Well I suppose it's time for me to start a proper tank thread here after @mdbannister asked in the FTS show off thread, so here we go
A little about myself, I'm a True Blue Aussie haha and I've been keeping scaled friends for the last 15 years and I've been salty for the last 6 years and tanked for the last 4! I started out with a 2ft cube and I loved that! I cranked out some crazy colours running a full zeovit system. It started out with leds and transitioned into a Hamilton Cebu Sun halide-t5 combo light that I'm still running now! I adore all facets of this hobby but my true passions lay in wrasse, zoa's and sps! So enough rambling from and lets get into my tank
Display System:
Strike up Date: 7/06/16 (or for you that are backwards 06/7/16 lol)
Display Tank: 1000x600x450mm or 40x24x18" and the volume is 300L or 80g
Display Lighting: 2ft Hamilton Cebu Sun. 250w Radium + 4x24w T5's (thinking about a 3ft unit though)
Stand: 1000x600x100mm (40x24x40")
Hood: Hoodless, lights will be hung from the light hanging kit as I want ease of access and don't mind being able to see it all.
Sump: 1000x500x350mm; ATO, frag section, matrix chamber (10L of matrix) and skimmer section.
Refugium: No weeds here!
Support systems:
System Water: The tank was run on Red Sea Blue bucket for a year and of the last 2-3 months I've been using the AquaForest Probiotic Reef Salt and loving it.
Display Water circulation: A duo of RW-8's and a 6025.
Return Pump: Ecotech Vectra M1
Skimmer: RLSS R8-i
Evaporation Top Up: ATO run by the Pac Sun Kore 5th
Chemical Support:
Good old 3-part by Aquaforest for the last while and recently I've moved up in my game and now run a Geo's Reef calcium reactor!
Water Chemistry:
Nitrates: 0-5ppm
Phosphates: 0-0.05ppm
Alkalinity: 7.3dKH
Calcium: 420ppm
Salinity / Specific Gravity: 35ppt
Magnesuim: 1200ppm
Scaled Friends:
Now this is where the real fun begins as I've leaped forth in tank size and it opens up a world of new possibilities for whom I will be able to keep! My current friends are, in order of oldest to newest:
Well I suppose that sums up the tank nicely and where I'm at so lets get some pictures going This what the tank was looking like shortly after setup a couple of months in and it's also a great pic to give a sense of size to my t. maxima that I've had for 4 years now, who was a quarter that size!
And about a year later, from the start of September, this is what the tank is looking like at the moment it's changed a little bit but I'll have a few updates of general pics before we get there:
The left side of the tank:
Annnd the right side of the tank:
I hope you can enjoy my journey with me and I truly do live and breathe this hobby and everything about it!
Cheers,
Dom
A little about myself, I'm a True Blue Aussie haha and I've been keeping scaled friends for the last 15 years and I've been salty for the last 6 years and tanked for the last 4! I started out with a 2ft cube and I loved that! I cranked out some crazy colours running a full zeovit system. It started out with leds and transitioned into a Hamilton Cebu Sun halide-t5 combo light that I'm still running now! I adore all facets of this hobby but my true passions lay in wrasse, zoa's and sps! So enough rambling from and lets get into my tank
Display System:
Strike up Date: 7/06/16 (or for you that are backwards 06/7/16 lol)
Display Tank: 1000x600x450mm or 40x24x18" and the volume is 300L or 80g
Display Lighting: 2ft Hamilton Cebu Sun. 250w Radium + 4x24w T5's (thinking about a 3ft unit though)
Stand: 1000x600x100mm (40x24x40")
Hood: Hoodless, lights will be hung from the light hanging kit as I want ease of access and don't mind being able to see it all.
Sump: 1000x500x350mm; ATO, frag section, matrix chamber (10L of matrix) and skimmer section.
Refugium: No weeds here!
Support systems:
System Water: The tank was run on Red Sea Blue bucket for a year and of the last 2-3 months I've been using the AquaForest Probiotic Reef Salt and loving it.
Display Water circulation: A duo of RW-8's and a 6025.
Return Pump: Ecotech Vectra M1
Skimmer: RLSS R8-i
Evaporation Top Up: ATO run by the Pac Sun Kore 5th
Chemical Support:
Good old 3-part by Aquaforest for the last while and recently I've moved up in my game and now run a Geo's Reef calcium reactor!
Water Chemistry:
Nitrates: 0-5ppm
Phosphates: 0-0.05ppm
Alkalinity: 7.3dKH
Calcium: 420ppm
Salinity / Specific Gravity: 35ppt
Magnesuim: 1200ppm
Scaled Friends:
Now this is where the real fun begins as I've leaped forth in tank size and it opens up a world of new possibilities for whom I will be able to keep! My current friends are, in order of oldest to newest:
- halichoeres melasmapomus (Black Earmuff Wrasse)
- liopropoma susumi (Pinstripe Basslet)
- hologymnosus doliatus (Red Stripe Wrasse)
- cirrhilabrus sp. (Magma Wrasse)
- cirrhilabrus isosceles (Pintail Fairy Wrasse)
- cirrhilabrus katherinae (Katherine's Fairy Wrasse)
- chaetodon burgessi ("Burger" the Burgessi Butterflyfish)
Well I suppose that sums up the tank nicely and where I'm at so lets get some pictures going This what the tank was looking like shortly after setup a couple of months in and it's also a great pic to give a sense of size to my t. maxima that I've had for 4 years now, who was a quarter that size!
And about a year later, from the start of September, this is what the tank is looking like at the moment it's changed a little bit but I'll have a few updates of general pics before we get there:
The left side of the tank:
Annnd the right side of the tank:
I hope you can enjoy my journey with me and I truly do live and breathe this hobby and everything about it!
Cheers,
Dom