The Plans
Introduction:
With a new upgrade in sight I thought I might make the first post to begin the official and documented planning of the new tank :) I will hopefully be getting the tank this week which means ther should hopefully be some pictures to go with all the shitty ramblings that I'm about to make you all suffer through :P
System Objectives: This will be my second reef tank after over two years with my wonderful CADE cube, having learnt a lot and knowing a little more abut what I want in my tank. Not that has changed really, just a shit load of sps, zoa's and a few clams too!
System Type: SPS, SPS and a few more SPS!
Display System:
Strike up Date: TBC
Display Tank: 3x2x2, 340L DT volume.
Display Lighting: Back to some old school methods! A single 250w Radium Blue metal halide bulb with 4 24w T5's. 2x blue+ and 2x actinic t5's.
Stand: 900x600x1000mm or 1200x600x1000mm, I have decided yet.
Hood: Negative! But eurobracing so not quite as rimless as my CADE!
Sump: No designs yet but nice and simple, skimmer > LR + Reactors > return
Refugium: No weeds here!
Support systems:
System Water: Blue bucket, I've had a lot of success with it over the last year so I'm going to continue rolling with it!
Display Water circulation: A combo of RW-8's and 4's, plenty of acro friendly flow,
Return Pump: Waveline DC6000
Skimmer: RLSS R6-i
Evaporation Top Up: ATO all the way, I haven't decided whether I continue using my Tunze ATO or if I give the ATO on my Kore 5th doser a go!
Chemical Support:
Well I'll definitely be getting the calcium reactor online for the new tank to get some killer growth and colours but for the moment until that happens I'll be continuing along with 3-part which is doing well so far :)
As you all know I've been using Zeo for quite some time now and because of what I feel has been many great benefits I will be continuing along the lovely zeo path! Dosing will on be a minor increase so no stress there at all :)
Planned Water Chemistry:
Nitrates: 0ppm
Phosphates: 0ppm
Alkalinity: 7.5dKH
Calcium: 420ppm
Salinity / Specific Gravity: 35ppt
Magnesuim: 1200ppm
Potassium: 400ppm
Scaled Friends:
With the extra space shall come extra fish! :D the one thing I'm really looking forward to doing with this tank, oh and all the new corals and clams it shall bring!
As you can imagine all my wonderful friends will be coming across with me :) so this means my stock will be as follows to begin with:
2x Flame Hawkfish
A Bellus Angelfish
A Black Eared Wrasse
A Mandarin
And maybe my dwarf although he's turned into a bit of a wanker so maybe not lol
As you can well imagine some thoughts have been given as to a few of the new additions that may be coming soon!
The number one on my list is a kole tang and I'm pretty settled and certain on getting a kole as they're just about the only tang I actually like, the rest are pretty much just ehh to me haha
The other major additions that I'm looking to make are some anthias! I really do love them as fish and they're such nice fish too! Although I'm not quite sure as to what species yet! Some of the species that are high on my list are the few following ones :) Red Saddled Anthias (Pseudanthias flavoguttatus) and Sunburst Anthias are my easy choice anthias lol but the species that I really really want are Pseudanthias ventralis or some Pseudanthias tuka are the species that I really want to get though, despite their obvious difficulties, with the right care and treatment I am reasonably confident that I would be able to keep them! Especially if I get a find pointers from Singapore Aquarium who have the most amazing anthias that I have ever seen in my life! :D
For the moment that's about all the thought I've given towards fish and it might all the fish I add depending on the amount of anthias that I do add haha
Well for now that's the first post it's late and I may have missed a few things so I'll re-read it tomorrow and fill any gaps that I come across lol
All thoughts and suggestions as per usual are very welcome :D
With a new upgrade in sight I thought I might make the first post to begin the official and documented planning of the new tank :) I will hopefully be getting the tank this week which means ther should hopefully be some pictures to go with all the shitty ramblings that I'm about to make you all suffer through :P
System Objectives: This will be my second reef tank after over two years with my wonderful CADE cube, having learnt a lot and knowing a little more abut what I want in my tank. Not that has changed really, just a shit load of sps, zoa's and a few clams too!
System Type: SPS, SPS and a few more SPS!
Display System:
Strike up Date: TBC
Display Tank: 3x2x2, 340L DT volume.
Display Lighting: Back to some old school methods! A single 250w Radium Blue metal halide bulb with 4 24w T5's. 2x blue+ and 2x actinic t5's.
Stand: 900x600x1000mm or 1200x600x1000mm, I have decided yet.
Hood: Negative! But eurobracing so not quite as rimless as my CADE!
Sump: No designs yet but nice and simple, skimmer > LR + Reactors > return
Refugium: No weeds here!
Support systems:
System Water: Blue bucket, I've had a lot of success with it over the last year so I'm going to continue rolling with it!
Display Water circulation: A combo of RW-8's and 4's, plenty of acro friendly flow,
Return Pump: Waveline DC6000
Skimmer: RLSS R6-i
Evaporation Top Up: ATO all the way, I haven't decided whether I continue using my Tunze ATO or if I give the ATO on my Kore 5th doser a go!
Chemical Support:
Well I'll definitely be getting the calcium reactor online for the new tank to get some killer growth and colours but for the moment until that happens I'll be continuing along with 3-part which is doing well so far :)
As you all know I've been using Zeo for quite some time now and because of what I feel has been many great benefits I will be continuing along the lovely zeo path! Dosing will on be a minor increase so no stress there at all :)
Planned Water Chemistry:
Nitrates: 0ppm
Phosphates: 0ppm
Alkalinity: 7.5dKH
Calcium: 420ppm
Salinity / Specific Gravity: 35ppt
Magnesuim: 1200ppm
Potassium: 400ppm
Scaled Friends:
With the extra space shall come extra fish! :D the one thing I'm really looking forward to doing with this tank, oh and all the new corals and clams it shall bring!
As you can imagine all my wonderful friends will be coming across with me :) so this means my stock will be as follows to begin with:
2x Flame Hawkfish
A Bellus Angelfish
A Black Eared Wrasse
A Mandarin
And maybe my dwarf although he's turned into a bit of a wanker so maybe not lol
As you can well imagine some thoughts have been given as to a few of the new additions that may be coming soon!
The number one on my list is a kole tang and I'm pretty settled and certain on getting a kole as they're just about the only tang I actually like, the rest are pretty much just ehh to me haha
The other major additions that I'm looking to make are some anthias! I really do love them as fish and they're such nice fish too! Although I'm not quite sure as to what species yet! Some of the species that are high on my list are the few following ones :) Red Saddled Anthias (Pseudanthias flavoguttatus) and Sunburst Anthias are my easy choice anthias lol but the species that I really really want are Pseudanthias ventralis or some Pseudanthias tuka are the species that I really want to get though, despite their obvious difficulties, with the right care and treatment I am reasonably confident that I would be able to keep them! Especially if I get a find pointers from Singapore Aquarium who have the most amazing anthias that I have ever seen in my life! :D
For the moment that's about all the thought I've given towards fish and it might all the fish I add depending on the amount of anthias that I do add haha
Well for now that's the first post it's late and I may have missed a few things so I'll re-read it tomorrow and fill any gaps that I come across lol
All thoughts and suggestions as per usual are very welcome :D
