Sorry for the lack of updates, life has been happening the last couple of months.
So the tank has been setup for 1 month 20 days. I started the cycle on November 18th. I had 2 bio plates that I transferred from my 210 to the 600 and used a 16oz bottle of Fritz Turbo Start. Brought the ammonia up to 2.5ppm and it reached 0 by November 29th. Shortly after I transferred a few of my fish from the 210 and broke down that tank and sold it all off including all the rock and coral. I did frag out some of it which was transferred to a buddies system.
About 3 weeks ago we began to transfer over acro frags from his system to mine to see how they would fare. Not one loss so far so we began to transfer more over. Right about now I have about 30 or so acros and a couple cyphastrea and frags in the sump. We just broke off pieces that we have backup of in his system and bigger chunks of corals that grow fast like green slimer.
I currently have 18 fish being quarantined by Dr. Reef which will be here in a couple weeks weather permitting. About half of them are angels so I pulled out my Emperor Angel and placed him in the sump and trying to catch the flame angel. I am doing this to minimize aggression and disrupt territory for the new fish coming in.
This is my first system using ozone and I really like it so far. Super nice not having to change out carbon every couple of weeks and running it 1 hour at night has kept my water crystal clear.
Sorry for the blue photos. Just being lazy with my phone. I hope to get out my mirrorless camera and lens and take some good photos at some point.
My nitrates are currently at 7.1 and I have been having to dose roughly 2ppm per week to break even which is the container you see above. I will only be dosing nitrates temporarily so that's why I haven't put the Nitrate water into my dosing system on the far end of my sump. My auto feeder is feeding pellets 5 times a day and I am currently feeding 1 cube of mysis and 1 sheet of nori. Once the other fish get here I suspect it will be 2 sheets of nori and 2 cubes of mysis which will allow me to take the nitrate dosing offline.
My PO4 has been hovering around 0-.01 so I am currently dosing Acropower to give the corals what they need. I actually dosed phosphate on my 210 in the beginning and that was a huge mistake. The rock pretty much soaked it all up and after about 6 months I was going through gallons of GFO to strip it all back out. Not doing that this time around.
With the low nutrients I am keeping my alkalinity around 7, CA at 440, 1350 mag and salinity 34.5ppt. The goal is to get my alkalinity around 8.5 but only after my PO4 gets up around .03-.07 on a steady basis. Lately though I have been having to increase my dosing as my consumption is increasing and the dKh is dipping into the 6's
I also switched out my Red Dragon return pump for the Reef Octopus Varios 10. I really like the fact that its high pressure rated which what was needed with my setup in my opinion. Have my return going through my UV then split into the chiller and 2 returns going back into the tank.
I did try multiple Moorish Idols in the system hoping such a big tank would be enough to stop or minimize aggression. Lesson learned. They were peaceful for about a week then all hell broke lose and I had to sell off all but 1 Idol. Purchased 4, down to 1.
Not much more else to report at this time. Hopefully next update I will have a video and better pictures!
Thanks.
