Techie's 55 Gallon Mixed Reef

[Techie_]

Hey guys I'm from Cincinnati and I'm fairly new the hobby, I've fallen in love with it and want to document my process... I'll be updating at least once a week when I do my water changes.

My last big change was buying my Coralife AquaPro from my LFS (Aquatics and Exotics in Mt. Healthy for you Cincy reefers who haven't discovered it yet) for around $120 with 2 stock bulbs and 2 ATI Coral Plus bulbs. I got in on a group buy for 1 Coral Plus, 2 Blue Plus, and 1 Purple Plus. And with my T5 fixture I bought glass panels.

I have an Emperor 400 HOB Filter running my filtering, a 200W heater, around 70lbs of LR, I sue IO Reef Crystals, do once a 10% WCs, and have a 800gph powerhead for circulation.

My livestock includes 2 Yellow Tangs (I really should only have one, I may sell one soon, but they're getting along, eating and no longer fighting), 1 Royal Gramma Basslet, 5 Ocellaris clowns, 1 Sally Surefoot, 1 Emerald crab, 1 Astrea snail, and 1 nassarius snail.

My corals include lots of candy cane, a brown polpy colony, a cabbage leather, and some Zoas that are growing like crazy!

Here are pics, it is 2 months and one week old today!

 

[Bob Escher]

Good looking congrats and keep us informed

 

[Techie_]

Here's an updates, 10% WC two days ago, moved my War Favius and it's looking strong, and the diatoms are finally going away after bumping my pH up! I get new bulbs tomorrow, things are going great!

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!