My tank, second birthday!
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lowfi
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Full tank pics!
Thanks everyone, I recently had a bit of an alkalinity spike, so my corals are irritated. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll pull through. I already lost half of my purple stylophora.
Cheers!
Lowfi
PS: sorry about the small pics, I resized them on photobucket...I dont know what happened. I guess it is possible to go through the pics on my photobucket album!
Rollins4Miles
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Great looking tank! Congrats on the progression! Keep up the good work and start cutting some frags!!!
prop-frags
SPS Slave
man, that is something to be proud of. Do you mind sharing some of your husbandry tips?
lowfi
New member
Thank you very much, I'm happy how it's going. I've actually never cut a frag before, well not many...this doesn't mean I haven't broken any corals before on accident
Thanks! I'm hopefully going to be better about posting updates and chronicling/journaling my tank progression.
As far as husbandry is concerned, I do very little. I would say I change 15 gallons of IO water every 3 weeks. I run a small amount of GFO in a reactor, I change the media when I think it needs it. Probably every 3 months or so, I don't really have a formula for that. I don't use a filter sock and I run a Precision Marine skimmer. I do have 4 koralias, an MP10 and a Tunze 6105 circulating the display with a QuietOne4000 for the return. I have a DIY calcium reactor and an auto topoff that I add kalk to. I clean the glass pretty frequently because I get quite a bit of film on the glass as well as coralline. I feed my fish pretty heavy, usually mixing it up...heavy one day, light the next. Simple! It always seems when I try to focus more on my tank, that's when things don't go well.
I've been using 4x54w ATI bulbs from the beginning driven on some sort of random ballast. I got the tank used and kept the gear that it came with. I am thinking of replacing the front bulb with either 12 or 16 DIY LED's, so I'm excited to try that! I am hoping I can get more light down to the sandbed in the front of the tank.
