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Tank is officially 70 days old today! :bounce: still in the infant stages but moving along nicely. Added a few more Ricordeas, an Acan colony (ID?) and a True Percula Clownfish, the first and most likely the only fish that will inhabit this reef. Not much to update tank wise, been doing 2G water...

Frogspawn/Octospawn/Hammers can all be put right up against each other, I think Torch corals are a bit more aggressive and not recommended side by side. I have my Frogspawn entangled with my Hammer and both are very happy.

I just installed mine last night, I had it installed on my faucet at first. With the cold water on blast I was only getting about 45 PSI into the RO Membrane. I opted to move it to a better location in the garage, there is a hose outlet right after the house pressure regulator. With it barely...

Refractometer for sure as mentioned above. My ATO got stuck and overfilled with fresh water, my salinity dropped to about 1.020 before my safety kicked in, luckily I only had snails and hermits at the time. I mixed up some 1.030 SW, removed tank water and replaced w/ higher salinity water slowly...

Thanks Mr V! Did another 2G water change today and installed my Glazer Pico Skimmer! It's going to have to break-in for a couple weeks so I'll be tuning it to make sure I'm not skimming too wet. My handheld TDS meter came in and I went around testing waters. The RO water from the store I've...

Here are some growth/comparison shots, roughly just under a month between shots. Green Birdsnest grew a bit but lost all its color. All the other SPS higher up don't seem to be having any issues but it might be because it's a very small 1" frag, we'll see if it colors back up. Starting to want a...

If you've still got it, interested in a PC4 module and pH probe if you part out.

So I came back from a 2 week vacation to a happy and healthy tank, a bit of algae on the glass but all CUC members alive and happy and coral growth was significant. I did a 5G water change the day I left. I now have to frag my Frogspawn in fear of it terrorizing the SPS corals. Did a 2G water...

Canon T3i, would love a real macro lens someday.

Did another 2G water change today because I needed to drip acclimate 2 Astrea and a Peppermint Shrimp to battle some Aiptasia. Shrimp went straight to work ripping at the rocks and the Astreas happily scooted away. Took out the Chemi-Pure because the 1/2 unit was blocking way too much flow in...

So the tank has been up and running for 21 days now, parameters have all stayed at zero with < 0.2 ppm Nitrates. Clean up crew is all alive and happy. I found out Bumblebee snails do nothing for algae and I have no sand bed so I think I'll be swapping him out for more Astreas, they are by far...

If you cant mount it to the ceiling conduit mounted to your stand or wall will be the best bet. You can get 1/2" x 10' section from Home Depot for $2, 3/4" can be had for a few cents more. Check out my tank thread, that's how I hung my DIY light. I have two of the screw in "?" type hooks that...

Some shots of my new SPS dominated inhabitants, got a few small ricordea as well but they're in a small covered dish with some rubble so they can attach. Light is on from 1PM-10PM now, going to ramp it up an hour a day until I get to a 12 hour cycle, the fixture is 5" from the water's surface.

Ya, I was wondering if I should take some rock out, I didn't weigh it so I don't know exactly how much I have in there though. It was really hard to scape such a small footprint and have it cover all water depths for various kinds of corals. Any input appreciated as well if you guys think I...

Added a small CUC a couple days ago, all are doing well and happy, did a 2g water change as well. My light setup is finally ready and mounted, I'm probably still going to tweak it a bit, I'm using 1/2" conduit to hang it, the fixture itself needs to be reworked a bit but I was impatient so that...

I was busy all weekend so I didn't get a chance to "feed" or pee into my tank to spike the ammonia but I have noticed a few more hitch hikers as the tank matures, saw a few stomatellas and some baby asterina stars that will be plucked as I see them. My LEDs are here at last! Took exactly 2 weeks...

Only fish food I have on hand is koi sticks lol, I'll toss a few of those in a net tomorrow and see if I get any spikes, if my Nitrates rise I'm gonna consider myself cycled. Still no lights yet, so not like I can stock anyways. Added a second float switch to my tank yesterday and a slosh guard...

I'm thinking it's cycled as well but I've learned from past experience that rushing is definitely not smart when it comes to this hobby. That being said I'm thinking about doing a water change this weekend, and test the parameters again next week? Are there any safe and effective ways to...

Water Parameters 10/16/2012: pH: ~8.1 Ammonia: 0 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Nitrate: ~2.5 ppm Alright so the tank has been up and running for about 4-days now. Still waiting for my LEDs to come in but I figured now is a good time to do a water test. I'm really not sure what to expect as far as cycle...

Start Date: 10/12/2012 Hardware 7.5G Mr.Aqua 12" Rimless Cube Hydor Theo 50W Heater Hydor Pico Evolution 400 Pump (2x) Reef Keeper Lite w/ SL1 Module Digital Aquatics Dual ATO Float Setup Tom's Aqualifter Filtration ~8lb Live Rock Purigen Chemi-Pure Elite (TBD) Chaeto (TBD) Livestock None...