Wisco Tank/Build Updates

JayRozzer · Mar 24, 2021

Geeze why are you/petco so far. They have them here but they want twice as much for one.

littlebeard · Mar 24, 2021

Bit of a tank update. I decided to go nuclear on the cyno... after raising nitrates and phosphates, it would waste away a bit then come back. I was not liking the yo-yo effect as I know they were consuming the nutrients I was dosing. The cyno also decided to cover some of my corals. So chemiclean time.

Worked amazingly, although skimmer not quite back to normal yet. Also added some carbon to help eliminate whatever might be left. I'm keeping a close eye on the nitrates and phosphates as I don't want those to zero out again. Might get the dreaded dinos. Time will tell.

The funny or sad thing is, after I started dosing, I noticed I finally started getting some coraline algae and now I know this is all because my nitrates and phosphates were too low. I never imagined I would have too much nutrient export.

Also added a midas blenny and algae blenny. (I know, I don't need a algae blenny with no algae but the wife likes how he perches on the rocks.)

JayRozzer · Mar 25, 2021

What are you dosing out of curiosity ?

littlebeard · Mar 25, 2021

JayRozzer said:
What are you dosing out of curiosity ?

Nitrate - NeoNitro
Phosphate - NeoPhos
Alk, Cal, Mg - BRS 2 part

The alk, cal, mag has been very minimal as I just don't have very much demand on those yet.

Tank is ~125
Still working out the nitrate and phosphate.

Nitrate:
Was dosing 20 ml/day and seeing very minimal gains. Finally got it to ~6 ppm so going to try and hold it there. I'm testing 5 ml a day.

Phosphate:
Was dosing 5 ml/day and saw some gain. Stopped a few days and it bottomed out. My guess is my rock is soaking it up.
I'm at about ~.03ppm so I'm going to try and hold it steady there. Hoping 2.5ml will do it.

JayRozzer · Mar 25, 2021

littlebeard said:
Nitrate - NeoNitro
Phosphate - NeoPhos
Alk, Cal, Mg - BRS 2 part

The alk, cal, mag has been very minimal as I just don't have very much demand on those yet.

Tank is ~125
Still working out the nitrate and phosphate.

Nitrate:
Was dosing 20 ml/day and seeing very minimal gains. Finally got it to ~6 ppm so going to try and hold it there. I'm testing 5 ml a day.

Phosphate:
Was dosing 5 ml/day and saw some gain. Stopped a few days and it bottomed out. My guess is my rock is soaking it up.
I'm at about ~.03ppm so I'm going to try and hold it steady there. Hoping 2.5ml will do it.

Nice. I recently started dosing NeoNitro as well. I never thought I’d ever have to dose nitrates haha.

littlebeard · Mar 25, 2021

JayRozzer said:
Nice. I recently started dosing NeoNitro as well. I never thought I’d ever have to dose nitrates haha.

Just curious did you start with dryrock or liverock?

JayRozzer · Mar 25, 2021

littlebeard said:
Just curious did you start with dryrock or liverock?

Dry

Dunc · Mar 25, 2021

WIReefer said:
He’s coming back tomorrow to tweak it a bit he’s going to be putting plastic covers over them in case of splashing.

That’s what I did too. Good idea.

Jon's Reef · Mar 25, 2021

Added a few new mushrooms:

Baby OG bounce

Electus and unnamed rhodactis

JayRozzer · Mar 26, 2021

Ended up snagging the AquaMaxx 22. Not sure on location yet but this will be home to the yellow tang for a bit while it finishes quarantine. I might end up making it my coral tank. The footprint is a lot nicer than the cube 20.

WIReefer · Mar 26, 2021

Are you going to treat the tang with copper in that tank?

JayRozzer · Mar 26, 2021

WIReefer said:
Are you going to treat the tang with copper in that tank?

No. It’s in copper right now in a separate tank. The most ill dose in this tank is general cure.

WIReefer · Mar 26, 2021

JayRozzer said:
No. It’s in copper right now in a separate tank. The most ill dose in this tank is general cure.

Gotcha just wanted to make sure you weren’t going to make a mistake if you wanted coral later lol

Zach B · Mar 31, 2021

Well, I'm horrible at documenting everything I've done. I think a camera crew would have to follow me around as I do stuff here and there all day lol. I have the tank/system running and heating up

There is a dedicated apex tablet next to the tank. 4 leak sensors installed around the tanks and sump. I have 8 fish in qt in 3 seperate tanks. Also going to be finishing my stand, canopy and I'm sure plenty of other stuff lol. Here's some pics!

JayRozzer · Apr 1, 2021

Deleted my question hahah. Answer was right in the post. Nice setup!

Zach B · Apr 1, 2021

You had the the right question. I just meant finishing as in completing. I'll be painting the stand and trim white, I think... Thank you, getting there

Jon's Reef · Apr 1, 2021

Added a few new Acros (*=new):
Bottom left: TGC Cherry Bomb*
Top: Walt Disney, JF Homewrecker*, SCOP*, Jawdropper*, JF Solar Flare
Top Back: Unamed, PC Rainbow (kind of hidden behind HW), WWC Yellow Tip

Also have a bucket of rock curing, going to fill in the back-middle/right side a bit for more coral room. The mirror window tint on the left is to reduce some aggression between my potter angel and tomini tang.