Start me up: 30 gal

Hi everyone,

So I think today I am going to take the plunge. It's time to start up the 30 gallon first SW tank. I've got the tank just holding SW right now for about a week so everything could get evened out and re-oxygenated. Hopefully the attached images will work for everyone. I have questions to everyone's input at the bottom.

The tank has been

Specs:

• Tank: 36L x 12W x 16H
• 2 Penguin 660 powerheads: 2(170) GPH - one has Hydor 360 deflector attachment (oh and if anyone was wondering how to attach these to a Penguin powerhead, like I was, the answer: screw it on, really, really hard.)
• 1 Koralia 1: 400 GPH
• AquaC Remora Protein Skimmer x/MJ1200: ?? GPH (<295 GPH?)
• Coralife MH/PC combo fixture: 150 w MH 130 w PC= 280 w total
• Using RO/DI water from Bulk Reef system.

Total Flow: ~750 GPH (>750 GPH?)

Parameters:

• 78 degrees F
• >8.0 pH (crappy Tetra test kit only approximates, planning on new kit)
• 1.024 sg (refractometered)

Questions:

The big question for me is a stocking plan to look ahead to. I really want a Flame Pygmy Angel with a mated clown pair of some sort, but is 30 gal. going to be big enough? From everything I have read it's maybe big enough, and it's an asset that this is a long tank. But I'd love to have other's input and of course this would be at least several months in the future.

 

Looking good! That's a lot of flow you got there mister you might want to drop that temp down to about 79 degrees, 88 is what you'd need if you wanted to make stew;D

 

LOL!!! Total typo on my part, it's actually 78!! Changed the original post. HA!!!

I'm planning on having a lot of coral in there, hence the flow.

 

phew....but see.....I knew you knew that Yeah I'm fighting the war of flow right now! good thing your figured it out before you put corals in! cool..can't wait to see the updates!

 

Hi everyone,

So I think today I am going to take the plunge. It's time to start up the 30 gallon first SW tank. I've got the tank just holding SW right now for about a week so everything could get evened out and re-oxygenated. Hopefully the attached images will work for everyone. I have questions to everyone's input at the bottom.

The tank has been

Specs:

• Tank: 36L x 12W x 16H
• 2 Penguin 660 powerheads: 2(170) GPH - one has Hydor 360 deflector attachment (oh and if anyone was wondering how to attach these to a Penguin powerhead, like I was, the answer: screw it on, really, really hard.)
• 1 Koralia 1: 400 GPH
• AquaC Remora Protein Skimmer x/MJ1200: ?? GPH (<295 GPH?)
• Coralife MH/PC combo fixture: 150 w MH 130 w PC= 280 w total
• Using RO/DI water from Bulk Reef system.

Total Flow: ~750 GPH (>750 GPH?)

Parameters:

• 78 degrees F
• >8.0 pH (crappy Tetra test kit only approximates, planning on new kit)
• 1.024 sg (refractometered)

Questions:

The big question for me is a stocking plan to look ahead to. I really want a Flame Pygmy Angel with a mated clown pair of some sort, but is 30 gal. going to be big enough? From everything I have read it's maybe big enough, and it's an asset that this is a long tank. But I'd love to have other's input and of course this would be at least several months in the future.

 

Chase19 your comment seems familiar somehow. . . lol

 

are you a double act Chicago reef one?

 

I'm a class act if that's what you mean!

But seriously I also use this screenname on all the other forums, so if you see it there it's me too.

 

What happened there? Chase posted your exact post Chicago and didn't quote it???????(or are my eyes playing tricks??) That's weird, wonder how/why that happened.

 

Maybe we're talking alternate universe??????