90 litre nano
Introduction:
After having tropical fish tanks for a couple of years I decided to dabble in a marine one ( and soon realised I need a second job!)
System Type: Beginner Reef with Softies and LPS
Strike up Date: Date system started 10/02/2011 with a 40l tank that I had lying around. it was upgraded to my 75l Aquaone 510 pretty quickly thereafter as I realised I wanted a bigger tank and the 510 was standing empty Also the 40 l sprang a leak -that's what happens when you pick up second hand tanks in council throwouts!
However in July this year I picked up a bargain aquaone 620 for $10-00 or so I thought. Fixed it up-resiliconed etc and did leak test-was all good. UNTIL I had transferred everything and put the LEDS on-++ fine scratches on glass! Not happy but at this stage will stay with it until can afford a new tank.
Display Tank:Aqua one 620 90l
Display Lighting:
Aquabeam LED 600 Reef whitex2 and counting
Stand:
Same small coffee table that used to support the AquaOne before- is mucho strong
Hood: Modded with holes in lid for good gaseous exchange at the front. Kept this because I would hate to have carpet surfers.Back of tank open and protected with eggcrate
Sump:No sump ( but thinking! Would like to do overflow pipe as per Donkey)
Refugium:
Modified Aquaclear 70 with Rowacarbon and sponge in first compartment and Caulerpa with live rock in bigger second compartment
Refugium Lighting:
3W 6500K LED picked up on eBay for about $10-00 and put into cheap reflector from Bunnings
Support systems: me;myself;I
System Water: Natural salt water
Display Water circulation:
Tunze nanostream 6045 and the HOB above-both guarded as recent nem purchase in August
Skimmer: Nada-do twice weekly water changes ofat least 10%
Evaporation Top Up:
Manual top up
Chemical Support:
Rowacarbon in filter
Occasionally c- balance A and B
Current Water Chemistry: Ammonia 0;nitrite 0
Nitrates: try to keep them between 5-10
Phosphates:
Alkalinity:-9-10
Calcium:400-420
Salinity / Specific Gravity: 1024
Magnesium:
Livestock:
2 false perculas-Bonny and Clyde
1 bicolor dottyback-Dotty
1 Bicolor Blenny-Benny-very imaginative I know
Turbos,nassarius and cerith snails
1 peppermint shrimp-( Shrimpicle-cringe)
small bristle stars -came in the LR
green bubble tip nem
Corals
yellow star polyps
green star polyps
Elegance coral
Green tipped torch
frogspawn
Zoas
Tubipora
Alveopora
Anthelia
Sinularia-was attached as a surprise on the torch
Macroalgae
In display-Halymenia,gracillaria and Codium sp
LR starting to sprout some Halimeda and also some growing with the tubipora
Caulerpa brachypus in fuge
After having tropical fish tanks for a couple of years I decided to dabble in a marine one ( and soon realised I need a second job!)
System Type: Beginner Reef with Softies and LPS
Strike up Date: Date system started 10/02/2011 with a 40l tank that I had lying around. it was upgraded to my 75l Aquaone 510 pretty quickly thereafter as I realised I wanted a bigger tank and the 510 was standing empty Also the 40 l sprang a leak -that's what happens when you pick up second hand tanks in council throwouts!
However in July this year I picked up a bargain aquaone 620 for $10-00 or so I thought. Fixed it up-resiliconed etc and did leak test-was all good. UNTIL I had transferred everything and put the LEDS on-++ fine scratches on glass! Not happy but at this stage will stay with it until can afford a new tank.
Display Tank:Aqua one 620 90l
Display Lighting:
Aquabeam LED 600 Reef whitex2 and counting
Stand:
Same small coffee table that used to support the AquaOne before- is mucho strong
Hood: Modded with holes in lid for good gaseous exchange at the front. Kept this because I would hate to have carpet surfers.Back of tank open and protected with eggcrate
Sump:No sump ( but thinking! Would like to do overflow pipe as per Donkey)
Refugium:
Modified Aquaclear 70 with Rowacarbon and sponge in first compartment and Caulerpa with live rock in bigger second compartment
Refugium Lighting:
3W 6500K LED picked up on eBay for about $10-00 and put into cheap reflector from Bunnings
Support systems: me;myself;I
System Water: Natural salt water
Display Water circulation:
Tunze nanostream 6045 and the HOB above-both guarded as recent nem purchase in August
Skimmer: Nada-do twice weekly water changes ofat least 10%
Evaporation Top Up:
Manual top up
Chemical Support:
Rowacarbon in filter
Occasionally c- balance A and B
Current Water Chemistry: Ammonia 0;nitrite 0
Nitrates: try to keep them between 5-10
Phosphates:
Alkalinity:-9-10
Calcium:400-420
Salinity / Specific Gravity: 1024
Magnesium:
Livestock:
2 false perculas-Bonny and Clyde
1 bicolor dottyback-Dotty
1 Bicolor Blenny-Benny-very imaginative I know
Turbos,nassarius and cerith snails
1 peppermint shrimp-( Shrimpicle-cringe)
small bristle stars -came in the LR
green bubble tip nem
Corals
yellow star polyps
green star polyps
Elegance coral
Green tipped torch
frogspawn
Zoas
Tubipora
Alveopora
Anthelia
Sinularia-was attached as a surprise on the torch
Macroalgae
In display-Halymenia,gracillaria and Codium sp
LR starting to sprout some Halimeda and also some growing with the tubipora
Caulerpa brachypus in fuge
