Victoria Music's Custom 180 Rebuild

[Brew12]

I am going to start my lights up. I have never started a tank with this naked white rock. I am thinking 3 hours a day. How does that sound? I have 2 Hydra 26 HD. Any opinions on the settings?

3 is probably a nice starting point. Can't help with the settings. I wouldn't recommend your peak lighting period to be over 6 hours even when everything starts maturing.

Oh.. you may need a bigger tank if you use Paul's source for Pods!

 

[Dono]

I am going to start my lights up. I have never started a tank with this naked white rock. I am thinking 3 hours a day. How does that sound? I have 2 Hydra 26 HD. Any opinions on the settings?

On my 90 Gal I run 3x Hydra 26 with these settings:

I’m 95% dry rock with a nice shelf of live rock. I’ve kept this setting/schedule going since cycling and recently added 4x T5. No major algae outbreaks and you can always take advantage of the coral acclimation setting and reduce output by 50% scaling up over 2-4 weeks.

 

[Dono]

On my 90 Gal I run 3x Hydra 26 with these settings:

I’m 95% dry rock with a nice shelf of live rock. I’ve kept this setting/schedule going since cycling and recently added 4x T5. No major algae outbreaks and you can always take advantage of the coral acclimation setting and reduce output by 50% scaling up over 2-4 weeks.

I must have touched something with my light settings. They peak from 11a-4p. Not as long as it shows here.

 

[Victoria M]

You can have them delivered in large amounts.

I can always rely on you for excellent reefing advise...
;Smuggrin

 

[Victoria M]

@Dono thank you very much!

 

[Victoria M]

I ordered my first batch of fish to QT.
Azure Damselfish, Captive-Bred(Chrysiptera hemicyanea) 4
Ocellaris Clownfish, Captive-Bred(Amphiprion ocellaris ) 2
Yellow Pyramid Butterflyfish(Hemitaurichthys polylepis) 1
Flame Hawkfish(Neocirrhites armatus) 1

I always QT fish. I have a 20L that I really like to use and I bought a Fluval U3 filter that I love so far. The biological filter has been sitting in the invert QT that has the coral banded shrimp chilling out. Been in there for many months, so I am well prepared there. Each of these fish I am expecting to be pretty small, around 2 inches. I do not plan to use the TTM, unless I see signs of ich . I have been planning to medicate prophylactically for flukes and ich. But I have to decide...do TTM then into the QT with the seeded biological filter or place them in there first and observe and treat.
I think the 20L will be a good size for that many fish, but I usually only QT 1-2 fish at a time.

 

[Flippers4pups]

I don't really like people who don't like dogs, and if my dog don't like you I prolly won't either.

Milo approves!

 

[Victoria M]

Milo approves!

Look at that puppers! I volunteer to puppy sit whenever!

 

[Victoria M]

This was todays setting just because I wanted to see my fish.

 

[Victoria M]

She loves to sit in the office with me just watching over her subjects.

 

[NY_Caveman]

She loves to sit in the office with me just watching over her subjects.

Nice! Sounds like he will have some new fish friends!

 

[Victoria M]

She zeroed my fish account but I do love that little stinker.

 

[Victoria M]

Nice! Sounds like he will have some new fish friends!

She. I need to have atleast one other girl in this house.

 

[Flippers4pups]

She. I need to have atleast one other girl in this house.

We've been talking about getting a girl soon. Heard it first right here!

 

[Victoria M]

The flame hawk keeps checking me out through the front door and when I go to take his picture he swims away to peer at me from the back of the mushroom house he has claimed. OMG! It is so funny.
I put all the fish in in the QT. This time I made the QT obnoxious! Pink & purple! I love it!

 

[Victoria M]

I put a couple pieces of PVC in for the pyramid butterfly. He has been skittish since he went in. He is much bigger than I thought he was gonna be. He is the blur at the right corner.

 

[Victoria M]

The azure damsels are schooling!

 

[Brew12]

The azure damsels are schooling!

Awesome!

My favorite part of watching the tank is the interactions between the fish.

 

[Texas Reefer]

I am going to need new ideas...

Does your drain pipe end an inch or 2 below the water line?
Try slowing down the return pump?

 

[Victoria M]

Does your drain pipe end an inch or 2 below the water line?
Try slowing down the return pump?

The drain was below the water line at first. That was a lot of fun! LOL. I don't want less flow through my display tank. So for now I am living with it. I wish I had a wand that could just make my old sump bigger or could combine my old sump with my new sump without costing me $500. I hate how the rag looks on there but it is working. No more salt creep.