72 gallon bowfront reef

[james30ct]

Hello everyone my name is James and I'm new to this site. I have a 72 gallon bowfront reef thats about 1 year and 4 months old. It has a bean animal c2c overflow and a rubbermaid sump.

 

[james30ct]

more pics

 

[james30ct]

and a few more

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looking good! Welcome to R2R!

 

[rarelyseriousb]

Looking good

 

[Young Frankenstein]

nice

 

[james30ct]

Thanks.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

I love the two islands look. And, welcome to r2r!!!

 

[wysiwyg]

welcome to r2r

 

[james30ct]

I love the two islands look. And, welcome to r2r!!!

Thanks I did the islands because I wanted to have a squamosa clam in the middle with plenty of room to grow.

 

[AsphaltPays]

Great job...Welcome to R2R

 

[james30ct]

Heres the 10g nano/qt tank I set up. Nothing special standard 10g, heater, 2 powerheads, and a pc fixture that I want to change to leds when bulbs go bad but I still have 2 sets so it will be a while.

 

[james30ct]

As for the 72g I have a reef octopus skimmer, diy cree leds with dimmable drivers and a typhoon controller, 2 powerheads 1600gph, jbj ato, aqua rio return pump 625gph I think, and a spectrapure 90gpd for ro/di water

 

[LVE]

Looks great.

 

[revsgirl]

Welcome to R2R!! Great to have ya!! Nice lookin' reef you got there!!

 

[james30ct]

Quick question. I dont dose anything besides a tiny bit of kalk in ato. I do weekly water changes between 5-10%. I usually dont test because most of my coral is frags so the demand isnt high. I have a squamosa, and around 14 frags. i tested tonight because my nuclear palys havent looked so hot the past few days and I got ca 400, ph 7.8 at 7pm, kh 7, and mg 1130. Is there anything I should adjust? All other corals and clam look good.

 

[james30ct]

Added sand to the nano to see if I want to add it to the 72 eventually. Its sugar sized and looks nice so far.

 

[james30ct]

Got a new zoa frag today

 

[james30ct]

Im getting brown fuzzy algae on the glass lately. Not sure what it is. Could this be from the ltpc dying? Would running some carbon help? Here is the pic, not the best its a cell pic

 

[firefightered]

If that is in the 10gal you just put sand in...... it is probably going through a cycle. Keep an eye on your amonia and nitrites.......