heranatomy
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Hi there! I have recently gotten back into this hobby. Prior, I had a seahorse dedicated tank and I started a saltwater 20 gallon long with some beginner coral. Life happens, and I got out of the hobby but now I'm back and would like to try my hand at some more intermediate coral!!
I haven't decided where I'm going yet with this tank, but I have begun the cycling process as of April 14th.
I started with some base dry rock from Bulk Reef Supply (a mixture of their Reef Saver Eco and Pukani), got a couple pieces of live rock from a LFS, and then order some beautiful live rock from Sea Life Inc (now called K&P aquatics). I absolutely LOVE their premium cultured live rock. It is covered in beautiful color and I got some great hitchhikers! I also live in Florida, so I did their priority shipping. I think since they are located more in the keys, and I'm in central Florida, it came in 2 days. There was some die-off. It was loaded with feather dusters and each day, I'm finding more things. Some macro algae is growing, as well as a tiny looking coral. I will have to wait until it gets bigger to ID it. It's awfully tiny right now. I highly recommend them! They had fantastic customer service and answered my random question emails during odd hours of the night! I also specified certain sizes, and they really followed through.
Enough of that, here are details:
Tank:
29 gallon BioCube HQI
Stock 150w MH
Chamber 1: AquaticLife Skimmer 115. Installed, but not running during cycle.
Chamber 2: inTank Media basket and Fuge basket (not yet installed, waiting for cycle to complete) (May install and add Chaeto soon) Once cycle is complete, I have filter floss, purigen and chemi-pure elite to place in the media basket.
Chamber 3: Stock pump
Filtration:
20 lbs of Arag-Alive live sand
Mixture of live and dry rock (probably 50/50 lb wise if not leaning towards the live vs dry) (Not sure of the lbs...over 20 lbs)
Accessories:
Hydor Theo 100w heater...currently not installed. Tank runs 79.2-80.0 without any assistance.
Reef Keeper Lite w/ temp probe.
NImble Nano
2 Koralia evolution 550 gph powerheads on alternate cycles, 30 seconds on/off each side.
Lights run from 12:30pm-9:30pm.
I also have a JBJ nano glo LED for the fuge once I decide to get Chaeto.
Tank pics:
I put parchment paper on top to help the colors on the rock adjust to the MH
Right Side
Left Side
Cute little macro algae! ^-^
Great colors on rock. Bottom rock on the top left center has the brown "coral" i'm waiting to grow so I can ID. It looks like it has "polyps".
More color.
Really bad pic of the "coral". It's so tiny, it's hard to get a picture! lol
Feedback/Suggestions are welcome!!
Thanks for looking :lol:
I haven't decided where I'm going yet with this tank, but I have begun the cycling process as of April 14th.
I started with some base dry rock from Bulk Reef Supply (a mixture of their Reef Saver Eco and Pukani), got a couple pieces of live rock from a LFS, and then order some beautiful live rock from Sea Life Inc (now called K&P aquatics). I absolutely LOVE their premium cultured live rock. It is covered in beautiful color and I got some great hitchhikers! I also live in Florida, so I did their priority shipping. I think since they are located more in the keys, and I'm in central Florida, it came in 2 days. There was some die-off. It was loaded with feather dusters and each day, I'm finding more things. Some macro algae is growing, as well as a tiny looking coral. I will have to wait until it gets bigger to ID it. It's awfully tiny right now. I highly recommend them! They had fantastic customer service and answered my random question emails during odd hours of the night! I also specified certain sizes, and they really followed through.
Enough of that, here are details:
Tank:
29 gallon BioCube HQI
Stock 150w MH
Chamber 1: AquaticLife Skimmer 115. Installed, but not running during cycle.
Chamber 2: inTank Media basket and Fuge basket (not yet installed, waiting for cycle to complete) (May install and add Chaeto soon) Once cycle is complete, I have filter floss, purigen and chemi-pure elite to place in the media basket.
Chamber 3: Stock pump
Filtration:
20 lbs of Arag-Alive live sand
Mixture of live and dry rock (probably 50/50 lb wise if not leaning towards the live vs dry) (Not sure of the lbs...over 20 lbs)
Accessories:
Hydor Theo 100w heater...currently not installed. Tank runs 79.2-80.0 without any assistance.
Reef Keeper Lite w/ temp probe.
NImble Nano
2 Koralia evolution 550 gph powerheads on alternate cycles, 30 seconds on/off each side.
Lights run from 12:30pm-9:30pm.
I also have a JBJ nano glo LED for the fuge once I decide to get Chaeto.
Tank pics:
I put parchment paper on top to help the colors on the rock adjust to the MH
Right Side
Left Side
Cute little macro algae! ^-^
Great colors on rock. Bottom rock on the top left center has the brown "coral" i'm waiting to grow so I can ID. It looks like it has "polyps".
More color.
Really bad pic of the "coral". It's so tiny, it's hard to get a picture! lol
Feedback/Suggestions are welcome!!
Thanks for looking :lol:
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