Nuvo 20 gallon

I do not dose the recomended amount... I dose 3x less than the recomended amount i.e. a day after the water change I will dose half of what is recomended and test the water... usually it comes out fine...

I was told by the LFS to use the two (fuel for colors), Calcium (for food ) together to allow corals to grow, both corals look extremely happy... I am not dosing nearly as much as what is stated
 
Tank looks great so far. You are still using the IM lighting? are you still thinking to swap it out? I'm starting a similar set up and wondering what to do for lighting.
 
I am using the IM lighting. The corals I have (rose bubble tip and candy cane coral) both seem happy. I am having an algae issue now. Bought some algae breakdown to dose. I believe I was way over feeding, plus I lost 3 snails.

So simply put for beginner corals the lighting works amazingly. If you want more difficult corals and hard corals (SPS) you will need a more intense lighting system.
 
I have a skimmer and am thinking of adding the media reactor. I am going to have to find something that works well to get rid of the algae.
 
The two next most important purchases for you should be an alkalinity and a magnesium test kit! Along with calcium, these are the three most essential elements to track in reef keeping. Many people track nothing but these elements and have a great success. Your long term success will depend on your ability to maintain these parameters. Good luck!
 
So, I need to figure out how to dose and what to dose or if it's even worth getting a machine to dose. I still also need to figure out a power supply for when power goes out..
 
The only thing that will need to be dosed is calcium and alkalinity. You may not even need to dose those if you do water changes frequently, like multiple times a week. When you are dosing those other additives you are just messing with your water chemistry even more when all most corals want is stability. Most of the TOTM tanks dose nothing but 2 part or kalk.

I don't have the time or schedule that allowed me to manually dose every day so I bought a Bubble Magus dosing pump to handle my 2-part dosing schedule, which works great if you can splurge on it.

1 of my golden rules is "Don't dose anything that you can't or don't test for".
 
I don't think dosing on such a small tank is worth it... If you're trying to keep it simplistic. If you are trying to make things complicated, expensive, and possibly messing with your water chemistry then go for it. If you use good salt and frequent water changes then you should be good. I've never dosed in any of my tanks and all my corals have been growing pretty well... For the most part haha
 
I've ran a protein skimmer for years and I've just recently decided to go without one on my Nuvo fusion 20. I know plenty of people who don't run anything except for a media reactor with gfo and carbon. Their tanks are amazing. All I'm running is a media reactor with gfo and carbon as well. Things seem to be going pretty well.
 
So after I've had the anemone for about 2 months, tank is now probably 4 months old now.
About a month ago a rock in the tank got hit by the algae cleaner on the glass and I had to rearrange it. The anemone did not like this and decided to move... Which isnt an issue to me.

The issue is that the anemone used to look like:


and now looks like:

Post image soon but basically it is maybe 1/4 the size and no bubbles. it has not lost its color and does encapsulate itself at night and opens when the lights turn back on...

I check the water every water change so every 2 weeks and nothing has spiked. Should I be feeding this thing directly.

The odd thing is we did loose a cleaner shrimp 2 weeks ago which i'm surprised over as those thing I though were supposed to be hearty. I immediately tested the water and did not find anything wrong...
 
One thing i did change was the lighting. I went with an elive LED system and added 2 blue modules to the tank, 2 right overtop of the anemone.

I also switched salt from Fluval sea pro to instant ocean Reef Crystals (orange container). This was before the sea anemone.
 
Unfortunately the anemone died... Cant find it anywhere in the tank...

my fish died, and most of my invertebrates died...

Checked the water and nothing, took it to the LFS and they couldnt find anything either...

I left the tank for about 2 months and just kept up with water changes...

My torch coral survived.
My turbo snail also survived.

I just added a cleanup crew.. we will see how it goes...

I am only using 1 filter sock. On the other side using filter floss with carbon and the green stuff...

Got rid of the media reactor... Should I put it back?

Went back to original lighting that came with the Nuvo 20...

We will wait and see how it goes...

If all survives in the next two weeks I will add some fish...

If they survive add some easier corals..
 
A Vortech MP10 would treat you well in that tank. Or you could get a Jebao for cheaper but they are known to crap out pretty regularly...
 
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