My 60g Tank - Still in the werks

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My 60g Tank - Still in the works

Hello everyone.

After have freshwater for years I decided to take a dive into the Saltwater hobby. Boy what a mistake I made not switching to salt years ago!

I thought freshwater was addicting, there is no comparison to the salt water addiction.

Tank Specs and Equipment:
60G with built-in overflow
20G Sump
Instant Ocean SeaClone Protein Skimmer
Hydor Koralia Evolution Pump 750 Power Head
Hydor Koralia 2 Power Head
55-60Lbs of Live Rock
36' Coralife Lunar Aqualight T5 Lamp High Output Fixture (two each 10,000K and Actinic)
Taam Rio2500 (Rio+) Pump


Livestock:
2x Clowns
2x Fire Dartfish
1x Yellowtail Damsel
1x Yellow Eye Cole Tang
1x Peppermint Shrimp
1x Emerald Crab
1x Coral Banded Shrimp
2x Turbo Snails
20x Various Crabs
15x Various Snails


Coral:
2 frags of Zoos - Electric Green and Bam Bams
1 colony of Electric green zoos
1 frag of Blasto
(these were moved to another tank for now)



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Pictures will be added in 2nd post
****See later post for more updates*****
 
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Going to replace this.
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Fire Dartfish
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His Domain
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My simple tank
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(I apologize for the cell phone pictures)
 
Added some pictures

I hope to pick up 2x power heads Wednesday

Local place "Hobbyland" if anyone knows of it, is going out of buisness. Prices are pretty good, 50% off everything. Prices were rasied to make the difference but there are some good deals still.

I picked up that sump and mag7 for 100.00
 
Sump is installed. Pictures soon.
Need to add another powerhead I picked up yet.
RO/DI unit comes tomorrow, cannot wait to hook that up. Have a neat idea ready for that.

Need to make or buy a frag rack for the monti frags I won over at 1reef.com

I need to pick up a clip on light and few other things for my refuge
 
RO/DI Setup
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Zoos
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Sump
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I cannot find much information about this sump, I believe I have it setup correctly.. What goes in the chamber in the back?
 
My post is popular. :thumbdown:

Replaced 2 bulbs. Got a coral plus and purple plus now.

So my light goes

Purple plus (closest to front of tank)
Actinic stock
Coral plus
Actinic stock

should i keep the stock bulbs or change those out as well?

Makes the hammer coral POP

picked up a frag rack as well, figured i'd have a few frags in this tank for now til i can build my 20g Long frag tank.
(still need to find a light for that)
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I'd return the coral+ and get a KZ 14000k daylight instead. Between all that actinic and purple plus, the last thing you need is more pink/purple from the coral+. Also, just add 1 blue+ in place of a stock actinic. Run the blue+ and actinic as your am/pm, and the daylight and purple+ as your daytime bulbs.
 
FishBeard said:
I'd return the coral+ and get a KZ 14000k daylight instead. Between all that actinic and purple plus, the last thing you need is more pink/purple from the coral+. Also, just add 1 blue+ in place of a stock actinic. Run the blue+ and actinic as your am/pm, and the daylight and purple+ as your daytime bulbs.
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Interesting. I still have a 10k stock bulb.
I have never seen the 14k one.
Ok ill pick up a blue+ as well.

Does it matter on placement? Which bulb first?
Thanks
 
FishBeard said:
I'd return the coral+ and get a KZ 14000k daylight instead. Between all that actinic and purple plus, the last thing you need is more pink/purple from the coral+. Also, just add 1 blue+ in place of a stock actinic. Run the blue+ and actinic as your am/pm, and the daylight and purple+ as your daytime bulbs.
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What hour combination do you run your lights?

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Hammer coral seems to love the new lights. Never this big

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Do you guys just glue your hammer coral down? Is there a certain way to put it? Seems most it in the sand bed.

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I have mine on the sand bed with about 20+ heads... Use to have it on the rocks and just got to big, had to make room for more corals :thumb:
 
I do think I can put it in the sandbed. Too much current. Maybe I can move some stuff around. I'll have to glue it to something in order to get it to stand upright in the sand bed

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