WAfrican's 40 Breeder...soon to be 65

[WAfrican]

Tomorrow will be 1 year since setting my my very first reef tank and I figured what better way than to create a new log. Throughout the last year it's had its ups and down but as time goes on and as I learn its looking better by the week. Beginning this build i was very inexperienced and decided to go the fast and cheap/wrong route and have slowly been trying to update everything. All equipment currently being used is listed below as well as how long its been up and running
Lighting- Ocean Revive T247--- 3.5months
Skimmer- ASM Mini G--- 1 month
ATO- Hydor--- 1 month
Water Flow- Koralia 850--- 1 year
-Koralia 1150--- 10 months
Return- Mag 7--- 1 year
Overflow- Eshopps PF800--- 1 year

I do not dose but will be starting kalk in my ATO to help raise and hopefully stabilize my ph as well as alk. I use the API Master test kit to measure my waters basic parameters, and use Red Sea's Foundation test kit to measure my calcium, alk, and magnesium. As far as corals go I currently have a mix of lps softies and sps but as most am trying to more towards a more sps dominate tank. All piece I have are listed below.
Green Torch, Green Toadstool, Zoa Plate- Fire&Ice, GreenBay Packers, GSP, Pink Ladies Paly's, Ricordia, Bam Bam Zoa, Watermelon/Dragon Eyes, Mummy Eye Chalice, Unkown Chalice, RBTA, Green Montipora, TriColor Acro, ReefGen Acropora Crateriformis, ORA Red Planet, Green Duncan, Triple Acro Frag-all unknown currently, ReefGen Rasta Zoas, Red Blasto, Candy Apple Reds, WWC Purple Polyp Birdsnest, Pink Zippers Zoa's, PZ Punk Rockers Zoa's, ReefGen Vulcan Blood Zoa's

I will post photos of the tank later as well as my waters parameters. I hope you all enjoy my log and I look forward to showing everyone my tank and its progression... hopefully towards being better

 

[WAfrican]

Just checked the big 3 and my alk is 7.8, ca is 490, and mg is 1440. Couldn't check anything else because i left my reference card at someone house. I did run a line from my skimmer out the window to see if this will help stabilize my ph and alk as its the only issue i'm having keep stable.

 

[WAfrican]

Decided to see if I could fix my ph (7.8-8.0 fluctuation) issue so I ran my skimmer airline out my window and viola it now stays 8.2-8.3. Because of this my alkalinity is now much more stable but just to help i began dosing kalk to my ato at 1tsp per gallon and will add/reduce as needed in the next few weeks. I also got 7 new beautiful frags in the mail from @WWC. These included candy apple reds, purple polyp birdsnest, ora green birdsnest, jingle bells cyphastrea, tyree brick red cyphastrea, an unknown green multicolor favia, and lastly a mystic sunset montipora. I am very please with everything and look forward to watching these babies GROW!

 

[Ronnell]

So where are the pictures of the tank. Did you ever move to the 65g?