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My Current Setup

Item Model / Description Purchase Removal Wattage
(Usage)
Tank 55 gallon 3/13/93 -
Stand Pine frame only 3/13/93 -
Hood Home made hood from pine planks. 8/11/00 -
Lights 2 175 w Halogen 10K (6 hours)
2 40 w Florescent bulbs (12 hours)		 04/05/01
05/26/02		 127 Wh
Heater ??????? 300 W 2/2001 50 Wh
Pump WMD 40 RLT (1.5)
ETS Skimmer from sump only.		 pre '95
2/3/2001		 218 Wh
Supreme Mag Drive Model 7
700 GPH
Return Only.
Re-plumbed entire tank for this.		 2/3/2001 70Wh
Filtering ETS Skimmer 500 (4?)
Redo Bio-Balls		 2/20/96
03/24/01		 -
Wave Effect Red Sea Wave Master
2 Instant Ocean Maxi-Jet 1200
1 Rio 800		 7/20/95
7/17/00
01/22/02		 10 Wh
20 Wh
12/4 Wh
Water Additives

Weekly to tank

bulletSeaChem Reef Plus
bulletSeaChem Reef Complete
bulletSeaChem Reef Calcium
bulletSeaChem Reef Strontium (until finished)

In makeup water:

bulletReef Advantage - Add one tablespoon to each gallon of makeup water
bulletUse SeaChem Reef Builder during the second week you add fresh water.
bulletRepeat with Reef Advantage.
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Combined Monthly Month/1000ly @ .105
Wattage Subtotals 495 W +3??? 361.35 kW $37.94
Entered Exited

Exit Cause
Livestock & Rocks Sand turned into live sand.  About 2"-3" on the bottom. pre '95 -
Live rock a guess as to how many pounds. pre '95

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x		 2 Blue/yellow body Damsels
(picked on)
1 Blue Damsel
1 Domino Damsel		 6/25/00

 1 dead ?/00
07/??/01 D

6/27/00 D		 -
2 hermit crabs 6/25/00 -
12 blue leg hermit crabs 7/16/00 -
4 lbs Fiji live rock 7/16/00 -
9 lbs lace rock. 
added (black stuff) from Tropic.		 7/16/00
9/2/00		 -
12 snails 8/27/00 -
1 Power Brown Tang - Ich 8/27/00 9/3/00 D -
1 Yellow Head Jaw Fish 9/1/00 9/11/00 D -
20 lbs yellow base rock 9/2/00 -
Sea cucumber - Poor Water Q? 1/19/2001 1/25/2001 D -
Domino Damsel - Poor Water Q? 1/24/2001 2/1/2001 D -
ORDER FROM FFExpress Cleaning -
Jewel Damsel (from Dan) 2/16/2001 9?/??.2002 -
x Large Domino Damsel (MEAN) (From Theresa) 3/03/2001 -
Neon Velvet Damsel (from Dan)
Picked on to death.		 3/30/2001 3/3/2002 D -
Scooter Blenny 6/14/2001 8/2001 D -
x Yellow Tang 6/14/2001 -
30 snails 6/30/2001 -
x Small Kenya Tree (soft coral) -> Med 6/30/2001 -
SPS???  What did I get? PWQ? 7/8/2001 8/1/2001 D -
Tiger Cowry 10/28/2001 02/25/02 D -
x Large Tomato Clown 11/11/2001 -
x Copper mushrooms on shell 01/13/02 -
x Purple mushroom on branch rock 01/13/02 -
x Green mushroom on rock 01/13/02 -
x Green speckle on small snail shell 01/13/02 -
x Purple speckle on small rock 01/13/02 -
Tonga Live Rock (1 lb 2 pieces) 01/21/02 -
Diamond Back Sleeper Goby D -
x 4 turbo snails 04/05/02 -
x Yellow Polyp Rock 04/19/02 -
x Pearl Coral 05/26/02 -
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Some Picks

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Coralline algae Growth
01/20/02

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Copper Mushroom and Purple Mushroom
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Green Mushroom

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Speckled Mushroom

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Cowry

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Some polyps one live rock
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Many small feather dusters
 

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Speckled Purple next to Sp Green

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01/26/02
 

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Lost a part, so I moved many of the rocks around.
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Coralline Growth

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I need to do the following to bring my tank up to par:

bulletFix water parameters.  My pH is low, Nitrate slightly high, Hardness could go up slightly.
bulletUnder advice of Tropicorium, I am doing a weekly 10% water change to remove the algae.  So far it is working wonderfully.  Did that and it make a 100% difference!  All of green disappeared and from the next set of pictures, you can see the white sand (no, I did not just clean up the green.) (Done.)
bulletPurchase a lot more live rock.
bulletFirst step is to grow some coralline algae.  Do this by buying live rock, brushing it over the entire tank to "seed" it and then watch it grow.  (Working...)
bulletDo normal additions, but Reef Plus and Reef Advantage.
bulletOnce everything is working correctly, I should be able to place an anemia or coral in the tank.

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Here is my current shopping list for my tank:

bulletStick with SeaChem not switch to ESV B-Ionic 2 part Calcium Buffer System 
bulletCPR Overflow (Either CS50 or CS90  or CS100 depending on size of bulkhead hole.)  Pump is rated exactly at rate for CS90.
bulletNeed inflow device for Rio or new Rio to use.
bulletAnother Maxi-Jet 1200 for more current in tank.

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Some information that I have read / learned:

bulletBlue leg crabs are bad as they eat snails some times.
bullet Astrea snails bad because they fall and can't get back up.

Last edited: Saturday, June 21, 2003

   


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