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AQUARIUM PROFILE & EQUIPMENT
1. What type of saltwater aquarium is this?: mixed reef
2. Total water volume: 75 gallons
3. When did you start this tank?: September 2025, but all the rock, sand and inhabitants were transferred from a 9 year old 56g aquarium
4. What is your aquarium made of?: glass Aqueon
5. Aquarium Stand: Aqueon 48" x 18"
6. Aquarium filtration: only a canister prefilter sponge from an Oase BioMaster 850 and natural biological from rock, sand, macroalgae. The canister filter is acting as a cryptic sump where pods, worms and other life can live and reproduce unmolested by fish. Hopefully this will provide a continuous supply of pods and worms for a natural food source for fish and coral.
7. Controller: Inkbird temperature
8. Protein skimmer: no
9. Reactor: no
10. Sump: no
11. Equipment for flow & circulation:
A. Oase BioMaster 850 canister filter,
with spraybar output
B. Carefree Fish wavemaker
C. Ecotech mp 10
D. Ecotech mp 40
12. Aquarium Lighting: ReefBreeder
Photon V-24
13. ATO: no
14. Aquarium Heating: heater that is
made to be integrated in the
BioMaster 850 canister filter. The beauty of this is the heater is in the canister and not in the tank cluttering the display. Also none of the inhabitants can be injured by it.
PH: 8.0
Specific Gravity: 1.024
NO3: 10ppm
PO4: .5ppm
Calcium, Alkalinity, and Magnesium are not monitored as these are naturally regulated with water changes and AFR dosing
Salt Brand: Instant Ocean
Trace Element dosing: Flourish (1 capful weekly), AFR ( 5-10 ML weekly), and 1 capful Seachem Stability weekly
Water Chemistry Details: 10% water change weekly
Aquarium Aquascape:
Substrate: shallow and deep sand
Live rock: 80lbs of Carribean
Nutrient export: Macroalgae and coral
AQUARIUM INHABITANTS
Fish: Coral Beauty Angelfish, Ocellaris Clownfish, Midas Blenny, Yellow Watchman Goby, Bi-color Blenny, Firefish Goby, Blue Eyed Kole Tang, One Spot Foxface, Masked Goby and 2 Pajama Cardinalfish
Future fish that I would like is a Long nose Hawkfish, a Royal Gramma, and maybe even a Sharpnose Puffer.
Coral: SPS- Scroll coral, War coral
LPS- Green Hammers, Aqua Trumpets, Neon Green Trumpets
SOFTIES- various Palys, various Zoas, Sinularia finger leather, Cabbage leather, Green Toadstool leather, Green Star Polyp
SPONGES- Yellow Ball Sponge, Red Tree Sponge, Purple Photosynthetic Sponge
Inverts: Rock Flower Anemones, 6 Feather Dusters, Emerald crabs, 6 Peppermint Shrimp, Nassarius snails and an Atlantic cucumber.
I feel I need a couple blue legged reef crabs and some nerite snails to help deal with the diatoms on the sandbed.
Macroalgae: (Green) Codium, Opuntia, Shaving Brush, Ulva, Moss Ball, (Red) Pom Pom, Gracilaria Hayi
2 Mangroves
Aquarium Nutrition:
Auto Feeder 2Xs daily veggie flakes
1 Frozen Cube daily of various foods
5 ML of live Phyto
Hi folks, my name is Dawn and I am upgrading from my current 56g column to a standard 75g display. The main reason is I am not as tall as I once was and the tall 56g is a pain to clean, ha ha! Gotta love getting older. Actually I am also excited about having a bigger footprint for more fish too!
Like my current display, this new 75g will also have a mural on the back glass. That is where the leafy seadragons come in; sorry folks if I misled you into thinking that I was keeping seadragon! It's reminds me of when I kept and raised seahorses, which are in the same family as seadragons. Of course my tank is kind of leafy since I love macroalgae.
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I plan to set this tank up simply with biology doing most of the filtering, (same as my current tank). I will be moving all my rock over, washing and re-using the sand and keeping macroalgae.
I bought a 20g high tank at a Petco sale to be the sump and home for my aged Percula clown and renegade pistol shrimp. I also am going to relocate all the rainbow nems down there. The sump will not be plumbed to the display immediately until I can gather and put the plumbing together. Display and sump will just be AIOs until that happens but the 20g will be under the cabinet. That way my fish and coral are back in a stable environment until I can do the plumbing rather than makeshift holding tanks.
This is a really thoughtful setup, and it shows how much experience you bring from that long-running 56g. Transferring mature rock and sand is such a smart move — that stability is gold.
