Hey All
New to the forum and reefing. Started my build last June. Here are the details. Red Sea Max Nano (1st GEN) Peninsula. Swapped the ATO out for a Tunze 3152 and that took a dump on me so I replaced with a much more reliable Ice Cap with a 3 gallon reservoir. Have a UV sterilizer, stock skimmer (seems to work fine) the Reef LED50 (I have in the box still the Kesssil with the the Spectral controller) I have a Helios 100W set to 77 F and I have the white cabinet. I used Carib Sea Arag-Alive sand and Life Rock (Dry). I cycled with Fritz 9 to pop the tank. Everything has been fairly smooth I have some stories about Red Sea, Tunze a hospital tank, fish deaths and various other issues that were stress inducing but taught me patience. Anyways here's some pictures. The bad ones are before I got my filter. My test kits are the Hanna Multiparameter for Phos and the AquaSpin for the rest. Yeah I have 2 grand in test equipment. But the Aquaspin came with a free case so it was worth it
Here is another with the filter and about 3 months later
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Water parameters are just slightly out of whack on the phos. I'm working that as we speak. I need to get a doser to manage my alk rather than doing it by hand, that is such a pain. Only have 3 fish, 1 Black storm, 1 Picasso I think and a Blue Hippo Tang. Yeah I know that tank is too small, but not for the little guy right now but he has a future home already when the time comes. My LFS guy has a spot in his home 300 tank. I just recently added the clowns back to the tank after running it fallow for over a month to get rid of some parasites. Everything responded pretty well, so I am happy.
Anyways that's about it from SLC, UT
Ryan
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New to the forum and reefing. Started my build last June. Here are the details. Red Sea Max Nano (1st GEN) Peninsula. Swapped the ATO out for a Tunze 3152 and that took a dump on me so I replaced with a much more reliable Ice Cap with a 3 gallon reservoir. Have a UV sterilizer, stock skimmer (seems to work fine) the Reef LED50 (I have in the box still the Kesssil with the the Spectral controller) I have a Helios 100W set to 77 F and I have the white cabinet. I used Carib Sea Arag-Alive sand and Life Rock (Dry). I cycled with Fritz 9 to pop the tank. Everything has been fairly smooth I have some stories about Red Sea, Tunze a hospital tank, fish deaths and various other issues that were stress inducing but taught me patience. Anyways here's some pictures. The bad ones are before I got my filter. My test kits are the Hanna Multiparameter for Phos and the AquaSpin for the rest. Yeah I have 2 grand in test equipment. But the Aquaspin came with a free case so it was worth it
Here is another with the filter and about 3 months later
Water parameters are just slightly out of whack on the phos. I'm working that as we speak. I need to get a doser to manage my alk rather than doing it by hand, that is such a pain. Only have 3 fish, 1 Black storm, 1 Picasso I think and a Blue Hippo Tang. Yeah I know that tank is too small, but not for the little guy right now but he has a future home already when the time comes. My LFS guy has a spot in his home 300 tank. I just recently added the clowns back to the tank after running it fallow for over a month to get rid of some parasites. Everything responded pretty well, so I am happy.
Anyways that's about it from SLC, UT
Ryan
