Waterbox 35.2 - LPS Reef - First Build

[ajf2077]

First tank / build thread. Creating as a way to track my own progress and engage with other reefers.

10/2 - Front and Side

Tank Specs:
Display: Waterbox 35.2 AIO and stand
Rock: KP Aquatics Starter Rock
Sand: Carib Sea Arag Alive
Lighting: Kessil 160 + x Controller
Heater: 2x 125w eheim jager with inkbird 306a
Flow: Sicce Silent 1.5 + MP10
Filtration: Floss, Rox .8 Carbon
ATO: Tunze Nano 3
Lid: Kraken Reef
Salt: TM Pro

 

[ajf2077]

Current Corals

GSP , Trachy, Bowerbanki? (not sure, frag from LFS, ty if anyone else can ID)

Duncan & Stat Mint Candy Cane (had no idea these heads would be so small, do I have the coral ID correct on candy cane?)

2 Micromussa Lords and 1 Blasto, hope here is for the Acans to fully engulf the rock rubble eventually

 

[ajf2077]

Current Tank Parameters:
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77.5-78F
Nitrate: 20
Phosphate .1
Alkalinity: 7.3

Routine:
5g Water Change Weekly
Change Filter Floss twice weekly
Change Carbon every 2 weeks
Feeding: mix it up between enriched brine shrimp and TDO pellets, 1-2x daily.
Benereef - just started targeting feeding corals with benereef, this week. Will try 2x per week while watching nutrients.

Livestock:
Ocellaris Clownfish Pair - got from LFS as juveniles < 1 inch. Grown a bit in a month.
Snails - Astrea, Nassarius, Dwarf Certih
2 Scarlet Reef Hermits
1 Sexy Shrimp
Misc Feather Dusters that hitchhiked on live rock

Future:
- Have a Possum Wrasse and Pink Streak Wrasse currently being QT'd at Dr. Reef
- Protein Skimmer - was originally not going to run one but seeing nitrate and phos with current feeding, and I'd like to feed heavier and planning to add fish, currently researching small skimmers that will fit in AIO chambers

 

[Fish Fan]

Looking good; following along!

 

[kevgib67]

Congratulations!