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365 Day Challenge: First Coral- Pulsing Xenia


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This is my first ever reef tank :

 

Tank: innovative marine peninsula 20

heater:TBD

wavemaker: hydor nano koralia 500 gallon

light: current USA orbit marine


this is pretty much it for now.

 

got a friend in the hobby that is going to give RODI water

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MONTHLY UPDATE PICTURES:
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TANK as of 3/30/20: cycling almost complete

 

go to page 2 or 3 for results of biospira

 

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FTS: April

Tank As of 4/30/20

 

Livestock

  •  One azure damselfish 
  • not in April, but two occelaris clownfish 5/1/20
  • 1 Asteria snail
  • 1 Mexican Turbo Snail

 

FTS picture:

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Taking things real slow so updates are not that big, however by the end of May it will be a big update (first coral)

 

 

FTS 5/29/20 -May Coral/s coming tomorrow just don’t want to accidentally miss the FTS

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June FTS 


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not a lot of change sorry bad things happened


Livestock: 

  • Azure Damselfish (still possibly removing)
  • 2 percula clowns
  • 1 Turbo snail 
  • 1 Asteria snail
  • 1 nassarius Snail

 

Future livestock:

  • 2-3 more snails
  • 1 emerald crab
  • 1 cleaner shrimp
  • 1 sexy shrimp with RFA pair(can’t afford
  • pulsing Xenia
  • hammer coral
  • plate coral
  • gorgonian
  • candycane coral
  • kenya tree coral

 

future fish if I remove damsel:

  • yellow clown goby and a royal gamma
  • neon goby and a bangaii cardinal fish 
  • yellow clown goby and tailspot blenny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Unfortunately I didn't decide (have money) until 2 days ago. Today I ordered a tank and amazon was out of stock. Probably will not have it for a week. So I will start a journal and try to keeping it going for a year. I guess along with a couple others I will be a sort of unofficial not really contestant! 

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31 minutes ago, debbeach13 said:

Unfortunately I didn't decide (have money) until 2 days ago. Today I ordered a tank and amazon was out of stock. Probably will not have it for a week. So I will start a journal and try to keeping it going for a year. I guess along with a couple others I will be a sort of unofficial not really contestant! 

Ohh. That stinks I will definitely keep up with your tank.

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43 minutes ago, Elizabeth94 said:

Looks like you will need a refill on that Ranch soon! 
 

Nice tank and welcome to the hobby! 

Definitely need a refill.

 

yea it’s a pretty cool tank. Ideas are stirring for the aquascape. Thinking a mixture between live and dry. 

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just ordered everything to get started. I am probably going to ask for help cycling. I have a freshwater test kit. I have heard it works with saltwater, I Just have to look for the saltwater readings.

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I would probably do ATO first. I never had one until a couple years ago. I love that every time I test the SG it is 1.025. Not that I do not understand the joy in emptying a filthy cup. But the tank is brand new so unless you think the rock is dirty there isn't much organics to pull out.

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1 hour ago, debbeach13 said:

I would probably do ATO first. I never had one until a couple years ago. I love that every time I test the SG it is 1.025. Not that I do not understand the joy in emptying a filthy cup. But the tank is brand new so unless you think the rock is dirty there isn't much organics to pull out.

Okey dokey. Thanks.

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I have a AutoAqua smart ATO micro. Just wanted to let you know I know at least one person did not like the blue LED sensor. They thought it was too bright. It is bright but my tank is in the living room so I think of it as a night light. It might bother you if your tank is in the bedroom. 

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26 minutes ago, debbeach13 said:

I have a AutoAqua smart ATO micro. Just wanted to let you know I know at least one person did not like the blue LED sensor. They thought it was too bright. It is bright but my tank is in the living room so I think of it as a night light. It might bother you if your tank is in the bedroom. 

I don’t plan on having it in my bedroom maybe as a last resort.

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I guess we play the waiting game now for everything to show up. 
 

water and rock should be in by this weekend. 
 

stand should be decided by Friday.

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I have the opportunity to get rock and sand today. I’m debating if I should or should not because I won’t be able to get water in until next week because my salt is arriving next week. It would be cool to mess around with aquascaping.

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On 2/29/2020 at 2:03 PM, Seea said:

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just ordered everything to get started. I am probably going to ask for help cycling. I have a freshwater test kit. I have heard it works with saltwater, I Just have to look for the saltwater readings.

what light is this ?

 

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