Hi everyone,
I've been lurking for a few months but finally decided to start a build thread for my mixed reef Red Sea Reefer 350.
Before the Red Sea Reefer, I had a 35 gallon cube tank that I upgraded very quickly after falling in love with the hobby. I set up the cube in January but only a couple months later decided I wanted a bigger tank and settled on a Red Sea Reefer 350.
Current lighting is a 4 foot T-5 hybrid fixture and two Radions (Gen 3 I believe). I have two Nero 5s for Powerheads, an Aquamaxx ConeS Co-1 for a skimmer, and a Coralife Turbo Twist 12x UV sterilizer. I dose 21 mL of All-For-Reef daily using a bubble magus dosing pump. In addition, I have added a 25 gallon display refugium/bubble tip anemone cube and dose live phytoplankton for nutrient control.
Photo from April 26th, right after curing my gulf live rock. I apologize in advance for the dirty glass and cloudy water:
Photo from May 1st, after moving my corals and fish from my cube:
Photo from today (unfiltered and filtered) I added some rock from another reefer tearing down their tank:
Wow! I can't believe how much things have changed! I am currently on the tail end of a bubble algae outbreak and before that, I had an issue with bryopsis. In addition, some of the corals have made it through a couple of heat waves in the summer and an ice storm that knocked out our power for 4 days last winter. Despite all that, the corals have done really well and many have grown. My SPS aren't as colorful as they could be due to not enough light and a battle with AEF, but are growing. I am slowly increasing the light intensity on the right side of the tank in an attempt to get better colors and faster growth. I am hopeful that the AEF worms are gone after dipping all acros five times with Melafix. A few were looking bald but have since regrown completely and I haven't seen anything else getting chewed on.
In the next post, I'll add more coral pictures. I love torches and hammers!
I've been lurking for a few months but finally decided to start a build thread for my mixed reef Red Sea Reefer 350.
Before the Red Sea Reefer, I had a 35 gallon cube tank that I upgraded very quickly after falling in love with the hobby. I set up the cube in January but only a couple months later decided I wanted a bigger tank and settled on a Red Sea Reefer 350.
Current lighting is a 4 foot T-5 hybrid fixture and two Radions (Gen 3 I believe). I have two Nero 5s for Powerheads, an Aquamaxx ConeS Co-1 for a skimmer, and a Coralife Turbo Twist 12x UV sterilizer. I dose 21 mL of All-For-Reef daily using a bubble magus dosing pump. In addition, I have added a 25 gallon display refugium/bubble tip anemone cube and dose live phytoplankton for nutrient control.
Photo from April 26th, right after curing my gulf live rock. I apologize in advance for the dirty glass and cloudy water:
Photo from May 1st, after moving my corals and fish from my cube:
Photo from today (unfiltered and filtered) I added some rock from another reefer tearing down their tank:
Wow! I can't believe how much things have changed! I am currently on the tail end of a bubble algae outbreak and before that, I had an issue with bryopsis. In addition, some of the corals have made it through a couple of heat waves in the summer and an ice storm that knocked out our power for 4 days last winter. Despite all that, the corals have done really well and many have grown. My SPS aren't as colorful as they could be due to not enough light and a battle with AEF, but are growing. I am slowly increasing the light intensity on the right side of the tank in an attempt to get better colors and faster growth. I am hopeful that the AEF worms are gone after dipping all acros five times with Melafix. A few were looking bald but have since regrown completely and I haven't seen anything else getting chewed on.
In the next post, I'll add more coral pictures. I love torches and hammers!