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New setup in the making
So after my entire life of freshwater husbandry I am delving into marine. Very much excited and somewhat obsessed with it all. I am setting up my 75 gallon as my dt. I'm going with a slow setup as it is very much fund consuming. So far my tank is running with a constant salinity of 1.022 I have been keeping a close eye on it topping up when required. There are 2 hydor 1050's running in there about 60 lbs of sand 40 of it live. I have my old penguin 350 bio wheel running with filter foam mainly for more circulation and larger particle straining. This past weekend I got some base rock from a
sponsor
of this site which is very very porous and looks great. I only put about 20 lbs of it in for now and seeded it wih 7 lbs of some nice indo live rock. Starting slow as I said. I am building my own
sump
system out of a 40 gal tank. It's goin to have 4 chambers baffled into it, my plastic guy is making the pieces up for me today. I am going to run rock rubble in my intake chamber with a filter sock, next will be a marine land 150 skimmer then on too the
fuge
where it will meet some algae and sand then off to the return chamber. I will be putting the
sump
together this week and hopefully in the next 2 I will have my skimmer and return pump and plumb it all together. Over the next month or so more rock will be added and seeded to bring up my rock to water volume ratio. Anyways this is my plans towards my new salty beginnings. Any comments or direction is very much welcomed. Thanks for reading, will post some along the way pictures soon
---------- Post added April 9th, 2012 at 01:38 PM ----------
Also when it's all setup I will be adding an
ato
system built from an external misting pump I have from a chameleon setup I no longer use paired with either an eye type switch or double float switches
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Set up date:
April 2012
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Display Size:
120 short
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Total Water In System:
160
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
160
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Depth of Sandbed:
1 inch oolitic
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Salinity level:
1.026
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ALK level:
7.5 dkh
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
430
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Ati sp 6 bulb. 4 blue 1 coral+ and 1 Fiji purple
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Vertex alpha 170
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Esv bionic dosing. ( manually for now)
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Fish and Inverts:
1 cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald crab, 15 hermits, 6 trochus snails, 2 percs, coral beauty, black comb tooth blenny, splendid dotty back,10+ nassarius, 3 tiger nassarius.melanarous wrasse, powder blue tang
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Corals:
Green paly colony, candy cane, frogspawn, various mushrooms, chalice, red monti cap, bubble coral, lta, orange Florida ric, rainbow Yuma, orange yuma, multi colour open brain, green and purple acans, red acro, blue milli. Purple bonsai, green slimer, pink Millie, sunset millie, raspberry Millie, blue tort, RED DRAGON!! Banana lokani
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Other Equipment:
hydor 1050, tunez osmolator ATo, spectra pure rodi 90 gpd. Phosban reactor, Neptune apex lab grade probes vortech mp40w, aquamaxx Bp reactor starting with half a cup of pellets, mag 9 return pump
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Re: New setup in the making
Congrats, Salt is where its at .Much more of a challenge, though more regrets. So much to learn and understand, everything takes time, patience and money and lots of it all, there are large systems, small ones, LED lights,
softies
,
SPS
,
SSB
, All the terminology and all the differents views of what's the best way to go about it. I've been at it awhile, many set ups, And another on the way. Read keep reading and remember nothing happens quickly in this great hobby, Have fun and ask questions, There are lots of knowledgable people here that want to help, And we've made tons of mistakes that's how we learned. Youy've got a good start, A nice size tank, have fun and welcome to saltwater.
