First Large Tank RedSea 750 Mixed Reef

[Gumbies R Us]

I made some aquascape changes to accommodate some new sticks. Moved my JF jolt to a higher light location since it has not grown at all in a year. Placed my recently purchased goldenrod and greengoblin anacroporas. I am still trying to decide where to put my JF yellowbrick road. It is currently basing out on the plug so I will leave it for now on the new frag rack. I have an elegance, hammer, blasto, and plate coral coming off qt on Wednesday. They will be placed in the tank sometime this week. Pics of modified aquascape with new corals and JF Jolt. Stay tuned for updates!

Green Goblin Anacropora

JF jolt left, Goldenrod anacropora right

Full tank shot under white light.

Tank looks like it is doing really well!!!

 

[Speaker]

This looks great! It looks like you have some great growth! I'm impressed you are able to keep such a variety of different corals. I tried to mix SPS into mine and I couldn't keep both them and all my LPS happy.

Thank you! It's been a challenge. I have moved many corals and lost more than a few to get to this point lol. I also spent many hours moving flow pumps around and adjusting speeds. Definitely would have been a lot easier to pick either LPS or SPS.

 

[Speaker]

Tank looks like it is doing really well!!!

Thank you! The kalkwasser made a huge difference in growth. I'm sure the trace elements helped, but kalkwasser is no joke.

 

[Speaker]

Cherry Corals Bulletproof Elegance

Cool looking plate coral from Jason Fox

Random Hammer

Random Blasto from LFS

 

[Speaker]

This week I sold my large mystic sunset monti because it was taking up to much space. I also sold most of my random zoa frags. I added a third mp40 to give my torches and acros some extra flow. Other than that this week was just basic upkeep.

Full tank shot under whites.

View from the left.

View from the right.

 

[Speaker]

I only made a few minor changes this week. I moved my JF Yellowbrick Road off my frag rack and onto a new ledge I created in the front of my rockwork. I moved my splatter hammer to a location with less flow (unfortunately its in the back of the tank but I am running out of room ). I moved my jawbreaker mushroom cage back to the front and relocated a small hammer that looks suspicously similar to another small colony .

Full tank under mid-day white light.

Right side view of tank.

Front Right close up view.

Front Center close up view.

Front Left close up view.

Left side view of tank.

 

[Speaker]

Just a quick update since it has been awhile. Corals are doing great. I have been keeping to my normal schedule of weekly 25gal waterchanges. Ferrion dosing has increased my chaeto growth so much that I doubt I have to use gfo anymore. I moved a few corals and trimmed both my birdsnests down a bit. The rainbow stylo is much more visible now. I will leave you with these tank shots from the early evening.

Leftside view of tank.

Full tank shot.

Left front view of tank.

Right front view of tank.

Rightside view of tank (desk view).

 

[Heabel7]

The big behemoth is installed( Jebao scp 180). Only running it at 20%. Maybe i shoild have got the size down lol. It does give the tank a cleaner look over the two other jebaos in the corners.

I always think how do you have too much flow in a tank like. I have the same Jebao gyre running at 80%, 2 MP 40s at 80% and a jebao rw8 running max in a 90 gallon. I think I still need more flow. Are you still dosing iso8 MT?

 

[Speaker]

I always think how do you have too much flow in a tank like. I have the same Jebao gyre running at 80%, 2 MP 40s at 80% and a jebao rw8 running max in a 90 gallon. I think I still need more flow. Are you still dosing iso8 MT?

Yes. I am dosing 12ml a day of a solution mixed at 10ml isol8 MT in 990ml of di water. All my lps get pushed to the right really bad if I turn that pump up lol. Sometimes I wonder if I should have went all sps or lps. Would have been easier.

 

[Speaker]

Tried some macro shots. My phone camera isn't the best.

Plate coral I purchased from JasonFox.

Cryptonite candy cane from WWC.

Red dragon from ReefBum.

Peach vampires in drag zoas from local reefer.

Vampires in drag. Local reefer.

Gold hammer. Local.

Birds of paradise birdsnest and german blue digi. Tidal Gardens.

Joker pectinia. Local fragswap.

DragonSoul favia from tidal gardens.

Orange bam bam's zoas. Local fish store. Sunny D's.

Utter chaos, armor of god, utter peace zoas. Not sure what the pink ones are.

Utter peace zoas. PC Rainbow from cherry corals.

Paradise favia from tidal gardens.

Small piece of my huge mystic sunset monti colony. Local reefer.

 

[Speaker]

I figured its time for an update since I haven't posted anything in awhile. First off the things I have changed; I installed a hydros x4 to monitor my pH and temperature. I also have a skimmer sensor because I am running a CO2 scrubber now due to my pH being around 7.8 in the summer with the windows closed and ac running.

I recently converted it to a recirculating scrubber with 3d printed items from fish of hex aquatics. The scrubber itself is the brs scrubber. The media was only lasting 4 days without these changes. My alkalinty dosing has increased drastically over the last couple of weeks (increased to 60ml from 30ml). My pH now sits between 8.2 and 8.3 during the day and close to 8.2 at night. I also drilled the ato and added a float switch because I got tired of forgetting to turn off my ro di unit and dropping the salinty in the display. I removed my gfo/carbon reactor about 4months ago because my refugium is now maintaining my phosphate levels at 0.1ppm and nitrate between 6.0-8.0ppm. I am currently dosing 60ml of esv 2part per day and 1 gallon of kalkwasser. I am also hand dosing 2.5ml of brightwell ferrion per day to keep my iron levels up for my refugium in addition to the 3ml a day of chaeto gro. I also adjusted my trace element dosing of isol8mt down to 5ml per day of my diluted solution after doing icp tests every 4-6 weeks to check my levels. Before these adjustments my nickle and iodine levels were too high which I believe was causing problems with my sps corals. I had an alk swing over the summer when I first added my CO2 scrubber to increase my pH. This resulted in the death of one of my acropora and the loss of several heads from one my frogspawns. I also realized due to a recent video on radeon lights by World Wide Corals that my lights somehow got turned down due to the schedule intensity being set to 50% instead of 100%. This resulted in my lights only running at 25% intensity instead of 50%. They are currently in acclimation mode raising the levels back up slowly over the next 3 months. This is probably a big reason why my sps corals do not have the coloration they should (alot of brown and green‍). I believe this covers any major changes I have made. Below are some images of the tank taken today with a full tank shot to start then images left to right.