Started this tank on a whim in fall of 2019 after years away from the hobby. Ran all my old equipment for the first few months. Old corallife 250 halide and actinic mix and some old maxi jets. Plus a hob filter for some carbon.
Now have a single AI prime puck. One constant power head and a Nero 5 blasting random. Whisper HOB died so replaced it with another for $15 on Amazon. Other than
After a year of good growth was struggling to keep alk stable and lps were suffering so started dosing AFR using a kamoer Bluetooth micro doser. That solved my all issues and everything bounced back. Had some frogspawn at near death and it came all the way back in a couple months. Liked the doser so much bought another to use as an ATO and dose some nitrates in my top off water consistently. After a few months of the AFR my nitrates had bottomed out and zoas were suffering, so started adding brightwell neonitro to get them off of zero. At 3 ml a day I register about 4 on a Red Sea test.
tank is stocked with a variety zoas, lps (love chalices), and montis.
inverts are a handful of asters snails, nassarius, and hermits that I threw in when I started the tank and still going strong. Inherited some limpets hitchhikers from some friends coral and they have proliferated and keep the rocks clean of algae, and coralline I believe.
fish are a pair of cheap percula clowns, a fat mandarin that I got trained on a variety of pellets/dried mysis, and a royal gramma. Will post a full tank shot when I’m home.
Now have a single AI prime puck. One constant power head and a Nero 5 blasting random. Whisper HOB died so replaced it with another for $15 on Amazon. Other than
After a year of good growth was struggling to keep alk stable and lps were suffering so started dosing AFR using a kamoer Bluetooth micro doser. That solved my all issues and everything bounced back. Had some frogspawn at near death and it came all the way back in a couple months. Liked the doser so much bought another to use as an ATO and dose some nitrates in my top off water consistently. After a few months of the AFR my nitrates had bottomed out and zoas were suffering, so started adding brightwell neonitro to get them off of zero. At 3 ml a day I register about 4 on a Red Sea test.
tank is stocked with a variety zoas, lps (love chalices), and montis.
inverts are a handful of asters snails, nassarius, and hermits that I threw in when I started the tank and still going strong. Inherited some limpets hitchhikers from some friends coral and they have proliferated and keep the rocks clean of algae, and coralline I believe.
fish are a pair of cheap percula clowns, a fat mandarin that I got trained on a variety of pellets/dried mysis, and a royal gramma. Will post a full tank shot when I’m home.
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