95 Gallon Reef Diary

And it starts here. It's been months since we began, a lot of time was spent waiting on equipment and setting it all up, but it's finally here and starting to take shape.

Specs so far:
95 Gallon "Wave" Aquarium
LifeReef CLF1 Berlin Sump w/ in sump LifeReef skimmer
13 gallon LifeReef Refugium
Outer Orbit HQI/T5HO fixture w/ 2x150W MH & T5 Actinic Lights
2xTurbelle Nanostreams
About 80lbs of dead rock (Marco Rocks)
60lbs of live rock (Gulf-View/FloridaLiveRock.com)

We've bought a few snails and shrimp so far, but beyond that everything that's alive in there has come from the rock. We have a rock loaded with featherdusters, numerous sea squirts, a couple of small urchins, several varieties of plants and some coralline algae that is really starting to fill out in terms of color, although it has yet to spread.

Now, of course, onto the pictures. Commentary is welcome! More will come as we add additional life or progress happens with the spread of coralline algae, etc.

 

Looks good. When do you plan to add fish/corals?

 

Within the next few weeks, we are building up the cuc a few pieces at a time right now, as there is plenty of algae for them to feed on in the meantime.

 

coralline looks good but urchines will eat it as it grows