100g SCA First time reefer!

[Dmsick]

It's been a while since I updated this build so I thought I'd drop a few pics to keep track of things. It's nice to have this record of how may tank has progressed. Overall, things are doing pretty well. I've been using ATI essentials pro for the last several months and it's done a good job of keeping parameters stable. I still run on the low side as far as nitrates and phosphates go. I run buy skimmer but mostly just to help with gas exchange. I have a refugium and it grows mass amounts of chaeto along with hair algae, but I really don't have any nuisance algae in the tank. There is always a little brown on the sand but not enough to bother me. Plus my tang and fox face seem to like it.
My lion fish died. He did great in QT. I had no trouble getting him on to frozen food which he would take from a net. I think he got fin rot but I'm not sure. I tried to get some help from the forum here but never got a response to my post.
My corals and anemone are growing albeit slowly. I have some acros that grow and a few that survive. I've had a couple that haven't made it. I don't know why, maybe nutrients, maybe light or flow. I see other tanks that are younger than mine with better growth but I can't pinpoint the difference.
My only real pests so far are vermetid snails. I break them off where I can reach them but there are hundreds if not thousands of them. I added a few bumble bee snails and a melanarus wrasse and I think they are slowly getting rid of them.
Thanks for looking.

 

[Dmsick]

Time for an update. Vermetid snail population is definitely on the decline since adding the bumble bee snails and the melanarus wrasse. They are not gone but definitely dwindling.
I've reached the point of utter disgust with trying to grow chaeto in my fuge. It routinely gets overwhelmed by hair algae. So, I think I'm going to try an algae scrubber. Hopefully, it will be easier than cleaning the walls of my refugium every couple weeks. If any one has any thoughts on this I'd love to hear from you.
Also, I'm thinking of going to a hybrid light fixture. I'm pretty sure my wife has picked up the hint and I'm thinking it may be a Christmas present, fingers crossed!

 

[Dmsick]

Current FTS with the Noopsyche hybrid and 3 K7 LEDs. I like the look and livestock seems to be responding well. Also took my refugium offline and installed a Turbo Aquatics ATS. Too early to tell what the impact of that is. My new has split several weeks ago and then soon after the baby new split. I'm going to have to figure out how to get the new ones out of the tank safely. I don't want to be overrun by anemones! Also I need to frag my torch. He's getting too close to some of my other corals.