New Member, old tank

[cdssmssteele]

What are your thoughts? I am working on a new skimmer, the via aqua is way too loud, but it does skim nicely, I will be using it on my QT.

Christopher’s Fish Tank



Basics
75 gallon All Glass Aquarium stand canopy 290.00
Aqua Clear Aquatics 75 gallon wet dry filter with bio-balls free
Cap 2200 pump @800gal/hr 35.99
Hagen Aqua Clear Powerhead 400gph 25.99
75lbs of live rock 200.00
80lbs of Florida Crushed Coral Aragonite 80.00
30lbs Fiji Pink Sand 30.00
Via Aqua Protein Skimmer 200gph with UV light 60.00
Lighting
1 40 watt actinic
1 40 watt 10000k 74.99
(Better lighting on 03/03/2004 – 6x65 PC 300.00)

Livestock

Fish
1 Yellow Tail Blue Damsel 3.99
1 Unknown Damsel (yellow dorsal head to tail, blue black pectoris fins) free
2 Cinnamon Clown fish (they love the anemone’s) 14.99 each
1 Strawberry Basslet 11.99
1 Coral Beauty 19.99
Polyps
1 Coral Star Polyps medium 19.99
1 Coral Green Star Polyps 28.99
Anemones
1 Rock Flower Anemone 6.99
1 Condylactus Anemone 3.99
Other
14 Blue Leg Hermit Crabs 0.99 each
2 Turbo Snails free
1 Coral Banded Shrimp 14.99
4 Scarlet Reef Hermit Crabs free
Multiple unknown crabs (resemble baby blue crabs) free




Maintenance
10-gallon water change monthly
weekly prefilter cleaning
5cc of Prime with water change
5cc of Kent Marine Strontium & Molybdenum a week
Monthly carbon/filter change
Front glass scrapped as needed for viewing


Feeding
5cc of Microvert direct feed to the anemones 2x a week
flake food for fish each morning
frozen brine as a treat 1-2x a week

 

[Mikef1]

Hi, Welcome to Reefs.org
For the most part your setup looks good. There are a few things I would change though. First the cap pump, I had one of these go out on me a long time ago and everything died. I would replace it with a mag drive. That would be well worth the money. Second I would do a little bigger water changes, instead of 10gal do 15 or 20 monthly.

 

[moses]

Your lighting stinks. I would bet your anemones are prolly already dead. Please for the sake of the coral don't add any coral or light-dependant animals until you improve your lighting

 

[cdssmssteele]

as stated...
better lighting arrived on march 3rd.
setup completed on march 8th

pc 6x65 =390 watts =5.20 watts per gallon

anemones alive and well...

christopher

 

[moses]

Well good to read... I am sure your animals will appreciate that extra wattage. Good luck! Post pics if you got em.