My minimalistic 180g SPS tank

sahin said:
Tanks looking well. That scape is pretty cool. You've got so many cool pieces. In my new tank I'm trying my best to keep acro numbers low lol :)
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Thank you. yes I have way too much, I am letting them grow out/color up and then i am going to sell the ones i dont like for some higher end pieces :)

I really like your new setup
 
crawlerman said:
Tank looks great. Like everyone said, I too love the scape. Man I hope you didn't get AEFW. That is why they say cut all of the frags/colonies off of the base. Bayer gets rid of the live ones but not the eggs. Eggs are usually on the base. Good luck.
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I really hope so too.

i just dipped a lot of them again that didnt have as good PE as the others. i couldnt find any bite marks and no flatworms and i was using a magnifying glass but i will keep my eyes peeled for them.

i usually do cut the bases off, besides these i just got and there is no way the "potential AEFW" is from them as i just got them wed and i had this problem before then. i was just lazy till i had some extra time after work to really check it out.
 
was able to take a look at the tank this morning with the lights off and a flashlight. the PE was insane and almost back to the level it was in the tank before i moved it, it was a great thing to see and can only hope that it will continue.

just have to keep my levels as stable as they have been the past week or 2, it is hard though as i have to continue to raise calc and alk as the corals get more and more healthy
 
view from left side:

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FTS: from front left side
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FTS from right front side:
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Side shot from right side:
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One thing i think is strange is that my corals look more and more healthy, however I am still only dosing 40ml of alk 2 part a day which seems very low for these amounts of frags. At the same time I have to keep upping my calcium 2 part and I am now dosing 120 ml of calcium 2 part to keep up with the levels.

My levels have been stable at 8.6 alk and 420 calc.
 
If it's stable it's stable. Crazy thing is im dosing 22ml each of two part in my 25g nano lol


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I see you said your dosing way more calc than alk. You should be dosing the same amount. What is your magnesium level?
 
Ucantwin said:
I see you said your dosing way more calc than alk. You should be dosing the same amount. What is your magnesium level?
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yeah i know i should be but i am not because as of right now my corals are not using alk as much as they are calc which happens time to time and happened when i started my other tank too.

havent tested mag in about a week or two. last i did it was 1350
 
Something is out of wack. Corals don't use more calc than alk. They use a fixed ratio. Here is a video that may help a little. https://youtu.be/Qy9m-VNvN0s That guy has an issue with using more alk, but it's the same principal. Also, here is an article from Randy Holmes on how to get it back in balance when your using mor alk or calc than the other,
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/11/chemistry

codydemmel4 said:
yeah i know i should be but i am not because as of right now my corals are not using alk as much as they are calc which happens time to time and happened when i started my other tank too.

havent tested mag in about a week or two. last i did it was 1350
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I was going to suggest a sand tiger conch or three for your sandbed, but it looks like the algae is all gone already. The tank is looking very nice.
 
Pife said:
I'm guessing your calcium mix isn't strong enough or your magnesium is out of whack.
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the calcium mix is definitely right unless i got a bad calcium mix from BRS. I am not sure how to test that, any suggestions and I will.

For the magnesium, i will check that tomorrow.
 
Flanders said:
I was going to suggest a sand tiger conch or three for your sandbed, but it looks like the algae is all gone already. The tank is looking very nice.
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i may still get a couple of those, right now i have a yellow diamond goby and he is doing an okay job but some days it seems he is lazy and then i have a decent amount of algae and then it seems like he goes nuts for two days and there is very slim. its funny and cool to watch
 
DML08 said:
Nice man, whats your current bulb line up?
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thank you

right now it is 4 blue plus and 4 coral plus but when it is time to change the bulbs i am going to go with 6 blue plus, 1 purple plus and one coral plus. seen a couple of really really nice tanks with that combo.
 
codydemmel4 said:
thank you

right now it is 4 blue plus and 4 coral plus but when it is time to change the bulbs i am going to go with 6 blue plus, 1 purple plus and one coral plus. seen a couple of really really nice tanks with that combo.
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Nice, thats the next line up I was planning on running, right now I have 6 blue+, 1 purple + and 1 ABS
 
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