I just joined and just joined as a supporting member after seeing how active the boards are and your great marketplace threads!
I have a 180 gallon 7 feet long, 30" deep, 20" wide True Vue acrylic tank with canopy. It has about 70% of the height with live rock and live sand. I had neglected my water changes, etc. and had a fish or something die and the tank went South so all coral was dead. I kept it running for a year or more baron and over the last month or two I did a number of major water changes, upgraded my lights to three NICREW 150W LED lights mounted about 1.25" over the top of the tank. I used to have two 4 foot power compacts lights. I have my old main recirculating pump that goes to a perforated long PVC bar hidden in the live rock and I just added two 4K Gyre Icecap pumps on the ends of the tank. I have a 100 gallon pond sump with about half filled with an old protein skimmer and and old reactor. I have been out of reefs for a while when LED were not around. I just replaced the carbon in the reactor to these small pellets San Mateo Ultimate Aquarium told me would reduce the phosphate.
The tank only has 5 tiny frags, a tiny green star polyp, sun king psammocora, war coral favites, lime finger leather, green polyp toadstool leather. Thus is is more of a long tank with baron live rock. I am hopeful that you folks can give me guidance as to how to get the tank back up. I want to keep simple corals that are not too much work to maintain and really not sure what to put in the tank. The new lights seem very powerful and right now I have them turned way down to around 40% blue and 20% white as the coral frags I have I am told do not want much light? Totally unsure and uneducated about what to put in the tank; I know we want maybe a couple of clowns and any other fish will be small colorful fish?
I saw your pay it forward and market place discussion areas which is fantastic! Do you think someone would be interested in my two Power Compact lights and trade for some corals? I have no use for it... Your group sounds cool as I did not realize there were that many reefers in the Bay Area...
I have a 180 gallon 7 feet long, 30" deep, 20" wide True Vue acrylic tank with canopy. It has about 70% of the height with live rock and live sand. I had neglected my water changes, etc. and had a fish or something die and the tank went South so all coral was dead. I kept it running for a year or more baron and over the last month or two I did a number of major water changes, upgraded my lights to three NICREW 150W LED lights mounted about 1.25" over the top of the tank. I used to have two 4 foot power compacts lights. I have my old main recirculating pump that goes to a perforated long PVC bar hidden in the live rock and I just added two 4K Gyre Icecap pumps on the ends of the tank. I have a 100 gallon pond sump with about half filled with an old protein skimmer and and old reactor. I have been out of reefs for a while when LED were not around. I just replaced the carbon in the reactor to these small pellets San Mateo Ultimate Aquarium told me would reduce the phosphate.
The tank only has 5 tiny frags, a tiny green star polyp, sun king psammocora, war coral favites, lime finger leather, green polyp toadstool leather. Thus is is more of a long tank with baron live rock. I am hopeful that you folks can give me guidance as to how to get the tank back up. I want to keep simple corals that are not too much work to maintain and really not sure what to put in the tank. The new lights seem very powerful and right now I have them turned way down to around 40% blue and 20% white as the coral frags I have I am told do not want much light? Totally unsure and uneducated about what to put in the tank; I know we want maybe a couple of clowns and any other fish will be small colorful fish?
I saw your pay it forward and market place discussion areas which is fantastic! Do you think someone would be interested in my two Power Compact lights and trade for some corals? I have no use for it... Your group sounds cool as I did not realize there were that many reefers in the Bay Area...
