Birdsnest Seriatopora, Green Star Polyps, Xenia, Frogspawn.
Fish: 4 Green/Blue Chromis, 1 Scopas Tang, 1 Bartlett's Anthias. 1 Yellow Watchman Goby
Inverts: Brittle Starfish, Emerald Crabs, Peppermint Shrimp, Zebra Snails, Astrea Snails, Scarlet Hermits, Blue Hermits, Cleaner Clams
It started here in my garage:
I started the configuration and assembly and test runs long before it came in the house:
I created the brains of the operation before I shoved it under the way too small stand:
I cycled a big pile of BRS Pukani dry rock in a tub in the garage while I was working on everything else.
This whole time I had been waiting for Ecoxotic to release their new Panorama LED fixture. While I waited I was using a Marineland (inadequate) LED fixture. My plan was always to replace it before putting any corals in the tank. I brought everything indoors, put it all together and added saltwater and sand. I took this fixture and eventually put on my QT.
Once it was fully cycled, I got my inverts and the beginnings of my stock list, eventually losing my clown to ich.
[video=youtube;6Mk44vbPbcw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mk44vbPbcw[/video]
Eventually, Ecoxotic released a few details of the Panorama (but not the light itself) and when I found out it had only manual dimmers, I punted on them and bought the Ecotech Marine Radion XR30W instead. Could not be happier. Here is a (poor quality video) demo of that fixture on my tank:
[video=youtube;XmmDpcN0lcs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmmDpcN0lcs[/video]
With the lights in place, I began stocking in earnest. While I lost a few pieces due to NOOB mistakes (and I have been doing this off and on since '86), here is a video of where I was at 60 days:
[video=youtube;NHZvpnat02k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZvpnat02k[/video]
I am about to add a Reef Octopus Bio Pellet reactor, and continue my stocking. So this is it, as of about a week ago.
Get Wet Date: 15 October, 2011
Tank Specs:
Tank: Solana XL 60, Current USA
Lights: Ecotech Radion XR30w
Stand: p/o Solana XL 60
Sump: p/o Solana XL 60
Return: 1017 gph Jaebo
Powerheads: 2ea Ecotech Vortech MP10w ES
Skimmer: ASM G-1X
Media Reactor: BRS Carbon and Media Reactor, w/ MaxiJet 600
Heater: 2 x Eheim 250w (main and emergency)
Controller: Neptune Apex w/
- Display
- Controller Module
- Wireless Control Module (WXM)
- 2ea Energy Bar 8
- Probe Module 2 (PM2)
- pH probe
- Temp Probe
- ORP Probe
- Conductivity/Salinity Probe
Auto Top Off Pump: BRS Top Off Doser (50ml/min)
Power: TrippLite Omni1000 UPS
Rock/Sand/Livestock
Rock: 30# Pukani Dry Rock
Sand: 20# Carib-Sea Special Reef Grade Aragonite
Live Sand: 40# Carib-Sea Arag-Alive Special Grade
Coral: Fiji Leather, Numerous Ricordea and other mushrooms, Montipora Digitata, Montipora Capricornis (Orange, Purple, and Green), Stylophora (Candy Cane), Red Planet Acro, Green Slimer Acro, Pink Birdsnest Seriatopora, Green Star Polyps, Xenia, Frogspawn.
Fish: 4 Green/Blue Chromis, 1 Scopas Tang, 1 Bartlett's Anthias. 1 Yellow Watchman Goby
Inverts: Brittle Starfish, Emerald Crabs, Peppermint Shrimp, Zebra Snails, Astrea Snails, Scarlet Hermits, Blue Hermits, Cleaner Clams
It started here in my garage:
I started the configuration and assembly and test runs long before it came in the house:
I created the brains of the operation before I shoved it under the way too small stand:
I cycled a big pile of BRS Pukani dry rock in a tub in the garage while I was working on everything else.
This whole time I had been waiting for Ecoxotic to release their new Panorama LED fixture. While I waited I was using a Marineland (inadequate) LED fixture. My plan was always to replace it before putting any corals in the tank. I brought everything indoors, put it all together and added saltwater and sand. I took this fixture and eventually put on my QT.
Once it was fully cycled, I got my inverts and the beginnings of my stock list, eventually losing my clown to ich.
[video=youtube;6Mk44vbPbcw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mk44vbPbcw[/video]
Eventually, Ecoxotic released a few details of the Panorama (but not the light itself) and when I found out it had only manual dimmers, I punted on them and bought the Ecotech Marine Radion XR30W instead. Could not be happier. Here is a (poor quality video) demo of that fixture on my tank:
[video=youtube;XmmDpcN0lcs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmmDpcN0lcs[/video]
With the lights in place, I began stocking in earnest. While I lost a few pieces due to NOOB mistakes (and I have been doing this off and on since '86), here is a video of where I was at 60 days:
[video=youtube;NHZvpnat02k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZvpnat02k[/video]
I am about to add a Reef Octopus Bio Pellet reactor, and continue my stocking. So this is it, as of about a week ago.
