Tank specs:
55 gallon reef and fish with DSB and approx 60lbs LR
30 gallon sump (in basement - 10ft drop) with DSB and chaetomorph
Temp kept at 80-28F
SG 1.025-1.026 (swing arm hygrometer)
Inhabitants:
Amphiprion clarkii (clark's clownfish)
Lawnmower blenny
2 chromis (used to be 3)
Strawberry dottyback (Pseudochromis porphyriae)
Coral banded shrimp
Brittle star
Sea cucumber (brown)
2-3 emerald crabs
multiple hermits (including 1 red)
Nassarius, astreas, turbo snails
Corals:
soft - discosomias (shrooms), zooanthids (military green with large tentacles), xenia, kenyan tree coral, spaghetti leather
LPS - hammer coral, favites (brain/moon) spp, galaxea (with huge nematocysts!)
SPS -
montipora capricornis - fluoro orange, green with purple rim, and yellow/brown, porites (yellow), acropora spp - dark purple, green with purple tips, and bird's nest coral
Hardware/setup:
Hang-on overflow box
ASM mini-G skimmer
Phosban reactor running with carbon
Mag12 reactor (approx 600gph at 10 ft)
ATO being setup from RO/DI - kent floatvalve to maintain FW level connected to JBJ ATO unit
Waterflow:
Mag12 return via SCWD
1 x 295gph PH
1 x 160(?)gph PH
Lighting:
2 x 175W 10,000K MH on for 9h (10am on, 6pm off)
1 x 40W actinic (soon to be 2 x 110W VHO)
sump light (12h - don't know spectrum, came free with the sump which used to be a FW tank)
Feeding:
1 cube/day of either: mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, krill or fresh shrimp (from the freezer - about 1inch' worth)
occasional (approx 1-2x per week) squirt of phytoplex or zooplex
Maintenance:
Daily glass clean/water param check
weekly approx 10gal water change/vaccuum sandbed
Top-off with kalkwasser q2-3d
Check out the pics on the photo page for visualisation!
