My Reef turned 1 year old ...

[KEEPonREEFING]

Congrats on the 1 year! The tank looks beautiful. Do you mind sharing some of your husbandry?

 

[fishmate]

i wish my rocks would be that pretty. Everyone likes my rocks because they are different. I have like all maroon coralline on my rocks. I prefer the purples and pinks, oh well. Looks great! and I do like the candycane growth in your tank for sure.

 

[LoJack]

Awesome looking tank! I really like the aquascaping. The coralline has come along way in a year!

Thanks. It makes placing corals a bit tricky, but I still like the hardscape

Congrats on the 1 year! The tank looks beautiful. Do you mind sharing some of your husbandry?

I'm not sure there's much to share, I'm more of a "keep your hands out, and things do better" reefer. I test once a week and if my alk is spot on thats where I stop, I fill my top off reservoir once a week. I empty and clean my skimmer cup every 4 or 5 days depending on how much has been fed. I feed some flake in the morning with lights out before I go to work, and then I feed mysis and cyclopeeze soaked in selcon and garlic after lights out in the evening. I change my GFO if I notice any algae on the glass, but my chaeto seems to be keeping up now without the help of the GFO. Oh and I clean the strainer on my return pump as often as needed, usually once every couple weeks.

i wish my rocks would be that pretty. Everyone likes my rocks because they are different. I have like all maroon coralline on my rocks. I prefer the purples and pinks, oh well. Looks great! and I do like the candycane growth in your tank for sure.

Yeah it seems like no one really knows what causes one type to be more dominant than the other. I had a lot of the deep maroon with the LED's ... seems more pinkish and purple under the T-5's ... could also be the spectrum shift rather than the light source shift though. My LED's were closer to 12k-14k ... and my T-5 setup seems bluer, closer to a 17k-20k