Luke's Rio 180 Reef

[Luketendo]

Aquarium: Juwel Rio 180L / 40G UK. 101cmW x 41cmD x 50cmH
Stand: Juwel Rio 180 Stand
Hood: Custom built by my father
RO Unit: Ro-man Professional 75gpd (attached with y-piece)
Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro (was on offer)
Substrate: Approx. 4cm Aragmax Sugar Size Sand
Filter: Standard Juwel Filter with 600lph pump
Media: Ultiphos P, Carbon (2 days per week)
Skimmer: TMC V2 Skimm 400, Rio 2100 Pump
Lighting: 150w Halide, 14K BLV approx 9 months use (not important until I get corals)
Photoperiod: 8 hours, 2pm-10pm
Pumps: 2 x Interpet 830lph, 2 x Seio M620 2400lph
Total flow: 6460lph, 35.9x turnover
Heating: Interpet Deltherm 200w, ATC 300
Live Rock: 27kg, mix of STM Ultra and Premium

Stock list:
3 Turbo Snails
7 Red Leg Hermits
1 Mithrax sp. (not emerald)
2 Cleaner Shrimp
1 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Clarkii Clownfish
1 Bicolour Blenny
1 Flasher Wrasse
1 Coral Beauty Angelfish

Notes:

No Corals yet
This is my first marine aquarium
Been running just over 3 months

 

[Buddyboy67]

nice set up...love the clarkii, ain't seen those over here in a long time

 

[Luketendo]

nice set up...love the clarkii, ain't seen those over here in a long time

Yeah I decided I much prefer them over the classic clowns, mine seem to be very young as you can see by the colour, it's going to be great seeing them grow and change colour.

 

[TigerIssey]

Nice set up, great beginning.

You got yourself some really nice rock there, don't see shapes like that everyday.

Keep the piccies coming.

 

[Luketendo]

Yeah STM constantly pride themselves over having the best live rock you can get. Luckily it's second hand so I didn't have to pay the price. In fact I paid £125 for the lot saving god knows how much.

Will try to get more pictures when I get my coral beauty which I am told will be Tuesday, late this week or early next week. The unfortunate thing is that they actually have one in stock but I alerted them that it had a small amount of Hole in the head disease.

 

[Anguilla82]

great looking scape!

is it FOWLR or are you going down the reef route with corals?

 

[seffieuk]

to the salty side.

Love the photo of the blennie, looks like he is wearing headphones

Seffie

 

[Luketendo]

great looking scape!

is it FOWLR or are you going down the reef route with corals?

Yeah I am but first I need to be prepared by buying Ca, Mg, Alkalinity and a new PO4 test kit.

 

[Anguilla82]

good plan, though if you're starting with softies (zoas etc.) you only really need a PO4 test kit.
the others are needed when you have stoney corals (LPS/SPS)

 

[Luketendo]

good plan, though if you're starting with softies (zoas etc.) you only really need a PO4 test kit.
the others are needed when you have stoney corals (LPS/SPS)

Well I'm going to start with maybe zoas and mushrooms and rics but I don't really like normal soft corals that much. I know Ca Mg and Alk aren't important for softies but I may as well get the levels sorted so I am ready to try easy lps like hammers and tochers and frogspawn.

 

[seffieuk]

As long as you are doing regular water changes and are using a good salt the calcium/mag levels should be fine fora couple of euphyllias

Seffie x

 

[bagu]

really really nice man!

just a question, sorry if i sound rude; but the picture of the clown looks like his tail fin is clamped or is it just me ?

 

[ben1987]

looking good, love the blenny

 

[Luketendo]

Yeah but it's nice to know my levels are ok, especially since eventually I want more fancy corals.

really really nice man!

just a question, sorry if i sound rude; but the picture of the clown looks like his tail fin is clamped or is it just me ?

Just looked downstairs and they both seem in good health to me, obviously fish don't have their fins extended all of the time right. It looks pretty extended anyway... I think.

 

[Luketendo]

Coral Beauty is coming tomorrow.