I am new here, saw Floyd's post on RC and found this site. I have a 72x24x26 (194g) DT with a coast to coast and silent fail safe plumbing system. I have a 60g sump that I have my return pump in a small chamber, the Dsb in one part, rock, and a small skimmer asm mini G (just took out a super reef octopus 3000). I built the UAS yesterday and have one CF light on it, it is in the middle chamber of my sump. I asked someone in my local club to help me build a regular ATS, but now that I have this UAS going, I like the idea, and it is quiet. I need to figure out lighting for it, not much of a DIYer, but really want LEDs on it for the sake of saving electricity. I would be thrilled to run a happy, healthy tank with a ATS.
In reading the post here, I feel like maybe I'm starving my fish? it seems like people here feed there fish a lot of food. I am not one of those feed them every 3 days people, I feed them flakes 3x/day and pellets 1x/day from an auto feeder. Not much comes out as far as flakes when it runs. I give them 1/2 an algae strip (either red, green,purple or brown) every other day. I only started this week giving them some Rod's frozen herbivore food. I guess I'm looking for ideas on how much people feed?
So in my tank are:
Engineer goby ~9"
Two adult clowns and there RBTA
Hippo tang ~2"
Yellow tang 5"
Powder brown 5"
Kole tang 3"
Foxface 5"
In QT are 2 bangaii and 2 chromis going in DT in 2 weeks.
Misc SPS and lps coral, plate coral, 2 clams, some mini carpet nems.
No one is skinny, but they do always seem to swim up to me when I am anywhere near the tank as if they are starving. Thanks for the input. I will be posting about the scrubber soon.
Sheri