Jake970
New Member
Hi all,
I finally pulled the trigger after a 2 year break and moving from CO to Belize and back. Ordered a Waterbox 70.3 yesterday! Also got my first piece of equipment for it as a place holder in my house.
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?media/thumbnail_20190506_083118.15996/
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?media/thumbnail_20190506_083105.15995/
Going to stock my tank with the following:
2 black ice clown fish
2 pederson anemone shrimp
2 scarlet skunk shrimp
2 sea urchins
1 yellow watchman goby paired w/ pistol shrimp
1 blue mandarin goby (captive bred)
4-5 azure damselfish
and possibly a springeri dottyback
Plants/Algae
green finger algae
red gracilaria algae
dragon's tongue algae
colony polyp orange/green
green toadstool
lavender mushroom
toadstool mushroom leather
heteroxenia polyp
(getting a low end light to start otherwise I would get some more advanced corals
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NSBXLT1/?tag=reefsanc-20 )
nassarius snails and hermit crabs for CUC and possibly a sea star or 2
I was planning on converting the ato in the sump to a refugium but I think I will just save up and get a 2nd tank as a display refugium and put sea horses in it.
Anyways I hope to have water in it within the next 2 weeks. Apparently my filter socks and waterbox sticker are already being shipped, not sure how long the tank will take. Should have water in it the day or the day after it arrives. Hoping to get my first fish in there a couple days after that tops. (don't @me about cycling the tank, we have chemicals for that. This isn't reef keeping 20 years ago)
Edit: Just did the calculations and the fish w/ the dottyback puts me at 30.75 inches of fish for a 43.8 gallon display w/ a 22 gallon sump.
I finally pulled the trigger after a 2 year break and moving from CO to Belize and back. Ordered a Waterbox 70.3 yesterday! Also got my first piece of equipment for it as a place holder in my house.
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?media/thumbnail_20190506_083118.15996/
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?media/thumbnail_20190506_083105.15995/
Going to stock my tank with the following:
2 black ice clown fish
2 pederson anemone shrimp
2 scarlet skunk shrimp
2 sea urchins
1 yellow watchman goby paired w/ pistol shrimp
1 blue mandarin goby (captive bred)
4-5 azure damselfish
and possibly a springeri dottyback
Plants/Algae
green finger algae
red gracilaria algae
dragon's tongue algae
colony polyp orange/green
green toadstool
lavender mushroom
toadstool mushroom leather
heteroxenia polyp
(getting a low end light to start otherwise I would get some more advanced corals
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NSBXLT1/?tag=reefsanc-20 )
nassarius snails and hermit crabs for CUC and possibly a sea star or 2
I was planning on converting the ato in the sump to a refugium but I think I will just save up and get a 2nd tank as a display refugium and put sea horses in it.
Anyways I hope to have water in it within the next 2 weeks. Apparently my filter socks and waterbox sticker are already being shipped, not sure how long the tank will take. Should have water in it the day or the day after it arrives. Hoping to get my first fish in there a couple days after that tops. (don't @me about cycling the tank, we have chemicals for that. This isn't reef keeping 20 years ago)
Edit: Just did the calculations and the fish w/ the dottyback puts me at 30.75 inches of fish for a 43.8 gallon display w/ a 22 gallon sump.
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