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Set Up Date :15 June 1999

Tank Size (36"X18"X12"|30 gallon)

Sump Size (10 gallon)

Live Rock (45 lbs.):

Live Sand (85 lbs.):

Lighting (2 10000K MH| 175 watts each| fluctuating Photoperiod [no timer, yet!]):

Protein Skimmer (CPR| BakPak II):

Biological Filtration (See live rock/live sand):

Chemical Filtration (Occasional bag of carbon in sump near return pump):

Circulation (spray bar from return pump):

Return Pump (450 (?) gph|Rio|2500):

pH (Morning 8.2| Evening 8.2): (not kidding!)

Temperature (81-82 oF):

Specific Gravity / Salintity (1.025| ppt):

Alkalinity (3.0 meq/l):

Calcium (420 ppm):

Ammonia (0 ppm):

Nitrite (0 ppm):

Nitrate (<5 ppm):

Phosphate (0 ppm):

Fish <OL TYPE=1>
<LI>Bicolor blennie
<LI>cherub angel
<LI>scopas tang
<LI>percula clown
<LI>and a mollie that lives in my sump
</OL>

Corals <OL TYPE=1>
<LI>Plate coral (hosts the percula)
<LI>trumpet coral
<LI>closed brain coral (aka maze brain)
<LI>finger leather coral
<LI>common toadstool leather coral
<LI>curly leather coral
<LI>bubble coral
<LI>Goniopora sp.
<LI>tree coral
<LI>Favites sp.
<LI>Galaxea sp. (1 year old in our 90 gallon; had started to recede; hopefully will do better with the better lighting)
<LI>3 headed open brain
<LI>two different types of zoanthids (one green, the other pink)
<LI>3 colonies of 'shrooms (1 large colony of green pimpled 'shrooms and 2 small colonies of blue 'shrooms-one of the blue ones was compliments of Ophidia on the board!)
</OL>

Invertebrates
<OL TYPE=1>
<LI>dozen or so hermit crabs
<LI>cleaner shrimp
<LI>peppermint shrimp
<LI>all kinds of amphipods, copepods, etc.
<LI>at least 4 different sponges (one yellow, one deep purple, one light purple and one white; all hitchhikers)
<LI>one nasty looking crab
</OL>
Maintenance Program: 20% water change every 2 to 4 weeks (I wouldn't really call it a "program"), topping off with DI, scraping algae, blowing sand off the LR as needed. Add 2.5 ml RedSea Reef Calcium + 3 (calcium, molybdenum, strontium and iodine) and 5 ml RedSea Reef Trace weekly, as per the label.

Additional Information This is my first ever aquarium!!

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My drug habit cost less, but reef colors are better!

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