MattL87 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Newb to the saltwater world, tried a couple times and failed. Doing it better this time, I’ve had the tank setup for about 4 months now and so far so good. Wanted to make this thread to keep track of it and hopefully learn some stuff from everyone here! Equipment: IM peninsula 14 tank Syncra Silent .5 return pump Neptune Apex with PH, Salinity, Temp, ORA probes Finex 50w Titanium heater Kessil A80 Blue Tunze ATO InTank media basket with filter floss and chemi pure blue nano Bag of seachem matrix in chamber 2 Creatures: Yellow watchman Goby (Named Grumpy) Cleaner shrimp (Shrimpy) 1 Turbo snail 1 Nasarius snail Right now I'm thinking the A80 isn't enough light and want to switch it to a Prime HD, any thoughts on that? And also maybe upgrading the sycra silent .5 to the 1.0. 2 Quote Link to comment
NuisanceAlgaeCultivator Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 What's making you think the a80 isn't enough? From the pictures it looks like good coverage. Very nice tank by the way. Quote Link to comment
MattL87 Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 1 hour ago, NuisanceAlgaeCultivator said: What's making you think the a80 isn't enough? From the pictures it looks like good coverage. Very nice tank by the way. Truthfully I’m not sure. New to this but I see a lot of people saying it’s not a strong light and corals like full specrtrum. Figured since the prime hd is only around $200 that I might upgrade it. Quote Link to comment
NuisanceAlgaeCultivator Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Everyone’s got an opinion and some are definitely more experienced than myself, but your corals looks happy in the pictures. Maybe if you intend getting on more SPS it’d be worth the upgrade, as it stands it looks like you’ve got the setup to support all the corals currently in your system IMO. Wouldn’t be anything wrong with upgrading if you want though. Either way best of luck and keep posting! 1 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Welcome to the community @MattL87, thanks for sharing your nano reef! It looks like you're off to a great beginning. How has the watchman goby been doing so far? Quote Link to comment
MattL87 Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 6 minutes ago, Christopher Marks said: Welcome to the community @MattL87, thanks for sharing your nano reef! It looks like you're off to a great beginning. How has the watchman goby been doing so far? He’s awesome! We named him grumpy because he just hangs in his cave and frowns at you all day. Until feeding time at least lol. We wanted to add another fish that swam around but everything we liked at the fish store said needed 20+ gallon tanks online. So we kind of gave up on the fish buying side and started adding corals. 22 minutes ago, NuisanceAlgaeCultivator said: Everyone’s got an opinion and some are definitely more experienced than myself, but your corals looks happy in the pictures. Maybe if you intend getting on more SPS it’d be worth the upgrade, as it stands it looks like you’ve got the setup to support all the corals currently in your system IMO. Wouldn’t be anything wrong with upgrading if you want though. Either way best of luck and keep posting! Thank you for the info, I haven’t really seen anything negative, corals always look good so I’ll just skip the prime until I see something change! 2 Quote Link to comment
MetaTank Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 19 minutes ago, MattL87 said: He’s awesome! We named him grumpy because he just hangs in his cave and frowns at you all day. Until feeding time at least lol. We wanted to add another fish that swam around but everything we liked at the fish store said needed 20+ gallon tanks online. So we kind of gave up on the fish buying side and started adding corals. Thank you for the info, I haven’t really seen anything negative, corals always look good so I’ll just skip the prime until I see something change! The grumpiest looking little fish, but they seem to have such huge personalities because of it!! Looking good so far to me, count me as +1 to not changing your lighting just yet 1 Quote Link to comment
MattL87 Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 So my SO would like some clownfish in our tank. I like the coral side of things but she wants something swimming around. So would I be able to get a pair of clownfish in my tank. Or would that be to much since I have a yellow watchman and a shrimp already? Quote Link to comment
MattL87 Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 Little update, got a Polyp Lab filter for my phone to get rid of some of the blue in the pictures. Added two new corals and rearranged the scape a bit. New corals are an octopus coral and not really sure what the other one is, it looks like little flowers. Some time of lps I'm assuming. It's the one above the goby's cave. Also if you notice on the glass there are thousands of those copepods, even when I clean the glass they are back the next day. Is it bad to have to many? And how do I lessen them so they aren't on the glass. Makes the tank look dirty! Quote Link to comment
Jeff Hood Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Copepods are a good thing and sign of a healthy tank. Their numbers will wax and wain. Just clean them off when too thick. Quote Link to comment
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