FranklinDattein
Active Member
Tallebudgera Reef Aquarium
Hi everyone
I will be using this thread to document the progress of the "Tallebudgera reef", my 550l(145g) mixed reef tank. It was built in October 2019, with some livestock from previous tanks and it is part of my life long reefing journey.
The name "Tallebudgera" comes from the the creek next to my house, an iconic location on the Gold Coast of Australia, where my water is collected. It means "good fish" in Aboriginal language.
The most enjoyable part of the hobby for me, is fragging and swaping frags, hence most of my corals were grown from it, with the exception of some LPS.
Having started as a broken teenager student, I had run it cheap and do a bunch of DIY, an habit I like to mantain to this day. Over the years, I built several DIY projects and for the past decade, my focus has been on the REEFmate, a DIY aquarium computer, as well as designing 3D printables for Aquariums.
You can follow me on:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inventmarine/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankllin/albums/72157713007487167
Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/inventmarine/designs
Equipment
Tank: Cade PR1200 Aquarium - 4x2x2 ft
Lighting: 3x Radion XR30w, Reeflink
Flow: 1x Glamorca GP03 and 3x 1000l/h on closed loop.
Return Pump: Vectra M1
Filtration: JNS 280 skimmer, Chaetomorpha in the refugium, 1kg of Seachem Matrix, 1kg of Seachem DeNitrate. Activated Carbon and GFO every now and then.
Auto Top Off: DIY Automated
Chiller/Heater: Teko 1000
Controller: DOSEmate, my DIY Aquarium Computer powered by a RaspberryPI with 4 dosing pumps.
Dosing: I dose Randy's Recipe #1, mixed with Coral Essentials Trace Elements, to create a Balling complete mixture. Consumption is at 0.8DkH/day, currently.
Water changes:
5-10% per fortnight, manually. Currently re-building Auto Water Change system.
Feeding:
I feed mostly New Life Spectrum pellets, with about 10 feeds a day, between manual and auto-feeder.
Also, 1/4 sheet of nori, every second day, for the tangs.
I choose mostly fish that don't have laborious dietary requirements. I also keep a variety of frozen foods, that I feed no more than once a month.
Coral Essentials Aminoacids, 1ml/day.
Powder coral food, every 2-3 days.
Livestock:
2x Ocellaris
2x Blue tang
1x Yellow tang
1x Six Line Wrasser
1x Gramma Loreto
2x Splendid Mandarins
1x Flame Hawk
1x Australian Stripey for Aiptasia control
2x Coral banded shrimp
1x Blue Lickia Starfish
Corals:
Around 150 different species, mostly SPS, Acans and Zoas with a couple of random LPS in the mix.
Clean up crew:
Hundreds of Turbo Snails and Stomatella snails (they breed in my tank)
2x Strombus Snails
Camera gear:
- Canon D700 DSLR. Lenses: Tamron 90mm 1:1 macro, Canon 18-200mm telephoto
- Xiaomi Mi 6 wiht gel filter.
Second day after filling with water:
Moving from previous tank:
Two months old:
Hammers:
Squamosa Clam:
Hi everyone
I will be using this thread to document the progress of the "Tallebudgera reef", my 550l(145g) mixed reef tank. It was built in October 2019, with some livestock from previous tanks and it is part of my life long reefing journey.
The name "Tallebudgera" comes from the the creek next to my house, an iconic location on the Gold Coast of Australia, where my water is collected. It means "good fish" in Aboriginal language.
The most enjoyable part of the hobby for me, is fragging and swaping frags, hence most of my corals were grown from it, with the exception of some LPS.
Having started as a broken teenager student, I had run it cheap and do a bunch of DIY, an habit I like to mantain to this day. Over the years, I built several DIY projects and for the past decade, my focus has been on the REEFmate, a DIY aquarium computer, as well as designing 3D printables for Aquariums.
You can follow me on:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inventmarine/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankllin/albums/72157713007487167
Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/inventmarine/designs
Equipment
Tank: Cade PR1200 Aquarium - 4x2x2 ft
Lighting: 3x Radion XR30w, Reeflink
Flow: 1x Glamorca GP03 and 3x 1000l/h on closed loop.
Return Pump: Vectra M1
Filtration: JNS 280 skimmer, Chaetomorpha in the refugium, 1kg of Seachem Matrix, 1kg of Seachem DeNitrate. Activated Carbon and GFO every now and then.
Auto Top Off: DIY Automated
Chiller/Heater: Teko 1000
Controller: DOSEmate, my DIY Aquarium Computer powered by a RaspberryPI with 4 dosing pumps.
Dosing: I dose Randy's Recipe #1, mixed with Coral Essentials Trace Elements, to create a Balling complete mixture. Consumption is at 0.8DkH/day, currently.
Water changes:
5-10% per fortnight, manually. Currently re-building Auto Water Change system.
Feeding:
I feed mostly New Life Spectrum pellets, with about 10 feeds a day, between manual and auto-feeder.
Also, 1/4 sheet of nori, every second day, for the tangs.
I choose mostly fish that don't have laborious dietary requirements. I also keep a variety of frozen foods, that I feed no more than once a month.
Coral Essentials Aminoacids, 1ml/day.
Powder coral food, every 2-3 days.
Livestock:
2x Ocellaris
2x Blue tang
1x Yellow tang
1x Six Line Wrasser
1x Gramma Loreto
2x Splendid Mandarins
1x Flame Hawk
1x Australian Stripey for Aiptasia control
2x Coral banded shrimp
1x Blue Lickia Starfish
Corals:
Around 150 different species, mostly SPS, Acans and Zoas with a couple of random LPS in the mix.
Clean up crew:
Hundreds of Turbo Snails and Stomatella snails (they breed in my tank)
2x Strombus Snails
Camera gear:
- Canon D700 DSLR. Lenses: Tamron 90mm 1:1 macro, Canon 18-200mm telephoto
- Xiaomi Mi 6 wiht gel filter.
Second day after filling with water:
Moving from previous tank:
Two months old:
Hammers:
Squamosa Clam:
