This was set up a few months ago, and I've been so busy with it, I've lost track of exactly when it was set up
.
Equipment:
65 Gallon Perfecto tank
6 gallon Amiracle trickle filter w/biomedia removed (acts as sump) w/hang on overflow.
Mag 5 return pump to spray bar placed mid tank.
protein skimmer that came with filter plus Red Sea Prizm attached to sump.
300W heater in sump.
Innovative Aquatics "Captain" rebuilt IV pump hooked to 3 gallon carboy for Kalkwasser dosing (set to 110 ml/hr).
Fluval 304 Canister filter for chemical filter (currently running Thiel No-Phosphate).
3 Maxijet 1200 Powerheads on Wavestrip.
400W Iwasaki 6500K MH lamp on Blueline E-ballast + 2 30W NO Actinics in Hamilton Deluxe hood (2 fans, 1 in, 1 out).
Titanium Ground probe.
Lifeguard digital thermometer.
Chemistry:
Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate = 0 ppm
Phosphate < 0.04 (May be higher now...need to test again)
Silicate < 0.5 ppm
Magnesium = 1,100 ppm
Calcium = 450 ppm
Alk = 2.7 meq/l
Salinity = 35 ppt
Temp = 82-79 F (Day-Night, High-Low)
Inhabitants, etc.:
2" Carribsea Grand Bahama Biome substrate
70# Fiji rock from Harbor Aquatics
20# Maricultured Coral Cluster rock from Gulf-View.
55 Gallon Reef Janitor kit from GARF (hey, it works
).
1 Emerald Mithrax crab
Yellow Porites (Porites Cylindrica)
Encrusting Porites (Boulder?)
Tri-Color Acropora
Acropora Millepora
Flourecent Green Polyped Acropora
Blue-Tip Acropora
Purple Montipora Digitata
Green Frogspawn
Green Mushroom leather
Orange Montipora Capricornis
Lesser Starlet coral (Siderastrea Radians)
Scroll Coral (Turbinaria Reniformis)
Hidden Cup coral (Phyllangia Americana)
Astrangia Sp?
Ricordia Florida
Pink Stylophora (pistillata?)
Some Hydroids
Unidentified Zooanthid
Lots O' Tube worms
Some sort of predatory Snail
Lots of stomatella snails
Peanut worms
Medusa Worms
Spaghetti worms
Black and orange encrusting sponge
red finger sponge
beige and gray ball sponges
yellow and clear tunicates
clams and barnacles
1 filter feeding crab and 1 hairy crab
some limpets
...and lots of other unidentified stuff.
Most of this stuff came in on my rock. This tank is brimming with all sorts of life...hopefully I can keep it that way
.
Equipment:
65 Gallon Perfecto tank
6 gallon Amiracle trickle filter w/biomedia removed (acts as sump) w/hang on overflow.
Mag 5 return pump to spray bar placed mid tank.
protein skimmer that came with filter plus Red Sea Prizm attached to sump.
300W heater in sump.
Innovative Aquatics "Captain" rebuilt IV pump hooked to 3 gallon carboy for Kalkwasser dosing (set to 110 ml/hr).
Fluval 304 Canister filter for chemical filter (currently running Thiel No-Phosphate).
3 Maxijet 1200 Powerheads on Wavestrip.
400W Iwasaki 6500K MH lamp on Blueline E-ballast + 2 30W NO Actinics in Hamilton Deluxe hood (2 fans, 1 in, 1 out).
Titanium Ground probe.
Lifeguard digital thermometer.
Chemistry:
Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate = 0 ppm
Phosphate < 0.04 (May be higher now...need to test again)
Silicate < 0.5 ppm
Magnesium = 1,100 ppm
Calcium = 450 ppm
Alk = 2.7 meq/l
Salinity = 35 ppt
Temp = 82-79 F (Day-Night, High-Low)
Inhabitants, etc.:
2" Carribsea Grand Bahama Biome substrate
70# Fiji rock from Harbor Aquatics
20# Maricultured Coral Cluster rock from Gulf-View.
55 Gallon Reef Janitor kit from GARF (hey, it works
1 Emerald Mithrax crab
Yellow Porites (Porites Cylindrica)
Encrusting Porites (Boulder?)
Tri-Color Acropora
Acropora Millepora
Flourecent Green Polyped Acropora
Blue-Tip Acropora
Purple Montipora Digitata
Green Frogspawn
Green Mushroom leather
Orange Montipora Capricornis
Lesser Starlet coral (Siderastrea Radians)
Scroll Coral (Turbinaria Reniformis)
Hidden Cup coral (Phyllangia Americana)
Astrangia Sp?
Ricordia Florida
Pink Stylophora (pistillata?)
Some Hydroids
Unidentified Zooanthid
Lots O' Tube worms
Some sort of predatory Snail
Lots of stomatella snails
Peanut worms
Medusa Worms
Spaghetti worms
Black and orange encrusting sponge
red finger sponge
beige and gray ball sponges
yellow and clear tunicates
clams and barnacles
1 filter feeding crab and 1 hairy crab
some limpets
...and lots of other unidentified stuff.
Most of this stuff came in on my rock. This tank is brimming with all sorts of life...hopefully I can keep it that way
