sandiego92155
07-26-2006, 10:01 PM
There's no tank of the month for June, so I figured I'd help out.
NAME Danny Currie (sandiego92155)
OCCUPATION Air Traffic Management
OTHER HOBBIES Cycling
HOW IT STARTED I just traded my liverock with Agent003 for this JBJ nano cube 6 and got a ziplock bag of Algae from dhuynh and threw it in. When I decided to set up a saltwater tank, and began reading about it on sdreefs.com, I discovered that people were sucessfully keeping reef tanks. All it took was one visit to the LFS to see their refugium, and I was hooked.
the secret......This isn't neuroscience. It's all about you loving your macro algae.
1) Low Bioload - You have to decide before hand if you want a fish tank, a reef tank, or just a straight up refugium. You can try to do both, I decided not to. The more fish you have, the harder it will be to properly balance the nutrient equation. Add too many fish and you will most likely have either an algea problem or end up starving everything in order to keep the algea at bay. Notice that I have only a blue-leg hermit in a 6 gallon tank.
2) Export as much nitrates and phosphates as possible, do water changes, screw a good skimmer. Do frequent water changes with proper syphoning. Provide good water flow.
3) Make your tank diverse. Notice how I have a rock with only aptasia?
I know you guys envy me but you'll make it to my level also.....enjoy.
parameters temp: 80-81.3 deg. F
Alk: 11 dhk
CA: 450 ppm
Salinity: 35 ppt
Magnesium: 1300 ppm
Nitrates & Phosphates undetectable
light hours
8:30 am 18W light on
7:30 pm 18W light off
7:30 pm lunar light on
8:30 am lunar light off
With Lights on:
14192
With Actinic on
14195
Top View
14193
Aptasia
14194
YES, I'M BORED!
NAME Danny Currie (sandiego92155)
OCCUPATION Air Traffic Management
OTHER HOBBIES Cycling
HOW IT STARTED I just traded my liverock with Agent003 for this JBJ nano cube 6 and got a ziplock bag of Algae from dhuynh and threw it in. When I decided to set up a saltwater tank, and began reading about it on sdreefs.com, I discovered that people were sucessfully keeping reef tanks. All it took was one visit to the LFS to see their refugium, and I was hooked.
the secret......This isn't neuroscience. It's all about you loving your macro algae.
1) Low Bioload - You have to decide before hand if you want a fish tank, a reef tank, or just a straight up refugium. You can try to do both, I decided not to. The more fish you have, the harder it will be to properly balance the nutrient equation. Add too many fish and you will most likely have either an algea problem or end up starving everything in order to keep the algea at bay. Notice that I have only a blue-leg hermit in a 6 gallon tank.
2) Export as much nitrates and phosphates as possible, do water changes, screw a good skimmer. Do frequent water changes with proper syphoning. Provide good water flow.
3) Make your tank diverse. Notice how I have a rock with only aptasia?
I know you guys envy me but you'll make it to my level also.....enjoy.
parameters temp: 80-81.3 deg. F
Alk: 11 dhk
CA: 450 ppm
Salinity: 35 ppt
Magnesium: 1300 ppm
Nitrates & Phosphates undetectable
light hours
8:30 am 18W light on
7:30 pm 18W light off
7:30 pm lunar light on
8:30 am lunar light off
With Lights on:
14192
With Actinic on
14195
Top View
14193
Aptasia
14194
YES, I'M BORED!