ccampbell57
Premium Member
Hey Tim LOL (RCT...right on my radar now 
I do feed gel-based foods as an addition to the Spectrum pellets. I feed both veggie cubes and meaty cubes. This food is home made by my LFS. It is filled with garlic, sponge, spirolina and other goodies. I have noticed an increase in cloration since using it and for double the amount it is the same price as Formula 1 and 2.
Tangwich - I currently have a ~50g 3-chamer refugium that has a modded ASM G3 and a UV sterilizer in the first column. The second chamber has 60+#'s of LR and a 3" substrate. I have all my cleaning crew in there. Lots of turbos, red and blue legged crabs.
There is a sponge that I clean every other week between the 2nd and 3rd column.
I run a Little Giant external pump that I have plumbed out to my garage due to the fact that when it was under the tank I had a micro-bubble issue.
I have a total of 300#'s of premium fiji, Marshal Island, and tonga branch live rock. All the live rock was from the time when my tank was a mixed reef. This was till my angels ate over $2000 of my coral in 2 weeks (its a good think I love my angels
As for lights, I run 2x96wx36" actinics and 2x96wx36" 10K daylight retrofit PCs and have 2x110wx48" VHO ultra actinics for more blue.
Inside the tank I have 2 Hydor 4 power heads and another single larger power head in the middle of the tank for appropriate flow through all the live rock.
As for quarantine process. All of my fish (except the Bandit) go through 6 weeks of QT in my 55g QT. I place each of my fish in the QT with various medications for 2 weeks and then put them all in Hypo for 4 weeks. Once they come out of hypo they are ready for the DT.
The only outbreaks of ich I have every had were from me being stupid and not paying attention. I have only lost 1 fish due ich and that was my powder blue tang after 2.5 years of having him healthy.
I do feed gel-based foods as an addition to the Spectrum pellets. I feed both veggie cubes and meaty cubes. This food is home made by my LFS. It is filled with garlic, sponge, spirolina and other goodies. I have noticed an increase in cloration since using it and for double the amount it is the same price as Formula 1 and 2.
Tangwich - I currently have a ~50g 3-chamer refugium that has a modded ASM G3 and a UV sterilizer in the first column. The second chamber has 60+#'s of LR and a 3" substrate. I have all my cleaning crew in there. Lots of turbos, red and blue legged crabs.
There is a sponge that I clean every other week between the 2nd and 3rd column.
I run a Little Giant external pump that I have plumbed out to my garage due to the fact that when it was under the tank I had a micro-bubble issue.
I have a total of 300#'s of premium fiji, Marshal Island, and tonga branch live rock. All the live rock was from the time when my tank was a mixed reef. This was till my angels ate over $2000 of my coral in 2 weeks (its a good think I love my angels
As for lights, I run 2x96wx36" actinics and 2x96wx36" 10K daylight retrofit PCs and have 2x110wx48" VHO ultra actinics for more blue.
Inside the tank I have 2 Hydor 4 power heads and another single larger power head in the middle of the tank for appropriate flow through all the live rock.
As for quarantine process. All of my fish (except the Bandit) go through 6 weeks of QT in my 55g QT. I place each of my fish in the QT with various medications for 2 weeks and then put them all in Hypo for 4 weeks. Once they come out of hypo they are ready for the DT.
The only outbreaks of ich I have every had were from me being stupid and not paying attention. I have only lost 1 fish due ich and that was my powder blue tang after 2.5 years of having him healthy.
He was in the same tank with a yellow anthia. I have never seen one of these guys before either. It was pretty cool too, but it didnt look too happy.
