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Trying to Revive a Dormant Reef Tank

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Posted 10 March 2010 - 11:13 PM

Welcome Diane! Pardon me for not welcoming you sooner. I get a little side tracked. How's the tank doing?
75 g RR AGA - Mixed Reef
20 g sump, HOB 19" CPR refugium w/4 types of macro & CPR Aquatics 24w 12" PC
ASM G1X, Modified Coralife pro 2x150w 14k HQI DE MH 4x54w T5 mod, x4 1w Lunar Blue Moon Glow LED lamps, 2x Koralia 4, 2x Koralia 3, MAG 7 return pump, JBJ A.T.O.

2.5 g JBJ Picotope - Corallimorphs, LPS, SPS, fish & inverts
HOB AC20 w/ 1/2 unit Chemi pure, JBJ picotope HOB modified into refugium, 16 3/4" Sunpod 70w MH w/4 LED moonlights and 4 LED white lights, Hydro theo 25w heater.

5 g non-photo, gorgonians & softies-peppermint shrimp, seahorse & pipefish
JBJ pico HOB w/carbon, 16 3/4" Sunpod 70w w/4 moonlight LEDs and 4 white light LEDs, 50 Watt heater
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 06:51 AM


i did put it in the gallery - let's see if it works this time -- sorry for the newbie stuff

http://www.wamas.org...756-dianes-70g/


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Posted 11 March 2010 - 06:53 AM

i'm learning slowly -- here's the direct link to the big picture
http://www.wamas.org...9-setup-week-1/

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Posted 11 March 2010 - 08:48 AM

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In your gallery, you'll see an item on the left that says "Share Image." Click on the + sign next to it and you'll get a series of links. Copy the "BB Code" text in it's entirety to your post and the image will be inserted as shown above.
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Main tank: 180g acrylic display (mostly SPS), 7x80W T5 + 1x160W VHO, 55g frag, 20g w/ 8" DSB/Macro Algae Refugium, and 100g Rubbermaid sump. MSX 2S cone skimmer, NextReef MR1 Monster media reactor running carbon & GFO, Deltec KM500 Kalk Stirrer, Korallin C4002 Calcium Reactor modded with internal pH probe, Reeflo Dart main pump, & 2x Vortech MP40W in-tank flow. 2nd tank: Oceanic Biocube 29 (mostly softies) w/ Sapphire skimmer.

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Posted 16 March 2010 - 10:21 AM

Things are going well. Chemistry has been good. I've added 6 snails, 4 hermit crabs and the two fish and one coral from Eve's tank.

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Posted 16 March 2010 - 11:01 AM

Congrats on the new livestock!
Display: 120g, 40g sump, 2x250w 10K, 2x54w actinic, Mag 9.5, ASM G3, 36w UV, AC3

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Posted 16 March 2010 - 11:50 AM

Looks great!
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Main tank: 180g acrylic display (mostly SPS), 7x80W T5 + 1x160W VHO, 55g frag, 20g w/ 8" DSB/Macro Algae Refugium, and 100g Rubbermaid sump. MSX 2S cone skimmer, NextReef MR1 Monster media reactor running carbon & GFO, Deltec KM500 Kalk Stirrer, Korallin C4002 Calcium Reactor modded with internal pH probe, Reeflo Dart main pump, & 2x Vortech MP40W in-tank flow. 2nd tank: Oceanic Biocube 29 (mostly softies) w/ Sapphire skimmer.

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Posted 09 April 2010 - 12:07 PM

Update: Tanks going well and everybody seems to be getting along. now have the hippo tang, yellow tang, six line wrasse and a coral banded shrimp, a few little corals and the one big green star polyp colony. interesting watching them, the yellow tang seems to stop in front of the wrasse periodically for a grooming.

Question: what's an ideal schedule for the lights? -compact flourescent, i've been keeping them on most of the day, but i had old bulbs in there, i just put new daylight bulbs in and will probably change the actinic's soon. should i cut back how many hours a day they are on?

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Posted 09 April 2010 - 01:55 PM

When replacing bulbs it is always a good idea to cut them back by about 2 hours and increase them by like 30min a week so the corals can adjust to the stronger light. Your tank is mostly LPS and softies so I think you would be fine with say 10 hours of total time.

How long are you running them for now?
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Posted 10 April 2010 - 02:17 PM

i was turning them on about 8am and off at about 10pm, up to 14 hours i guess. i have timers to put on them now, so i'll set it maybe for maybe 10am to 8pm.

i've heard some people stagger turning on the actinic and daylight bulbs, is that worth doing and if so which order and time seems to work?

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 02:43 PM

View PostDiane, on 10 April 2010 - 03:17 PM, said:

i was turning them on about 8am and off at about 10pm, up to 14 hours i guess. i have timers to put on them now, so i'll set it maybe for maybe 10am to 8pm.

i've heard some people stagger turning on the actinic and daylight bulbs, is that worth doing and if so which order and time seems to work?


People stagger the actinic and daylight to simulate sunrise/sunset. Have the actinic come on first for an hour then daylight and actinic on. then have daylight go off an hour before the actinic turnoff.
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Posted 14 April 2010 - 09:25 AM

Did i make a mistake adding the coral banded shrimp?

Last night i couldn't find the six line wrasse, just the day before he was swimming all around looking happy and healthy darting in and out of the rocks. After looking further, I found the shrimp eating what looked like remains from the wrasse. i'm VERY sad. Is it likely that the shrimp killed it or just cleaned up after it died on its own?
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