Wrangy's Reef Dungeon (Waterbox 170)

Wrangy · May 24, 2020

So some small updates

The the tank is starting to settle into a really nice stride! Most of the algae and ugliness is finally dying off and the rocks are looking nicer! The corals are looking happy and doing well despite the ugliness and I'm getting solid pe on the two acro's I have in the tank too! Here's a dodgy shot from the other night.

The artemia fun times tank is nearly ready, just missing a couple pieces of equipment to be ready to go! I've got my high tech hatching station of bottles and a styro box holder ready as well. I'll be using some simple cheap Ikea strip lights for lights to grow them and also for the phyto which I will be doing on the shelf above. Still deciding on what species of phyto to do but potentially t. iso and dunaliella and maybe something else down the line

Wrangy · May 24, 2020

This simple little 2x1x1 tank I've got for artemia is also the very first aquarium I ever got on my 10th birthday! I'm really looking forward to breathing some new life into it again

YHSublime · May 24, 2020

Looks to be in great shape! Unless you’re only 12 YO and then it’s not as impressive, but everything else would be!

Wrangy · May 24, 2020

YHSublime said:
Looks to be in great shape! Unless you’re only 12 YO and then it’s not as impressive, but everything else would be!

haha I've kept it well care for and has had a few different lives over the course of the last 18 years haha but this will be the first use it's had in about 7 years or so haha

RichtheReefer21 · May 30, 2020

Nice start to the station! Phyto culturing is definitely part of the game plan for my next build. Requesting gushy details on your process as it comes along mate

Wrangy · May 31, 2020

RichtheReefer21 said:
Nice start to the station! Phyto culturing is definitely part of the game plan for my next build. Requesting gushy details on your process as it comes along mate

Don't worry, I definitely plan on logging it pretty heavily on the details

I'll need it for my own reference haha so why not share it with everyone

Wrangy · May 31, 2020

Tank is starting to take off really nicely and all the issues are pretty much solved! A little bit to go still but I'm happy! Some awesome new additions over the weekend but we'll save those till I can get some semi decent pics!

Ross B Reef'n · May 31, 2020

Looking great!! Maturing a tank is a lot harder today than it was 15-20 years ago!

Wrangy · May 31, 2020

Ross B Reef'n said:
Looking great!! Maturing a tank is a lot harder today than it was 15-20 years ago!

I agree, especially given the move away from live rock to dry rock and bacteria but as much as I'd love to have done the live rock route the control over unwanted badies is just too hard to go past! I'm happy to suffer for 6 months or so for the control you get!

drawman · May 31, 2020

Wrangy said:
I agree, especially given the move away from live rock to dry rock and bacteria but as much as I'd love to have done the live rock route the control over unwanted badies is just too hard to go past! I'm happy to suffer for 6 months or so for the control you get!

Do you guys have access to live rock in Australia? I know you can just walk in the water and get it just curious if it's legal.

Wrangy · May 31, 2020

drawman said:
Do you guys have access to live rock in Australia? I know you can just walk in the water and get it just curious if it's legal.

Oh yeah, we definitely have access to it and some really nice stuff too but super super illegal to collect it yourself! I'm probably going to add a piece or two to a dark spot in the sump for a bit of diversity once the last of the gunk is gone

drawman · May 31, 2020

Wrangy said:
Oh yeah, we definitely have access to it and some really nice stuff too but super super illegal to collect it yourself! I'm probably going to add a piece or two to a dark spot in the sump for a bit of diversity once the last of the gunk is gone

Well count me as jealous. Along with all those acros you can get.

Wrangy · Jun 1, 2020

drawman said:
Well count me as jealous. Along with all those acros you can get.

Yeah haha there were some nice bits in the lfs this weekend but I'll get some next week or the week after

haha the acro's I got will really make you jealous

RichtheReefer21 · Jun 1, 2020

Wrangy said:
Yeah haha there were some nice bits in the lfs this weekend but I'll get some next week or the week after haha the acro's I got will really make you jealous

;Peeking

Wrangy · Jun 1, 2020

RichtheReefer21 said:
;Peeking

No acro pics as I was busy being a gremlin and playing Escape From Tarkov last night but here's some pics of the other corals haha

drawman · Jun 1, 2020

Still love that elegance!

Maxx · Jun 2, 2020

That's an awful lot of flubber in your tank.
Andrew is not amused.

tripdad · Jun 2, 2020

Maxx said:
That's an awful lot of flubber in your tank.
Andrew is not amused.

Maybe he will come out of hiding to comment........

Wrangy · Jun 8, 2020

Alrighty! So I'm happy to say that after the bumpy as road we've been travelling for the last 8 months with the tank, it's finally at a stage we're I'm really starting to be happy with the place it in. It's been a long road with the bacteria bloom, fish loses, followed by the ****-storm of algae growth from the dissipation of the bloom but as of the water change I did on Saturday, it's pretty much 80-90% gone now and the rocks are looking clean!! So much so that I've even taken a bunch of pics haha we've been pretty lacking on pics here in this journal! So please enjoy these nice FTS pics

As you can see, it's not perfect yet but it's doing so much better that I'm over the moon! Corals are a little pale because there's basically no bioload in the tank but I'm feeding heavily and dosing some amino's and such to help counteract that

And of course the two newest members of the household that were demanded we got by Georgia (who I really should take fish shopping with me more often as I get away with so much more haha)