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Set up date:
October 2012
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Display Size:
150
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Total Water In System:
200
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
YES
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Amount of Liverock:
220
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Depth of Sandbed:
3
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Salinity level:
1.023
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ALK level:
6 dkh
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
420
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20.5 Maxspect Razor x 2 120 watt 16k
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Vertex 280
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no
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Fish and Inverts:
Orange Shoulder Tang
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Corals:
Grn Apple Birdsnest,Pink and Grn Pocillapora,Sunset Montipora,Purple Hammer,Grn Duncan
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Other Equipment:
ATO,Panworld return Pump 1750,Pan World, 1x Korallia 1400, 2xMP40,Phos-Bon for Bio-Pellets,Filter Bags on Dual Returns, DIY Dursos,
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Other Information:
Cycled and accepting applications for residence
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150 GL 5x2x2 Starphire,Euro-braced
Dual Corner drains and returns
84 GL Acrylic Sump 51x21x18
Vertex in 280 Protein Skimmer
1750 GL Pan World return Pump
Phos bon Reactor for Bio-Pellets
Ro/di Specta Pure H20 System
220 LBS Eco-Rock
2x20.5 Maxspect Razor LED
2x300 wt Heaters, 2x Mp40 es
Solid Oak Cabinet with Oak Canopy
100 LBS Argonite
Orange Shoulder Tang ( Eddie 0
Corals Grn Apple Birdsnest,Pink and Grn Pocillapora,Sunset Montipora,Purple Hammer,Grn Duncan
Wants include Liutentant Tang, Purple Tang, Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Longnosed Hawkfish, and no I repeat no Clown fish
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Re: New setup in the making
Before you get to far into this. The 75 gallon tank, has that been a fresh water tank? Did you ever medicate the tank? If so, check that the med's didn't have copper in them. If so, you could be in for a rocky road right from the start!
I am sure that you have noticed the tank is one of the cheaper pieces of equipment you will need for a saltwater setup. Hate to see it be the cause of problems later on!
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Set up date:
September 2011
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Display Size:
155 gallon
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Total Water In System:
180 ish
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
YES
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Amount of Liverock:
300+ (total system) Mixed
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Depth of Sandbed:
6"
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Salinity level:
0
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ALK level:
8.5
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Ammonia:
NA
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Nitrate:
NA
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Nitrite:
NA
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
420
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4x 24" T5HO + 400 PFO halide 15K bulb (temp, this will be swapped for an electric ballast)
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Skimz SM121
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not yet
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Fish and Inverts:
Niger Trigger, Pair of Nemo's, Bangaii cardinal, Royal Gramma
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Corals:
Neon candy cane, Frogspawn, Blueberry Gorg (FAL)
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Other Equipment:
BRS reactor for carbon and GFO.
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Other Information:
Koralia 4'
MJ1200 mod kit
Ro/DI unit
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125 build thread (taken down May 2011)
Thread
The big Diamond
Build thread
We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and
some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they
all have to live in the same box.
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Re: New setup in the making
Yes it was used for African cichlids was a very very healthy system with a ton of breeding and over 12 types of fish. It was never medicated with anything just freshwater
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Set up date:
April 2012
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Display Size:
120 short
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Total Water In System:
160
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
160
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Depth of Sandbed:
1 inch oolitic
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Salinity level:
1.026
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ALK level:
7.5 dkh
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
430
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Ati sp 6 bulb. 4 blue 1 coral+ and 1 Fiji purple
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Vertex alpha 170
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Esv bionic dosing. ( manually for now)
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Fish and Inverts:
1 cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald crab, 15 hermits, 6 trochus snails, 2 percs, coral beauty, black comb tooth blenny, splendid dotty back,10+ nassarius, 3 tiger nassarius.melanarous wrasse, powder blue tang
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Corals:
Green paly colony, candy cane, frogspawn, various mushrooms, chalice, red monti cap, bubble coral, lta, orange Florida ric, rainbow Yuma, orange yuma, multi colour open brain, green and purple acans, red acro, blue milli. Purple bonsai, green slimer, pink Millie, sunset millie, raspberry Millie, blue tort, RED DRAGON!! Banana lokani
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Other Equipment:
hydor 1050, tunez osmolator ATo, spectra pure rodi 90 gpd. Phosban reactor, Neptune apex lab grade probes vortech mp40w, aquamaxx Bp reactor starting with half a cup of pellets, mag 9 return pump
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Re: New setup in the making
 Originally Posted by Fish4life28
Yes it was used for African cichlids was a very very healthy system with a ton of breeding and over 12 types of fish. It was never medicated with anything just freshwater
Good to go then!
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Set up date:
September 2011
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Display Size:
155 gallon
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Total Water In System:
180 ish
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
YES
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Amount of Liverock:
300+ (total system) Mixed
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Depth of Sandbed:
6"
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Salinity level:
0
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ALK level:
8.5
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Ammonia:
NA
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Nitrate:
NA
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Nitrite:
NA
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
420
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4x 24" T5HO + 400 PFO halide 15K bulb (temp, this will be swapped for an electric ballast)
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Skimz SM121
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not yet
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Fish and Inverts:
Niger Trigger, Pair of Nemo's, Bangaii cardinal, Royal Gramma
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Corals:
Neon candy cane, Frogspawn, Blueberry Gorg (FAL)
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Other Equipment:
BRS reactor for carbon and GFO.
