Here's my first Reef!

[Oxy]

Hi guys! Some months ago I finally started my first marine reef aquarium and now I've decided to show it to you! It has more than 5 months now, it's been started 14 October 2014. It's a 60x40x45cm extraclear tank, I have a little sump separated in two parts for having one for refill water. In the other parts I've got the skimmer, a Bubble Magus C3.5, the heater, a 150W Prodac and the returning pump, a Jebao DC2000. Moreover, there are some rocks, and two socks, one with zeolite and one with the resins for PO4 and SiO2. I'm using them because I had some dinoflagellates. In the tank the water movement is given by 2 Jebao WP10 with their twin controller. The tank is connected with the sump with a Blau system, that is like X-Aqua system. The light is a Ocean Revive U120, a fixtures that has 120W of multispectrum Bridgelux led. I'm at 75% for the blues and 50% for whites, reds, greens and UV now. I began with T5s but my fixtures got broken. I'm going to add 2 T5, probably 2 Ati Coral Plus to give more coverage and colors.

Fishes:

2 Amphiprion Ocellaris

Invertebrates:

Green Montipora Malampaya
Red Montipora Digitata
Light BlueMontipora Digitata
Red Montipora Foliosa
Violet "Milka" Stylophora Pistillata
Pink and blue Pocillopora Damicornis
Violet Acropora Loisette
Blue Acropora sp
Green and light blue Acropora sp
Yellow Caulastrea
Euphyllia Glabrescens
Zoanthus
2 Turbo Snails
Calcinus Elegans

Here's some photos!

14/10/2014

14/11/2014

04/12/2014

14/12/2014(it was a refugium! )

What do you think Every opinions is welcome! Thanks!
Ps: I'm putting other photos in another post!

 

[Oxy]

20/01/2015

06/02/2015

02/03/2015

 

[Oxy]

11/02/2015

28/03/2015

 

[ShesEasy]

Looks awesome... Keep that alge down don't want it growing on the sps

 

[Oxy]

Thank you so much! The algae are really going down, some weeks ago I was totally invaded!

 

[ShesEasy]

I hear ya. Mine did the same thing lol

 

[ChimneyGuyJoe]

Looks awesome I can't wait to setup my tanks

 

[pyithar]

the tank looks good. don't let the nutrients get too high though. good luck.

 

[Chevre]

Great progress and you handled the algae perfectly!

 

[Oxy]

Thanks guys, I'm happy to read this! Maybe I've got the nutrient a little high because every two days I've got to clean tha glass, but I'm feeding the corals twice a week. I give Elos SVC once a week and a mix of shrimps, clams and mussels once a week. Anyway, I'm not giving the full dose. I have to decide how to raise KH and Ca and keep them constant, Mg is stable for now. I think I will use the balling method, not the Fauna Marin one but I want to use Fauna Marin oligoelements. I'm also thinking about a Ca Reactor but I'm not convinced because of the release of PO4. What do you think is better in my case?Anyway, I'm gonna buy Brightwell's A+B next week, so I can begin to control the elements.

 

[kmbyrnes]

Good job and nice progression pics.

 

[Oxy]

Thank you! What about the Balling vs Ca Reactor question?

 

[Mcgeezer]

You will want to manually remove as much of the Green Hair Algae as possible and run a high quality GFO to eliminate the source of your phosphate issue. Otherwise it looks fine.

 

[Oxy]

Hi guys, I'm back with an update! Now I'm giving Nyos Aminos on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and Elos SVC on Wednesday and Sunday. I'm using Red Sea Coral Pro and I'm keeping Ca and KH stable with Brightwell Reef Code A+B. I'm happy, I see a good growth. Even the green and blue acropora is growing and it has a really beautiful color of you see it from high. I have a cup of my Euphyllia that sometimes closes and I don't know why... I want to show you some photos, tell me your opinion!

29/04/2015

 

[Oxy]

Here comes the night time...

 

[Oxy]

Hi guys! I finally added 2 T5 to my led fixture and I'm really happy! I run them for 5 hours and half a day and the tank looks brighter and more natural, and I think that with time I'll obtain more color from corals. I'm dosing Elos SVC and Brightwell A+B but I have to buy a calcium reactor because KH and Ca decrease a lot, I'm using about 6ml of A and 6ml of B everyday. I've taken some decent photos with a reflex, what do you think? Thanks guys!

27/05/2015

 

[Oxy]

 

[uncleL]

Nice Tank! Good pics!

 

[Chevre]

Really great growth and color!

 

[Oxy]

Thanks guys, I'm happy you like it! I want to add a Millepora and a Caliendrum as soon as possible and I've got to find a way to increase Ca and KH, I'll probably buy a calcium reactor because I don't have so much space for balling method.