Hello, I’m a reef junkie

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I was a fresh water junkie for more than 14 years, after fighting my own demons I started a reef aquarium 2 months back lost a lot of fish some mushrooms but I’m still learning.
Hopefully I’ll post pictures of what I have soon

Hello, I’m a reef junkie

I was a fresh water junkie for more than 14 years, after fighting my own demons I started a reef aquarium 2 months back lost a lot of fish some mushrooms but I’m still learning
Hopefully I’ll post pictures of what I have soon

22 gallons
Lots of live rock
Sand bed
Mangrove
3 stages 950L/h mechanical filter
Air driven Protein skimmer upgraded yesterday to 180 gallons jebo hang on skimmer still not working
450l/h power head
36 wt T5(double bulbs) day light will change to 36(one daylight one blue plus)
3 hermit crabs
1 devil damsel
1 skunk shrimp
2 blood shrimps
1 slug
1 star fish
Mushrooms
2 crabs
Sun coral
Anemone

 

Welcme to 3reef!! you sure have an awfull lot of livestock for such a young tank... you may want to go extremely slow to avoid losing livestock, hope to see some pics!

 

I too have a 180 jebo, took about 3 days for it to "cycle" before it started to produce anything. now i'm having to empty it every week!!

gl and welcome!
-fritts

 

Welcome to 3reef!!

 

Welcome to 3Reef!
I do agree with nano, at 2 months you should just be starting to add livestock. That anemone scares me
Hope to see pics soon!

 

Welcome to 3reef!!

 

I waited two months before i added anything except for cleaners. My tank has been going 7 months now and i have not lost one fish. Go Slow!!!! If you do you will lose less live stock and will be able to research enough so your tank mates are well thought out.

 

Welcome to 3reef. You need to slow down a bit dude. First of all, that anenome is a timebomb right now. You shouldn't add one of those until your tank is at least six months old......and that is pushing it. Some recommend a year. I want to know what kind it is and what your params are. Just as a warning, if the anenome dies in the tank, it can take the rest of your livestock with it. Your T5s are a good choice, but the change to daylight/actinic needs to be done ASAP for the anenome and the Sun Corals. They need the actinic to thrive. Keep with us dude and we'll give you all the advise you need to keep with the hobby. The search engine is really good here also.

 

Thanks a lot fellow reefers will keep you updated ASAP