newcomer with 75gallon reef

[pc.ciprian]

Hy guys, my name is Ciprian , and i am a reef enthusiast from Romania.
I have some experience in pico reefs as i had a pico-reef for 18 months and went from nothing to fully coral crowded. Behind the reef activity i have about 4years of freshwater experience went from two rocks and one plant to Aquascaping , breeding discus and combining Aquascaping with discus, so i thing Ive been through all of the phases
Here is a clip of my pico reef and the couple of pictures from it`s evolution that i made last month as a final movie of it:
http://youtu.be/_9IjeQ7p1do -> what is the code for embedding?
And here is a picture with it when i did not had the euphilia glued on the side windows


Meanwhile as i made the clip i had a 75gallon tank on cycling, started with dead rock and added some live rock on it so bacteria will start colonizing it.
This reef has a DIY led lamp with 10w leds blue and white, Skimmer Aqua Medic turboflotor 1000 , i am having carbon active from jbl, rowaphoss and some seachem matrix for filtration, also a refugium full of live sand and live rock with couple of macroalgae . All the sump is sustained by a 2500L/h recirculation pump.
Last week i have managed to move all the corals from my pico reef, as everything looked fine, and yesterday i recieved 2 more "guests". A regal tang, that of course made ich because of the stress (he was on the train for more than 12 hours) and a longnose butterflyfish that has some holes in the head .
I started to feed them with frozen artemia, and a frozen mixture i have made with shrimps, clams, squid, garlic and some other sea "creatures" that i can`t find the english name . Decided to stop two of my wavemakers this night so the stress level will be much lower.
Do you guys have any other advise besides the one that recommends to reduce the stress level as much as i can?
The good part on both of the fishes is that they both eat, so that is a good start .... we will see
Yesterday i made a clip of the new aquarium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-9TeheXAA

And further are couple of pictures with the tank and the equipment
The tank:

the sump when all the live rock was in the display :

The lamp

Bean Animal overflow

The Reactors

More pictures will come soon .
i will try to keep this post as a journal so if you guys want to tag along i would be more than happy
Any opinions ideas ore advices are more than welcome .

Regards Ciprian

ps. sorry of my grammar that is not that good, i may have done some mistakes

[Noobtosalty]

Are your fish in a quarantine tank? Or did you drop them right in the display tank? How are you treating the tang that has ich?

[pc.ciprian]

Originally Posted by Noobtosalty

Are your fish in a quarantine tank? Or did you drop them right in the display tank? How are you treating the tang that has ich?

I dropped them in the display, and as a treatment i am trying to reduce the stress as much as i can and feed them with good nutrient food

[Noobtosalty]

i think you need to do some research on ich.... That was not a good move

[Dolmo5000]

I would recommend new life spectrum thera +A fish food. Its very popular, well known (tried and true), brings out fish color, and has garlic to boost immune function. Just my 2 cents.

[Noobtosalty]

But i will say that is very good looking tank!!!

[pc.ciprian]

@Dolmo5000 thanks, too bad here in romania at this moment i can find only the Spectrum Thera A Small Fish 0,5mm, maybe i will order some from uk/germany.
@Noobtosalty thank you
well the ich is 99% gone, at least the spots on the skin .... he is much more active and started to eat things from the rocks besides the food that i give them. That makes me really happy it seems that he likes the new home ....i really hope that he will keep being like this from now on

[nbgen12]

awesome looking tanks! Where in Romania are you from? I spent a couple weeks around Cluj-Napoca and at a camp which was a few hours drive into the mountains...definitely a really beautiful country. I would love to go back someday if money allows it

[JAustin]

Don't sweat the putting the fish in tha tank. I've never qt'd a fish in the 10 years I've been in the hobby. Never lost a fish to ich.

[pc.ciprian]

@nbgen12 i am from Constanta , a seaside city , yes it`s a great country too bad the people that lead it are not that good people
@JAustin thanks , i never did that on freshwater either, i don`t like qt`s

[SpencerG]

Nice tank! Your corals and fish can really stretch out and breath in the bigger tank. You'll love the 75. It's easy to work on and maintain while giving you a fair amount of room. I've really enjoyed mine. Good luck and enjoy!

[andip3]

You have a very beautiful tank : ) I liked reading your post.

[pc.ciprian]

SpencerG i already love it, it is much more easyer than my pico was, but i had way too many corals on square cm
andip3 thank you verry much

Well..... although usually my temporary stuff becomes permanent, this time i didn`t wanned to let it like this so in the last days i managed to finish my system i got my PH Controller up and running, the temperature controller mounted in it`s spot , ocean prop controller on it`s place and left 2 more spaces for another 2 controllers, and also the lamp controller a 3CH programmable switch .
Aaaaaaand everything looks something like this:


The ph controller it`s not calibrated yet because i ran out of ph7 calibration solution but i will order some tomorrow. I have made a test just of curiosity and tested it with ph4 solution....the reading was 3.95, so it`s somewhere close. Anyway now it`s on monitoring state and it will be used for a calcium reactor in the future


The refugium fully equipped



oh did i tell you that i`ve cleaned up and ordered the corals in the tank?


And in high resolution


PS. did you guys ever meet euphilia attacking clown fish? both of them have something like a white spot on their body, it`s like a bite, the flesh seems to be ripped. It`s not ich because i know how it looks, and on the both of them it`s on the side that they usually touch the euphilia

[Soggytoes]

I loved your pico! Those clowns look so happy in the pico but now they are REALLY happy! Nice tank. Subbing to see your progression!

[pc.ciprian]

And another update after 1month and 2 weeks
Couple of new things in the aquarium ....

And one of my stars that keeps going around the tank


And also a movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYuQGyo9Fb0

As you can see the coralline algae started to grow, here and there some cyanobacteria but nothing that worries me.
The butterfly unfortunately died , i think the wholes in the head were the problem.
In rest everything is good some diatomee problems on windows but it`s normal for a 2 months aquarium
I am not really pleased with the colors of some corals , green montipora, some pink zooas they are very pale. Today i got Red Sea colors ABCD and Red Sea energy AB , i will start dosing a little bit on the days that will come and see what happens .....
I`l keep u posted

Any advices or opinions are more than welcomed

[pc.ciprian]

hey guys it`s been a while ....here`s an update

click for 100%


aaand!
recommending full hd si full screen

[Drae]

Did your tang pull through? Your tank looks great!