mk_reefs
Community Member
Happy with how my Waterbox 20 is coming along.
I started this tank in 21 of August from little SPS frags and a macro algae reactor. Simple old Ai prime to which I then added custom 7" bar lights to. I ran that for about 5 months with exceptional growth and then upgraded to a gently used hydra 52 hd.
I used to have a bunch of eyuphilla and other corals but learned the hard way about nutrients and the power a cheato in a reactor.
Anyways the hundreds of dollars thrown down the drain and learning from my mistakes SPS being the only corals that survived, I kept pushing on.
Equipment:
Chamber 1:
•First ever AIO automatic filter roller picked up off of reefnrolls.com
Chamber 2:
•Jebao 1500 sine DC 400gph pump
•Aquamaxx fr-se gfo reactor converted to a macro reactor
•filter cup and return line from reactor into rox carbon, rowaphos (whatever I need) ECT.
•Marine pure gems in a media bag (70 gal rated)
Chamber 3:
•Eheim 150w heater
•Drop in UV 13w
•Auto aqua ato
•Smallest Mighty Jet DC return pump
Display:
2- Nero 3's
1- alw 10 on the bottom right corner to push detritus into the water column
Dosing and maintenance:
Doser: jebao 3.4 wifi
•All for Reef -24ml per day
•Acro power- by instructions
•ESV nitrates- 1ml every other day
I haven't done a water change since mid December of '22 on this tank. Weekly or bi weekly I go in with a filter sock and a sicce nano two way pump and clean up as much detritus I can and get it into the filter sock, scrape glass and that's it.
Parameters:
•No3 5-10 ppm usually don't like going over 8ppm if I do, I stop dosing nitrate and let the reactor consume it.
•Po4 0.02-0.05 is where I've been tracking for months
•Alk 8.3
•Ca 445
•Salinity 1.025
•Temp 80-81
•PH 8.3-8.5
I'm not going to lie and say I test Mag I don't.
Update stared dosing phosphate, All for reef consumption is 50ML a day in the 20 gallon now. Things are really taking off!
My Instagram is mk_reefs if you'd like to follow along there. I haven't quite fully figured out how to navigate R2R yet.
I started this tank in 21 of August from little SPS frags and a macro algae reactor. Simple old Ai prime to which I then added custom 7" bar lights to. I ran that for about 5 months with exceptional growth and then upgraded to a gently used hydra 52 hd.
I used to have a bunch of eyuphilla and other corals but learned the hard way about nutrients and the power a cheato in a reactor.
Anyways the hundreds of dollars thrown down the drain and learning from my mistakes SPS being the only corals that survived, I kept pushing on.
Equipment:
Chamber 1:
•First ever AIO automatic filter roller picked up off of reefnrolls.com
Chamber 2:
•Jebao 1500 sine DC 400gph pump
•Aquamaxx fr-se gfo reactor converted to a macro reactor
•filter cup and return line from reactor into rox carbon, rowaphos (whatever I need) ECT.
•Marine pure gems in a media bag (70 gal rated)
Chamber 3:
•Eheim 150w heater
•Drop in UV 13w
•Auto aqua ato
•Smallest Mighty Jet DC return pump
Display:
2- Nero 3's
1- alw 10 on the bottom right corner to push detritus into the water column
Dosing and maintenance:
Doser: jebao 3.4 wifi
•All for Reef -24ml per day
•Acro power- by instructions
•ESV nitrates- 1ml every other day
I haven't done a water change since mid December of '22 on this tank. Weekly or bi weekly I go in with a filter sock and a sicce nano two way pump and clean up as much detritus I can and get it into the filter sock, scrape glass and that's it.
Parameters:
•No3 5-10 ppm usually don't like going over 8ppm if I do, I stop dosing nitrate and let the reactor consume it.
•Po4 0.02-0.05 is where I've been tracking for months
•Alk 8.3
•Ca 445
•Salinity 1.025
•Temp 80-81
•PH 8.3-8.5
I'm not going to lie and say I test Mag I don't.
Update stared dosing phosphate, All for reef consumption is 50ML a day in the 20 gallon now. Things are really taking off!
My Instagram is mk_reefs if you'd like to follow along there. I haven't quite fully figured out how to navigate R2R yet.
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