Jepprox 50g Cube

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Time for an update! Tank has been running fine. Shortly after the tank cycled I started getting diatoms and a little bit of the hair algae.


I added ten small snails, one turbo snail, and six hermit crabs. I also introduced two black and white clowns we have been keeping in a nano tank.


Nitrates continued to remain low around 5-7ppm. Ammonia 0 and nitrites 0. I after a few weeks I added a fighting conch, small yellow tang, and an anthia.


The goal in August was to bring the refugium online and begin to grow some chaeto. It took me almost three hours to dial in the flow when adding the refugium. The refugium is fed by a T off of the return pump and I also have the output of the UV sterilizer outputting into the refugium. This messed with my main siphon but I finally got it all balanced out. Here is a pic of the refugium installed along with two marine pure blocks. Sorry for the poor pics. Just have the cell phone and a point and shoot digital camera.

 

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The wife's tank was being taken over by LPS so she gave me a green hammer and a duncan. I picked up a ricordia mushroom from the local fish store. Oh and the anthia needed a buddy so I added a second one. Here is a full tank shot.


I am amazed at how well all the fish get along. The tang is always curious and isnt shy when you approach the tank. The anthias were shy at first but they began hanging out in the water column after a few days.


A couple of weeks later I added a purple torch and a closed brain from the wife's tank. The goal was to make this tank an SPS dominant tank so I had been researching stores who would ship to me.


One other thing I wanted to pursue was getting a new camera. It would make the hobby a little more fun. Here is another pic of everybody and you can see the closed brain in the background. Been tinkering with the light settings as the hammer and duncan were closing up for a week. I think there was too much intensity.

 

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At this stage it was probably about six weeks after the tank had cycled. Ammonia is nearly undetectable if not zero.


Nitrites were at zero and nitrates at 5ppm.


Really impressed with the new DSLR camera. Just shooting raw produces great images.


Pic of sun coral from wife's tank.


Ordered a 10-pack of SPS but the shipper did not label the bags. So attempting to identify them.


I believe this is an oregon tort


Glowstick


Bubble gum chalice. Looks like it was stung on an edge


Not sure