My tank after 11 months

[gareth.hubbarde]

So it's 11 months since I moved house and setup the tank in its present form. Everything is doing well, fish are excellent, corals seem to be settled and doing fairly well. Take a look and see what you think. Latest addition is the lobo on the sandbed.

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[lionfish300]

Look good, keep it up. Is that a tube anemone? How easy for you to keep one?

 

[Zionas]

Would love a list of all your livestock and tank size plz. Looking good!

 

[gareth.hubbarde]

Look good, keep it up. Is that a tube anemone? How easy for you to keep one?

Yes tube anemone. Its been in there for 6 months or so. It looks after itself in all fairness. Has moved a bit since it was put in but not much. Always open, grabs bits of food as they drift past a very cool addition. I don't do anything special for it.

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[gareth.hubbarde]

Would love a list of all your livestock and tank size plz. Looking good!

aquarium

300l (80g) tank
36 kg crushed coral and aragonite substrate
40kg live rock
Deltec mce601 skimmer
1000lph filter pump
Filter floss
1 2800 lph pump,( hydor koralia 3200)
1 x fluval sea cp4 {5200 lph)
Tmc auto top off
3 54w t5 bulbs (2 blue, 1 50/50)
1 19w led strip (aquarium system t5 replacement)

1 algae blenny
1 kole tang
1 Royal gramma
1 adorned wrasse
1 One spot foxface
1 coral beauty
1 zebra dwarf lionfish
1 pair clown fish

1 strawberry conch
4 nassarius snails
4 small red legged hermits
1 tube anemone
1 boxer shrimp
6 trochus snails
2 astrea snails
1 cleaner shrimp




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[ROlympia]

I'm interested in how you manage to keep it seemingly algae free.

 

[wsboyette]

Beautiful setup ! I am amazed that you are keeping a lionfish; I thought that those were incompatible with other fish.

 

[gareth.hubbarde]

Beautiful setup ! I am amazed that you are keeping a lionfish; I thought that those were incompatible with other fish.

Dwarf lionfish, as long as it can't fit it in its mouth all good. Honestly it does not even bother my shrimp, although they are on the bigger end of the scale. It's an awesome fish, I really enjoy feeding it frozen silver side, rips it out of the tongs.

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[wsboyette]

Dwarf lionfish, as long as it can't fit it in its mouth all good. Honestly it does not even bother my shrimp, although they are on the bigger end of the scale. It's an awesome fish, I really enjoy feeding it frozen silver side, rips it out of the tongs.

Wow ! Ya gotta use heavy duty neoprene gloves when working in the tank with the lion in there ! I think I'll stick to my dream fish: A Blue Mandarin Dragonet !:rollface:

 

[gareth.hubbarde]

I'm interested in how you manage to keep it seemingly algae free.

It wasn't, I struggled with algae, then someone recommended something called vibrant. Dosing that seems to have cleared a load of algae. Now the fish in there (blenny, foxface and tang) along with snails seem to be able to cope.
Phosphate lvl is about 0.1 not perfect by reef standards but not disastrous. Use rowaphos in chamber in my skimmer.

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