drummereef
Team RC
Great pic of the Singapore Angel. Awesome fish! 
Taqpol's 220 gallon custom Miracles tank!
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patrickbush
New member
Looking good, Love that Singapore Angel!
Padrino
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Taqpol
New member
Great pic of the Singapore Angel. Awesome fish!
Thanks guys!
Planning everything out was the most fun I had, so take your time and do it right the first time! Having a closet for sump tanks is good, having an entire room would be even better!
Its a great little fish.
Taqpol
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I was about to mention that after my vacation I haven't seen the pipefish... Of course, he could have just gone down the overflow so I'll check the sump when I get home.
They are supposed to be pretty hard to feed. The LFS owner I bought him from suggested I feed phytoplankton daily but I haven't because I was already having a nutrient issue with my mini cycle at the time.
fishmonkey
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Wow. Loving the tank! Awesome corals, and fish. I am going to be borrowing a lot of ideas for my own LED build from you. You have done an awesome job. Subscribed for sure!
Taqpol
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Thank you!
See below.I am sure there are huge updates
I don't know if you guys would want to see a FTS right now, my corals have started going downhill quite rapidly and a series of events have left me disenchanted with the fish tank right now. Right now I just have the tank on autopilot mode and I've been trying to do weekly water changes to try and get my chemicals back in check.
A few of my SPS corals have been receding on the bottom sides where they dont get much light. To rectify this I have switched out all my optics to 80 degrees (up from 60 degrees) and left some LEDs completely optic-less to try to get more light bouncing off the glass and onto the underside of the corals, coupled with slowly increasing my light output up from the 50% power I had them at before. Already some corals started showing negative side effects of too much light (the monti caps) so I am slowing down on that until they get adjusted. Unfortunately I don't believe that my main problem is the lights.
When my corals last looked like crap my tank looked pristine and I had zero nitrates. After an aggressive regimen of dosing AA's along with feeding the fish more frozen food all of my corals made a drastic turn around and within two weeks were looking amazing. Their decline from that state has been slow, but it correlates with my increase in nitrates to 10ppm, 15ppm and now even 20 (!) ppm. I've been trying my best with water changes and maintaining a rationed yet healthy feeding regimen, but considering I can't let my alk raise too high without fearing disaster from my bio-pellets I've been limited in the number of 11 dKh Instant Ocean water changes I could do. Given my frustration with the bio pellets obviously not working for me and their restriction on my water changes I have completely removed them. Almost immediately I saw better polyp extension in my corals (especially my acans that looked atrocious), but since then I have not seen a drop in nitrates or the crazy amount of nuisance algae that has popped up.
Lastly, and most heart wrenching, has been a series of fish losses. Awhile ago I added a gorgeous and healthy convict tang to the tank. Unbeknownst to me or the owner of the fish store, while an employee was catching him the tang jumped out of the tank and crashed >6' face first onto the concrete floor. The employee thought he looked fine so he bagged him up and sold him to me anyways, without saying a word. The next day I noticed that the tang had a massive infection on his lip and was breathing heavily. By the time I got him into the QT tank he was already dead. If that was the end of it it would have been sad, but two days later my Blonde Naso tang had a cut and infection on his lip. He was so fat I was going to let him fight the infection on his own in the comfort of his tank, but the next day he died as well. Other fish have passed away of mysterious causes since then as well, including one of my pair of tailspot blennies and a rare Kuiteri Leopard wrasse I had picked up along with the Convict Tang. The Naso hit me the hardest, as it would have been one year with that amazingly gorgeous fish in just a few more days.
drummereef
Team RC
Wow, Alex so sorry for all the losses. Can't imagine how you must be feeling right now. 
jdantunes
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I'm very sorry, Alex. But let me understand something..
I though that you quarantine your new fish before putting them in the display tank?
How the Blonde Naso cut himself? against rocks?
