Hi my name is David and im from Menifee and been in the Reefer hobby for about one year after having many freshwater setups. I started off with a 110gal 48x30x18 acrylic tank and stand I purchased for $500 from a friend. I had admired the tank manny times so when he said it was for sale I jumped on it. I soon learned how to clean it and that most of the hardware was outdated. I used the ecosystem sump no fuge, cadlight skimmer, iwaki pump, and 2 koralia powerheads. As far as the livestock I started with 80lbs LR, 120lb LS and ran for 4 weeks then when there was no amonia or nitrate I started a clean up crew of a handful of crabs snails and cleaner shrimp. All did well over the next several weeks so I added 5 frags,5 damsels and med. Hippo Tang that all died over the next few months when I battled red slime. Restocked after a few weeks with small pair of Clowns, 6 line wrass, yellow tang and 5 chromis. Couple months stable I added 2 sand sifting stars and surpent. Then out of nowhere one of the starfish died under the sand and it took 2 weeks for me to find it while I was doing a water change. This resulted in amonia spike and my yellow tang ended up taking a porcelain vacation. Then the hair algae bloomed like crazy tried to lower nitrate with water changes but nothing seemed to work so I added bio pellet reactor and things seem to be getting much better.
Feel free to ask questions or make fun of my mistakes.
David
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Feel free to ask questions or make fun of my mistakes.
David
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