Caleb’s 75 gallon reef

[cale0721]

Hey everyone! I’ve posted threads in the past on here but I didn’t want to revive an old thread so here is a new one for me to document my progress going forward.

It’s been a tough road since moving my tank back in September of 2016. It’s going though lots of cycles of red cyano and Dino’s then it does well for a bit and it starts again. I’m now on the up hill again. Restarting my regimen of biodigest and dr Tim’s waste away.

Also I have upgraded my skimmer from a sca302 to a bubble magus curve 7 [emoji7]

It seriously had zero break in period and started making skim mate right away. I’m very impressed!

Here are some pictures from today.

My bubble magus curve 7 after only 2 1/2 days going ..

 

[Denisk]

Your tank looks great! I’m assuming your done with the Dino? From the pictures, I don’t see anything that indicates that you have Dino. Can’t wait to see more updates!

 

[cale0721]

Your tank looks great! I’m assuming your done with the Dino? From the pictures, I don’t see anything that indicates that you have Dino. Can’t wait to see more updates!

Thanks!!
Yea finally they are gone. I’ve had good luck with Dino x then using biodigest and waste away to keep them away. But I ran out of waste away so figured I didn’t need it anymore then I was wrong. So ordered another bottle to continue.

I recently did a fluconazole treatment to take care of some hair algae from neglect of the tank and now I’m rotating weekly of biodigest and waste away. So far so good!

 

[Denisk]

Glad to hear you beat dino. I beat it myself but my goodness did I hate it. Do you feel like the fluconazole is helping with the GHA?

 

[cale0721]

Glad to hear you beat dino. I beat it myself but my goodness did I hate it. Do you feel like the fluconazole is helping with the GHA?

It definitely works. I’ve done this treatment before for bryopsis and it works for that too. Even got rid of what I bought was red cyano this time. I just have the green left which I plan to treat with peroxide eventually.

But yea Dino really sucks bc it can smoother the crap out of Corals quick and kill them. I’ve lost a ton of sps due to it. Boo!!

 

[BlueDevil]

Looking good Caleb! [emoji106]

 

[BlueDevil]

Glad to hear you beat dino. I beat it myself but my goodness did I hate it. Do you feel like the fluconazole is helping with the GHA?

Not Caleb but in my case, a combination of fluc plus a good number of turbo snails and hermits wiped out all my hair algae. Now, I’m not sure if the fluc is what did it but that was the only new addition to my regimen other than cuc and GFO. In the past just cuc and GFO was not able to get rid of the GHA.

 

[seaplane]

Nice tank Caleb. Will be awesome when all those frags take off. I'm jealous of the clams.

 

[Jeeper]

I have 2 of the Curve 5, one in each tank. I wish mine had broken in that easy. I ran them both in a bucket for 2 weeks and then had to build platforms and run them in about 4" of water to keep them from overflowing. They both work great now, removed the platforms and have even taken them apart and vinegar soaked them during my annual sump cleanings. But man did they take forever to break in. Maybe it's the difference in the 5 and 7....

 

[ZIGGY63]

Looking good, I hate moving tanks. It took mine awhile to get back to normal after I moved.

 

[Dufish]

Sweet!! LOVE THE TORCH

 

[Chriscrna]

Looking good man. Time to start rolling now!

 

[ClutchKargo]

Looks Great!

 

[cale0721]

This Walt Disney frag is on its way to me. Will be here tomorrow woohoo!

Then I bought two frags from Fraghouse live sale on the 10th

Got a frag of wwc cosmic fury

And a frag is rr the vinh

Pretty excited about these three frags!

 

[Chriscrna]

Cosmic Fury looks awesome!

You got them mounted?

 

[cale0721]

Cosmic Fury looks awesome!

You got them mounted?

Not yet but soon

 

[cale0721]

Some pictures

 

[cale0721]

Current stock list -fish


2 blacker Ice clown fish
3 red firefish
3 orange anthia’s
1 foxface
1 flasher wrasse
1 melanurus wrasse - middle of transition
1 six line wrasse
1 mandarin
1 lawn mower Blenny
1 small yellow watchmen goby

 

[seased]

Looks good! Is the second to last Acro picture your grape juice?

 

[cale0721]

Looks good! Is the second to last Acro picture your grape juice?

It is the grape juice.