Wow, has it been 5 months already! Been so busy with the tank I forgot to update this thread.
Since my last post I have:
Added water (IO) and approx 110 lbs of live rock. The rock was of great quality and cycled very quickly (about 3 weeks). It came with quite a few interesting hitchikers (all of which are still ok) including a pistol shrimp, several Kenya trees, a small patch of zoanthus and plenty of algaes (the good the bad and the ugly).
Hardware:
5 gal gravity fed ATO
35 Gal RV tank for SW storage
Aquasafe RO/DI unit
Tek 6 x 48" T5 fixture with aqua sun, fuji purple and pure actinics (IIRC)
Quiet One 6000 return
Vortech MP40 with batterry backup
V2 1000 Skimmer
Aquaclear powerhead to reduce deadspot behind rock
Softies/LPS/SPS:
numerous mushrooms and zoanthids
torch coral
hammer coral
frogspawn
cream bubble coral
green bubble coral
green open brain
orange monti cap frag
pink birdsnest frag
metallic red donut coral
orange donut coral
Inverts:
peppermint shrimp
pistol shrimp (hitchhiker)
stomatella snails - black and tan variants (hitchikers)
turbo snails
nassarius snails
cerith snails
2 hitchiking crabs (now in the fuge)
2 Indonesian featherdusters
Fish:
Scopas tang
Yellow watchman goby
Red lipped blenny
Now a few pics
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