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Better late than never.... decided it was time to start a build thread! 75 gallons of newbie reef, up and running for 8 months now. Planning for the reef started officially a year ago now when we still had only a FOWLR and I had never even heard of reef2reef! We had a rough start, trying to use dry rock with misguided advice that resulted in a very stinky first floor of the house. No harm no foul besides a wife that was less than amused. Dry rock ended up cycling in a rubber made and live rock was purchased for the tank. Wife was happy and house no longer smelled like a dead beach. Wins for all.
Due to my phone taking a dive into some water, some of the early footage is no more, but our fowlr would eventually leak and we would be thankful to have a cycled tank in late 2018 where we could move our little inhabitants over. Much biospira was used in the process as I was very worried about increasing the bioload too quickly but everything went well.
I can’t for the life of me get good pictures of my faster fish my with phone so pics of my wrasse and coral beauty are terrible or just may not be included, but maybe someone will give me pointers. [emoji4]
Reef is maintained using small fuge, reef octopus skimmer, occasionally running gfo and carbon, Hydor Koralia 3rd gen pumps, Kessil a360wes, very regular water changes, and consistently adding new clean up crew as Wally the melanarus wrasse loves to keep the crew to a minimum [emoji6]
I’ve been lucky to only lose a couple corals. 2 euphyllia (a hammer and a frogspawn) due to a heater failure early on and one torch that I still do not understand. Torch receded and died. Torch died a few months ago now. Everything else in the tank is still doing well. Wish I understood what happened with the torch. Maybe I overloved it. It was my favorite torch (don’t tell the others) so I was pretty bummed about it.
Pics to follow. (Blue tank background are older pics. Black background was updated late fall 2018)
Due to my phone taking a dive into some water, some of the early footage is no more, but our fowlr would eventually leak and we would be thankful to have a cycled tank in late 2018 where we could move our little inhabitants over. Much biospira was used in the process as I was very worried about increasing the bioload too quickly but everything went well.
I can’t for the life of me get good pictures of my faster fish my with phone so pics of my wrasse and coral beauty are terrible or just may not be included, but maybe someone will give me pointers. [emoji4]
Reef is maintained using small fuge, reef octopus skimmer, occasionally running gfo and carbon, Hydor Koralia 3rd gen pumps, Kessil a360wes, very regular water changes, and consistently adding new clean up crew as Wally the melanarus wrasse loves to keep the crew to a minimum [emoji6]
I’ve been lucky to only lose a couple corals. 2 euphyllia (a hammer and a frogspawn) due to a heater failure early on and one torch that I still do not understand. Torch receded and died. Torch died a few months ago now. Everything else in the tank is still doing well. Wish I understood what happened with the torch. Maybe I overloved it. It was my favorite torch (don’t tell the others) so I was pretty bummed about it.
Pics to follow. (Blue tank background are older pics. Black background was updated late fall 2018)
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