Waterbox 6025 Peninsula
Aquarium Profile and Equipment
- What type of saltwater aquarium is this?
- Mixed Reef
- Total Water Volume
- 180
- When did you start this tank?
- May 11, 2025
- What is your aquarium made of?
- Glass
- Aquarium Length (inches)
- 60
- Aquarium Width (inches)
- 25
- Aquarium Height (inches)
- 23
- Aquarium Overflow/Drain
- Internal Overflow
- Aquarium Sump
- YES
- Sump Water Volume
- 45
- Aquarium Stand
- Aluminum frame and mdf cabinet
- Aquarium Controller
- NO
- Protein Skimmer
- YES
- Protein Skimmer Make and Model
- Bubble Magus Curve 7
- Aquarium Reactors
- None
- Return Pump
- Jebao
- What types of equipment are you using for water flow and circulation?
- Wavemaker
- Water Flow and Circulation Equipment List
- 2x AI Nero 7
2x AI Nero 5
- Aquarium Lighting
- LED
- Lighting Equipment List
- Geisseman Stellar 60” LED Fixture with
4x Aqua Illumination Hydra 32
1x Aqua Illumination Hydra 64
- Lighting PAR and Goals
- Currently around 150-400 par currently in an acclimation period on center primary 64HD where clam and acros are located.
- Dosing Equipment Detail
- Currently dosing All For Reef, AB+, iodine, manganese on dosing pumps and manually adding Chaeto Grow daily, magnesium and nitrate or phosphate as needed, Microbacter 7 with water changes. Currently dosing Acropower daily but planning to phase this out soon in favor of more frequent AB+ dosing. Coral Aminos and xtra special occasionally and sometimes Target feeding mixed with other foods.
- Auto Top Off or ATO
- NO
- Aquarium Heating and Cooling
- I am using a heater or heaters
- Water Temperature
- 77
- Heating and Cooling Equipment Detail
- Inkbird with 2 BRS titanium rods 300W each
- Additional Equipment Detail
- 40 Watt Icecap UV with Sicce pump
Aquarium Water Chemistry and Parameters
- pH Level
- 8.15
- Specific Gravity
- 1.0255
- Nitrate or NO3
- 15
- Phosphate or PO4
- 0.1
- Calcium
- 450
- Alkalinity
- 8.5
- Magnesium
- 1320
- Salt Brand
- Red Sea Coral Pro
- Trace Element Dosing
- AFR, Iodine, Manganese, Iron, Fluoride, Chaeto Grow
- Water Chemistry Detail
- Things are still evolving here as my tank’s still settling in and I’m still experimenting and learning.
Aquarium Natural and Mechanical Filtration
- Substrate
- Sand
- Substrate Level
- Other
- Live Rock
- 175
- Live Rock Type
- Assortment from Tampa Bay Saltwater and LFS, and FB marketplace and older tanks of mine. Few dry rock decorating and base pieces.
- Nutrient Export
- Refugium
- Water Changes
- YES
- Water Change Details
- 20 gallons weekly
- Nutrient Export Details
- Currently changing out socks every 1-3 days. Planning to add a Reefmat 1200 shortly. Skim wettish, harvest chaeto regularly.
- Additional Maintenance Details
- Vacuum 25-40% of visible sand bed weekly, clean glass every other day, pumps cleaned with citric acidacid every 3 months approximately, blow off rocks with turkey baster daily, I have some Rox 8 carbon in a media bag that I change out monthly, Polyfilter sheet gets changed every 3 months.
Aquarium Tank Inhabitants (fish, coral, invert etc.)
- Fish List
- Angelfish
- Basslet
- Clownfish
- Damselfish
- Dottyback
- Foxface
- Goby
- Surgeonfish Tang
- Wrasse
- Total Fish
- 19
- Coral List
- SPS Coral
- LPS Coral
- Zoanthids
- Soft Coral
- Mushroom Coral
- Total Corals
- 100
- Invert List
- Anemone
- Crabs
- Starfish
- Shrimp
- Snails
- Clams
- Urchin
- Other
- Total Inverts
- 200
- Livestock Detail
- My tang gang consists of Maximus my sail fin, a lavender powder blue named Prince and of course Dory my regal blue, Foxy the Fox face. I love wrasses and I’m this system have a melanarus, blueside, yellow coris, cleaner, and a six line. I also have a coral beauty, lemon damsel (butthead), azure damsel (sweetheart), striped dottyback, gold head goby(hardest working guy in the tank), a chalk bass (originally there were two but one passed from an anal prolapse sadly), a watchman goby/pistol shrimp pair and a teeny neon cleaner goby. 2 obligatory super sassy clowns, not sure the variety but they were all black and white when I first got them. One crocea clam aka Clammy. Big old coral banded shrimp is currently lord of the sump. Robust cuc with many different types of inverts. Mixture of corals including SPS, LPS and few softies.
- Livestock Quarantine
- No Quarantine
- Favorite Fish
- Probably Prince my powder blue
- Favorite Coral
- Gosh, maybe favia or chalices is tough to pick one
- Favorite Invert
- Teeny pink hitchhiker crab that came in on LR maybe some type of minthrax
- Never Livestock
- I hate to say never but I would be afraid to keep seahorses. They seem so fragile and lovely. Maybe some day.
Aquarium Nutrition (fish, coral, invert etc. feeding)
- Fish Feeding Frequency
- Multiple Daily Feedings
- Coral Feeding Frequency
- Every Other Day
- Fish and Coral Feeding
- Pellet
- Frozen
- Algae Strips
- What brands of foods are you feeding?
- I feed a mixture of frozen in the mornings, including some mysis, roe, etc. with Selcon. In the auto feeder, I typically use a mixture of Hikari Seaweed Extreme and New Life Spectrum pellets. I rotate some probiotic flakes and PE pellets on occasion and offer purple and green nori sheets daily.
- Auto Feeder
- YES
Additional Aquarium Information
- What do you think are the keys to your success in reefing?
- I don’t know, I guess I would say I enjoy my aquarium and like spending time on it. I don’t begrudge water charges or other chores for the most part. It is stressful when things aren’t going well though. I think live rock is key for me. I have had non-reef safe hitchhikers though so I can understand the apprehension but I really like the diversity of sponges and even algae and different snails, micro stars, etc. I think a diverse bacterial population and robust refugium is my main goal.
