Ahhhh. I forgot about this thread....I don't know if any of the same people still frequent the Marine section here, I know I haven't in quite a while. I stumbled upon it and thought I'd a little(ha) update on my tank(s). Quite a bit has changed in the last 6 months. I will start off by saying the 2 Flame wrasses also didn't make it, but they lasted nearly 3 months. I now wonder if the collector for PIA does not properly decompress his fish and they slowly end(sometimes quickly) up with problems because of it.
I decided I couldn't part with both my angels(Emperor and Scribbled), so they have continued to reside in a 90 gallon for the time being by themselves. The Emperor is just starting to change from his juvenile colors. The Scribbled really hasn't grown much. I know the 90 gallon is too small(probably now) to be possible long term, but they seem quite happy right now. They eat like crazy and are very fat. I do frequent water changes on this tank to keep the water quality high because they produce a lot of waste.
On to my 210...
In/On Tank:
-3 x 250 watt MH with Phoenix 14k's
-2 x 160 watt Retrofit VHO's with some Actinic bulbs
-MP60wES Vortech pump (right side)
-MP40w Vortech pump (left side)
-2 x Koralia 4's (top left to move top of water)
-Approximately 150 lbs. of live rock
In 125 Gallon Sump:
-Aqua C EV-400 powered by Mag Drive 18(this is about to change, with elaborate below)
-200 mg/hr Ozonizer with ORP probe
-GFO Reactor by Two Little Fishies
-ATO by Avast Marine Works
-Mag Drive 18 Return Pump
-Remote DSB and Chaetomorpha with 40 lbs live rock with mushrooms occupying 60% of sump
-300 watt heater(unnecessary right now, more a safety precaution)
Other Equipment/Planned Equipment:
-Apex Jr. Controller(currently only being used for heaters and monitoring temperature, recently purchased and still getting things hooked up)
-55 gallon ATO tank
-1/4 hp Chiller(will run threw Apex)
-300 watt heater(will be added to the additional one when Chiller is hooked up)
-Reef Octopus SRO 6000sss Skimmer(I am changing out skimmers this coming week. My Aqua C is too loud and uses a ton of energy with the Mag Drive powering it. I can save 10 bucks a month running the Bubble Blaster Pump that comes with the SRO and it's quiet!)
Tank Inhabitants:
-6" Vlamingi tang(this is the one I purchased in the spring when he was less than 2 inches, there is a photo in the thread of him as a baby somewhere)
-2" Yellow Belly Hippo tang
-2" Desjardini Sailfin tang
-2 ORA Black Ice Snowflake Clowns
-2 Resplendent Anthias(also from before, one didn't make it)
-2 Cleaner Shrimp
-Astrea Snails
-Hermit Crabs
-SPS(Monti's, Mille's, Stylo's, Birdsnest's, Slimer's, Acro's, etc.)
-LPS(Brain, Plate, Scoly, Candy canes, Trumpets, Duncan's, Hammer's, Frogspawn, Lobo's, Turbinaria, Acan's, Blasto's, etc.)
-Lots of Ricordea Yuma and Florida
-Some Zoa's and Paly's
Lighting and Water Parameters:
-1:15PM VHO's ON
-2:30PM MH's ON
-10:00PM MH's OFF
-11:15PM VHO's OFF
-SG 1.025
-Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates all 0
-Calcium 440
-Alkalinity 8
-Magnesium 1400
-Phosphate 0
-Temperature 76 to 80 each day(too much swing for me and want my MH's at 8 hours and my tank gets too hot then)
Foods:
-New Life Spectrum Pellets(Large Fish, Small Fish, and TherA, I feed this the most.)
-Fleshy and Nonstop's Homemade Reef Blend(Silversides, Clam, Squid, Scallops, Shrimp, Mussels, Plankton, Cyclopeeze, Selcon, Vitachem, Zoecon, and some stuff I am sure I am forgetting, Fish love this stuff and the corals get some food too.)
-PE Mysis(Thawed and rinsed before feeding)
-Ocean Nutrition and Hikari Angel Formula's
-Spirulina Flakes(Occasionally)
-Nori(They rarely touch it, it's weird)
I feed my fish a ton. Multiple times a day and multiple foods. I feed my LPS pellets approximately once a week too. I also soak food a couple times a week in either Selcon or Zoecon.
So since my last post, my 210 has fully transformed from a FOWLR to a Mixed Reef. My rock work has been completely re-done. I took out the PVC structure and some of the rock. Some of the remaining rock was drilled and stacked using fiberglass driveway markers to make high spots. I also drilled some of the rock so I could stick frag plugs in.
To keep my water parameters in line, I am dosing with BRS 2 Part once a day still. I may have to change it soon because I am using about 120ml of each solution a day and it is getting expensive. So a Precision Marine Calcium Reactor will be hooked up soon I think. I am doing 35 gallon water changes every 10 to 14 days. Once I got pretty much everything I wanted into the tank and positioned, I got my dosing down pretty good and everything has taken off. I can literally see growth from looking at a coral before bed to getting up in the morning. Since it hasn't been stabilized that long, some of my coloration isn't great on my SPS. They seem to be coloring up by the day now however.
