34 Reef

[One_Divided]

Set Up Date : March 2001

Tank Size : 36x18x12.5 | 34 gallons

Refugium Size : 16x8x11 | 6-7 gallons?

Live Rock : 40lbs in tank/fuge

Live Sand : 3-4 inch | 80-100 pounds

Lighting : 175w 10k metal halide and 2x 75w VHO actinics on an IceCap430 | halide 9 hours, vhos 11 hours (1 hour before and 1 hour after halide)

Protein Skimmer : Remora AquaC Hang-On

Biological Filtration : Live Rock/DSB

Circulation: aprox 800gph | Maxi Jet: 1200 (to fuge/skimmer), 900x2 and a 400

pH : 8.1-3

Temperature: 79-82f

Specific Gravity / Salintity : 1.026

Alkalinity : 3.66 meq/l | 10.2 dKH:

Calcium : 400-440 ppm

Ammonia (ppm) : 0

Nitrite (ppm): 0

Nitrate (ppm): 0

Fish : Yellow tang who is happy and healthy despite the small tank, a fat 6 Line Wrasse and a Firefish who I see very little of.

Corals : SPS: Pink and Green Montipora, Pink Pocillopra. LPS: Cup coral, Green Candy Cane, Green Hammer, Brown Frogspawn, Fox coral, Red Cyranina, unknown brain type. : Soft: Xenia, 5 types of shrooms, Anthelia, 3 types of Green Star Polyps, Button polyps, small Colt.

Invertebrates : 1 cleaner shrimp, 8-10 Cerith Snails, 5-6 Astrea Snails, 3 Turbo Snails, 6-8 Margarita Snails, 3 Tiger Trocus Snails, 1 mysterious crab who cuases no harm whatsover, 2 giant feather dusters (tons of small ones), thousands of Pods and worms.

Maintenance Program : My maintenance is generally determined by the tank's inhabitants.. I have lots of indicaters.. Regularly, I do a 5 gallon water change once a month and Dose Kalk with R/O top off. I magnet clean the glass every 2-3 days. 1 Feeding per day: alternating seaweed selects and frozen brine soaked in selcon.

Additional Information : This is my first SW tank. I am in the process of setting up number 2. I can only roughly figure that I have spent somewhere between $1,500 to $2,500 on this tank..



[ 25 December 2001: Message edited by: One_Divided ]