My 90 Gallon Reef build....Advice Welcome!!

[NYreefNoob]

get rid of the 6 line, if you want to keep any other wrasse or your firefish, 6 lines are very mean and not that pretty for the havic they will cause

 

[D Rose]

Made some good progress and have the following updates:

I have my Outer Orbit Fixture up and running now.
Phosban and reactor coming tonight
Mud for refugium added
RO unit up and running
Picking up an Aqua-c EV120 this week as well.

Hopefully corals this weekend if I get my phosphates low. Checked calcium and alkalinity and I am right where I should be thanks to ESV B-Ionic.

 

[D Rose]

OK I have some questions hopefully someone can answer:

1. My phosban reactor: Only top 1/4 of media is tumbling, if I increase flow it goes crazy...is it normal for only top to tumble?
2. I am picking up frogspawn and zoa's this weekend, maybe a hammer too. How much light should I give these and what kind of placement in the tank if I have 2x150w MH and 2x130w Actinic PC's? I plan on running the PC's mostly and very little MH as it heats the tank up a lot.

Thanks

 

[Grizzlyreef]

i dunno much abot the fish i think i was just lucky for the longest time i had a yellow tang a blue hippo tang a kole tang a unicorn tang 2 percula clowns 2 black sebay clowns one maroon goldstripe clown 7 blue cromis 1 royal gramma 1 rusty angel fish 1 6 line wrasse 1 dragon wrasse (awesome fish by the way ) 2 yellow watchmen gobys 1 manderin dragonet about 60 blue leg hermits 1 sand sifting star fish 2 sea hares 12 nassarius snails 10 mexican turbos 2 long tentacle anenomes and for the corals i had green stars yellow pollyps alot of zoos some scroll coral some candy cane yellow leathers colt coral nepthia xenia a torch coral and a few others in terms of filters i was running a cascade 1000 2 whisper 60 1 prism protien skimmer 2 power heads with filter attachmements a t5 light fixture and a heater unfortunatley i lost everything i was topping some water off and left a jug open on the kitchen counter for the chlorine to evaporate apparently some one thought it was being rinsed out and put some dish soap in it 2 year setup destroyed in an hour

 

[DCG1286]

get rid of the 6 line, if you want to keep any other wrasse or your firefish, 6 lines are very mean and not that pretty for the havic they will cause

6line is not the friendliest of fish ... but I haven't any problems sticking other wrasses in with mine ... in fact the Exquisite Wrasse i have kicked my 6lines butt a bit the second I got him into the main tank ...

If he causes trouble ... take him out ...

-David

 

[AnthonyAce]

I would like to jump in as i am in a similar situation as D Rose. I have my tank for about a year know with no real visable caroline or coral growth than i started to add reef comploete, calcium and Alk and the tank really took off. Would the senior members recommend we get a calc/alk doser? I am not compfortable with having a Co2 canister in house so would like to aviod a Calc reeactor?

D Rose, i tried to fight supplements and do frequent water changes but i gotta tell you it was a huge improvement when i started adding suplements!

Tank looks good - nice selection of smaller rock make sure they are attached or fastenened to each other so they don't topple over and kill your future investments.

 

[Malibu361]

I am not compfortable with having a Co2 canister in house so would like to aviod a Calc reeactor?

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Any reason why ?

 

[reefman]

nice tank n great balancing!