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Tank at 10 months
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IPowderBlueTang
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Very nice tank for 10 months.
cristhiam
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About the system:
Lights: 4 40W T12 bulbs Phillips 6500K from HD
2 110W URI superactinics
The 40Ws lights are changed every 6 months and the actinics every year 1/2
2 IceCaps 660 ballasts drive the bulbs; according to IceCaps the 40W runs about 80W per bulb.
Filtration: Around 120# of LR and 5†sand bed mixed with play sand (silica) and aragonite, Coral Life Super Skimmer 125, Occasionally I run carbon and just started using phosban in a hang on filer.
Salt: IO since day 1, I’m currently using Red Sea Coral Pro (better cal, and alk) I bought it just because it was the same price as the IO. I might keep using it.
Water changes are done every 3 weeks 20G
Supplements: top off water with kalk 24/7, small adjustments of Cal, Alk and MG when using IO, I have not supplement anything with the red sea salt.
Fish: Sailfin tang, cowfish, watchman goby, starry blenny, tai spot blenny, 3 yellow tail damsels, pseudocromis purple, sandperch, 2 percula clowns, 1 black clown.
Food: once in a while I use kent phytoplankton and zooplankton. Daily a mixture of brine shrimp, mysis, plankton, formula 1 and 2, flakes, pellets, selcom and I just starting doing my own with shrimp, scallops, mussels, cyclopezze and squid.
I don’t target feed any of my corals.
My water chemistry is: PH 7.9 (morning) â€"œ 8.4 (by the end of the day), calc 400 â€"œ 450, alk 3 â€"œ 3.5 mql, mg 1200 â€"œ 1400, phosphates 0 (not sure about this one, I can't get a reading).
Not sure what else I’m missing
Lights: 4 40W T12 bulbs Phillips 6500K from HD
2 110W URI superactinics
The 40Ws lights are changed every 6 months and the actinics every year 1/2
2 IceCaps 660 ballasts drive the bulbs; according to IceCaps the 40W runs about 80W per bulb.
Filtration: Around 120# of LR and 5†sand bed mixed with play sand (silica) and aragonite, Coral Life Super Skimmer 125, Occasionally I run carbon and just started using phosban in a hang on filer.
Salt: IO since day 1, I’m currently using Red Sea Coral Pro (better cal, and alk) I bought it just because it was the same price as the IO. I might keep using it.
Water changes are done every 3 weeks 20G
Supplements: top off water with kalk 24/7, small adjustments of Cal, Alk and MG when using IO, I have not supplement anything with the red sea salt.
Fish: Sailfin tang, cowfish, watchman goby, starry blenny, tai spot blenny, 3 yellow tail damsels, pseudocromis purple, sandperch, 2 percula clowns, 1 black clown.
Food: once in a while I use kent phytoplankton and zooplankton. Daily a mixture of brine shrimp, mysis, plankton, formula 1 and 2, flakes, pellets, selcom and I just starting doing my own with shrimp, scallops, mussels, cyclopezze and squid.
I don’t target feed any of my corals.
My water chemistry is: PH 7.9 (morning) â€"œ 8.4 (by the end of the day), calc 400 â€"œ 450, alk 3 â€"œ 3.5 mql, mg 1200 â€"œ 1400, phosphates 0 (not sure about this one, I can't get a reading).
Not sure what else I’m missing
sir_dudeguy
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great tank! I love the way all the corals are like growing into each other. you got loose polyps and shrooms poppin out of the zoas and stuff like that. Looks graet
cristhiam
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now I know, not sure where they came from I got them both at the same time from the same place, the black one is from SITC, I think is from ORA, not sure thou. All three of them hang around they keep jumping from the torch and the goni (not happy about it), I got them an RBTA but they did not go in, I had to sell it because the anemone just kept moving around. I have them for about 6-7 months now
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