Amateur hour tank

[Dana Riddle]

Very nice! Get rid of the anemone. The coral appears to be Cladocora, commonly seen on Florida live rock. Beg, borrow, or steal a PAR meter when you get to the point of adding corals and give me a shout.

 

[Futuretotm]

you know you’re a newb when you think feeding your aiptasia is cool!

 

[Dana Riddle]

you know you’re a newb when you think feeding your aiptasia is cool!

I was overjoyed to see Aiptasia reproducing by pedal laceration on my first reef (late 80's.)

 

[Futuretotm]

Here we go again:
After placing all that live rock I measured my phosphates, and voila 0.4! Even though the LR was picked and placed in the tank in less than 12 hours and was underwater the entire time.

I used SeaKlear Lanthanum, 1ml of this stuff reduces my PO4 by 0.1 in my 140gallons. I set up an IV to drip into a 5 micron sock. Lately I've gotten lazy and just dump a few drops into the batting in my filter cups.

FTS

 

[Futuretotm]

Made me a redsea lid, PITA to measure, but smooth sailing from there on out. Got a nice little feeding window (ordered the biggest kit as it was only 10$ more)

 

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Added some fish

The mollies made some babies

 

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@MarineDepot had a sale, and scooped up a 60w icecap ATS, working great! there was some RFI which made my Neptune BOB switches go crazy, however a ferrite choke took care of that problem

Started a phyto culture in my 85F garage, doing great!, just for the heck of it

Converted an empty IO reef crystal 5 gallon bucked into a skimmate collector (also in garage, hose travels through wall)
God help me when I open this bucket in a month or two

My least favorite part, still looks like a mess. Battery back ups and generator for our hurricanes.

 

[Futuretotm]

Bayer dip some starter corals that I bought (torch isnt a starter coral, but for 20$ I could not let it go)

Noted a crack on my torch, superglue gel to the resuce!

 

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And here they are, God help them

Candy cane

Torch

Ricordea Florida

 

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[BullyBee]

Very very nice job

 

[wackyreefer]

Tank is looking great! The cable and equipment management looks neat!

 

[Futuretotm]

Eating TDO chromaboost

 

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more acquisitions

 

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Mandarin feeder

added a ATS

Phyto culturing, went from this to a 5 gallon

 

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PAR tests without whites

 

[Tang22]

Awesome build thread. Wow

 

[Futuretotm]

Here are the occupants of my tank, been doing good. Alk/Ca are steady.
My NO3 are quite low for comfort around 5-10ppm
My PO4 on the other hand does climb as I feed quite a bit of variety/quantity 0.04 to 0.1 ppm
However Dosing Lanthanum has been a blessing.

Here's my fish list:

Clown pair
Royal gramma
Coral banded shrimp
Mandarin
Blue spotted jaw fish
Starry blenny
Fox face yellow
Banggai cardinal x6
Cleaner wrasse
Ruby long fin Flasher wrasse

So here's my blue spotted jawfish, got a heart attack, aparently they cover there burrow entrance over night...

 

[Futuretotm]

Here are the microscopic sticks I've managed to acquire:

They are alive, however, not sure about thriving, I see PE on my limited acros... so perhaps thats a good sign

Torch (blue tipped)
Ricordea x2 (blue and green)
Lobo (brown, yellow)
Candy cane (purple/green)
Scoly (green)
Trachy (green)
Trachy (red)
Galaxy coral (green)
Branching hammer (purple/green)
Monti (tropic thunder, margarita, chili pepper)
UFO turbinia (purple)
Wilsoni coral (blue)
Zoa rasta
Green slimer
Red robin
JF Nana
Forest fire
scroll
cats paw
jedi mind trick
strawberry shortcake

 

[Futuretotm]