HIGH GLOSS WHITE -- MIXED REEF -- 100GAL

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Otherone said:
Nice set up - very nice. For what it's worth -

I'd move the power supply as far from the water as possible, were it is currently located it may become a Lime Magnet even with the sump lid.

Cleaner wrasses and dragnets both eat large amounts of pods, I've tried this and the wrasse starved out the dragonet in a tank twice your size. I still have the wrasse but no visibal sign of pods, they used to be everywhere.

At one time in my 210 I had as many fish as your planning plus corals, it didn't work out so well for the corals. I had a hell of a time trying to keep nitrates at 20ppm usually at weeks end it was pushing 40ppm - needless to say with nitrate that high phosphates were very hard to control. I was gettin' 2-3 ppm of PO4 from the tank with ro/di water. Po4 higher than .05 and corals doesn't work out so well for the corals.

You could get away with a smaller less expensive reactor than two lil' fishes Phosban reactor. It's a large tube and tops @ 100 gal you'll use 1 cup of GFO.

Lastly - If your cycling the tank turn off the skimmer, you want the dissolved solids to decomp and fuel the nitrogen cycle.
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Hi there.

Your first point-
The power unit becoming a lime magnet? Where I am there is no lime in the water what so ever. If you mean salt creep, I'll keep on top of it when I clean the rest of the equipment.
The reason it isn't high up in the stand is to avoid condensation :thumbsup:

Second point-
Thanks for the heads up on the Cleaner wrasses and Mandarins. I've compensated for this by a section of the sump to be used to cultivate copepods in. Also the Mandarin will most likely be the last fish in and I will be supplementing with live copepods that are shop bought (have a few good LFS within a radius of my house) weekly. I'll be doing this because I've read about them starving many times before on previous threads.

Third point-
Phosphates will be controlled via a Phosban reactor filled with Rowaphos, and also a lump of chaeto in the sump. When my TDS meter on the RO unit reaches 1-2ppm it will be getting replacement cartridges so don't worry about that. Nitrates will be kept low through obvious, strict, water changing.

Lastly-
The tank has been cycled using API Quick Start, two dirty foam filter pads from a friends tank and also two cups of live sand from a friends established tank. Ammonia Has been 0 for 7 days now, with 3 fish on reduced feeding. The skimmer is on because 30kg of live rock was added at the one time and needed to start pulling out some gunk from that.


I don't want you to think I'm smart arse know it all, because I'm not. Far far from it.

I've just done a lot of planning, probably up to a year before this tank was even ordered. And have learned from other peoples similar tank threads and mistakes, on other sites.

Thanks for the reply.
 
You said " Don't worry about it" - I'm not worried at all. You got things all figured out that's great - practical application is the next step, like "I" said "for what it's worth" - time will tell. Kudos for the research - did the same thing myself and found out that saltwater reefs are an ongiong process of learning and counter measures. Best of luck to ya.
 
Got some new goodies today to play with and did my first phosphate test and it's came back between 0.34 and 0.64 so I'm running 100ml of ROWAphos in a reactor to get this down to 0ppm, will keep testing for the next week to notice a drop in p04



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