New 70 Gallon Reef

[jayl65]

Hi everyone, Please take a look at my new reef tank. It is only about 1 month old. I have been able to speed up the cycling process by using water,live rock and sand from exhisting setups. This has allowed me to fast forward to a beautiful tank. At least in my opinoin. Thanks to everyone who has helped me get it going so quickly. Did I mention I am completely new to this. I have be researching and reading every day. So much to learn.

70 Gal show tank 36Lx 30Hx 15W Craigslist
Pacific Coast Imports Sump/refugium Craigslist
Pacific Cost Imports PS-200 Protein Skimmer Craigslist
Fluval 304 Canister filter for water polishing Craigslist
Current 96watt PC 50/50 Craigslist
Current 4X 39 T5 2 Vho/2acentic Ebay
3 Maxi Jet Power Heads Ebay
1 Currentsea wavemaker Ebay
40 gal saltwater Nemos Cove
80lbs live rock Nemos Cove
45lbs live sand Nemos Cove
18 lbs Florida live rock Pets Pets
Corals Nemos Cove
10 lbs garf grunge Garf
zoas and frags Garf
More zoas and frags Moonpower
1 rose anemone Moonpower
1 yellow tang
4 green chormis
1 Coral Beauty
1 Pearlscale Butterfly
2 False Perculas Clownfish
1 fire shrimp
1 Dwarf Zebra Lionfish

I am just getting started and it seems everyone is going out of business or moving. I was lucky for me since I have been able to afford to outfit my tank pretty fast. I know the lion fish is risky but he is small right now and only eats the copopods. I will am trying to train him to eat frozen food.

I have been keeping a close eye on my water parameters and everything is stable so far. I hope it only gets better from here.

Let me know what you think, I need any help I can get. Thanks Jamie

 

[jayl65]

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[El Jefe9830]

Very nice tank. Looks like you are doing well. I am pretty new myself, but looks like you are doing well.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[rivoth]

Congradulations on the tank and welcome to the hobby. I too have a 70 gallon tank that is about 6 weeks old. I've got my hands full trying to keep everything in balance. Lots of fun though.

 

[jayl65]

I was lucky enough to get about 1/2 of the saltwater, my live rock and sand from exhisting tanks. We scraped about 1" of sand from about 4 tanks to get enough. The only uncycled thing in the tank was about 12 lbs of live rock that had just been recieved from florida. It seems to be doing great and it sure is alot of fun. I'm just dissapointed that everyone is going out of business. Although it did help me to afford to start this hobby so quickly. My water parameters seem to be stable for now. They have been that way sicne I started the tank to be honest. I guess I have begginers luck. I put the water.rock and sand in the tank and let it go for about a week. I then put the cleanup crew from GARF in and let that go for a week. After that I began to add everything else. I'd add a fish and wait a day or two to see how he did. Maybe I've rushed things but it seem pretty stable.

 

[thosefishguys]

Nice tank! I really like the look of the taller tanks...my first tank was a 58-tall like that.

J.

 

[vietcu]

How is the lionfish doing in your tank? I am thinking of getting one so kind of curious.