My minimalistic 180g SPS tank

I know a guy that had a blue throat trigger and it decimated his snail population.

I honestly probably have 5-10 snails so that wouldnt be a big deal to me. We will see how the algae changes if at all once I finally (hopefully) get my phosphates off 0. I did add 6 more blue chromis yesterday, I have 7 now and they all swim together.

I think it helps that I have a lot of other bigger fish that are very active, but we will see how they do over the next couple months.
 
Nori has a lot of po4. A sheet a day along with spirulina flakes and you'll have some phos in no time!


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Nori has a lot of po4. A sheet a day along with spirulina flakes and you'll have some phos in no time!


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I will have to do this, I only feed nori about twice a week because the tangs rip it apart in seconds and the big pieces just float around
 
ALso, another beneficial byproduct of feeding nori is the production of the amino acid aspartic acid once the nori is metabolized by the fish..
That is the main ingredient in Acropower, by the way..
Source: Reefvet, from mhucasey's thread..
 
ALso, another beneficial byproduct of feeding nori is the production of the amino acid aspartic acid once the nori is metabolized by the fish..
That is the main ingredient in Acropower, by the way..
Source: Reefvet, from mhucasey's thread..


Awesome, I am definitely going to be feeding nori more. Just tested phosphates again with hanna ulr and again got 0. This is getting frustrating, I may have to look into adding phosphates directly.

Great looking setup! Love the rock work.


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Thank you!
 
Everything is continuing to go on the right track (knock on wood) and I will try to get some pictures this coming weekend as I am leaving today to go to the NFL draft in Philly (Go Eagles!)

I also placed an order with Adam for a Battlecorals pack so I am excited for that. I am going to wait probably 2-3 weeks before I have him ship them just to make sure everything is stable and continuing to get good PE and stabilize my phosphates off 0, which looks like I have been able to do but increasing my feeding and feeding nori almost everyday. Recently the past 3 tests I have got 6, 10 and 6 all three were after feeding a lot but still a lot better then being off 0 and I have noticed increased PE both during the day and at night.
 
I will have to do this, I only feed nori about twice a week because the tangs rip it apart in seconds and the big pieces just float around

Fold the nori sheets up into small squares and clip it or even better, rubberband it to a piece of rubble or a frag disk and drop it in. This way they will only tear off little bits and not big chunks.
 
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Wow! That last piece just got my attention. Do you think that is a true yellow with bright green end polyps? It does not appear to be a stressed pastel green. If so, then that is a truly beautiful piece with incredible potential. I need some of that color in my tank.!
 
Wow! That last piece just got my attention. Do you think that is a true yellow with bright green end polyps? It does not appear to be a stressed pastel green. If so, then that is a truly beautiful piece with incredible potential. I need some of that color in my tank.!

Unfortunately I think it is going to end up more green just because that's what I really see when the blue leds come on, but I've never had a true yellow before so I'm not sure. Anyway it is by far the brightest coral in my tank.
 
Unfortunately I think it is going to end up more green just because that's what I really see when the blue leds come on, but I've never had a true yellow before so I'm not sure. Anyway it is by far the brightest coral in my tank.

I think it looks like a great score. To try to maintain the yellow, I think I would try to have it in the highest par possible to keep the green away.

Good luck. I will be following along.
 
I think it looks like a great score. To try to maintain the yellow, I think I would try to have it in the highest par possible to keep the green away.

Good luck. I will be following along.


Yeah I was thinking about that but didnt wanna bleach it, looks like I will be moving it tomorrow
 
If yellow is what you are after, Pink Lemonades are the easiest across to keep really yellow in my opinion. I have a Pink Floyd that started yellowish, but it is so small and pales every time the tank has any fluxuation.
 
Well everything was looking great but I have noticed again tip recession on some of the corals even though the alk has been very stable from 7.5-8, never once have I tested it and it was above 8.

Phosphate tested at 0.04, nitrate tested 10.

The one parameter that was off was calcium as somehow that got all the way up to 490 when i usually keep it at 420.

One thing I am wondering, I have not changed my bulbs in 11 months. Could that cause the tip recession? I figured it would just brown and not cause me to lose some of the corals, anyways I bought 2 new blue plus that will get here today and I am going to change them and change 2 a week till all are changed. I am just very confused how my corals look great for awhile and then all of a suddent they get hit with this tip recession. The anemones and LPS look great and I am getting very good coraline algae growth all over the rocks and back wall.

The pump on my skimmer broke on Friday, so I have not had a skimmer running since then but phosphates and nitrate did not budge but could they have something to do with this too? Just seems like when I have something going in the right direction and looking positive, I take a step back again.
 
Hello Cody, unfortunately that last statement fits a lot of us. Hang in there, your tank is young yet and it will get better as you go. I'm liking that little "yellow" coral too, best of luck with it.
 
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