Love how you put "run" in qutoes ahahahaha maybe more like a morning jog/walk lol!I have been using 100% NSW for the 4 years I have been living here by the sea.
Sunrise on my morning "run"
Ah man congrats, any helpful tips for a 14 year old with a 90 gallon who has no idea what he is doing and has no money?In a couple of weeks my reef will will have reached 40 years old.
Unfortunately I don't remember when I was 40 but I remember when I set it up. I was a skinny 22 year old just back from Viet Nam.
It is still running very well, still using the same reverse UG filter, same dolomite substrait but none of the fish are original. The oldest one, a fireclown is just over 16, all of the older fish died in an accident that was due to my carelessness.
The tank is mostly LPS, gorgonians, giant mushrooms and a few leathers.
There are only three SPS corals, two of which have been with me for a few years and are growing nicely.
I am not sure is any of the original NSW from the Long Island Sound is still in there or any of the original amphipods but maybe much later generations.
I still can't take a decent picture and the tank is not as blue as these pictures but it is what it is.
A few things actually. I run a reverse undergravel filter with gravel, no sand. After the tank gets established, never quarantine if you want long lasting, healthy fish and feed food with living bacteria like live worms, clams etc along with maybe LRS frozen food. No dry foods at all.
Ok so I need to stop with the new life spectrum pellets? And I feed live foods like freshly hatched BBS and LRS reef frenzy. I gave them as much rock structure a 20L can hold for 1 clown a RG and firefish. But in future I plan to have a huge tank this was my first tank and wanted to learn and do my research before going big
You can use the pellets but most of the food should have living bacteria like I said.
