Crabby
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Fish addition update
For the past few weeks the tank has been running just fine with only one fish, a clown tang. Now there are more fish: Yesterday I added a Naso tang (~4") and today I added a yellow tang (~4") and a pair of clarkii clowns, the female ~2" and the male ~1" long. So far, everyone has been playing nice with one another, and hopefully I'll stop hearing about how lonely the clown tang must be with no other fish to interact with! (But at least people are paying attention to the tank - would be sad if there weren't since it's a public display!). I'll likely be adding more fish in the future, but for now this will be it. I decided not to put my Klein's butterfly in the tank, even though it's a great aiptasia eater
Next project will be to get the canopy built and some lighting on the tank. We've got a big dedication ceremony on the 28th of March (RTC's 30th anniversary), and I'd like the tank to have a top by then!. I've decided to use 2 lumenarc III reflectors with 400W MH SE bulbs. I'll start with 20K bulbs and add T5 actinics if necessary. The canopy is going to be simple frame and birch plywood.
Then I'll be working on setup of the calcium reactor. At present, Ca++ levels are about ~500 ppm, alkalinity ~2.5 meq/L and Mg levels are a bit low ~1200ppm. I'm not rushing putting corals into the tank since they are all doing fine in my lab tanks, so will probably wait until the lights have been on for a month or so, Ca, Mg and Alk have stabilized, and there's good CCA growth before adding corals.
For the past few weeks the tank has been running just fine with only one fish, a clown tang. Now there are more fish: Yesterday I added a Naso tang (~4") and today I added a yellow tang (~4") and a pair of clarkii clowns, the female ~2" and the male ~1" long. So far, everyone has been playing nice with one another, and hopefully I'll stop hearing about how lonely the clown tang must be with no other fish to interact with! (But at least people are paying attention to the tank - would be sad if there weren't since it's a public display!). I'll likely be adding more fish in the future, but for now this will be it. I decided not to put my Klein's butterfly in the tank, even though it's a great aiptasia eater
Next project will be to get the canopy built and some lighting on the tank. We've got a big dedication ceremony on the 28th of March (RTC's 30th anniversary), and I'd like the tank to have a top by then!. I've decided to use 2 lumenarc III reflectors with 400W MH SE bulbs. I'll start with 20K bulbs and add T5 actinics if necessary. The canopy is going to be simple frame and birch plywood.
Then I'll be working on setup of the calcium reactor. At present, Ca++ levels are about ~500 ppm, alkalinity ~2.5 meq/L and Mg levels are a bit low ~1200ppm. I'm not rushing putting corals into the tank since they are all doing fine in my lab tanks, so will probably wait until the lights have been on for a month or so, Ca, Mg and Alk have stabilized, and there's good CCA growth before adding corals.
Ouch!
