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horseplay

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Tank is up. Water is made and salt is in. The tank is a Waterbox 100.3. About 75 gallons. Will wait for a couple of days and test corals will go in then the fish then the rest. Hopefully no need to move again then I can watch the tank mature. I travel quite a bit so trying to design the tank as simple as possible with the ability to remote control and monitoring.

Thanks a lot for the feedbacks on the aquascaping. I am pretty happy with the look and the shelves. Not going to keep hard to keep corals a little bit of everything.

Fish wise I already have a trio of Pygme Angels. Going to try to keep pairs and trios. A trio of anthias, a trio of Royal gramma, a pair of gobies etc ... Going for small fish.

I will pose different aspects of the tank over time.

Water is still cloudy and I am short on salt.

Thanks for reading.

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Juano908

Juano908

horseplay said:
Tank is up. Water is made and salt is in. The tank is a Waterbox 100.3. About 75 gallons. Will wait for a couple of days and test corals will go in then the fish then the rest. Hopefully no need to move again then I can watch the tank mature. I travel quite a bit so trying to design the tank as simple as possible with the ability to remote control and monitoring.

Thanks a lot for the feedbacks on the aquascaping. I am pretty happy with the look and the shelves. Not going to keep hard to keep corals a little bit of everything.

Fish wise I already have a trio of Pygme Angels. Going to try to keep pairs and trios. A trio of anthias, a trio of Royal gramma, a pair of gobies etc ... Going for small fish.

I will pose different aspects of the tank over time.

Water is still cloudy and I am short on salt.

Thanks for reading.

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Following,
Best of luck buddy, hope you are happy in your new place.
 
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horseplay

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Equipment. Very simple nothing special.

Aquatic life hybrid T5 + Radion XR15's. I forgot how bright these T5's are. And the hybrid fixture is good deal too.
Return pump Ecotech S1. Solid pump but expensive.
MP40 for flow. I don't particular like these in this size tank. Flow is too concentrated. BRS sells a nem guard which suppose to help with broadening the flow anyone tried it?
Reef octopus skimmer
BRS dosers
Apex Jr controller
 
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horseplay

NJRC Member
The tank is consuming 0.1 ALK per day now. Phos has been undetectable despite of the feedings. Dosing macbacter 7 and acropowder. Phos will be dosed on I got them in the mail. I usually don't dose but in the beginning it's help to dose to correct the inbalance.

Here's a video of the tank now. I got these amber glasses from RAP and they're great for taking videos. The pygmies doing their evening mating dances. They pick on the new clam I got from RAP. Moved the clam to a quieter part of the tank it's all good now. We will see.

 
amado

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I like the fish selection. The aquascape looks great.
Are you going to add any tangs ?
 
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horseplay

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I am on the fence on these angelfish. I bought some SPS frags forgotten these angelfish might pick on them. So far they have not. But it will always make me nervous. Original plan was minimal SPS but I couldn't resist. Angelfish keep the rocks very clean. Keeping them I don't need a tang otherwise I have to add one. Tank size is marginal for keeping a tang. And they get big fast.
 
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ericrodriguez

Depends on the animal not every fish is the same I had such a bad experience with a flame angel fish but hopefully this one’s won’t brother as they have not touched them yet...
 
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horseplay

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Dosed NeoPhos to 0.03ppm and nitrate. In 24 hours it's undetectable again. Visibly more diatoms. I have never dosed phosphate before. And it should not be done on a regular basis in such amount. But the corals will die if I don't do it. Let's see how it goes.

Anyone has experience with this?
 
diana a

diana a

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Rock scape looks awesome! I am having to dose NeoNitro. I was also dosing NeoPhos but I decided to buy Reefroids and those feedings boost my phosphates.
 
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horseplay

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diana a said:
Rock scape looks awesome! I am having to dose NeoNitro. I was also dosing NeoPhos but I decided to buy Reefroids and those feedings boost my phosphates.
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Thanks. I also have reef roids and BRS reef chili's. Not doing much to Phos at this stage of the game.
 
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ericrodriguez

I asked because usually you get hight phosphate in new system but yours it’s the opposite... mine it’s a over a year and still my phosphate goes really bad if not closely been check
 
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