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Set Up Date :15 June 1999
Tank Size (36"X18"X12"|30 gallon)
Sump Size (10 gallon)
Live Rock (45 lbs.):
Live Sand (85 lbs.):
Lighting (2 10000K MH| 175 watts each| fluctuating Photoperiod [no timer, yet!]):
Protein Skimmer (CPR| BakPak II):
Biological Filtration (See live rock/live sand):
Chemical Filtration (Occasional bag of carbon in sump near return pump):
Circulation (spray bar from return pump):
Return Pump (450 (?) gph|Rio|2500):
pH (Morning 8.2| Evening 8.2): (not kidding!)
Temperature (81-82 oF):
Specific Gravity / Salintity (1.025| ppt):
Alkalinity (3.0 meq/l):
Calcium (420 ppm):
Ammonia (0 ppm):
Nitrite (0 ppm):
Nitrate (<5 ppm):
Phosphate (0 ppm):
Fish <OL TYPE=1>
<LI>Bicolor blennie
<LI>cherub angel
<LI>scopas tang
<LI>percula clown
<LI>and a mollie that lives in my sump
</OL>
Corals <OL TYPE=1>
<LI>Plate coral (hosts the percula)
<LI>trumpet coral
<LI>closed brain coral (aka maze brain)
<LI>finger leather coral
<LI>common toadstool leather coral
<LI>curly leather coral
<LI>bubble coral
<LI>Goniopora sp.
<LI>tree coral
<LI>Favites sp.
<LI>Galaxea sp. (1 year old in our 90 gallon; had started to recede; hopefully will do better with the better lighting)
<LI>3 headed open brain
<LI>two different types of zoanthids (one green, the other pink)
<LI>3 colonies of 'shrooms (1 large colony of green pimpled 'shrooms and 2 small colonies of blue 'shrooms-one of the blue ones was compliments of Ophidia on the board!)
</OL>
Invertebrates
<OL TYPE=1>
<LI>dozen or so hermit crabs
<LI>cleaner shrimp
<LI>peppermint shrimp
<LI>all kinds of amphipods, copepods, etc.
<LI>at least 4 different sponges (one yellow, one deep purple, one light purple and one white; all hitchhikers)
<LI>one nasty looking crab
</OL>
Maintenance Program: 20% water change every 2 to 4 weeks (I wouldn't really call it a "program"), topping off with DI, scraping algae, blowing sand off the LR as needed. Add 2.5 ml RedSea Reef Calcium + 3 (calcium, molybdenum, strontium and iodine) and 5 ml RedSea Reef Trace weekly, as per the label.
Additional Information This is my first ever aquarium!!
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My drug habit cost less, but reef colors are better!
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 13 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 13 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 16 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 16 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 25 March 2000).]
Tank Size (36"X18"X12"|30 gallon)
Sump Size (10 gallon)
Live Rock (45 lbs.):
Live Sand (85 lbs.):
Lighting (2 10000K MH| 175 watts each| fluctuating Photoperiod [no timer, yet!]):
Protein Skimmer (CPR| BakPak II):
Biological Filtration (See live rock/live sand):
Chemical Filtration (Occasional bag of carbon in sump near return pump):
Circulation (spray bar from return pump):
Return Pump (450 (?) gph|Rio|2500):
pH (Morning 8.2| Evening 8.2): (not kidding!)
Temperature (81-82 oF):
Specific Gravity / Salintity (1.025| ppt):
Alkalinity (3.0 meq/l):
Calcium (420 ppm):
Ammonia (0 ppm):
Nitrite (0 ppm):
Nitrate (<5 ppm):
Phosphate (0 ppm):
Fish <OL TYPE=1>
<LI>Bicolor blennie
<LI>cherub angel
<LI>scopas tang
<LI>percula clown
<LI>and a mollie that lives in my sump
</OL>
Corals <OL TYPE=1>
<LI>Plate coral (hosts the percula)
<LI>trumpet coral
<LI>closed brain coral (aka maze brain)
<LI>finger leather coral
<LI>common toadstool leather coral
<LI>curly leather coral
<LI>bubble coral
<LI>Goniopora sp.
<LI>tree coral
<LI>Favites sp.
<LI>Galaxea sp. (1 year old in our 90 gallon; had started to recede; hopefully will do better with the better lighting)
<LI>3 headed open brain
<LI>two different types of zoanthids (one green, the other pink)
<LI>3 colonies of 'shrooms (1 large colony of green pimpled 'shrooms and 2 small colonies of blue 'shrooms-one of the blue ones was compliments of Ophidia on the board!)
</OL>
Invertebrates
<OL TYPE=1>
<LI>dozen or so hermit crabs
<LI>cleaner shrimp
<LI>peppermint shrimp
<LI>all kinds of amphipods, copepods, etc.
<LI>at least 4 different sponges (one yellow, one deep purple, one light purple and one white; all hitchhikers)
<LI>one nasty looking crab
</OL>
Maintenance Program: 20% water change every 2 to 4 weeks (I wouldn't really call it a "program"), topping off with DI, scraping algae, blowing sand off the LR as needed. Add 2.5 ml RedSea Reef Calcium + 3 (calcium, molybdenum, strontium and iodine) and 5 ml RedSea Reef Trace weekly, as per the label.
Additional Information This is my first ever aquarium!!
------------------
My drug habit cost less, but reef colors are better!
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 13 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 13 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 16 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 16 March 2000).]
[This message has been edited by MedicineMan (edited 25 March 2000).]
