Well Ive been on RC just over a year and hit my 1000th post!! I felt it was about time to introduce my tank.
Background, Ive had many FW and I had a 12g SW for about 5 years, nothing fancy, but I learned the basics. Then a little over a year ago my GF helped me upgrade! After months of researching here on RC, I finally got set up on 8-16-06.
First off id like to thank everybody here on RC for all the advice and cheap equipment and frags. With out RC and my club (Fox Valley Reefer Club) my tank would not be what it is today.
System:
Tank: 30 long AGA, 30lb fine CC, and roughly 40lb LR, DIY stand
Sump: 10g AGA
Fuge/frag tank: 10g AGA Cheato + xenia for nutrient export. 55w CF 50/50
Lighting: Coralife 36" 2x96w CF (10,000K 10 hours/day and 420K 13h/d) 2 lunar lights
Return: Eheim 1250 through SCWD (roughly 200gph after head loss)
ATO: gravity fed through coralife float valve from a 2g bucket. (1/2 - 3/4 gpd) Works great salinity rarely changes!
Wavemaker: Aquarium Systems Power strip w/ 1 MJ 1200, and 2 MJ 900 w/ hydroflo's (very random flow), also 2 more PH one in fuge and one in show tank.
Dosing: Kalk fully saturated, drip through aqualifter pump, 1 min/hr 24/7 (1/3 gpd)
Filtration: Red Sea Berlin Turbo Protein Skimmer, and HOB w/carbon and filter floss. Filter sock between fuge and sump.
Temp control: 100w heater and 2 fans (small one in sump, Large one on desk next to tank blowing over whole setup)
Salt: Reef Crystals
Water: Wally world distilled (purple cap)
Controller: Aquacontroller Jr. w/serial port, temp and lab grade pH probe. Runs most to all of my system from lights, wavemaking, temprature control, and dosing.
Testing: Refractometer for salt, Salifert for Ca and KH, dipsticks for Ite and Ate, AC Jr. for pH and Temp. (Mag test kit on wish list)
Electricity: Lots... 20 outlets used. Including a GFCI and 2 ground probes. NOT including my lava lamps either
+ wavemaker power strip, 3 timers and one DC 8.
Livestock:
Engineer Goby
2 Neon Gobys
Yellow Clown Goby
Red Head Goby
Hand full of snails and hermits
3 Pepperment shrimp
Corals:
10 differant Paly/Zoas
6 types of Mushrooms including flordia ricordias
2 types of GSP
2 types of Xenia
2 types of candycane
frogspawn
purple tipped digita
green monti cap
toadstool leather
enchino
sun coral
blasto
and a partridge in a kenya tree.
Tank is setup for low maintaince, daily feeding glass cleaning, every 3 days for filling kalk and ATO, weekly testing, bi-weekly to monthly 10% changes, cleaning as needed. Thats about it, time for pics...
GSP Briarium spawning
More pics (4 pages worth)...
http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i319/podheadx/?start=0
My tank is 10 months old, and everythings doing great so far, I started off with mostly small frags, and I have some nice sized colonys of some corals already.
1,000 posts, mostly helping or giving advice/opinion, but Ive definatly had my share of questions, and I thank everybody for there help!
RC Rocks!!!
Bri Guy
Background, Ive had many FW and I had a 12g SW for about 5 years, nothing fancy, but I learned the basics. Then a little over a year ago my GF helped me upgrade! After months of researching here on RC, I finally got set up on 8-16-06.
First off id like to thank everybody here on RC for all the advice and cheap equipment and frags. With out RC and my club (Fox Valley Reefer Club) my tank would not be what it is today.
System:
Tank: 30 long AGA, 30lb fine CC, and roughly 40lb LR, DIY stand
Sump: 10g AGA
Fuge/frag tank: 10g AGA Cheato + xenia for nutrient export. 55w CF 50/50
Lighting: Coralife 36" 2x96w CF (10,000K 10 hours/day and 420K 13h/d) 2 lunar lights
Return: Eheim 1250 through SCWD (roughly 200gph after head loss)
ATO: gravity fed through coralife float valve from a 2g bucket. (1/2 - 3/4 gpd) Works great salinity rarely changes!
Wavemaker: Aquarium Systems Power strip w/ 1 MJ 1200, and 2 MJ 900 w/ hydroflo's (very random flow), also 2 more PH one in fuge and one in show tank.
Dosing: Kalk fully saturated, drip through aqualifter pump, 1 min/hr 24/7 (1/3 gpd)
Filtration: Red Sea Berlin Turbo Protein Skimmer, and HOB w/carbon and filter floss. Filter sock between fuge and sump.
Temp control: 100w heater and 2 fans (small one in sump, Large one on desk next to tank blowing over whole setup)
Salt: Reef Crystals
Water: Wally world distilled (purple cap)
Controller: Aquacontroller Jr. w/serial port, temp and lab grade pH probe. Runs most to all of my system from lights, wavemaking, temprature control, and dosing.
Testing: Refractometer for salt, Salifert for Ca and KH, dipsticks for Ite and Ate, AC Jr. for pH and Temp. (Mag test kit on wish list)
Electricity: Lots... 20 outlets used. Including a GFCI and 2 ground probes. NOT including my lava lamps either
+ wavemaker power strip, 3 timers and one DC 8.Livestock:
Engineer Goby
2 Neon Gobys
Yellow Clown Goby
Red Head Goby
Hand full of snails and hermits
3 Pepperment shrimp
Corals:
10 differant Paly/Zoas
6 types of Mushrooms including flordia ricordias
2 types of GSP
2 types of Xenia
2 types of candycane
frogspawn
purple tipped digita
green monti cap
toadstool leather
enchino
sun coral
blasto
and a partridge in a kenya tree.
Tank is setup for low maintaince, daily feeding glass cleaning, every 3 days for filling kalk and ATO, weekly testing, bi-weekly to monthly 10% changes, cleaning as needed. Thats about it, time for pics...
GSP Briarium spawning
More pics (4 pages worth)...
http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i319/podheadx/?start=0
My tank is 10 months old, and everythings doing great so far, I started off with mostly small frags, and I have some nice sized colonys of some corals already.
1,000 posts, mostly helping or giving advice/opinion, but Ive definatly had my share of questions, and I thank everybody for there help!
RC Rocks!!!
Bri Guy
