Dees 80 gallon reef tank

[DEE’S reef]

So the tank here is the tank I bought from a local fish store that was going out of business.

Brought home and cleaned it up re sanded and and painted it I brought it home towards the middle of September and I then focused on rock.
I ended up getting rock from market place and bleaching it then I was working on aquascaping.

So this was the first draft then I kept the right and scraped the left side.

Scape plan 2

 

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I also tried qt my first finish a pair of lighting maroons they ended up doing due to a parameter shift.
Then went with the second scape idea and glued then moved everything over to the tank and finished gluing

Next was add water and sand and start the cycle

A week later start of December got lights hung up and cycle kinda of stalled added a a little ammonia then I was fine.

Eventually the cycle finished in mid December around the 13th
Cycle was done a the guy who got me into reefing was taking down his tank and he gave me his clown and tang on Christmas

I added clean up crew a couple weeks later green algae got everything covered atleeast the rock. I also tried qt my first gobie he was so stressed he died the other one jump when he got stressed from a small water change. Added the skimmer

I then qt a gobie and clown successfully then sand got green and dirty then I added a conch

 

[DEE’S reef]

Fast forward to Valentine’s Day and I added my gobie and clown fish to the tank

the conch got stuck I moved him and Tuesday some weird algae I noticed and yesterday was the start of coralline algae.

 

[DEE’S reef]

So this is this weeks numbers for testing twice a week and the numbers at the bottom are a 2 month average of my numbers.