Lost Reef of Atlantis - 65g to 90-gallon!

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Video of our frogs, hammers, frammer and goni. Our big pumpkin patch mushroom decided it didn't want to be so big anymore, and split in half. Now we have two lol



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Man, it sure seems like you've got the flow dialed in for those euphillia! They look really happy!
 
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Thanks! It took a lot to get the flow where we wanted it. And still have enough for the SPS. I think it's pretty good currently though! Hopefully everything continues to do well :)
 
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Parameters yesterday. Had turned mag down a little, and turned alk down as well. After see the results, left alk where is, about -0.3 dkh per day drop. Wanting it to be down towards 8/8.5. Turned mag back up to get back around 1500.

Things still seem to be going great!

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I still have a lot of mine on racks. I need to glue them so the stupid urchin stops walking off with them...
 
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I still have a lot of mine on racks. I need to glue them so the stupid urchin stops walking off with them...
Yeah, I need to do the same. Luckily our urchin has only knocked off the Orange blast once so far. I think Tuesday or Thursday, whenever I do maintenance this week, I'll glue some down also. I have more 9 Berghia coming from Dinkins on Tuesday, so hopefully see a population in a few weeks.
 

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Yeah, I need to do the same. Luckily our urchin has only knocked off the Orange blast once so far. I think Tuesday or Thursday, whenever I do maintenance this week, I'll glue some down also. I have more 9 Berghia coming from Dinkins on Tuesday, so hopefully see a population in a few weeks.
Filefish still leaving the Aiptasia alone?
 
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Filefish still leaving the Aiptasia alone?
Unfortunately, I think so. I think he just east the pods since we have so many. And he hogs the fish feeder when we put frozen in... Such a small mouth but eats a ton. He's definitely not skinny lol. We've cut back to 3 times a day on feeding instead of 4, so hopefully that will help with the algae some. 2 peppermint shrimp, 1 filefish, and soon to be 15 berghias... if that doesn't work, I guess I'll try a syringe... I do think one of the Aiptasia disappeared already though.
 

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I was out of town this weekend for my daughter's youth camp and my urchin stole my Spath nub, ate an Acro skeleton, and broke the hanger off one of my hanging racks. That rack knocked my torch off the rock and landed on my Blastos...
 
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I was out of town this weekend for my daughter's youth camp and my urchin stole my Spath nub, ate an Acro skeleton, and broke the hanger off one of my hanging racks. That rack knocked my torch off the rock and landed on my Blastos...
Dang, that sucks. Hopefully ours never contributes to that much destruction lol

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So... My Filefish ate all but 1 Aiptasia or else something else in the tank decided it likes Aiptasia.
 
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So... My Filefish ate all but 1 Aiptasia or else something else in the tank decided it likes Aiptasia.
That's good to know! I'm not sure if ours has done the same or was pecking at pods. I saw him pecking around some Aiptasia, but never saw him actually eat any. Wednesday we should be getting 9 more berghia in. So hopefully we'll get some results from something soon lol
 
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New video tonight, tomorrow will be one week in the tank for the new corals. Will give another video update then, also some parameters once I get them tomorrow. Our ICP test should be at ATI tomorrow, so probably next week or so, should get those results back!

 
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Here's a quick SPS photo dump. Also our parameters today, alk was higher than expected. Turned it down some. We'll see what it is again on Thursday.

The orange blast is definitely taking on a bright orange, like hunter orange. So that's neat to see. Everything is still looking good, didn't get around to any maintenance today. Apparently I was tired and slept for about 4 hours this afternoon lol. We'll see if I can get to it Thursday or tomorrow evening.

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Yeah I wish we still had one. The orange blast was yellow yellow at first, I thought it was a sungod haha. It's taking on a nice orange now though.
I realized it was an Orange Blast after I saw your post on SBB. I still have mine but it's not doing much. It was my first SBB Acro to really act healthy and was all kinds of hairy. Now it just sits there and slowly encrusts the plug.
 
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I realized it was an Orange Blast after I saw your post on SBB. I still have mine but it's not doing much. It was my first SBB Acro to really act healthy and was all kinds of hairy. Now it just sits there and slowly encrusts the plug.
At least it's still alive and kicking though! I'll take that over dead white any day haha. About to start on tank maintenance. We'll see how it goes. Also got our 9 new berghia I from @Dinkins Aquatic Gardens !

Will put those in after maintenance. I'll get some pictures this afternoon/evening also.

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Got our Berghia in from @Dinkins Aquatic Gardens today! Couldn't be happier with the quality of all their stuff! Will be getting some more phyto and a small snacklebox on going subscription next week.

Did a 15g WC and some good cleaning. Then did a coral snow+mb7 treatment. All the berghia arrived alive and healthy. All made it down to the rock work as well. Will get some FTS shots and a video this evening also. Well hopefully, I'm still going to place some corals in their permanent spots tonight.

Some pictures of the berghia we received today. Also some of the half gallon phyto and snacklebox combo we received last time, along with those berghia as well. Should be 18 in the tank now. The half gallon snacklebox was packed full of goodness as well!

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Got some coral moved around and put in their permanent spots. Hopefully they continue to like where they're lol. Here's a video after WC and maintenance today. Some lps are being picky after the WC and everything, but they should be back to normal tomorrow.

 

When to mix up fish meal: When was the last time you tried a different brand of food for your reef?

  • I regularly change the food that I feed to the tank.

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