Am I doing this right?

Oregon Grown Reef · Sep 7, 2019

SMSREEF said:
Nice tank Nate! That tank looks pretty big what size is it?

Cooper-band Butterfly (CBB) is my favorite fish. Gonna be setting up a 60 cube and am thinking about this fish being centerpiece. Does your CBB seem like it needs/wants more room?

Edit, I see it’s 50 gal

All of the fish need more room. It's still too early to tell if he's fully comfortable. Day 1 he was swimming around like he was apart of the team, but the Purple Tang had to swim a couple of laps with him to make sure nothing funky was going on. He's been picking at rockwork like a madman looking for little things to eat on. He hasn't touched the corals though. I will say, they are extremely picky eaters though. I couldn't get him to eat Hikari Mega Marine, so I bought some bloodworms, mysis, and clams on the half shell for him to munch on.

Oregon Grown Reef · Sep 7, 2019

Auquanut said:
Welcome Nate. Nice looking tank. Glad to have you as an active member. Lets see that 90.

Build thread soon to come!

Oregon Grown Reef · Sep 7, 2019

DeepSouth said:
Welcome to R2R! Nice tank. I want to eventually have a copperband. Does he nip corals much?

Nothing yet. Anything is possible on a long enough timeline though.

Oregon Grown Reef · Sep 7, 2019

Redfoxtang said:
Welcome to R2R!! Tank looks good!! What lights are powering it!?!

Just picked up my 3rd AI Prime HD. I'm running them with the Aquatic Life T5 Hybrid with 3 blue+ and 1 coral+ to help with shadowing. I'm running the BRS spectrum they made to emulate AB+. 1 hour ramp up and down with 8 hours at full. I believe the T5's are on for 6 hours.

Oregon Grown Reef · Sep 7, 2019

vetteguy53081 said:
Tank looking nice. How long has it been running ?

With corals in it, just over a year. Almost 2 years since I bought it, but I didn't want to rush putting in corals. Not because I knew to wait, but because I was too afraid. If only I had done more research before taking that first plunge. I've experienced some extremely slow growth in corals that should be quick growers. That's what happens when you use API test kits at first and don't do your research on dosing.

Ruben's Reef · Sep 7, 2019

!!! Welcome to R2R Nate !!! Nice looking tank.

Careugh · Sep 7, 2019

Absolutely beautiful. Can’t wait to see more.

BeejReef · Sep 7, 2019

Real nice!

Welcome

rodney · Sep 7, 2019

Welcome to!

Tiger Brown · Sep 7, 2019

Gorgeous tank. Welcome!

Oregon Grown Reef · Sep 7, 2019

Thanks everyone for the awesome welcome! This already feels like a place I'm going to make a lot of friends. I'm going to work on getting a few build threads going. I'll try to get the build for this tank going first since it's pretty simple.