60 Gallon - New To Reefs

[monkE]

thank you very much pinkreef!!! i love having this much space to play with... now it's time to decide if i want to switch my planted 125 over to salt! lol

[monkE]

Quick update, got some frags off of Kelly (KPG007) today... as well as a couple more damsels, and so that is a perfect reason for a photobomb update



no idea what this one is called

branching GSP... hasn't opened up yet

apparently easy SPS... forget what it was called (i know there's a theme here)

beauty zoas (that is my official name for them)

galaxy something

[paddyob]

One point I give with nanos.... Anything you do to a small tank is exponentially more noticeable. For example, less water has little room for chemistry errors.

Evaporation is ten fold. If you don't top up daily you will have spikes in your salinity. Which could be harmful.

Temperature. In summer the tank will heat up more rapidly then a large body of water. Temperature spikes can kill your corals and fIsh if not monitored.

Good luck. Looks ok so far.

[monkE]

Originally Posted by paddyob

One point I give with nanos.... Anything you do to a small tank is exponentially more noticeable. For example, less water has little room for chemistry errors.

Evaporation is ten fold. If you don't top up daily you will have spikes in your salinity. Which could be harmful.

Temperature. In summer the tank will heat up more rapidly then a large body of water. Temperature spikes can kill your corals and fIsh if not monitored.

Good luck. Looks ok so far.

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by monkE

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.

Yah the picture looked a little bigger than what I would expect a 20 gallon to be haha :P Looking good

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by monkE

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.

As a mod. They change the title. You can't do it alone.

[Mike-fish]

Looks good. If you want the title changed just contact a mod

[monkE]

thanks for the info guys.... the mods changed it up for me


here's some new coral pics!

[monkE]

Picked up a Reefkeeker Lite and after some tinkering I have the system all running and working. I've also set it up with an auto top off, which almost became a huge problem when I didn't think about the top off hose siphoning the 5 gallon bucket straight into the sump after the pump was shut off... luckily it stopped when the water level equalled out and i didn't move the salt content too far so nothing in the tank seemed to be adversely affected. at this point i'm only an RO/DI unit away from having this system right where i want it.... ok a higher end LED light also

[monkE]

downloaded the myreef 2.0 software from the Digital Aquatics website and started to play around with the controller. I'm going to need a phone line splitter because there are no open ports in the system but i just removed the temp probe and temporarily connected my laptop using the usb cable that was supplied in the box. The one draw back i have found with the reefkeepr is there was seemingly no way to change the name of each channel so you have to keep a map handy to remember which channel was which component, but when i connected and ran the software i found that i could customize the channel names so now instead of my display reading CH1 - ON it reads LEFT P/H - ON, or SKIMMER - ON... SOOOO much better.