A red sea 525xl deluxe build

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Hello everyone that is reading this
We are a couple from Amsterdam and first of all ill apolgise for the grammar errors in english

After a few years in the freshwater hobby we decided to upgrade to salt

So after some investigation we bought a new red sea reefer 525xl deluxe

We started with dead rock for an easier aquascape build 20210202_164600.jpg

The equipment we used to start were
3x reefled 90s
Red sea skimmer 600
Aquamedic 9.2 return pump
2x reefwave 45
Aquamedic helix 2.0 11w uv
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After the cycle we started with a few fish:
Lawnmower blennie (henkie is dutch)
2 clown
And a cleaner wrasse
Also a handfull of snails hermits en 2 cleaners shrimp


And a month later we put in A foxface with a tang 20210323_151520.jpg
Then after a few weeks we bought 2 more tangs and some time later we got 9 anthiasses

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Everything was thriving until my nitrates got high and started to dose nopox, my biggest mistake ever


The nopox flattend out my po4 and we started to get dino's and to make things worse we got marine velvet because a lfs had velvet from his wholeseller

I tried to save most of my fish in a qt tank and thought that they were oke started get colour back and no more spots
A week later they all died
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Now after 2 months battling with dinos i think ive won it and now we starting it up more slowly putting in more corals etc
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Hi,
welcome, and your tank is looking great, sorry to hear about the fish.

I am in the process of stocking my tank, would you mind listing what corals you have? Are you dosing any supplements?
Thanks!
 
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Hi,
welcome, and your tank is looking great, sorry to hear about the fish.

I am in the process of stocking my tank, would you mind listing what corals you have? Are you dosing any supplements?
Thanks!
I dont mind let me see
Left to right i got
In de back i think they called singularia leathers
-2 ricordeas
-disk anemone
-hystrix
-4 types of hammers
-stylopora 2 coloured
-3 torches 1 is a dragon soul rest i dont know
-hollywood stunner chalice
-2 mushrooms 1 green
-montipora plates grwen purple and red
-montipora hirsuata
-2 gorgonians 1 leather 1 menella kind
-devilclaw
-3 acan red rainbow en bluegreen
-duncans
-green star polyps
-Bubble tip anemone
- 2 rockflowers
-Bunch of zoas

I think thats about it


I only dose 2 part from ati
 
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Been awhile for an update
We've bin busy stocking the tank with fish once again
After 2 weeks qt observation each we put 4 fish in
We now have swimming in the tank
2 picasso clown
2 chinese dart fish
1 midas blennie
1 couple flasher wrasses
1 lemon wrasse
1 diamond wrasse
1 salarias rembosus
1 couple yasha+pistol shrimp
1 Blue tang
1 xanthurum
1 other tang dont know the name
1 kauderni
1 hawkfish
1 gramma loretto

We also put in an clarisea sk5000 so no more filter sock changes :)

Hopefully we dont get any deaths or plaques for a while
 

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After long delays ive finally have my new lights
I bought 2 orphek icon compacts

After a half day of work they are hanging
I only think i need one more

What do you guys thunk
 

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3rd light from orphek has arrived
I cant run it higher then 60%

Nitrates finally going down slowly

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