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Other Details

• How Long have you been in the hobby?
  • Been in the hobby for about 15 years in total with a few breaks in the middle.
• Do you have a sump and/or refugium? If so, what size?
  • 42x15x18 3 Section (overflow + skimmer, Macro, Return.) 40L RO storage section divided off at one end.
• Filtration eg. amount of live rock, sand bed or bare bottom, mechanical filtration etc?
  • Substrate: Calgrit
  • Rock: 20Kg Live Rock, 18kg Caribsea Life Rock.
  • Filter Sock
• Skimmer Details?
  • Marine Sources RDC900.
• Water flow/movement (powerheads etc)?
  • Paired Jebao RW8’s
• Lighting, type and times
  • Illumagic Blaze 4 ft on 12hr cycle. Ramping up from 10am through to full brightness for 6 hrs then back down.
• Other equipment such as auto topoff, Ca reactor etc
  • DIY ATO and Carbon Reactor.
• Water parameters
  • Cal: 450
  • Alk: 8.5
  • Mag: 1440
  • Nitrate: ~5-10
  • Phos: 0.03
  • Salinity: 1.026
• Additives and conditioners (kalk, phophate removers etc.)
  • Randy Recipe for Alkalinity and Calcium Supplement. Coral Essential Trace Elements (A+B+C). Coral Elements Amino and Coral Grow. Lanthium Phosphate remover.
• Fish stock. 
  • Blue Tang
    Foxface Rabitfish
    Pair Black Clownfish
    Scooter Dragonette
    Blue Spot Blenny
    Sailfin Tang
    Barrier Reef Chromis
    Copperband Butterflyfish
    Coral Beauty Angel
    Melanarus Wrasse
• Coral stock.
  • Large Green BTA
    Green and Blue Morphs
    Various Zoa frags and colonies
    Multiple Leather and Softies
    Several Hammers
    SPS Frags
    Monti Frags
• Other Inverts.
  • Peppermint Shrimp
    Turbo Snails
    Nassarius Snails
    Brittle Stars
    Short Spined Urchin
    Strombus Snails
    Trochus Snails
    Pistol Shrimp
    Small black Cucumbers
• Maintenance such as water changes, cleaning etc?
  • Weekly/Fortnightly 15-25% water changes.