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Other Information:
Koralia 4'
MJ1200 mod kit
Ro/DI unit
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125 build thread (taken down May 2011)
Thread
The big Diamond
Build thread
We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and
some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they
all have to live in the same box.
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Re: New setup in the making
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Set up date:
April 2011
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Display Size:
30
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Total Water In System:
40
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
40
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Depth of Sandbed:
2
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Salinity level:
1.024
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ALK level:
12
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
5
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
450
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t5- 4 bulb
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aqua C erchin
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no
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Fish and Inverts:
glod stripe maroon clown, True percula clown, sailfin tang, 2 yellow tail damsels, pink spot goby, 2 cleaner shrimp, porcelain crab,sand sifting starfish,hermit crabs, snails
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Corals:
lps,sps,soft
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Other Equipment:
stuff
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Re: New setup in the making
Some advice from a guy who has been around a little bit would be this:
Get ALL your rock in all at once and then let it seed/cycle itself so you aren't prolonging it or causing
cycle
'hiccups' in ammonia/nitrite/nitrate.
Trust me, the initial wait isn't a short one, so getting all your rock in now is the best plan. By slowly adding rock you are keeping your system unstable for a longer period. Since you have no livestock it's your call, but my advice is to get it all going and seeded together.
If you can bump up your Salinity to 1.025 before you add livestock this is also going to benefit you in the long run, for many reasons (invert health, more balanced chemical levels, adjustment from the wild for your fish and corals)
Welcome to the big show
btw
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Set up date:
January 2012
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Display Size:
29
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Total Water In System:
34
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
35lbs mixed Tonga and Fiji
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Depth of Sandbed:
3-5 cm
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Salinity level:
1.026
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ALK level:
10 Dkh
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0-10PPM
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
440
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1x150 MH, 33x 1w Blue LEDs, 6x1w White LEDs
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SWC Extreme HOT Mini
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No Reactor
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Fish and Inverts:
2x Ocellaris Clownfish
1x Yellow Coris Wrasse
2x Hermit Crabs
10x Mexican Turbo Snails
5x Nassarius Snails
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Corals:
Lots of Zoa/Paly frags
Green Sinularia
Frogspawn
Torch
Platygra Brain
Kenya Tree
4 Acro colonies
1 Encrusting Purple Monti
1 Red Monti Cap frag
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Other Equipment:
Koralia Nano
Koralia 1
Koralia evo 550
RO/DI 75gpd unit with dual TDS meter
Tunze osmolator
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Other Information:
Always trading frags so don't hesitate to say hello
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Re: New setup in the making
Have you purchased the marineland skimmer yet? Or are you still planning too? If I could make a suggestion; see if you can grab a vertex in100 instead...much better skimmer and it will more of the icky stuff than the 150. I have the marineland 300 in my
sump
(sump was designed for it) but I got my tank used with it.....it does the job but for the money or just a bit more, there are better skimmers.
I would be rockin a vertex if my
sump
had the space to fit it.
Just food for thought, and looking forward to following your build!
>jason
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Set up date:
August 2011
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Display Size:
90G | 48x18x24
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Total Water In System:
110G System
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
120lbs korallenwelt ceramic (dry weight) & 20lbs fiji
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Depth of Sandbed:
3-4 inches
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Salinity level:
1.026
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ALK level:
Not Tested
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
420
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Sun System Tek Light 6 Bulb with Reef Brite XHO (actinic)
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Marineland 300
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No
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Fish and Inverts:
1x Powder Blue Tang;
1x Ocellaris Clown;
5x Blue/Green Chromis;
1x Orange Spotted Sleeper Goby;
1x Yellow Watchman Goby
28x Trochus Snails;
5x Astrea Snails;
6x Turbo Snails;
34x Nassarius Snails;
3x Emerald Crabs;
1x Porcelain Crab;
1x Serpent Stars;
1x Brittle Stars;
3x Blue Leg Hermits;
3x Scarlett Leg Hermits;
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Corals:
Ultra Flame Bubble Tip Anemone;
x2 Red Bubble Tip Anemone;
Purple/Green Hybrid Frogspawn;
Kryptonite Torch;
Montipora: Green, Red, Rainbow, Superman;
Aussie War Coral;
Neon Green Favia;
Pink/Teal Symphyllia;
Acans: Fiji & Aussie;
Chalice: Pink Frag, Purple Colony;
3x Baby Dome Plate Coral;
Orange Florida Ricordia Polyps;
Mushrooms: Blue, Green, Superman;
Various Coloured Zoa Polyps and Palys (Red, Orange, Green, Yellow, Green, Cream and various colour combinations; mostly all fiji).
