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Pretty amazing build. Just made it through this whole thread.

One question, how much does your wife think this whole thing cost? My standard rule is to divide every price by 3 when I get the cost questions.

Thanks I am glad you enjoyed the thread and the setup. It is a bit of a read now to get through the whole thing. I found that with this build honesty was the best policy when it came to costs. My wife is fully aware of the cost and when I started the build I gave her an estimated cost for the setup without livestock. With fish and corals she does attend shows and in fact she even got me a WWC bounce as a gift. I have just been slowly stocking up the tanks to spread the cost out on livestock.
 

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Thanks I am glad you enjoyed the thread and the setup. It is a bit of a read now to get through the whole thing. I found that with this build honesty was the best policy when it came to costs. My wife is fully aware of the cost and when I started the build I gave her an estimated cost for the setup without livestock. With fish and corals she does attend shows and in fact she even got me a WWC bounce as a gift. I have just been slowly stocking up the tanks to spread the cost out on livestock.
That’s a good wife. I like this stuff and even I won’t pay for a WWC bounce. Unfortunately mine still freaks out even when I tell her the one third price for things.
 
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That’s a good wife. I like this stuff and even I won’t pay for a WWC bounce. Unfortunately mine still freaks out even when I tell her the one third price for things.

The WWC bounce was a gift for me and it was actually a good deal as far as WWC bounce goes. I was about the size of a quarter when I got it and now its almost the size of a silver dollar now. Here is a picture from a few weeks ago.

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Wanted to share an update on the system. The tanks are doing well. I am having a small battle with aptasia in the reef tank but I just added some bergia to help combat them. I also just added a frag tank to the system which has been running for about a week now. I just need to mount the lights and it will be ready to start growing some coral frags.
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Hey there... Any updates? Anything new and different?
 
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The fish are all doing great and some of them are growing like weeds. The corals for the most part are doing well. I had something happen a few weeks back and I lost some of my SPS. Not sure if its chemical warfare or a water quality issue but some of them bleached. I also lost two LPS corals. One of the LPS corals I suspect was killed by the bubble coral sweepers and the other just slowly withered away. The only water parameter that I saw was off was the P04 but some algae harvesting seemed to take care of that issue. I did have some additional maintenance that was needed so I swapped out all of my RO prefilters and DI stages, replaced my T5 bulbs, and did a 100 gallon water change over the last couple of weeks. Everything seems to be stabilized. The frag tank I installed is a project on hold. I installed lights over the tank but I have not programmed them yet. While I was observing bioluminescence one night I checked the frag tank for activity and there was a lot visible by what I suspect are worms. I am going to try and divert some efforts into studying these organisms to learn more about them and this frag tank seems to be a predator free environment where they thrive. It has also been a busy summer so the tanks are running on auto pilot for the most part right now and I have not had the time to conduct any research. I will see if I can get around to posting some pictures this weekend.
 

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The fish are all doing great and some of them are growing like weeds. The corals for the most part are doing well. I had something happen a few weeks back and I lost some of my SPS. Not sure if its chemical warfare or a water quality issue but some of them bleached. I also lost two LPS corals. One of the LPS corals I suspect was killed by the bubble coral sweepers and the other just slowly withered away. The only water parameter that I saw was off was the P04 but some algae harvesting seemed to take care of that issue. I did have some additional maintenance that was needed so I swapped out all of my RO prefilters and DI stages, replaced my T5 bulbs, and did a 100 gallon water change over the last couple of weeks. Everything seems to be stabilized. The frag tank I installed is a project on hold. I installed lights over the tank but I have not programmed them yet. While I was observing bioluminescence one night I checked the frag tank for activity and there was a lot visible by what I suspect are worms. I am going to try and divert some efforts into studying these organisms to learn more about them and this frag tank seems to be a predator free environment where they thrive. It has also been a busy summer so the tanks are running on auto pilot for the most part right now and I have not had the time to conduct any research. I will see if I can get around to posting some pictures this weekend.

Thanks for the update! Sorry you lost some SPS. Those worms sound cool!
 
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The tanks have been running good the last few months. I have lost some corals mostly sps and lps from some kind of slow die off. I did a series of water changes and changed my salt. It seems that everything has stabilized and the coral losses have stopped but I will complete some additional water changes in the near future. The fish are doing well and growing like weeds. Lost a wrasse in the reef tank that was unexpected but it was an adult size fish when it was purchased. Here are some pictures I took just before RAP Chicago.

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Tanks look great. Saw you at RAP and wanted to come up and introduce myself but at that moment you were in a conversation with someone. Didn’t want to butt in or lurk so moved on. Just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed your systems, R2R content and YouTube content as well. Thanks!
 
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Tanks look great. Saw you at RAP and wanted to come up and introduce myself but at that moment you were in a conversation with someone. Didn’t want to butt in or lurk so moved on. Just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed your systems, R2R content and YouTube content as well. Thanks!

Thanks @soffutt I appreciate the compliment.
Always feel free to say hello if you see me at a show.
 
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