Hi

After 3 years break I am back again with newest monster tank from Red Sea, a Reefer 3XL 900.

When I knew I am going to do this, I also made plan for solar panels on the roof to support the electricity consumption 😄

It took 3 months for tank to get here in Stockholm and now it sits in my carport until I find 5-6 strong 💪 men to help me bring it inside.

Nice!

My house could not fitt a XXXL 900...  -  https://saltvattensguiden.se/topic/61454-nike83s-reefers-xxl-750/?tab=comments#comment-676916

 

Whats your setup? 

5 minutes ago, nike83 said:

Nice!

My house could not fitt a XXXL 900...  -  https://saltvattensguiden.se/topic/61454-nike83s-reefers-xxl-750/?tab=comments#comment-676916

 

Whats your setup? 

too bad

I am going to have a bare bottom SPS dominant tank.

 

Equipment:
 

Lights: Radion XR15 G5 Blue    X4

Stream Pumps: MP60    X2 + MP40    X2  with one battery backup

Main pump: COR 20    X2

Monitoring: Apex 2016 lab grade with two DOS, one for auto water changes

Skimmer: Bubble King Double Cone 200 + RD3 Speedy

Filters: ClariSea SK5000 + Nyos torq 2,0

 

Stone: 100 Kg Marco rocks dead, I am waiting for Marco E-400 mortar to fix the aquascaping. 

 

I will take it very slow with fish and corals, maybe adding fish after 4 months and corals after a year but here what I think I will add for fish:

 

Fish: 

Midas Blenny (Ecsenius midas) X2
Orchid Dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani) X4
Bellus Angelfish (Genicanthus bellus) (pair)
Blonde Naso Tang (Naso elegans)
Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) X6
Princess Anthias (Pseudanthias smithvanizi) X4
Scooter Blenny (Synchiropus ocellatus) X2
Yellow Pyramid Butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) X3
Blue Throat Triggerfish (Xanthichthys auromarginatus) (pair)
Magnificent Foxface (Siganus magnificus)
White Tail Bristletooth Tang (Ctenochaetus flavicauda)
Achilles Tang (Acanthurus achilles)
Kole Yellow Eye Tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus)
Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
Purple Tang (Zebrasoma xanthurum)
Powder Blue Tang (Acanthurus leucosternon)
Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
Yellow Fin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis) X2
Ruby Longfin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubeus) X2
Bluehead Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura) X2
Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus lubbocki)
Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)
Copperband Butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus)

6 timmar sedan, farham60 sa:

 

 

Fish: 

Midas Blenny (Ecsenius midas) X2
Orchid Dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani) X4
Bellus Angelfish (Genicanthus bellus) (pair)
Blonde Naso Tang (Naso elegans)
Lyretail Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) X6
Princess Anthias (Pseudanthias smithvanizi) X4
Scooter Blenny (Synchiropus ocellatus) X2
Yellow Pyramid Butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) X3
Blue Throat Triggerfish (Xanthichthys auromarginatus) (pair)
Magnificent Foxface (Siganus magnificus)
White Tail Bristletooth Tang (Ctenochaetus flavicauda)
Achilles Tang (Acanthurus achilles)
Kole Yellow Eye Tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus)
Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
Purple Tang (Zebrasoma xanthurum)
Powder Blue Tang (Acanthurus leucosternon)
Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
Yellow Fin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis) X2
Ruby Longfin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubeus) X2
Bluehead Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura) X2
Multicolor Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus lubbocki)
Six Line Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)
Copperband Butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus)

This is going to be very interesting to follow! And if you ask me it's an amazing fish list

 

Inga billiga firrar på den där listan.

Modified the sump last night and made space for ClariSea SK5000

 

Tank is inside after a week.

Thanks to Akvarielagret for the suction cups and my neighbours for the help.

I rent a transportvagn with the ability to lift which helped the move easier...

 

ABS sheet going in

 

Aquascape done by Marco rocks and E-marco 400 mortar. about 50 Kg rocks.
At the moment I have tap water in the tank (not this picture) for a leak test
Tonight I will drain it and start with RO/DI

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Finally after 54 hours, the tank is full with RO/DI water.
Tonight salt mixing and adding bacteria in

Microbacter 7 and Microbacter startXLM

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Saltwater mixing station is done [emoji4] after a lot of work and trial and errors.

Next step will be building/modifying the cabinet for controllers...

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5 timmar sedan, farham60 said:

Saltwater mixing station is done after a lot of work and trial and errors.

Next step will be building/modifying the cabinet for controllers...

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Impressive build! 👍🏼🥇

Impressive build! [emoji1360][emoji1628]

Thanks. [emoji120]

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Productive weekend...

Fixing the control cabinet.

 

How’s it going with the setup? Any fish or corals yet? 

How’s it going with the setup? Any fish or corals yet? 

Its going slow...
First 3 fish (2 clowns and a cardinal) out of quarantine 2 weeks ago and in the tank.
Still no light since I am waiting forever on XR15 slide brackets.

No corals yet but in a week 4 tangs (yellow, blue, purple and naso blonde) and a lawnmower will be out of quarantine and in the display [emoji3]

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Dark tank

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2 timmar sedan, farham60 skrev:

Dark tank

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Awesome!

Got tired of the darkness and fixed the lights with zippties until slide brackets come.

 

Tang gang are in the display after more than 2 months of quarantine. 

 

 

Good with qt. Can you tell us how you handle it? Time and if you use copper solution? 

Looking good. Thx! 

 

/Johan 

Good with qt. Can you tell us how you handle it? Time and if you use copper solution? 
Looking good. Thx! 
 
/Johan 

Hi
Yes its always good to quarantine...
Once I lost a lot to Ich so now I will quarantine everything.

What I do is first I put them in one of my 3 quarantine tanks and feed them for couple of days until they are happy in new tank...then I start with copper slowly until reaching therapeutic level...leave them in copper for 30 days then 100% water change and deworm with API General Cure for two weeks...
After all of these I put a black molly I converted to saltwater in the tank with them and see if it get sick or not...because they are black and their immune system doesn't know any saltwater disease you can spot it easily...so if the black molly is healthy after a week you are good to go.

For corals I plan to do a 76 days fishless quarantine.



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1 timme sedan , farham60 skrev:

Hi
Yes its always good to quarantine...
Once I lost a lot to Ich so now I will quarantine everything.

What I do is first I put them in one of my 3 quarantine tanks and feed them for couple of days until they are happy in new tank...then I start with copper slowly until reaching therapeutic level...leave them in copper for 30 days then 100% water change and deworm with API General Cure for two weeks...
After all of these I put a black molly I converted to saltwater in the tank with them and see if it get sick or not...because they are black and their immune system doesn't know any saltwater disease you can spot it easily...so if the black molly is healthy after a week you are good to go.

For corals I plan to do a 76 days fishless quarantine.



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That's amazing! Have never thought about the Black Molly method, but it's ingenious!!! 

And the amount of copper you messure with? 

Thx! 

 

That's amazing! Have never thought about the Black Molly method, but it's ingenious!!! 
And the amount of copper you messure with? 
Thx! 
 

I use Copper power because its not as harsh as Cupramine and easier to get right.
I measure with Hanna copper checker...very accurate and easy to use.

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That's amazing! Have never thought about the Black Molly method, but it's ingenious!!! 
And the amount of copper you messure with? 
Thx! 
 

All I know and follow is from this site...

https://humble.fish/quarantine/

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