2 months in!
Current build components:
-Lifegard 7.4
-Pump that the guy selling it gave me
-Intank media basket with some marinepure gems and filter floss
-Water bottle ato thing from Amazon
-Lomini pixie 30 light (used from same guy selling aquarium)
-hygger mini wave maker
-cheap Amazon heater hooked up to an inkbird
-piece of acrylic as a lid that gets wiped down and flipped over a lot to keep it flat-ish and clear.
Current Livestock (this feels like a lot. I should stop buying animals):
Turbo snails x2
Astrea snail x1
Sexy shrimp x2
Green clown goby x1
Candy cane coral x1
Goniopora x1
Duncan coral x1
Hammer coral x1
Mushroom coral x1
Zoas x1
Birdsnest x2
Gorgonian x1
Blasto x1
Montipora x1
Stylocoeniella x1
Hermit crabs x4 (?)
Blue hypnea macro algae - 2 little clumps
Current maintenance:
1-2 gallon water change with nws every weekend. I drop some pellets in every day and do some reef roids once or twice a week.
Jan 10, 2023
So I've started a new tank and I guess it would be nice to track what I've done in a little journal beyond the pen and paper one I use at home.
I bought a lifegard 7.4 used from a local guy on Facebook marketplace. When I said I was planning to use it for salt water and was aiming for corals I ended up also purchasing a light from him.
I'm trying to keep this from getting too expensive but gosh you can just buy a million things for a reef tank can't you.
So far I've put a bag of caribsea aragalive and a few pounds of live rock from a LFS and some natural ocean water from the local oceanography institutes saltwater tap. It's been running since the 7th but as I don't own a test kit yet (should arrive tomorrow) I'm not sure how it's doing. The water does look clear. I'm really excited to get something visible growing in there one of these days.
Another local person from Facebook has graciously offered to share some pulsing xenia when I'm ready, not sure if that's the best first step but I've got time to think about it.
Current build components:
-Lifegard 7.4
-Pump that the guy selling it gave me
-Intank media basket with some marinepure gems and filter floss
-Water bottle ato thing from Amazon
-Lomini pixie 30 light (used from same guy selling aquarium)
-hygger mini wave maker
-cheap Amazon heater hooked up to an inkbird
-piece of acrylic as a lid that gets wiped down and flipped over a lot to keep it flat-ish and clear.
Current Livestock (this feels like a lot. I should stop buying animals):
Turbo snails x2
Astrea snail x1
Sexy shrimp x2
Green clown goby x1
Candy cane coral x1
Goniopora x1
Duncan coral x1
Hammer coral x1
Mushroom coral x1
Zoas x1
Birdsnest x2
Gorgonian x1
Blasto x1
Montipora x1
Stylocoeniella x1
Hermit crabs x4 (?)
Blue hypnea macro algae - 2 little clumps
Current maintenance:
1-2 gallon water change with nws every weekend. I drop some pellets in every day and do some reef roids once or twice a week.
Jan 10, 2023
So I've started a new tank and I guess it would be nice to track what I've done in a little journal beyond the pen and paper one I use at home.
I bought a lifegard 7.4 used from a local guy on Facebook marketplace. When I said I was planning to use it for salt water and was aiming for corals I ended up also purchasing a light from him.
I'm trying to keep this from getting too expensive but gosh you can just buy a million things for a reef tank can't you.
So far I've put a bag of caribsea aragalive and a few pounds of live rock from a LFS and some natural ocean water from the local oceanography institutes saltwater tap. It's been running since the 7th but as I don't own a test kit yet (should arrive tomorrow) I'm not sure how it's doing. The water does look clear. I'm really excited to get something visible growing in there one of these days.
Another local person from Facebook has graciously offered to share some pulsing xenia when I'm ready, not sure if that's the best first step but I've got time to think about it.
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