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Great looking scape! This waiting for stuff to brew is such an exercise in patience.Finally got the lights installed and tested on mine, unfortunately I won't turn them on full time for another month at least. Pic for the heck of it.
Your tank looks great! I need to update with some pics as well. But to answer your question yep it took us a while to figure out why flow was so slow using one pump for everything. We solved it like you did, separate pump for the UV and small pump for the media reactors. It did have us scratching out heard there for a bit wondering what the heck we were doing wrong to get the flow so slow.Post better pictures later. Have you experienced what I'm talking about. Like water doesn't circulate the display enough. I see your uv is plumbed off the chiller manifold and circulated back to the sump.
The skeleton looks pretty cool though! Get some time of encrusting coral and let it grow over it!So kind of a cool thing we thought we would share. Recently bought yet more corals from @Pieces of the Ocean @TeamPOTO during one of their sales. Sidenote if you haven't participated in their sales they are some of the most fun I've had buying corals, wheeling and dealing and just generally a great group.
Anyway the shipment was overnighted and they got stuck in Nashville. A few days go by and POTO says they aren't coming and issues a credit. Fantastic service and we were all bummed about the couple unique things that got lost and likely died in Nashville.
Fast forward 20 days and the box shows up yesterday. Obviously different box that looks torn to shreds and three baggies of what at something we're magnificent corals but now it just looked like a bag of seafood chowder you might get in a city that is landlocked. And the smell oh boy.
Anyway POTO said throw them away don't even try to open that mess and I agreed. But then curiosity got the best of us and we opened up the bags, the two unique specimens were obviously way far gone but the freebie they threw in, a Galaxea we think had a little something, or so we hoped. We acclimated it in salt water for a good 4 hours then soaked in an iodine bath for another 30 mins.
My son and I thought we might see some flesh but we knew it was pretty much a lost cause but we put it in the tank anyway.
This morning we woke up to what looks like a barely holding on but trying to make a comeback Galaxea. It's not out of the woods and likely still will fade but dang if this thing isn't a fighter.
We may or may not have gone out this morning to look at the other two corals. Man they were a hot mess but there is a pic of what they looked like after we rinsed and dipped. No chance they make it
It would be a miracle and then you’ll know what the hardest coral is. Might even survive if you nuked itYeah very cool skeleton. That galaxea though, if it survives and it looks like it might, that is some sort of miracle.
You have a nice collection of mushrooms going in your Cade!Been a while since we updated. With everything on it made our water too clean so couldn't get any sort of phosphates or nitrates going. Tuned off the reactors and uv for a good few weeks and now coralline is growing in the sump. Started dosing with all in one and slowly adding some cool corals.
We also added a spectrapure ato that keeps the back ato hold filled and the dos which does weekly water changes for us.
Still learning a ton and still not ready to try our luck with cuttlefish eggs. Also still really enjoying the cade.