Shallow Rimless 90g

chefjpaul · Mar 14, 2017

Beautiful

exactlyobp · Mar 14, 2017

chefjpaul said:
Beautiful

Thank you!

exactlyobp · Mar 17, 2017

Some pics.

SSC acro;

Formusa;

Pikachu acro;

FTS;

DaVincis;

Hope y'all like it!!

exactlyobp · Mar 22, 2017

Got stuff from BRS including TLF veggie clip and coral viewer.

Inevitably some coral pics;

Microclados;

Oregon tort;

Blue tip tenuis;

ORA PearlBerry

Its been a bit over 4 months. I like where it's going!

Daniel@R2R · Mar 23, 2017

Good-looking sticks! They look happy in there.

exactlyobp · Mar 23, 2017

mdbannister said:
Good-looking sticks! They look happy in there.

Hey Daniel, thanks! (I didn't recognize the avatar lol)

I think i fed too much of Reef Frenzy... Film algae is appearing more than usual. Doing watherchanges every 4~5 days now.

Tahoe61 · Mar 23, 2017

Shin where did you get the new acropora pieces? Quite the Microclados piece.

exactlyobp · Mar 23, 2017

Tahoe61 said:
Shin where did you get the new acropora pieces? Quite the Microclados piece.

Hey Cheryl, thanks!

I love the microclados colony. It came from DD a month ago, so did the blue tip tenuis. Oregon tort and Pearlberry were from the recent Denver trip, LFS in south Denver.

exactlyobp · Apr 3, 2017

NO3; went down to 0.00 ppm with RedSea kit

Instead, PO4 went up a bit;

There is cyano and brown hair algae present, its understandable, with the elevated PO4.

111ppm = 6.22 dKH

Still no dosing. Barely keeping up with waterchanges.

Herea are some pics of montis in my tank;

Untada

Red pepper monti;

FTS;

Jmblec2 · Apr 3, 2017

Looking good. My phosphate was up to .18... that's why I was having issues.

exactlyobp · Apr 3, 2017

Jmblec2 said:
Looking good. My phosphate was up to .18... that's why I was having issues.

Thanks JB!
What did you do to keep them in check?

litenyaup · Apr 3, 2017

Following

Jmblec2 · Apr 3, 2017

30 gallon water changes once a week for 4 weeks. Much less food during feeding. Got the BP up and running. Been going now for over a month. Re freshed the carbon. Gravel vacuuming sand during WCS. And just got my refugium going 3 days ago. Cleaned my filter socks much better.

exactlyobp · Apr 9, 2017

Did waterchange. I have been doing WC every 4~6 days, 10~15%. Getting a lot of film and brown algae. As soon as i extend the wc routine to every 7 days, it seems like the algae comes right back.. I really don't mind waterchanges. Ill keep this 4~5 days routine for now.

I don't have a lot of luck keeping fish with this setup.. One of the clown wet carpet surfing, I do have a lid, i have to make sure i don't get lazy from now on..

Sump pic in case you are interested;

Skimmer is working like theres no tomorrow;

FTS;

Overall, I'm getting decent growth on corals, but some of the frags are "paling". Its at the bottom on the sand bed, getting around 100 PAR (i borrowed PAR meter the other day), and the system frag came from was under MH. So i really doubt that they are getting too much light. I have algae, so i don't think they are at ULNS yet.. Any insight on this?

PO4=0.02 ppm by Hanna
NO3=0.00 ppm by RedSea
Alk=6.22 dKH by Hanna
1.026 salinity
I dose AcroPower (amino acid) with routine waterchange 3~5 ml
BioDigest every 13 days

Any and every input is appreciated!

justingraham · Apr 9, 2017

Alk is low u want some no3 zero is bad what's ph and calcium at?

exactlyobp · Apr 9, 2017

I target the Alk around where its at now. I don't want the coral to be too skinny.

pH on the other hand.. its low side. It gets as low as 7.8 during night. 8.1ish during the day. I do have the CO2 scrubber, don't know if its really taking effect or not..