Chunky94
Community Member
Hello, my names jake. Thanks for visiting! This Is my first time setting up and maintaining a reef(its just rocks now though). Also my first time joining a forum. Ok now I'll start with my set up. First I got the tank, rocks, and sand. Put sand in then rock then added my water and salt figured out how to dial in salinity and that I should wait awhile for it to mix not 10 minutes before testing it lol. Took me a few tries. After that I cycled my tank with fish food till readings where in check the did about 40-50 % water change
Added emerald crab first waited for an ammonia spike wasnt very noticeable, (also had a noob mistake panicked because I didnt see him for a few days took all my rock out, set them on garbage bags after carefully searching each one for him. No sign of him in rocks so went to sifting sand till I drained half the water. Gave up on him so proceeded to add rock back till all was back into the tank. And guess who was chilling in a puddle on the garage bag alive and well, probably mad lol. He's still alive and well now thankfully.) So I waited a week and then added my pair of clownfish which LFS had listed as chocolate dominos but did some research and cant find them so I dont what they are. Waited for a few days then added 2 blue leg hermit crabs and 3 nassauris snails to cuc. About a week and a half from that I got my reefcleaners 10gal cuc just snails plus a few snails and 3 more blue leg hermits I added to the order and that's pretty much caught up on my build so far
Okay so I'll just start with a list of what I have in the tank so far.
Added emerald crab first waited for an ammonia spike wasnt very noticeable, (also had a noob mistake panicked because I didnt see him for a few days took all my rock out, set them on garbage bags after carefully searching each one for him. No sign of him in rocks so went to sifting sand till I drained half the water. Gave up on him so proceeded to add rock back till all was back into the tank. And guess who was chilling in a puddle on the garage bag alive and well, probably mad lol. He's still alive and well now thankfully.) So I waited a week and then added my pair of clownfish which LFS had listed as chocolate dominos but did some research and cant find them so I dont what they are. Waited for a few days then added 2 blue leg hermit crabs and 3 nassauris snails to cuc. About a week and a half from that I got my reefcleaners 10gal cuc just snails plus a few snails and 3 more blue leg hermits I added to the order and that's pretty much caught up on my build so far
Okay so I'll just start with a list of what I have in the tank so far.
- Biocube 32
- Matching stand
- 2 20lb bags live sand
- 20lbs life rock
- 10lbs live rock from premium aquatics
- Intank media basket
- Intank fuge basket modified to allow skimmer
- Chateo from algaebarn
- Tunze 9001 protein skimmer
- Sicce 1.5 return pump (not installed yet)
- Coralife uv sterilizer
- 2 tunze 6055 turbelle stream wavemaker
- Steve's LEDs upgrade with iridescent booster controlled by hurricanex with temp probe (awesome lights!)
- ApexEL controller system (this thing is incredible makes me feel a lot better about all the money I invested in this tank.
- Vdm module to control wavemakers
- Pm2 module for salinity
- DOS with DDR (currently waiting for replacement DDR from Neptune, they have great customer support)
- Neptune ATK (not installed yet)
Now for my livestock
- Emerald crab
- Pom pom crab
- 3-4 blue leg hermit crabs
- 10 gal reef cleaners kit from reefcleaners just snails
- 3 nassurius snails (dont know the proper spelling sorry)
- Pair of what the LFS listed as chocolate domino clownfish
That's all at this moment I will add more as I go thank you for reading so far!
