Cavscout263 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Hi there Nano-Reefers! My name is Chris or by my ha fle on here cavscout263. So I am starting up a journal to share everything that I can about my new reef tank. this is my first reef tank so I have lots to learn still and lots to improve on. But so far I think that I am doing a good job. This forum and a lot of other resources have helped me with the start up and tuning of things. So onto the details. I guess we will talk about what all I have for equipment wise. I will just list them off. A majority of stuff i went the cheap way except on a few things. 20 gallon long tank from petco marine land penguin 150 cheap thermometer glass cleaner carib sea 20lbs of Hawaiian live sand dry rock 2 power heads (will get brand and size later) fluval swing arm salinity aquamaxx HOB protein skimmer hydra 26 hd with bendable arm fritz 21 gal salt water at 1.25 salinity I guess I will talk about how the setup went. There was great triumph and then a few mistakes haha. So I gathered all supplies from petco and a few other aquarium stores. And a few items came via online orders. I set up everything that I wanted and aquascaped it to my liking. Filled it with water and had my penguin bio wheel going and one powerhead cause that's all I had at that point. I proceeded to add what I thought was Biospira but in fact it was reef accelerator!!! I was freaking out until I got on here and asked and I was assured it would still cycle properly and that I just needed to do a 100% water change after cycle was complete. Next day I added the biospira and threw in some fish food and let it do its thing for over a month. I tested two times a week and I noticed all the different results and eventually everything got really low except my calcium( because reef accelerator) was off the charts. I did my 100% water change and everything was good to go. I finally got my protein skimmer and hydra 26 in so I installed them and got them running. I should state that this technically my s cons tank because before that I had a 3 gallon tank with one ocellaris clown fish and a few frags. So I went out and got a somewhat big black clown fish that will be a female soon since the ocellaris is so small. I also have 4 generic snales that cleans the tank up. So for the list of live stock frag of yellow dragon zoa frag of green torch coral frag of green duncan frag of a polyp( not sure the name) green center with pink tips 1 ocellaris clown fish(puppy) 1 black clownfish (Persephone) 4 snails. I plan to go get a shrimp of some sort and a gobbie to clean the substrate and whatever else they want to Clean. Quote Link to comment
Cavscout263 Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 Here is a video tour of my mixed reef aquarium so far sparse but non the less an excellent aquarium to look at. https://youtu.be/jWA6A6PRnS0 Quote Link to comment
cju84 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Looking good! Welcome to NR! Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Glad to have you aboard! Your tank look great. Quote Link to comment
Cavscout263 Posted October 8, 2017 Author Share Posted October 8, 2017 So here is an update to the tank journal! so I finally just stepped up and bought an innovative Marin Nuevo fusion 20 gallon tank. i still have the same heater, protein skimmer. i moved my sand and rock all fish and corals over. Inhave added a tunze 350 ATO i have a media reactor on the way that I plan to run biopellets in it. i have added some livestock. 1 green montipora capricornis 1 frog spawn 1 yellow watchman gobbie 1 red pistol shrimp 5 hermit crabs I am dosing seachem prime because a nitrite and nitrate spike. and the brightwell aquactics growth pack of code a and b with magnesium and strontium. and microbacter7 to improve water quality. I will be also feeding using polybooster for the corals. Mycis shrimp for fish and Other sweeper tentacle corals. Quote Link to comment
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