Hi RC,
I'm completely new to the hobby, first time keeping any fish tank in my life. I know reef tanks are the most challenging tanks but they look so beautiful that I decided on trying it out!
The tank has been cycling for 8 days now, and things are looking OK. I've been using 1 lidful of microbacter7 every night, with no light and no skimmer. Checked ammonia, nitrite and nitrates at a local petco and they were all very low. Today I minced up a shrimp and put it in a teabag and dropped it in hopes of feeding my beneficial bacteria with some ammonia.
Here's the equipment I've bought so far:
DC Aqua Excel 6500 pump
Seachem Matrix Rocks
Carbon/gfo reactor + medias
Bubble Magus Curve 5
RODI system
Eheim Jager 300watt (This is going to be way too big, I know)
Via Aqua 200watt (Not working so well)
Tunze Osmolator 3155
Jebao wp-25
I still need to buy a light... I'm leaning towards radions (thinking of buying used ones... bad idea?) or maybe kessils. I want to have those bright orange/red/yellow colored sps corals eventually, and it seems radions are probably the way to go if I want those bright colors.
Now for pictures!
Used the herbie method for quiet draining.
Frontal view.
Return plumbing.
Sump view. Not running skimmer while my tank cycles.
My ATO. I love having this thing!
Any tips or comments would be appreciated!
I'm completely new to the hobby, first time keeping any fish tank in my life. I know reef tanks are the most challenging tanks but they look so beautiful that I decided on trying it out!
The tank has been cycling for 8 days now, and things are looking OK. I've been using 1 lidful of microbacter7 every night, with no light and no skimmer. Checked ammonia, nitrite and nitrates at a local petco and they were all very low. Today I minced up a shrimp and put it in a teabag and dropped it in hopes of feeding my beneficial bacteria with some ammonia.
Here's the equipment I've bought so far:
DC Aqua Excel 6500 pump
Seachem Matrix Rocks
Carbon/gfo reactor + medias
Bubble Magus Curve 5
RODI system
Eheim Jager 300watt (This is going to be way too big, I know)
Via Aqua 200watt (Not working so well)
Tunze Osmolator 3155
Jebao wp-25
I still need to buy a light... I'm leaning towards radions (thinking of buying used ones... bad idea?) or maybe kessils. I want to have those bright orange/red/yellow colored sps corals eventually, and it seems radions are probably the way to go if I want those bright colors.
Now for pictures!
Used the herbie method for quiet draining.
Frontal view.
Return plumbing.
Sump view. Not running skimmer while my tank cycles.
My ATO. I love having this thing!
Any tips or comments would be appreciated!
