Many years of fresh water experience was starting to bore me. I found a used BC29 on kijiji and thought this would be a nice step into the salt water world as i was pretty intimidated by everything.
First thing i did was tear it down and clean it. I tore out all the stock lighting and replaced it with a stevesled retrofit LED kit. I found the stock bulbs were overheating my tank. I replaced the stock pump with a maxijet 1200, added 2 nano powerheads, 1 koralia, and 1 tunze with directional control. I started by cutting some of the necessary tabs out of the back for flow as well as for making room for a protein skimmer. I used a tunze9002 but found it was super difficult to clean out and needed cleaning almost daily. I removed the skimmer and decided to keep an eye on my water parameters to see if i needed it. I use an inTANK filter rack with filter foss and chemipure. I have a closed loop refugium i built using a reactor a pump and some LED grow tape lights. I piped the reactor into the return of slot 1 and cut a slot in the back false wall and piped down a splitter Y and put flow down the back of the tank. I stocked the refugium with chaeto and added tigger pods as well as ordered some copepods from dave at copepods.ca. The refugium seems to keep my nitrates super low.
Stock : 2 black clowns : 1 royal gramma : 1 bangai cardinal : 1 mandarin goby
Snails : mix of astrea / nerite / spiny star / nassarius
2 emerald crabs
1 peppermint shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
1 tuxedo urchin
I feed frozen mysis as well as frozen cyclops. Mix in the odd feeding of dry pellets.
Recently ive added a few pieces of coral.
Mixed zoa's
hammer coral
green tyree leather
First thing i did was tear it down and clean it. I tore out all the stock lighting and replaced it with a stevesled retrofit LED kit. I found the stock bulbs were overheating my tank. I replaced the stock pump with a maxijet 1200, added 2 nano powerheads, 1 koralia, and 1 tunze with directional control. I started by cutting some of the necessary tabs out of the back for flow as well as for making room for a protein skimmer. I used a tunze9002 but found it was super difficult to clean out and needed cleaning almost daily. I removed the skimmer and decided to keep an eye on my water parameters to see if i needed it. I use an inTANK filter rack with filter foss and chemipure. I have a closed loop refugium i built using a reactor a pump and some LED grow tape lights. I piped the reactor into the return of slot 1 and cut a slot in the back false wall and piped down a splitter Y and put flow down the back of the tank. I stocked the refugium with chaeto and added tigger pods as well as ordered some copepods from dave at copepods.ca. The refugium seems to keep my nitrates super low.
Stock : 2 black clowns : 1 royal gramma : 1 bangai cardinal : 1 mandarin goby
Snails : mix of astrea / nerite / spiny star / nassarius
2 emerald crabs
1 peppermint shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
1 tuxedo urchin
I feed frozen mysis as well as frozen cyclops. Mix in the odd feeding of dry pellets.
Recently ive added a few pieces of coral.
Mixed zoa's
hammer coral
green tyree leather
I definately did my research and im sure you did as well !