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Other Equipment:
- Vertex UF15 media reactor running Vertex Biopellets.
- Vertex Puratek 100GPD RODI system with booster pump plumbed into system ATO and a 50 gallon drum in basement for making water.
- Marineland Model 2 Sump (modified) - No Biowheel
- 50G drum has two power heads, 300w heater and thermoter with tap.
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Re: New setup in the making
Not sure how this post made it to the top of the page, it's almost a month old. A lot has changed since then. Was very iffy on running a hob overflow so scrapped that idea. My changes have been updated in my tank info section. And I did change my mind on the marineland skimmer. Going with the deltec mce 600 now. All my rock is in and my levels of ammonia and nitrite are 0. Very small amounts of nitrates, am very diligent with my water changes. Changing out 10 gallons once aweek and 25 gallons also once a week on different days. As for pics I have a couple on a different thread under getting started. There is life in the tank besides Rick now and all are very happy and healthy. Shrimp has molted once already, goby is super busy doing his thing and hermits and snails are very busy too
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Set up date:
April 2012
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Display Size:
120 short
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Total Water In System:
160
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
160
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Depth of Sandbed:
1 inch oolitic
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Salinity level:
1.026
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ALK level:
7.5 dkh
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
430
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Ati sp 6 bulb. 4 blue 1 coral+ and 1 Fiji purple
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Vertex alpha 170
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Esv bionic dosing. ( manually for now)
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Fish and Inverts:
1 cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald crab, 15 hermits, 6 trochus snails, 2 percs, coral beauty, black comb tooth blenny, splendid dotty back,10+ nassarius, 3 tiger nassarius.melanarous wrasse, powder blue tang
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Corals:
Green paly colony, candy cane, frogspawn, various mushrooms, chalice, red monti cap, bubble coral, lta, orange Florida ric, rainbow Yuma, orange yuma, multi colour open brain, green and purple acans, red acro, blue milli. Purple bonsai, green slimer, pink Millie, sunset millie, raspberry Millie, blue tort, RED DRAGON!! Banana lokani
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Other Equipment:
hydor 1050, tunez osmolator ATo, spectra pure rodi 90 gpd. Phosban reactor, Neptune apex lab grade probes vortech mp40w, aquamaxx Bp reactor starting with half a cup of pellets, mag 9 return pump
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Re: New setup in the making
How long ago did you add your livestock?
Also, your tank info says you have a 75 gal, yet total water in system says 45. I'm assuming since you scrapped the HOB overflow and picked up the caddy of HOB skimmers you've decided to go sumpless?
BTW
- as each thread gets responded to, it gets moved to the top.
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Set up date:
January 2012
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Display Size:
29
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Total Water In System:
34
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Do you have a sump?
YES
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Do you have a refugium?
NO
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Amount of Liverock:
35lbs mixed Tonga and Fiji
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Depth of Sandbed:
3-5 cm
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Salinity level:
1.026
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ALK level:
10 Dkh
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Ammonia:
0
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Nitrate:
0-10PPM
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Nitrite:
0
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What lighting are you using?
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What skimmer are you using?
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Calcium Reactor?
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Calcium level:
440
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1x150 MH, 33x 1w Blue LEDs, 6x1w White LEDs
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SWC Extreme HOT Mini
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No Reactor
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Fish and Inverts:
2x Ocellaris Clownfish
1x Yellow Coris Wrasse
2x Hermit Crabs
10x Mexican Turbo Snails
5x Nassarius Snails
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Corals:
Lots of Zoa/Paly frags
Green Sinularia
Frogspawn
Torch
Platygra Brain
Kenya Tree
4 Acro colonies
1 Encrusting Purple Monti
1 Red Monti Cap frag
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Other Equipment:
Koralia Nano
Koralia 1
Koralia evo 550
RO/DI 75gpd unit with dual TDS meter
Tunze osmolator
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Other Information:
Always trading frags so don't hesitate to say hello
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