CoralReeForrest
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Lol. Hoping I can get my QT up this weekend. Then get our first two fish going!
Forrest's Reef Tank Build
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CoralReeForrest
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Woot, just got my QT tank, just a simple 10 gallon set up. Seeing as I'm not gonna have any huge fish it will be perfect.
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BlindZide
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Getting the water warmed up.
Your QT tank seems on point. Nothing too complex. Just a tank, filter, heater, and thermometer. Might want to add a small PH just to keep water moving and a current for the fishes to swim in if there isn't one in it yet.
CoralReeForrest
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Grabbing some PVC today. And yeah I may put a nano ph in there, but since my first fish are fire fish I'm not super worried about it. And yes simple that's all you want your QT/hospital to be.
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Already have ammonia going up! Trout seems to work great, also given its a very tiny tank compared to the 75 lol
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Seems to be a bacterial bloom water is pretty foggy. Ammonia is up but no nitites yet, may put a better piece of lr in. Thoughts.?
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Oh I know that I mean to get the hob filter seeded. And yeah I'm sure it will subside
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Thanks man! I keep this updated on the daily, the QT tank was at 2-4ppm of ammo and ill probably drop a better LR specimen in to seed it better over night. I'm feeling the little 10 gallon will cycle in a day or two.
CoralReeForrest
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Took the trout out of the qt. 4+ppm of ammonia, hopefully get a nitrite spike tomorrow or monday!
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Forrest's Reef Tank Build
Getting there nice and slowly, nitrite is on the rise! And yes everyone has their own preferred style, it simply adds ammonia quicker then the die off or organisms would from the LR added. Or if you for instance added no live rock you would have to add some form of ammonia to start it.
Lights will be ordered after rent is paid!
Getting there nice and slowly, nitrite is on the rise! And yes everyone has their own preferred style, it simply adds ammonia quicker then the die off or organisms would from the LR added. Or if you for instance added no live rock you would have to add some form of ammonia to start it.
Lights will be ordered after rent is paid!
BlindZide
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What lights you going for? My Tonga Rock should be here tomorrow to go in my Seahorse tank. When I get them in there I will post photos for ya.
CoralReeForrest
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Awesome! In getting 48 photons from reef breeders.
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Forrest's Reef Tank Build
Ha fun update, thisntank came with two dual bulb coral life ballasts, when I first got them I tested them and they did nothing. Well lame me not thinking, kim said clean all the corrosion off the ballast leads, so I did, and I got them both working, though one I dont deem safe, the other I do. So to hold me over im gonna grab a new 10k and 460act! Ha win! At least I can start getting some softies to have fun with!
Ha fun update, thisntank came with two dual bulb coral life ballasts, when I first got them I tested them and they did nothing. Well lame me not thinking, kim said clean all the corrosion off the ballast leads, so I did, and I got them both working, though one I dont deem safe, the other I do. So to hold me over im gonna grab a new 10k and 460act! Ha win! At least I can start getting some softies to have fun with!
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BlindZide
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Looks nice with light inside! Nicely done.
Back to lighting for a minute. I was comparing the Photon 48 to some OR models and for the price of the Photon, you get a controller for ramp up/down. Now, the more I read about this the less interesting it seems to me. You use this to ramp up to 100% for roughly an hour or 2 and then ramp down. Mean while, you are most likely at work and I don't think the corals even care about the ramping of the lights they just want food to grow.
With the OR fixtures, I am going to get 1 for each tank. Have the blues come on at the correct % in the morning, then have the whites come on a few hours later with the correct %, and then turn them off 6-8hrs later and leave the blues on for a few more hours. Dawn/midday/duck is what it seems like to me. I don't need a ramp in intensity because lets face it, I am not here to look at it and the corals I think really don't care.
Back to lighting for a minute. I was comparing the Photon 48 to some OR models and for the price of the Photon, you get a controller for ramp up/down. Now, the more I read about this the less interesting it seems to me. You use this to ramp up to 100% for roughly an hour or 2 and then ramp down. Mean while, you are most likely at work and I don't think the corals even care about the ramping of the lights they just want food to grow.
With the OR fixtures, I am going to get 1 for each tank. Have the blues come on at the correct % in the morning, then have the whites come on a few hours later with the correct %, and then turn them off 6-8hrs later and leave the blues on for a few more hours. Dawn/midday/duck is what it seems like to me. I don't need a ramp in intensity because lets face it, I am not here to look at it and the corals I think really don't care.
