80g Shallow Reef Build

[Manose]

Is that a green cyphastrea or astreopora?

It is a Cyphastrea and is crazy under blue:

 

[Manose]

I spy a stylo, duncan, and acan. I have some as well and your placement height wise is similar to where I have them. This will be a major help for me as I'm pretty worried about acclimating to the much higher intensity when I do switch.
How to you have the programming set-up now and are you doing any sort of acclimation yourself?

 

[Manose]

Changed the rock in the back as to give more room to place and grow coral and added another piece today:

 

[A sea K]

Woowee, 80% right off the bat. The pics of the tank and corals are awesome in coloration, very nice.

 

[Manose]

My dad is home and resting after a successful surgery and now the hard part is done!!
I did get a really big zoa colony from The Coral Reef that is killer and will post some pics as soon as I am able.

 

[NY_Caveman]

My dad is home and resting after a successful surgery and now the hard part is done!!
I did get a really big zoa colony from The Coral Reef that is killer and will post some pics as soon as I am able.

Great news!

 

[crusso1993]

My dad is home and resting after a successful surgery and now the hard part is done!!
I did get a really big zoa colony from The Coral Reef that is killer and will post some pics as soon as I am able.

Happy things went well für your dad.

Looking forward to the zoa picture.

 

[Gary Inwood]

reef looking good and it was a joy to read

 

[A sea K]

My dad is home and resting after a successful surgery and now the hard part is done!!
I did get a really big zoa colony from The Coral Reef that is killer and will post some pics as soon as I am able.

Glad to hear everything went well. Sounds like your life has been a lot like mine lately, my wife spent 5 days in ICU towards the end of last year, surgery last month and looks like more surgery in the next month or two, at least this one will be scheduled and not unexpected.
It's been a few days so ow are the corals responding under the Noopsyche lighting?

 

[Manose]

Here are some new pics as of today 3/19/19 and corals are loving the light so far.
The new zoa rock that is really neat

some more pics of coral showing exactly what color I see when looking at the tank

 

[dantimdad]

Looking good!

 

[Manose]

Now for the bad news
I have some algae that I think will end up being a horrible thing. I am not sure what it is tho so anyone with an answer please let me know.

 

[dantimdad]

How many GPH are you running through your UV sterilizer? Did you get a 35 watt?

 

[dantimdad]

That looks like ulva.

Get a tang. Done.

 

[Manose]

How many GPH are you running through your UV sterilizer? Did you get a 35 watt?

I got the 50 watt and running a maxi 1200 so about 200gph with the drop and head pressure.

That looks like ulva.

Get a tang. Done.

It is actually pretty but I hope you are right as that would be awesome to have for food.

 

[dantimdad]

ok. I am trying to figure out how much flow for the 35watt that I have coming. The closest I can get to an answer if "about 300gph". That sounds too high.

Think I will go with about 150gph.

 

[Manose]

ok. I am trying to figure out how much flow for the 35watt that I have coming. The closest I can get to an answer if "about 300gph". That sounds too high.

Think I will go with about 150gph.

1-3x your tank volume is what I did for total dino removal and yes it worked as you can see.

 

[dantimdad]

OK. Total water volume I am guessing after rock, sand and including sump is probably right at 95 gallons. So shooting for 150-200gph should get it.

 

[Manose]

zoa colony almost fully open and beautiful

 

[Manose]

Tank is really stable now with ATI Essentials Pro running on the 2 little Kamoer x1 pumps.
DKH has been 7.3 everyday for over a week tested at 3pm everyday. I am running 18ml of both 1 and 2 using a 1:4 dilution.
I will have to increase it some when I add more coral from Reef-A-Palooza coming up.