Hey all, this seems like the friendliest place to post my build thread so here goes. It's been a few years since I've had a tank and I just moved and got a new job and figured it was a good time to get back into it! I'm going to try and keep things pretty small and budget friendly for now.
I apologize in advance for my crappy iphone pictures. I do own a big girl camera and will eventually figure out how to use it...
Equipment:
AJ-60 24 Gallon all in one $120
25 (ish) pounds live rock
20 (ish) pounds live sand
(The sand and rock came from an unlucky craigslister who had a tank leak) $40
Wellpar 165 watt dimmable timer control led reef light $81
Rio 180 return $12
Jebao RW4 wavemaker $50
Eheim 100 watt heater $25
phosban, carbon, filter sponge, filter floss $25
Ammonia alert badge $7
digital thermometer $4
Test kits $30
Refractometer $18
Food: Hikari Mysis, Ocean Nutrition Formula 1, SA hatchery pellets, new life spectrum pellets, Can o Cyclops (frozen now), Brightwell Restore er... $30
Revive coral dip $10.50
net $2
turkey baster $1
bone cutters $12
considering adding Brightwell aquatic media plate instead of or in addition to cheato
Livestock:
Tiger conch (his name is Babar)
2 big vibex snails
Pair of sustainable aquatics sunkist skunk clowns (Clementine and Sherbert aka Bert)
Cycling shot
New light! Good god it's like looking at the face of the sun!
I need to raise the light up as high as possible as space is limited.
Tonight candid slimy algae glass shot!
Ick, time to add some algae snails.
I only have a few frags in there right now. A nice orange fanta acan, some orange crush zoas, a frag of yellow scroll coral, and a frag of Green Pocillipora.
I have an order of frags coming later this week.
Pink and blue, rainbow, and purple cream acans. Plan is to space them out on the rock on the right and grow them together. Ultimate goal is to have that whole rock encrusted with them.
A head of red candy cane, a head of yellow tip torch coral, some pink zoas, pink yuma ricordia, and purple yuma ricordia.
I'll put the torch in the lower left, a bit shaded and a spot the clown like to sleep.
The zoas and shrooms will go on the shaded/lower portions of the rock. Mainly orange, blue, pink, and purple, ricordia, mushrooms, and zoas.
On the top surfaces I'd like an array of colorful stylophora and pocillipora. I love the fluffy look!
I'd like a yellow fiji leather, right up on the top right of the arc, directly in front of the powerhead.
I'd also like a fox coral, pink hammer, and a toadstool leather.
I'll add one more fish, a golden sailfin blenny (if I ever find a nice one). Some acropora crabs would be cute.
So that's a start!
I apologize in advance for my crappy iphone pictures. I do own a big girl camera and will eventually figure out how to use it...
Equipment:
AJ-60 24 Gallon all in one $120
25 (ish) pounds live rock
20 (ish) pounds live sand
(The sand and rock came from an unlucky craigslister who had a tank leak) $40
Wellpar 165 watt dimmable timer control led reef light $81
Rio 180 return $12
Jebao RW4 wavemaker $50
Eheim 100 watt heater $25
phosban, carbon, filter sponge, filter floss $25
Ammonia alert badge $7
digital thermometer $4
Test kits $30
Refractometer $18
Food: Hikari Mysis, Ocean Nutrition Formula 1, SA hatchery pellets, new life spectrum pellets, Can o Cyclops (frozen now), Brightwell Restore er... $30
Revive coral dip $10.50
net $2
turkey baster $1
bone cutters $12
considering adding Brightwell aquatic media plate instead of or in addition to cheato
Livestock:
Tiger conch (his name is Babar)
2 big vibex snails
Pair of sustainable aquatics sunkist skunk clowns (Clementine and Sherbert aka Bert)
Cycling shot
New light! Good god it's like looking at the face of the sun!
I need to raise the light up as high as possible as space is limited.
Tonight candid slimy algae glass shot!
Ick, time to add some algae snails.
I only have a few frags in there right now. A nice orange fanta acan, some orange crush zoas, a frag of yellow scroll coral, and a frag of Green Pocillipora.
I have an order of frags coming later this week.
Pink and blue, rainbow, and purple cream acans. Plan is to space them out on the rock on the right and grow them together. Ultimate goal is to have that whole rock encrusted with them.
A head of red candy cane, a head of yellow tip torch coral, some pink zoas, pink yuma ricordia, and purple yuma ricordia.
I'll put the torch in the lower left, a bit shaded and a spot the clown like to sleep.
The zoas and shrooms will go on the shaded/lower portions of the rock. Mainly orange, blue, pink, and purple, ricordia, mushrooms, and zoas.
On the top surfaces I'd like an array of colorful stylophora and pocillipora. I love the fluffy look!
I'd like a yellow fiji leather, right up on the top right of the arc, directly in front of the powerhead.
I'd also like a fox coral, pink hammer, and a toadstool leather.
I'll add one more fish, a golden sailfin blenny (if I ever find a nice one). Some acropora crabs would be cute.
So that's a start!
