Brief introduction:
Hello, my name is Nathan Gist and I live in the Cleveland area. Like many others, I started this hobby when I was young and raised freshwater tanks. And when I grew up, I graduated from a 125-gallon freshwater tank. Then, while surfing the Web, I came across websites and forums dedicated to Seawater Tanks. I was stunned! I've never seen any of this. From then on, I became obsessed.
I studied at the Forum and planned my first seawater tank for three years. Finally, in 2011, I built my first seawater tank, a 93-gallon cubic mix reef. I started to slowly put in the corals. At first I was in a constant condition, but after a while I was able to function normally. I filled the tank full of coral, which led me to upgrade my fish tank to 200 gallons in September 2012.
Fish tank equipment
Main fish tank: 72 long, 30 wide, 22 high standard glass
Showcase: 72×30×36 color steel plate bracket, the outer layer is oak
Broken branch cylinder: 80 gallon acrylic branch breaking cylinder
Bottom cylinder: Customized 3-zone bottom cylinder
Egg: Aquamaxx ConeS CO-6
Circulating pump: Water Blaster 7000 return pump
Lighting: 4× Aqua Illumination Sol Blue (main cylinder), Orphek Atlantik 3.o (broken branch cylinder)
Calcium/Alkalinity/Magnesium: Calcium and alkalinity are metered using BRS and pumped by APEX control.
System Controller: Neptune's APEX controller.
Some photos of the broken branch jar
Water Cycle Summary:
I use APEX, Gyres and Tunze, and each pump has a set of schemes that vary in intensity and time intervals. This allows many different flow patterns throughout the day to prevent the formation of a dead spot.
Water parameters:
Temperature: 77.3~77.8 controlled by APEX
PH：8.0~8.2
Specific gravity: 1.025
Nitrate: 2.5 to 5 ppm
PO4: Less than 0.18 ppm
Calcium: 420
Alkalinity: 8.6
Magnesium: 1400
Lighting Summary:
Here is a picture of the cycle settings for my AI BlueSol LED light
This is the light output setting
Numerical readings in the main cylinder and broken branch cylinder
Filtration and water quality summary:
I use the LighterMeter 3 system, which automatically replaces 7 gallons of water every day.
fish:
Royal silk perch
Blue hanging
Blue Star Pearl Dragon
Chicken hearts hang upside down
Gold hanging
Several different species of ratfish
Orange eye hanging
3× side with bass
Other creatures:
3× clean the shrimp
2× Sea cucumber
conch
hermit crab
snail
coral:
There are many kinds, hard bones, and soft bodies
Fish and coral feeding:
I feed twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening.
Transferred from: Haiyouzhi Seawater website
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