JasperschnNL
New Member
Hi everybody,
May 25 I started my first ever reef tank! Started with almost 2 years of freshwater and a lot of reading/watching informative articles about salt water.
When Ryan started Serious Reefs I followed alone and try to follow his recipe.
Setup:
Tank - Waterbox AIO 35.2
Lights - AI Prime HD 16
Circulation - AI Nero 3 & AI Axis 40
Temp - Aqua Medic 100W heater
ATO - Red Sea ATO
Controller - APEX A2 with EB632 (PH, TEMP, ERP)
Filtration - Red sea nanomatt - Ceramic media - Carbon - rock rubble cured at LFS
Substrate - Carib Sea Ocean Direct Original Grade
Rock - Aquaforest AF Rock
Cycle - 90-10 method serious reefs with red sea reef mature kit
During the cycle I slowly boosted my lights:
Week 1: off
Week 2: 4 hours - 0,5Watt per gallon
Week 3: 8 hours - 0,5 Watt per gallon
week 4: 8 hours - 1 Watt per gallon
After the cycle I added 2 clowns and some clean up crew.
2x Trochus Histrio
2x Nassarius Vibex
1x Lysmata Ambionensis (cleaner shrimp)
1x Clibanarius sp. (blue leg hermit)
Couple small bags of Copepods
Two weeks later the diatoms were covering all the sand and started at the rocks. I reached out on serious reefs and got the advice to shutt off the lights for 10 days and remove as much diatoms as possible. I think the Copepods won the battle. Before my 3 weeks holiday i turned the lights back on (4 hours at 0,5 Watt per gallon) and when i returned no more diatoms were left.
Last three weeks I started to ramp up the lights again to 8 hours at 1 watt per gallon. Some new pest is showing up so fingers crossed it will balance out!
I will add some pictures when I get home.
May 25 I started my first ever reef tank! Started with almost 2 years of freshwater and a lot of reading/watching informative articles about salt water.
When Ryan started Serious Reefs I followed alone and try to follow his recipe.
Setup:
Tank - Waterbox AIO 35.2
Lights - AI Prime HD 16
Circulation - AI Nero 3 & AI Axis 40
Temp - Aqua Medic 100W heater
ATO - Red Sea ATO
Controller - APEX A2 with EB632 (PH, TEMP, ERP)
Filtration - Red sea nanomatt - Ceramic media - Carbon - rock rubble cured at LFS
Substrate - Carib Sea Ocean Direct Original Grade
Rock - Aquaforest AF Rock
Cycle - 90-10 method serious reefs with red sea reef mature kit
During the cycle I slowly boosted my lights:
Week 1: off
Week 2: 4 hours - 0,5Watt per gallon
Week 3: 8 hours - 0,5 Watt per gallon
week 4: 8 hours - 1 Watt per gallon
After the cycle I added 2 clowns and some clean up crew.
2x Trochus Histrio
2x Nassarius Vibex
1x Lysmata Ambionensis (cleaner shrimp)
1x Clibanarius sp. (blue leg hermit)
Couple small bags of Copepods
Two weeks later the diatoms were covering all the sand and started at the rocks. I reached out on serious reefs and got the advice to shutt off the lights for 10 days and remove as much diatoms as possible. I think the Copepods won the battle. Before my 3 weeks holiday i turned the lights back on (4 hours at 0,5 Watt per gallon) and when i returned no more diatoms were left.
Last three weeks I started to ramp up the lights again to 8 hours at 1 watt per gallon. Some new pest is showing up so fingers crossed it will balance out!
I will add some pictures when I get home.
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