Adams 40 Gallon Reef build

AdamNC · Apr 25, 2019

Thanks. I figure now that things are growing nicely it’s time to stop upping the percentage. Any new corals will now have to work around what I have. Even for my WD frag, I’m not going to adjust the lighting for just one frag.

mta_morrow · Apr 25, 2019

Mind if I ask where you maintain your alk, NO3, and PO4?

Mine is steady at alk7.8-8.1, 5-10 NO3, and PO4 at .03-.06

AdamNC · Apr 25, 2019

mta_morrow said:
Mind if I ask where you maintain your alk, NO3, and PO4?

Mine is steady at alk7.8-8.1, 5-10 NO3, and PO4 at .03-.06

Currently
Alk 8.1
Ca 430
Mag 1280
No3 1
Po4 0.08
I2 0.06
Fe 0
K 400ish

AdamNC · May 2, 2019

New addition just picked up from a LFS. I believe it's an ORA Rose Milli but not sure because of the 2" black plastic disk its on. I'm unaware of any places that use a 2"
black plastic plug.

AdamNC · May 3, 2019

And finally a fts. Things are definitely moving forward. Can’t wait for this to fill in. But I still have room for more frags.

mta_morrow · May 4, 2019

AdamNC said:
Currently
Alk 8.1
Ca 430
Mag 1280
No3 1
Po4 0.08
I2 0.06
Fe 0
K 400ish

Thanks! Talk about an exact match for parameters and lighting! Tank is looking great and will be awesome when it grows out!

AdamNC · May 14, 2019

After seeing the other SPS tanks on the Par Data Base post, I've started upping my light percentage again. Slowly 1% every few days and we'll see what happens.

Edit: I decided to not do it. If things in my tank are happy, why mess with the settings.

AdamNC · Jun 1, 2019

So I guess my tank is going in the right direction. My Trochus snails decided to spawn and cloud up the tank.

This tank was crystal clear 5 mins before this pic.

AdamNC · Jun 21, 2019

So a little update. The tank is coming along good, acros growing nicely, acans are sprouting new heads and I decided to add a new fish. A Creamsicle Lyretail Molly. No issues with algae but he was starting to bully my other Molly in my freshwater tank, so he had to go. Last night I did the 8 hour acclimation and a good surprise is he’s still alive this morning and eating with the other fish. The female clown doesn’t like him yet but hopefully she’ll warm up to him and not kill him.

Googled pic but he looks exactly like this.

AdamNC · Jun 22, 2019

Well that didn't last long. I think the female Clown killed the Molly as she was constantly harassing him and now there is no sigh of him. Not even a body unless either it's buried in the rocks or it's now a crab feast.

AdamNC · Jul 20, 2019

Been a while since I posted about this tank but things for the next 4 days are going to be different. A fast moving storm went though my area and knocked out my Apex Classic Main Module. A lightning strike hit my neighbors back year and blew out his TVs, cable boxes and his modem. Talked it over with the wife and instead of 2-3 weeks waiting for Neptune to fix it or say they can't, I just ordered a new full Apex(2016 model), bank account is saying ouch right now. But it should be here on Wednesday from Marine Depot. So that means dosing by hand multiple times a day, using a cheap thermometer to best guess the temps on my heaters. Luckily the light has it's own controller and the Vortechs are synced to each other for a constant Reef Crest mode and not changing modes throughout the day. ATO is a separate unit, XPAqua. Meanwhile when I do get the new one it's going to be a long night setting everything up again as I stupidly did not backup my settings.

AdamNC · Jul 25, 2019

Well Wednesday is here and Marine Depot delivered as promised. Took me a few hours but I got the new Apex and all my equipment back up and running as normal. Never having ORP or Salinity monitoring should prove a little more useful. Tomorrow night I’ll get one on my EB8s up and running and put the FW Planted tank back on it for the heater, temp probe and UV. I had a pH probe run on the old brain but now that I have ORP for the reef tank, I’m going to let that run a while. I don’t think pH is too critical for the Planted tank but the heater option sure is nice.

AdamNC · Jul 25, 2019

Couple of updated pics using a Polyp Lap lens on my phone while the lights were going down.

FTS

Bali Slimer

Aussie Rainbow Shortcake

Neon Green Hammer

Orange Monti Cap with my Chalk Basslet

BC Rainbows in Spain

AdamNC · Jul 25, 2019

Myagi Tort

Ora Rose Millepora

Pearlberry

Purple Scroll Coral

POTO Mean Green Acan

Orange Acan

AdamNC · Aug 3, 2019

New frag I just got today from the LFS.

SSC

NY_Caveman · Aug 3, 2019

AdamNC said:

There are so many different colors. Awesome.

Hemmdog · Aug 3, 2019

Great thread. Your growth the past few months is insane! What do you attribute that to? Do you dose reef energy a&b? If so what time of the day and how much. I need to learn your sps skills, truly impressive.

jaxredsoxfan · Aug 3, 2019

Tank coming along great, nice work!!

AdamNC · Aug 3, 2019

Hemmdog said:
Great thread. Your growth the past few months is insane! What do you attribute that to? Do you dose reef energy a&b? If so what time of the day and how much. I need to learn your sps skills, truly impressive.

Thanks. I dose Reef Energy once a day 6ml of each. No particular time, lights on or off doesn’t seem to really matter. I tried dosing after lights out but I didn’t see any difference.