Your current Fish tank Setups!

Upgrading my fish tank filter in a few days, going from a fluval 307 to fx2 on the 240L. Planning on upgrading in a year or two to a bigger tank but shall do for now. My partners just got an AquaOne reefsys 3xx with some fancy lights and bits, sure more was spent on equipment than the tank itself.
 
Our new 80L reserve tank has arrived for the marine tank. It’s not the prettiest thing in the world, but it does mean we can leave the lid off and even add a fan system to keep the tank cooler without worry of the reserve tank of water running out. We also now have a mechanical sensor on the auto top up since all the light sensors have failed after 12 months.
 
Moved my fish over to my new 250l on the weekend.
They seem to have settled in well, but christ on a bike it was tough catching them, had to basically pull all the rockwork out of the tank and dislodge a few of the more stubborn 1's.

Hoping I can get the nitrates down to more suitable levels so I can move the corals across soon.
 
Well it’s been quite the afternoon.
- we’ve moved to a lidless setup and fans to help cool the tank, it’s a very hot room. I’m hoping this means we don’t lose anymore corals. It reached about 33C last year and near cooked.
- we’ve installed the 80L reserve. This is an educational tank, hence having it all visible and showing how much it takes to keep such a tank going.
- we’ll add an autodoser and new lighting soon, since the temporary lighting setup has stopped all algal growth



Unexpectedly though, we clearly created the perfect conditions whereby every brittle star emerged. Who knew we had so many, they come out at night and we rarely see any. Then they entered a mass reproductive frenzy releasing sperm and eggs into the water. We came back after 30 minutes or so and you could barely see into the tank. Absolutely wild. It’s never dull with a marine tank.



 
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What are you dosing at the moment?

2 new additions went in today. Purple Firefish and a Royal Gramma.

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Few water changes have got the nitrates down. Hopefully I'll be able to move over the corals in a week of 2.
My yellow clown goby is missing his kenya tree.
 
I miss my Firefish and gramma. Firefish lasted a longtime, but became shy when we added our tang. We never had any luck with the gramma. Both stunning fish.

Dosing 10ml of All-for-reef each day, but there are lots of days when we aren’t there to dose.

Looking at the D-D P+ dosing system currently.
 
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We seem to have hugely stabilised the temperature. Everything looks happy other than the GSP. May have to replace that in a few months. New light arriving next week. It should help keep the algae away and I don’t need to worry about the temperature anymore.

Have also ordered the D-D P+ doser along with a 1.5L TMC EASI-dose dosing container. I’ve noticed you can get the All-for-reef in a powder form, it works out far far cheaper to mix it ourselves.

All in all, it means the whole tank is automated which makes life easier.
 
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Should have the doser setup on Tuesday. Now we have some stability again, I’ll add some more corals. I actually miss out pulsing Xenia, but it’s quite tricky to find online. I also want a green toadstool again, but struggling to find a website that sells both! Will probably add some more Zoas too.

Our anenome still causes chaos though.

On the plus side, our new corals are doing well and I quite like the green Kenya trees.
 
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