Ehnohsee's 40B Reef updates 3/5/12

Hey everyone!

I'm pretty new to the saltwater scene, but I've always wanted a saltwater tank and I'm loving the one I have and decided to finally post my own thread about it.

Here's a little bit about what I've got.
Hardware:
40g Breeder Glass Tank
Fluval 305 Canister (Media: L1:Chemipure/Fluval Rings L2: Purigen/Phoslock L3:Black Diamond Carbon)
Aqueon 200w Heater
Reef Octopus BH-100
Odyssea 36" 4 Bulb T5HO (ATI Blue+, Special, Purple+, Blue+) + Moonlights
Some thermometer
Vortech MP10
2 Koralia Evolution 800
Hydor Koralia Wavemaker
BRS 5 Stage RODI

Food:
Dry
-Ocean Nutrition Formula One Pellet
-Ocean Nutrition Formula Two Flake
-Reefcleaners.org Filter Feeder Formula
Frozen
-Rod`s Food Fish Only Blend
-San Francisco Bay Brand Cyclops
-Hikari Mysis Shrimp
Additives
-Kent Marine Garlic Xtreme
-Brightwell AminOmega

Stock:
Fish
-1 B/W Clownfish
-1 Blue green Chromi
-1 Lawnmower Blenny
Shrimp
-1 Cleaner Shrimp
Other
-Assortment of hermit crabs, dwarf ceriths, nerites, and nassaurius snails from reefcleaners.
Corals
SPS
-Rainbow Montipora
-Purple Haze Montipora
-Birdsnest
LPS
-Green Bubble Coral
-Some kind of Favia
-Some kind of Acan
-Some Kind of Acan
Soft
-Orange Riccordia
-Multiple Zoa Frags
Macros in Tank
-Medium Sized Red Gracilla
-Medium Sized Red Titan
-Small Flame Algae

In my tank I would say there's about 50lbs of rock and the sand bed is maybe 2-2.5" deep. I do not have a sump at this time either.
Latest testing:
PH: 8.2
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0(I know this is not correct)
Ca: 400
Alk: 10
MG: 1400

Any suggestions on additional fish to add or other food to try?
I was thinking about building a screen from BRS to stop possible jumpers but what about all the HOB stuff, would the screen still be useful?
Mentioned in another thread that these Evolution PHs are pretty frustrating for me, covers broke and Hydor sent me some replacements which was awesome. But then after 1 month of use 1 of them has broke again :-/. So now sometimes it works sometimes it runs in reverse.

Will try to post some pics when I get home from work

 

Welcome! Can't wait to see the pics.

 

Alright was able to take some pictures, not the greatest but all I got is my phone camera.

Overview of whole tank


Bottom Middle Right of tank, showing Zoas, Riccordia, Acans, Favia, B/W Clown


Left Middle of tank, showing Birdsnest, Zoa, Purple Haze Montipora


Left Side of tank showing 2 Macro Algae, Bubble Coral, Duncan, Zoa, Cleaner Shrimp, and Chromi


Not sure what these are, some kind of worms(middle of picture)? They are red/Orange.

 

Just picked up a six line wrasse from the lfs going to get some pics of it when I get back home tonight.

 

Nice tank. I like the aqua scape.

 

Here's a pic of the Rainbow Montipora


Here's the Sixline, he's been weaving in and out of the rocks and all over the place

 

Those colored worms are Spaghetti worms.

You tank look very nice, great zoanthids and really nice montipora.

 

Thanks for all the compliments.

Placed another order with reefcleaners that should be here on wednesday to help clean up the sand bed.
1 Assorted Smaller Conchs
20 Dwarf Cerith
6 Florida Cerith
1 Fuzzy Chiton
10 Nassarius Vibex

Pretty excited to see these guys go to work

 

Updates, some good some bad :-/

Got the package from rc and it's awesome, the conch is pretty cool. The chiton has stayed in the sea shell it came attached to and hasn't left. Needs to get off it and get to cleaning up my rocks!

The six line seemed to be doing well, always swimming about and eating when the tank got fed. Noticed a mark on it that looked like it scraped to close to the rocks while swimming in and out between them. Was still eating fine during feeding times. Then he disappeared, looked around and didn't look like he jumped out but he's no where to be found in the tank. I'm guessing he died in the back somewhere and the cuc got him before I could see the body .

Also it looks like I'm not only fighting off a bit of hair algae but looks like there is some bryopsis in the tank also :-/. Already started raising up the Mag with Tech M and manually removing it. I'm hoping that the added cuc help with the algae, I'm really tempted to get a reactor with some gfo but at the same time I don't want to remove all the algae since it's the blenny's food source.

Picked up a hammer coral today from the lfs, looked like it had 3 heads. Also got some Brightwell's Calcion since I've used up the Code-A.
Will probably swing by again after work tonight to take a look at the new fish

 

Update
Current Fish in tank: Clown Fish(looks to be a black saddleback), Black Axil Chromis, Lawnmower Blenny, Flame Angel, McCosker's Flasher Wrasse.

Added some SPS to the tank, 2 Birdsnest and one I think is an acro?
The hammer coral is up to 5 heads now.

Removed the small rocks the zoas were on and moved the zoas back towards the rocks. Seemed like to much waste was getting caught in the "garden".

Got package from BRS today with Hanna Phosphate checker, Refractometer, 1/4" screen netting.

Phosphate came in at .07
Salinity at 35, swing arm had it at 34.