new 75 gallon reef setup

[TRe]

take yur time! seriously tho when u rush things together IME 9 times outa 10 youll be redoing them the way you wish u had done them in the first place

 

[quaddity]

I have a reef set up now in the tank. A local guy that has 12 reef tanks in his house was fortunately taking down one of his tanks to sell and amazingly sold me about 70 lbs of live rock that has been running in a tank/sump for a few years for a measly $40. Along with a couple cups of sand from the tank to seed my sand with. I figured if I paid $100 I was getting a real good deal.

 

[quaddity]

Tank cycled quickly with that rock that had been running from the other tank. I have around 75 lbs of rock in it. Came back from 5 days in St Louis and Ammonia/Nitrite are 0. And there's some diatom growing. So looking good. About to go back to St. Louis till the end of next week I'll post pics of tank when I get back.

 

[quaddity]

I've been in St. Louis for 12 days. Wife kept up with DI water top offs and stuff but never cleaned the glass. I only had 2 large snails and a couple hermits in the tank. Lots of green algae growing now. Going to go put a proper CUC in now.

 

[Joe Fish]

Green algae on the glass? You might be having a phos issue.

 

[quaddity]

Green on rocks, brown on glass. All cleaned up now and put 10 black turbos and 5 red legged hermits in for a start.

 

[zoalover34]

How long are you lights on? Maybe try cutting back that may help also

 

[quaddity]

How long are you lights on? Maybe try cutting back that may help also

Halides on about 9 hours actinics 12 hours

 

[zoalover34]

I woul try n cut those back a hr. or 3

 

[Joe Fish]

9 hours is normal so it's probably just a young tank causing the issues. A few turbos should help a lot. I'm not a fan of hermits though...

 

[quaddity]

Yeah I think it's just the age of the tank and the fact I was gone and couldn't stay up on it. Otherwise the snails would have been in earlier. I think I'll put about 10 Ceriths in there today as well. Those black turbos are good they eat algae like crazy off the rocks and glass.

 

[quaddity]

Few pics of the tank should get the sump done this weekend so I can move refug, heater, skimmer, etc. to it.

 

[quaddity]

Impulse buy today. Went to a LFS I don't usually go to and they had about a 4" x 4" green maze brain coral for $15. Couldn't pass it up:

 

[zoalover34]

nice score for 15.00! Hows the algae comming?

 

[quaddity]

nice score for 15.00! Hows the algae comming?

The black Turbos have done a good job cleaning up the rocks and glass. Still have some brown growing on the substrate but not as much. A good vacuum and water change this weekend and the diatoms should be on their way out I'm hoping.

Love walking into an LFS and finding a nice coral for a low price. This area must be popular for reef there's 5 reef stores within 10 miles of my house. Always a deal to be found at one of them. Looking at the maze corals though I don't think that is one. Some other kind of closed brain.

 

[quaddity]

Anybody know what kind of crab this is?

I should probably remove it but it doesn't seem aggressive towards the fish and cruises around the tank all day. It will lift its arms into the current like it's filter feeding.

 

[Lorna]

It is a favia or closed brain coral. Most are relatively slow growing and relatively hardy.

 

[quaddity]

It is a favia or closed brain coral. Most are relatively slow growing and relatively hardy.

Some kind of Favite coral I'm guessing as the walls are shared on it.

 

[Joe Fish]

I vote favia as well.

 

[zoalover34]

hows the tank comming? Did all the zoas start to open back up?