1 year anniversary

[alindell]

I've had some lows and highs. Overall it's been good so far.

Red sea 625 130 gal
Mixed reef
Gold flake angel
Regal Angel
Flame angel
Melanus wrasse
Leopard wrasse
Yellow coris wrasse
Cleaner wrasse
Powder blue tang
Blue hippo tang
Yellow tang
2 black and 1 regular percula clowns
2 cleaner shrimp
1 short spine urchin
2 random purple urchins
1 serpent starfish
1 fromia star
3 clams 1 derasa, 1 maxima, 1 crocea?

 

[waqas_01]

That is ridiculous for only 1 year. Were a lot of these transferred from a previous tank? Either way, awesome setup.

 

[alindell]

That is ridiculous for only 1 year. Were a lot of these transferred from a previous tank? Either way, awesome setup.

Pretty much bought all brand new. Some transfered

 

[IntrinsicReef]

I've had some lows and highs. Overall it's been good so far.

Red sea 625 130 gal
Mixed reef
Gold flake angel
Regal Angel
Flame angel
Melanus wrasse
Leopard wrasse
Yellow coris wrasse
Cleaner wrasse
Powder blue tang
Blue hippo tang
Yellow tang
2 black and 1 regular percula clowns
2 cleaner shrimp
1 short spine urchin
2 random purple urchins
1 serpent starfish
1 fromia star
3 clams 1 derasa, 1 maxima, 1 crocea?

Looks very healthy. Great mix of coral and colors. Happy one year anniversary!

 

[PharmrJohn]

That is ridiculous for only 1 year. Were a lot of these transferred from a previous tank? Either way, awesome setup.

Good Lord I agree!

 

[VintageReefer]

Great looking tank! Really awesome progress for a year. Awesome progress even if it was 2 or 3 years

 

[Doctorgori]

Ive never had a tank look that good in 1yr …
You got any “blow by blow” pics from months 6 - 12 ?
Unbelievable! :oops: :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[waqas_01]

Alright, spill the beans. Enough of us are curious. Lets get some details and shots of the equipment and your daily/weekly regiment.

 

[alindell]

Alright, spill the beans. Enough of us are curious. Lets get some details and shots of the equipment and your daily/weekly regiment.

Sorry IDK why I never responded. Must of have missed your message

So my regiment is pretty easy. I have a continuous dose of kalk, I dose AFR like 85 ml a day and I do about a gallon a day of water change. I also manually dose iodide. 10 ml a week and probably 10 ml a week magnesium. Once a week I do a cocktail of reef plus phyto, acro power, bee reef, bacteria and whatever other aminos I have laying around.

Maintenance is fairly lax. Empty skimmer, change out socks, feed fish, move corals, change out filter pads. Every month or so change out carbon reactor.

Sump Equipment is Neptune run. I have a kalkstirrer, run continuously off a kamoer pump, and my two Neptune doses will do an auto water change along with dosing AFR. Reef octo skimmer, brs carbon reactor, 55 wat UV on its own return pump, red sea ato.

2 mp 40s and one gyre. I use the 48 inch aquatic life t5 led hybrid with 3 xr30 g5 blue radions. Ab plus for like 12 hours. 6 hours t5 mid day. That's about it.

I mainly just check alk and ph which I need to get up higher and don't really mess with the tank that much other than moving stuff around. ICP test every 4 months.

 

[alindell]

Ive never had a tank look that good in 1yr …
You got any “blow by blow” pics from months 6 - 12 ?
Unbelievable! :oops: :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

So e recent shots. For the most part it's done pretty good. Recently I lost a colony of across randomly and had another colony rtn and I fragged it so idk what's going on with it. I changed carbon and dipped and it seems to have helped. My main problems in this tank are pests. I think I just found an acro nudibranche which may have caused some rtn and I had some stupid black bugs that I think are still in the tank that I killed with interceptor. There may be some still left but for the most part everything is doing good. Oh and I lost a goldish brown octospawn. Sucks that was a nice piece. Overall haven't lost much.

If I could change one thing I would have bought a new tank brand new and set up a quarantine system. Im lazy and cheap so I went with the Facebook marketplace tank I found lol. But so far I think it's turned out okay

These are my favorite pieces. They really are this bright in the tank.

 

[alindell]

I'm actually setting up another project too gonna do Euphyllia/ lps dominant tank. Euphyllia seem to do pretty good under led. It's an 80 gallon 4 ft tank