My tank is a 30 gallon. Lighting is 2 55 watt 9375 K power compacts, and 1 30 watt actinic. Filtration is 45 pounds of live rock, 3 inch sand substrate, and 2 power heads. Skimmer is right now a POS but will be upgrading to the bakpak2 when it arrives at the end of the week. The visijet I am currently using does seem to be working off and on as long as I keep it immaculate.
The tank has been up 70 days, has been stable and 0 ammonia or nitrites for 55 of that time. The live work was added in two waves out of a 1500 gallon reef we maintain. I feed every other day, using enriched brine shrimp or prime reef.
I supplement with Reef Vital DNA, and usually I have to add 1/2 ml of iodine to reach acceptable levels. The calcium stays up over 600 ppm with just the weekly water changes of 10%. (yeah, liquid rock)
Temperature 78-80 (**** small tanks) but the ebo seems to be keeping a better stability going since I switched it into the tank instead of a visitherm.
Phosphate tests are the loveliest shade of blue you ever saw but to date the crabs and snails are able to keep up with it no problem.
Corals are a bubble, a plate, pompom xenia, button polyps, yellow polyps, & 10 types of mushrooms, mostly from cuttings.
No coralline algae to speak of yet, just a few spots on some of the rock I've bought the coral pieces on (big urchin in the 1500 gallon keeps it pretty naked but the owner LIKES it *gag*)
Livestock includes 4
blue legged hermits, a
sally lightfoot crab, 4 large turbo snails, a sand sifting star, 4 peppermint shrimp, itty bitty brittle stars, and 3 black clown gobies. I intend to add 6 neon gobies, 3 blue 3 yellow but not for a few more weeks.
This is my first reef tank, feel free to tell me where you see holes that I need to deal with.
Thanks for the help in advance : )
Barbie
