The Beginning of an exciting journey 115gallon Tank

[MathiasM.]

Hi guys =)

My name is Mathias and I´m from Germany. In the moment I´m 20 years old and
a student of economics and politics with a spezialisation on Asian countries.

At first I have to say "Thank´s to all of you guys!" This community is awesome!


This will be my first saltwater aquarium! I´m really excited to get started on this long and beautiful journey.

What do I have?

It´s an Aqua Medic Percula 120 saltwater Aquarium (120x60x60cm second hand for 200bucks, quite cheap for Germany =)).
For lighting I use the Aqua Medic Ocean Light with two 150w mhs plus two
arctinic blue t5s.

To get some flow I bought a second hand Tunze 6045. It´s small, but I hope it´ll do the cycling time till christmas =) And maybe Santa will bring something new

My protein skimmer will be the Aqua Medic Percula 120 (same name like the tank ). But I´d like to upgrade it to on of H&S.

The problem ist, due to the technic part in the back of the tank there is not much space for additional technic.

I´m going to use 5kg of death rock and 20kg live rock as decoration.

Start point will be hopefully around next week =)

The tank is going to be a mixed reef tank, even though my aim is to make it a sps/lps tank one day =)

I hope many of you guys will be participating my journey and give lots of tips
and critics =)

Thanks everyone =)
Have a nice evening
Greetings
Mathias

 

[james30ct]

Congrats on the new purchase.

 

[MathiasM.]

@james30ct: Thanks =)

I hope it´ll turn out awesome =)

 

[Reef264]

Hope it goes well for you on your journey!Nice Setup!


-Ray

 

[MathiasM.]

@Reef264: Thanks for the good wish!

Today I'm going to order the RO unit.
It will be a small one with 190l per hour clean water usage.
I guess it will be here maybe on Friday, so I'm going to order
the live rock for Monday or Tuesday
I'm really excited to start to cover the ground I'm going to
use aragonite sand 0.5-o.8mm.
Do you guys think 20lbs will be enough for a non DSB ground?

Greetings
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

@Reef264: Thanks for the good wish!

Today I'm going to order the RO unit.
It will be a small one with 190l per hour clean water usage.
I guess it will be here maybe on Friday, so I'm going to order
the live rock for Monday or Tuesday
I'm really excited to start to cover the ground I'm going to
use aragonite sand 0.5-o.8mm.
Do you guys think 20lbs will be enough for a non DSB ground?

Greetings
Mathias

 

[Patrick Cox]

Congratulations! Have Fun!

 

[MathiasM.]

@Patrick Cox: Thanks =) The closer the moment of filling the tank comes the more excited
I become =)

 

[MathiasM.]

Today I started to make RO- water, thanks to the great shops with there order it the one day get it the next day policy will take some time I'll upload pics this evening

Greetings
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

Today I started to make RO- water, thanks to the great shops with there order it the one day get it the next day policy will take some time I'll upload pics this evening

Greetings
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

He guys =)

Finally after quite a few days the tank is filled and I added the salt.
I used ATI Coral Ocean Plus.

Monday I will start adding live rock and you will get some pics =)

Greetings
Mathias

 

[chunk78]

Good Luck

 

[schlosser_jr30]

Good luck and keep the forum updated with pics and progress.

 

[MathiasM.]

He guys =)

Thanks for the good wishes! Sure I keep you all up to date =)

Greetings
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

He guys =)

Thanks for the good wishes! Sure I keep you all up to date =)

Greetings
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

Hi guys =)


Yesterday was the big day! After some days of restless waiting I got my
ordered Life Rock!

After I did the smell and visual check, i started creating my reef.
I used 40lbs of Rock but I may at another 5 or 10lbs.

All in all I really like it, but I figured some more space in the height would be nice, for some sps corals later on.

I hope you like it =)

Greetings from Germany
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

Good morning =)

Here are the latest pics, the tank is cycling well! As you see I got the first algae already
in there, I hope in the next week the green ones will show up, so that I can start testing my water and maybe adding a clean up crew in the end of November.

Greetings
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

Good morning =)

It´s unbelievable, this night we already switched to winter time, so fast as always.

But here is what I´d like to show you =)

Friday I got my first "cleaning crew", it includes 20 hermit crabs and
a Mespilia Globulus. Amazing animals =)

I also got my very first piece of coral, I´m really proud of all of the animals =)

Here are some pics and in the next post I´ll show you my animal wish list =)

Hope you guys like it and will help me out with the name of the coral (My guess is Sacrophyton?) and some tips concerning my wish list =)

 

[MathiasM.]

And now my wish list =)

Fish:

2x Amphiprion Percula f/m

3x Pseudochromis fridmani f/m/f

later on in a year or so: 2x Splendidus Synchiropus f/m

I´d love to have either a Chelmon Rostratus or 2 Zebrasoma Flavescens,
but I guess my tank is to small for the Flavescens?

2x Gramma Loretto f/m

2x Pterapogon Kauderni f/m

2x Labroides Dimidator

Other animals

2x Lysmata Kuekenthali f/m

2x Lysmata amboinensis f/m

1 or 2 Tridacnas

and a Percnon Gibbesi =)

That´s it =)

Talking about corals, I´d like to keep mainly Zoas, Rics, LPS and a couple of soft corals =)

Any tips for beginner friendly ones is much appreciated =)


Greetings from winter Germany =)
Mathias

 

[MathiasM.]

Good morning =) I hope you all enjoyed Halloween!

Here´s a little update on my tank=)

My Hermit crabs and the Mespillia Globulus are awesome animals!
They ate 90% of the hair algae (especially the Globulus). They are interesting
and beautiful animals and every beginner should get them for his or her
tank!

I also picked up some green Zoas from the back of my sea urche, I mounted
them and the started growing soon =)


Greetings
Mathias