Calling all Wisco Reefers

[Weasel1960]

Welcome aboard. We like progress pictures.

 

[Jon's Reef]

Jon from Madison. Been at it for ~10 months. Started with a RS 200xl, currently running a Waterbox 100.3 (~75 gal).

For fish; pair of clowns, potter angel, tomini tang, hybrid yellow scopas tang, algae blenny, yellow watchman goby, black cap basselet. Probably going to add a flame wrasse then call the fish load good.

For corals, I can get zoas to thrive, shrooms and lps survive. SPS is my current challenge. Got a WD to grow fairly well, but have melted a ton of sticks. Working on stability and general maturing of the tank.

 

[dmy535]

Jon from Madison. Been at it for ~10 months. Started with a RS 200xl, currently running a Waterbox 100.3 (~75 gal).

For fish; pair of clowns, potter angel, tomini tang, hybrid yellow scopas tang, algae blenny, yellow watchman goby, black cap basselet. Probably going to add a flame wrasse then call the fish load good.

For corals, I can get zoas to thrive, shrooms and lps survive. SPS is my current challenge. Got a WD to grow fairly well, but have melted a ton of sticks. Working on stability and general maturing of the tank.

Nice setup!

 

[Weasel1960]

Jon from Madison. Been at it for ~10 months. Started with a RS 200xl, currently running a Waterbox 100.3 (~75 gal).

For fish; pair of clowns, potter angel, tomini tang, hybrid yellow scopas tang, algae blenny, yellow watchman goby, black cap basselet. Probably going to add a flame wrasse then call the fish load good.

For corals, I can get zoas to thrive, shrooms and lps survive. SPS is my current challenge. Got a WD to grow fairly well, but have melted a ton of sticks. Working on stability and general maturing of the tank.

Welcome to the club....really nice DT

 

[JayRozzer]

Anyone have a turbo snail or two they’d be willing to part ways with?

 

[dmy535]

Anyone have a turbo snail or two they’d be willing to part ways with?

I don’t. Sorry those things are difficult to find lately

 

[Zach B]

I could use a couple myself lol. Hope you find some

 

[dmy535]

Might be a bit of a drive, but right during Christmas I picked up 4 for my tank at aquatics unlimited in Greenfield. They had lots.

 

[Zach B]

+1 Only good place by us as well. A hike but a cool store

 

[Jon's Reef]

Living Art has them. I bought 3. 2 died.

 

[JayRozzer]

Living Art has them. I bought 3. 2 died.

Interesting. Aren’t they supposed to be fairly hardy. Is it decent at eating hair algae ?

 

[JayRozzer]

I could use a couple myself lol. Hope you find some

I’ll probably do a reef cleaner order next month if you’re still looking.

 

[Jon's Reef]

They graze all day long. I think they eat more of the excess food. Any longer algae they don't really touch.

For hair algae, it is just a combination of time and nutrient control. Everything has to come to balance and that just takes a while. In the meantime, you can pull the algae out. Try not to overfeed. GFO (or something like a bag of Chemipure Elite) can help with Phosphate.

For CUC, a combo of turbos, Trochus and Astraea to keep the rocks clean. Nassarius and a fighting conch are great for cleaning sand if you have it (they have some really big black Nassarius snails at Pet World Warehouse now... don't by the red foot turbos, they are "colder" water). An emerald crab can help to keep things like bubble algae non-existent (and clean food off the rocks).

You could order a pack from ReefCleaners. Good price and you also get a ton of these super tiny snails that can get in the small spots.

I tried vibrant... and really regret it. It killed my hair algae and this other algae I had.... but man it killed a lot of corals and my chaeto is still recovering weeks later. I really believe that stuff is an algaecide not a bacteria.

Until your rocks are solid coralline, you are probably going to have some algae.

 

[JayRozzer]

my only “problem” right now is getting it controlled in my fuge. I know some people say to not worry about it but I think it’s out competing my macro for nutrients.

 

[dmy535]

I’ll probably do a reef cleaner order next month if you’re still looking.

Reef cleaners has been out for a while!

 

[Jon's Reef]

I think it has a lot to do with flow in the fuge. If you are using the hang on, I would think about knocking out the baffle by the intake and remove the weir on the exit so it is just an empty box. Then put some screen over the exit (or cut out the weir and attach it somehow). Next, remove the down pipe on the intake, replace it with a straight tube that goes straight across the box. Then cut a line in that tube so water will spray across the top on the fuge towards the exit. This will create a gyre like flow.

 

[JayRozzer]

I’m not. I ended up getting one of the crystal reef sumps. You think there needs to be more flow then? Things are pretty stagnant in the fuge section.

 

[Jon's Reef]

Flow will help a lot with hair algae. If you can get it to swirl around the fuge section, that helps to keep the walls clean and keep the macro bunched up in the middle.

 

[Reef-junky]

Ever thought of running an ATS?

 

[JayRozzer]

Ever thought of running an ATS?

Working on a fuge first given my sump configuration. Don’t have much extra room.