first there was 50, now theres 42!

im running mine at the lowest setting.. these things are powerful! if i turn them up my sand bed starts kicking around. and thats pointing the PH towards the surface!

 

Update 5/6/15 yesterday I tested for Ammonia/nitrite and they were both zero! ( i added some ammonia to do another cycle just for the heck of it) so i lowered my temp and zoomed straight to the fish store! my rocks were having some gHa so i purchased 6 hermits/ 6 asteriths / and 1 conch snail by the morning all my HA was gone! these guys were impressive. If i ever have any problems with my hermits i will toss them in my refuge. I also picked up 3 chromis ( only had 3 left ) brought them home, acclimated them and tossed them in! none showed signs of stress. and 1 had a cut or some sort above the eye. will keep an eye on that one

i also purchased some misc items! used heater/powerhead to make some water and a 5 gallon bucket of RSCP! a total of 250 dollars spent!

fast foward today: i got myself a Auto feeder from a local reefer, APEX AFS to add to my apex list this thing in action is a nice little gismo! ecotech marine finally restocked on their gen2 > gen3 PRO kit so i purchased the upgrade as well! ( second day shipping ) so hopefully it'll be here before friday!

pictures will be up tomrow!

 

Update 5/6/15 yesterday I tested for Ammonia/nitrite and they were both zero! ( i added some ammonia to do another cycle just for the heck of it) so i lowered my temp and zoomed straight to the fish store! my rocks were having some gHa so i purchased 6 hermits/ 6 asteriths / and 1 conch snail by the morning all my HA was gone! these guys were impressive. If i ever have any problems with my hermits i will toss them in my refuge. I also picked up 3 chromis ( only had 3 left ) brought them home, acclimated them and tossed them in! none showed signs of stress. and 1 had a cut or some sort above the eye. will keep an eye on that one

i also purchased some misc items! used heater/powerhead to make some water and a 5 gallon bucket of RSCP! a total of 250 dollars spent!

fast foward today: i got myself a Auto feeder from a local reefer, APEX AFS to add to my apex list this thing in action is a nice little gismo! ecotech marine finally restocked on their gen2 > gen3 PRO kit so i purchased the upgrade as well! ( second day shipping ) so hopefully it'll be here before friday!

pictures will be up tomrow!

 

congrats on cycling and adding your first life! looking forward to the pictures!

 

Update 5/12/15
I added BRS GFO in my reactor, 10 table spoons to start off! sad news is the chromis with the messed up eye didnt make it, but i did add some new members to the tank, designer clowns, 40 for a 1" pair(one is a it smaller then the other)! i love them to death, but the pair seems to be nipping at each other and the smaller one keeps running away, so I put the small one into a bottle until he does the sexy dance, but so far both clowns sleeps in the same location!




on to the corals, i purchased 4 frags for 70$ hawkins, SSC, red planet, and a pink lemonade on sunday ! I'm excited to see how they do in the tank as well i dipped with bayer 8 minutes, i wont be suprised if they loose the color!





as well. a package arrived today! the radion gen3 pro upgrade! i want to get the wide angle lens so it covers more, but time will tell!


I made my first purchase of test kits, Red sea ALK,CA,MG tests, i hope it will be here tomrow so I can begin testing!

FTS 5/12/15

 

Tank is coming along beautifully. The is an awesome frag of SSC, want!

 

tank looks really good! nice new coral purchases and love the clowns!

 

Nice frags. I want that pink lemonade!!

 

thanks for your reply's! the SCC is really popping and but unfortunately it lost some color. due to dipping it with Bayer.

UPDATE 5/20/15 i will be out of town from thursday-monday. so the tank will go on cruise control and hopefully there wont be any mishaps.

i also got some new fish. I knew the big chromis was going to bully the smaller one so i took him out and traded him for some other fishes.

Female barlett anthias, Firefish, and carpenter's wrasse.

I'm almost done with my fish stockings, I'm looking for a mccosker wrasse, and a male anthias.

coming to conclusion i am not sure this skimmer is sufficient enough for this bioload, any thoughts? its kind of alike the bubble magus 3.5, but this one has a siccre pump, better performance I assume!

hopefully by next Monday I will be getting a ton of mariculture sps so time will tell!

FTS:

 

Looks fantastic. Nice fish choices, wish I had enough room for some of those fish.

What epoxy did you use on the scape?