5 Week Reek Tank Cycle, Fish, Coral, Dosing, CUC, Absorbers, 60 gal Build Saltwater Coral Aquarium

This video is on the first 5 weeks of my 60 gallon reef build. I’ll go through all the additions, changes, first fish, first coral, and more.

Day 1 - Setup and Fill with water
Added to one of the HOB Refugiums
Filter Pads
Ceramic Media
Microbe Lift Special Blend
*Note - the Microbe Lift Special Blend was poured directly on top of the filter pads and ceramic media

Day 7 - First Fish
4 Blue Sapphire Damselfish, aka Springeri
Tigrio, Tigger, Tisbe, and Apex Copepods
Amohipods, these came in the Chaetomorpha I purchased
Chaetomorpha
Start feeding live phytoplankton for copepods
Start feeding PE Mysis for fish, chose mysis due to a meaty food helping the cycle
Start running all lights

Day 21 - First Corals
10 gal water change
12 blue leg
6 red leg
12 astraea snail
Added Absorbers
Chemi-Pure Elite
Purigen
ROWA-Phos
Carbon
Added First Corals
Green Branching Montipora
Hellfire Torch

Day 28 - Pod Bloom
5 gal water change
12 red leg hermit
6 blue Leg hermit
12 margarita snail
cleaned all filter pads
2nd Coral Added
Dragon Soul Torch
Started Dosing Kent Coral-Vite
little bit for the corals but at this point mostly for the chaeto
Pod boom


Day 35 - Dosing / Feeding Coral
5 Gallon water change. I have decided to do weekly 10% water changes with this tank instead of 20% every 2 weeks
Started Dosing
Polyp Lab One
Polyp Lab Polyp Booster, amino and fatty acids
Polyp Lab Reef Roids
Add 2 Koralia 240 GPH Powerheads inside each HOB refugium

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