Red sea reefer 250 build

[Waynerock]

Awesome job showing the Dino who’s boss! Tank looks dope keep it up

 

[merereef]

Awesome job showing the Dino who’s boss! Tank looks dope keep it up

Thank you

 

[merereef]

Growth shots

2 months

 

[Flameback Pair]

@merereef what brand minerals are you dosing?

 

[merereef]

@merereef what brand minerals are you dosing?

This is the ONLY thing i dose..
heres a little info on the product. I dose this and within 2 days notice the corals look better and more colourful. Dose 10ml twice a week

Why MICROBE-LIFT/Reef & Marine Supplements? Sea salt mixes can contain 70 or more of natural saltwater's essential and trace components. These help sustain water quality for the fish, corals, invertebrates and/or macro-algae as nature intended. In an aquarium "closed system", protein skimmers, ozonizers, carbon filters and dynamic biochemical processes can reduce the important components, including calcium, strontium, molybdenum, iodide, bromide, iron, vitamins, amino acids and essential trace minerals.

 

[merereef]

Update!!!

 

[merereef]

I was going theough pics and found this.. this is 5 months apart while the system was unstable

 

[merereef]

The bubble magus containers 600ml were getting too small... so i made these 2.5 litre each of sulution for cal and alk

removed the part off the bubbl magus drilled a whole in thenew container lids

and done

 

[merereef]

Things are growing so quickly im struggling to keep up with cal and alk fosing to keep parameters at 8

 

[Flameback Pair]

This is the ONLY thing i dose..
heres a little info on the product. I dose this and within 2 days notice the corals look better and more colourful. Dose 10ml twice a week

Why MICROBE-LIFT/Reef & Marine Supplements? Sea salt mixes can contain 70 or more of natural saltwater's essential and trace components. These help sustain water quality for the fish, corals, invertebrates and/or macro-algae as nature intended. In an aquarium "closed system", protein skimmers, ozonizers, carbon filters and dynamic biochemical processes can reduce the important components, including calcium, strontium, molybdenum, iodide, bromide, iron, vitamins, amino acids and essential trace minerals.

@merereef in the quote above the only thing you were dosing was the MicrobeLift, looks like your dosing Calc & Alk now? Which brand? How are you testing? Have you noticed a difference in your corals?

The bubble magus containers 600ml were getting too small... so i made these 2.5 litre each of sulution for cal and alk

removed the part off the bubbl magus drilled a whole in thenew container lids

and done

 

[merereef]

@merereef in the quote above the only thing you were dosing was the MicrobeLift, looks like your dosing Calc & Alk now? Which brand? How are you testing? Have you noticed a difference in your corals?

Sorry let me clarify lol i was always dosing calc alk and mag... the trace elemtns is the only thing i dosed.
I am using aqua forest powders and dosing equal parts of cal and alk. I test alk mainly and if i need to change dose amount i just change the calc too. The test kits are use are all saliferts. Whenever i dose the trace elemenets the corals the next day or 2-3 days later look more vivid. It does contain some traces of amino acids to maybe thats why

 

[merereef]

@powers2001 the biggest difference was when i changed my lighting schedule from the david saxby schedule to a custom one i made based on all the info i have read. As you may know the david saxby schedule is known to grow corals super fast.. but since i changed to this schedule i kid you not instantly alk consumption increased meaning the corals were growing very fast. Im finding it hard to keep up with the dosing currently dosing about 85ml a day

 

[merereef]

This was 1 inch birds nest and this is half of the colony im removing and traded for a strawberry shortcake acro

 

[merereef]

Just at its peak

 

[merereef]

So removed some of the easier sps as they were getting too big and added sme higher end pieces... strawberry shortcake.. and a rainbow tenuis

 

[Dj City]

The reef is looking great!
My build is slowly coming along. I would be happy if I could get my water looking move and clear though.
I think I have too much flow and fish too large.

 

[merereef]

The reef is looking great!
My build is slowly coming along. I would be happy if I could get my water looking move and clear though.
I think I have too much flow and fish too large.

Strong floww is good if you keep sps.. if you have lps you want lower flow...

 

[merereef]

The reef is looking great!
My build is slowly coming along. I would be happy if I could get my water looking move and clear though.
I think I have too much flow and fish too large.

post a pic of your tank would love to see

 

[Dj City]

I have 4 Neptune Wav's and 2 Gyre 350's in a 5ft 180 gallon reef.

Check out my build thread.

 

[merereef]

Got these acros al brown starting to colour up