sk8elenex92
Active Member
Hello all! Been a lurker and occasional poster here on R2R and deft one of my favorite reef forums and of course Chicago reefs. Decided to share my journey with every one since I've been pretty hungover all day and bored hah.. Took a butt load of pictures. All pictures are from an Iphone.
The tank was filled with water on July 25 2016. Planned on running bio pellets and keep nutrients low for sps. SPS were my goal for this. I had some other corals, all softies from an old tank. Started off good then I got in a terrible car accident and was away from the tank for almost a month. It was tough. Corals wouldn't grow and SPS kept dying. I have so many dead frags, probably more then I have alive ha. Took pellets off and brought up nutrients a bit and sps started looking better every day. My water was way to clean and way starving out my corals. Took my AI sols down and got an ATI fixture and love it will never go back. I just had to deal with Cyano for some reason and got sick of siphoning it so I used Chemi Clean. I was so scared and paranoid about using it but it worked amazing and had zero losses. Definitely would use it again if I had to. The only thing that sucks is the skimmer kept over flowing for over a week. I gave it a vinegar/water bath and got it working again. Finally on the right track with SPS. blah blah Ill just post pics now and just need to be patient and let the corals grow.
Alk - 8
Cal - 420
Mag - 1350
Nitrates - < 5
Phos - 0.02
SCA 120 Gallon
29 Gallon sump with cheatohttp://reef2reef.com/forums/member-tanks.52/create-thread
ATI 6 Bulb Fixture - 4 Blue+, 1 Coral+, 1 Purple+
Gyre 150 and 2 rw8's
Eshopps Dosing pump - Currently dosing 32ml of ALK and Calc a day
Eshopps S150 Skimmer
Eheim 1262 Return Pump
Reef Keeper Light
ATO from autotopoff.com
The tank was filled with water on July 25 2016. Planned on running bio pellets and keep nutrients low for sps. SPS were my goal for this. I had some other corals, all softies from an old tank. Started off good then I got in a terrible car accident and was away from the tank for almost a month. It was tough. Corals wouldn't grow and SPS kept dying. I have so many dead frags, probably more then I have alive ha. Took pellets off and brought up nutrients a bit and sps started looking better every day. My water was way to clean and way starving out my corals. Took my AI sols down and got an ATI fixture and love it will never go back. I just had to deal with Cyano for some reason and got sick of siphoning it so I used Chemi Clean. I was so scared and paranoid about using it but it worked amazing and had zero losses. Definitely would use it again if I had to. The only thing that sucks is the skimmer kept over flowing for over a week. I gave it a vinegar/water bath and got it working again. Finally on the right track with SPS. blah blah Ill just post pics now and just need to be patient and let the corals grow.
Alk - 8
Cal - 420
Mag - 1350
Nitrates - < 5
Phos - 0.02
SCA 120 Gallon
29 Gallon sump with cheatohttp://reef2reef.com/forums/member-tanks.52/create-thread
ATI 6 Bulb Fixture - 4 Blue+, 1 Coral+, 1 Purple+
Gyre 150 and 2 rw8's
Eshopps Dosing pump - Currently dosing 32ml of ALK and Calc a day
Eshopps S150 Skimmer
Eheim 1262 Return Pump
Reef Keeper Light
ATO from autotopoff.com
