NeilFox
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Hi all
I have a 120, 2 x 2 x 4. With regards to lighting a typical 2 x 150W (14000K) MH with 4 T5's, 2 x Cool White and 2 x Actinic. I kind of take what I can here in Vietnam so it's an Oddysea fixture. The bulbs have been changed out to Ushio on the MH and whatever white T5's I could find to take the edge off the blue. Very basic setup in other regards, 70kg local live rock (Very Good Stuff!!!), a 1 1/4" bulkhead fitting for an overflow (No Bean Animal Here) and the return is just 1/2" PVC looped over the back glass. Bare sump with a Bubble Magus Curve 7 Skimmer. The overflow just dumps to a pipe with a filter sock hanging off of it.
I dose homemade 2 part manually and use NSW for my water changes and don't have an RO unit. I get lab grade triple distilled water delivered to the house in 20ltr containers. Thats about it for the setup, oh and I have a chiller (commercial unit for seafood) 1 1/2hp.
The tank has been set up about 5 months, the water isn't perfect but not bad, pretty much just left everything alone with a few fish LPS corals etc.
Parameters are pretty much like this:
Ca = 400-460
DKH = 7-9
Temp 27-30C
SG 1.025
N3 = around 35 (somewhere between 50 and 25 on my tester)
I just did a water change, only the second since the tank cycled, around 15% yesterday and I plan on another today so I reckon that will bring the N3 down some more. I have a substrate just some local almost reef rubble mixed size stuff not very thick.
I don't dose or add anything else, no gfo, no gac. At any rate; my 2 favorite threads on here at RC are Dialup and Zoa Freak (Pork Sandwich). I really want to get a Zoa Zoo going! I am not interested in SPS, overrated and pretty straightforward nowadays. I got my first Acropora around 1991. Once I started down that road (it was new at the time) I couldn't get any kind of Zoa or Mushroom to do much more than survive. I actually saw alot of cool stuff I had been keeping just slowly disappear. Not really dying more like just starving I guess.
Given that info, with what I have at this point; what do you guys recommend I do with what I have to get a Zoa Zoo started? I should mention that I want to maintain only species from this part of the world SE Asia. Just for authenticity.
Thanks in advance
Neil
I have a 120, 2 x 2 x 4. With regards to lighting a typical 2 x 150W (14000K) MH with 4 T5's, 2 x Cool White and 2 x Actinic. I kind of take what I can here in Vietnam so it's an Oddysea fixture. The bulbs have been changed out to Ushio on the MH and whatever white T5's I could find to take the edge off the blue. Very basic setup in other regards, 70kg local live rock (Very Good Stuff!!!), a 1 1/4" bulkhead fitting for an overflow (No Bean Animal Here) and the return is just 1/2" PVC looped over the back glass. Bare sump with a Bubble Magus Curve 7 Skimmer. The overflow just dumps to a pipe with a filter sock hanging off of it.
I dose homemade 2 part manually and use NSW for my water changes and don't have an RO unit. I get lab grade triple distilled water delivered to the house in 20ltr containers. Thats about it for the setup, oh and I have a chiller (commercial unit for seafood) 1 1/2hp.
The tank has been set up about 5 months, the water isn't perfect but not bad, pretty much just left everything alone with a few fish LPS corals etc.
Parameters are pretty much like this:
Ca = 400-460
DKH = 7-9
Temp 27-30C
SG 1.025
N3 = around 35 (somewhere between 50 and 25 on my tester)
I just did a water change, only the second since the tank cycled, around 15% yesterday and I plan on another today so I reckon that will bring the N3 down some more. I have a substrate just some local almost reef rubble mixed size stuff not very thick.
I don't dose or add anything else, no gfo, no gac. At any rate; my 2 favorite threads on here at RC are Dialup and Zoa Freak (Pork Sandwich). I really want to get a Zoa Zoo going! I am not interested in SPS, overrated and pretty straightforward nowadays. I got my first Acropora around 1991. Once I started down that road (it was new at the time) I couldn't get any kind of Zoa or Mushroom to do much more than survive. I actually saw alot of cool stuff I had been keeping just slowly disappear. Not really dying more like just starving I guess.
Given that info, with what I have at this point; what do you guys recommend I do with what I have to get a Zoa Zoo started? I should mention that I want to maintain only species from this part of the world SE Asia. Just for authenticity.
Thanks in advance
Neil
