nuclearheli
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I thought it would be nice to start a thread on various success stories. Aside from a lousy problem I had with a beautiful SPS (now gone) I am really happy with the stability of my tank and wanted to share this with others and hear about other succcess.
Tank: 90
Stock: Tangs (Yellow, Blue, Purple and Yellow Eye), FoxFace, small school of chromis, dragon golby, black clown, and a few miscellaneous community fish. Very peaceful co-existence, no stress, nobody in tank for less than 5 months. A variety of LPS, a few mature colonies of SPS. In general a very nice reef. Not the best I have seen here but not all that bad.
Chemistry:
pH (see chart below): 8.18 - 8.3 (Night to day)
dKH 10
Calcium 460 - 480
Mg 1300 - 1400
Phosphates 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates <5
Average tank temperature 79: Setpoints 78 Low to 80 High. (see chart)
Lighting 2x 250W 20K, 2 T5 Act, 2x LCD
Lighting Cycle: Day lights 0900 - 1900, Act's 0600 - 2100, LED's 2100 - 2400, Lights Out 2400 - 0600
Calcium Reactor: 9:1 mixture with NeoMag
Phosphate reactor: Phosban and Activated Charcoal.
Seachem Nitrate reactor
CO2 scrubber on skimmer pump air hose.
Dose Kalk as makeup water about once every other day.
A typical graph of temperature and pH.
Anyway just thought I would share. Kind of feeling like a new father a bit proud of their baby. I know it's not the caliber of some of the beautiful tanks I have seen but I like it.
Will post a photo of the tank tonight. Just killing time on my lunch hour.
Tank: 90
Stock: Tangs (Yellow, Blue, Purple and Yellow Eye), FoxFace, small school of chromis, dragon golby, black clown, and a few miscellaneous community fish. Very peaceful co-existence, no stress, nobody in tank for less than 5 months. A variety of LPS, a few mature colonies of SPS. In general a very nice reef. Not the best I have seen here but not all that bad.
Chemistry:
pH (see chart below): 8.18 - 8.3 (Night to day)
dKH 10
Calcium 460 - 480
Mg 1300 - 1400
Phosphates 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates <5
Average tank temperature 79: Setpoints 78 Low to 80 High. (see chart)
Lighting 2x 250W 20K, 2 T5 Act, 2x LCD
Lighting Cycle: Day lights 0900 - 1900, Act's 0600 - 2100, LED's 2100 - 2400, Lights Out 2400 - 0600
Calcium Reactor: 9:1 mixture with NeoMag
Phosphate reactor: Phosban and Activated Charcoal.
Seachem Nitrate reactor
CO2 scrubber on skimmer pump air hose.
Dose Kalk as makeup water about once every other day.
A typical graph of temperature and pH.
Anyway just thought I would share. Kind of feeling like a new father a bit proud of their baby. I know it's not the caliber of some of the beautiful tanks I have seen but I like it.
Will post a photo of the tank tonight. Just killing time on my lunch hour.
