Hey all,
This is my first post about my new reef, I might rumble on a bit but I want to get it all down. (I apologize for the metric- I am just an anti-imperialist! )
I imagine the first live things to go in by September, the first corals by the end of October...
No LPS until 6 months in, so SPS until 10 months in.
As I am waiting for my order to come in I am rewiring the house, and keeping the aquarium in its own line.... well that's it for now! I am open to suggestions, especially about thing that I might have missed... and my questions... open to criticism especially if it is constructive
This is my first post about my new reef, I might rumble on a bit but I want to get it all down. (I apologize for the metric- I am just an anti-imperialist! )
History
I had a 600lt light coral reef from 2008 to 2014. It was a low budget reef, with lots of DIY, and great ideas that worked some of the time. I really enjoyed fragging and sharing the love here in Athens Greece.Initial purchase
I have ordered the following- Red Sea Reefer XXL 750 (650 tank + 100lt sump) with its cover net
- Two red sea wavemakers 45w each
- Three 90w red sea lights on a pendulum (I will get a forth as soon as I see if it will be a 160 or 90w)
- the red sea skimmer 900 - a bit too much, but I want it to be too much,
- 2 red sea salt buckets, one normal one pro - now I am done with the red sea stuff
- 500lt chiller (i wont need it much but for a few days a year)
- 500w heater (probably I'll order a 2nd one as backup)
- 120kgr aragonite sand 1-2mm (moved there from the 0.8-1.2mm)
- 100kgr dead coral (not sure they can find it for me....)
- 2-3 macro algae in the refugium part of the sump
I have questions about getting:
- a calcium reactor
- phosphates reactor
- activated carbon (I will have a sock ready for emergencies but not sure I need it all the time)
- uv
- ozone
The very few fishes:
- an algae eater or two,
- Mollie Miller or Salarias fasciatus (love the standing position, facial expression and eating mania)
- foxface or tang
- a formosa wrasse
- a midas blenny - too cute!
- 2 perculas - I had 2 attempts to raise a brood before (no success) I wanna try again.
- I hope never to need a copperband butterfly, but such hopes do not last long in the reef
- possibly in the very far future a mandarin or a dragonface pipefish
The inverts
- a few shrimp, probably wydermany, i like them
- a tube orm or two
- 10 largish snails -turbos most likely
- 10-20 nassarius
- maybe at some time a sand starfish
The softies!
- mushrooms, discosoma and rhodactis
- pulsing xenia, when I can get a pink enough color
- starpolyps -if I find a nice double color-purple stem, green fingers
- Blue clove polyps
- Toadstools - if I get a nice color
- a sinularia or 2
The LPSs - I love feeding them
- an elegance
- a duncan or two
- a scoly
The SPSs - now I can!
- if I can find a pink histrix birdnest
- maybe a plating coral, is there an easy one? (still researching)
I imagine the first live things to go in by September, the first corals by the end of October...
No LPS until 6 months in, so SPS until 10 months in.
As I am waiting for my order to come in I am rewiring the house, and keeping the aquarium in its own line.... well that's it for now! I am open to suggestions, especially about thing that I might have missed... and my questions... open to criticism especially if it is constructive
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