Carole-Anne's RS250

[Holly94583]

Hi there!

Recently upgraded from a Red Sea 170 to a Red Sea 250 and loving the extra space to add more coral.

Here is a list of my equipment and livestock:

• Circulation:
  • Return Pump: Aquariumstation DC5000
  • Power Head: 2 Ecotech MP10
• Filtration:
  • 2 stock overflow filter socks
  • Skimmer: EShopps S-120
  • Carbon
  • Seachem matrix as biomedia
• Refugium:
  • Sand in "Ikea glass container"
  • Seachem matrix media as pod hotel
  • Cheato and macroalgae
  • Lominie aquarium light
• Lighting: 2 Hydra 32 HD LEDs
• Other equipment:
  • Hydrophill Ti - ATO Controller
  • 2 x Jebao dosers dosing Alk - Ca - Mg - Ni - P - Iodide - Cheato fertilizer - Brightweel aquatics restor (might change later)
  • Aquatop Media reactor filled with phosphate media and used as needed
• Fish Livestock:
  • 1 x snowflake clownfish (female)
  • 1 x DaVinci clownfish (male)
  • 1 x Watchman goby
  • 1 x Pyjama cardinal
  • 1 x Malanurus Wrasse (male)
  • 1 x Flame Hawkfish (female)
  • 1 x Mandarin Goby (female)
• Invert Livestock:
  • 1 x cleaner shrimp
  • 4-5 x Turbo snails
  • 5 x Nassarius snails
  • 5-7 x Hermit crabs
  • 1 x Conch
  • 3 x Crabs
• Coral Livestock:
  • Green and purple frogspawn
  • Neon Green Duncans
  • Neon Candy cane
  • Neon Green brain
  • Bleeding apple Scolymia
  • Red Acans x 3
  • Blue and purple Acans
  • Ironman blastomussa
  • Pink goniopora
  • Neon green goniopora
  • green tip torch
  • Grub's gorgonian
  • scrambled eggs zoas
  • jungle juice zoas
  • radioactivezoas
  • purple monster zoas
  • sunny d zoas
  • zombie eyes zoas
  • Montipora digitata forest fire
  • Montipora capricornis sunburst
  • Orange ricordea
  • Green ricordea
  • Green rhodactis
  • Orange and blue rhodactis
  • Blue stripped mushroom
  • GSP on back wall (starting to grow)
  • Ultra Rainbow BTA x 2
  • Rockflower Anemone x 1
    
    Here is a picture of my tank:
    View attachment 30371

 

[MolaMola]

What a nice setup you have. That rock flower is amazing! I also love the full face hawkfish shot - haha.
Welcome to BAR! I am in Pleasant Hill (East Bay near Concord/Walnut Creek).

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Flame hawks rock!!

 

[Coral reefer]

Welcome. Glad you’re enjoying the upgrade.

 

[Holly94583]

Thanks everyone,

I am updating this thread because I am about to upgrade (again!) to a Waterbox 220.6.
I recently had trouble with my doser tubing getting pinched in the Alkalinity container and have had a few Alk swings because of that.
I thankfully didn’t lose any corals!
I however lost two torches and one beautiful hammer (gold and blue) to what I thought was brown jelly disease, until I borrowed the PAR meter and realized I had lowered the lights too much! I was trying to limit algae growth and overdid it, I learned my lesson!
My torches and hammers are doing great now.

I have a hard time keeping my Nitrates up and will start dosing again soon.
I am not going to reuse most of the liverock in my current tank because it is just too difficult to create the new layout with wet rock while changing tank.
I bought 100lbs of used liferock (arches) for $90 and already worked on scape (see pic).
I tried to learn from my “mistakes” and made sure the rock layout was not too bulky to allow for good flow circulation and tried to limit shading.
WB220.6 is scheduled to arrive next week! I will post again when I get it and will update equipment and livestock list.
I’ll attach a few recent pictures of the tank.
Also, my username is Holly94583 because Holly is my cat and she was ok with me using her name (Cat tax below)