Greg’s 210 mixed reef update

[Grsfish]

I have had a 55 gallon tank for about 3 years and then had a tank leak and temporarily moved my livestock to another aquarium for a few months. In that time I lost almost all of my sps and a bunch of Lps corals. Now I am in the process of finishing my basement and have set up my new 210 gallon aquarium.

Equipment list
3 viparspectra led lights
3 jebao wavemakers
Jebao dosing pump with brs 2 part
Aqua max fc 280 protein skimmer.
40 gallon sump

 

[Grsfish]

My current livestock list
Fish
Blue hippo tang
Dejardini sailfin tang
Yellow eye Kole tang
Coral beauty angelfish
Melanarus wrasse
Orchid dottyback
2 ocelleris clowns
2 blue green chromis
2 fire fish gobies
I plan on adding a Naso tang. Yellow tang. And mimic tang as well as a couple more wrasses

inverts. A bunch of blue and red leg hermits. A bunch of trochus snails Halloween urchin. 1 brittle starfish. 4 conches.

 

[Grsfish]

Coral/ anemone list
4 RBTA
2 rainbow bubble tip
1 green bubble tip

sps
green milli
Green slimer
Kelly green psamacorra
Monti Setosa
Monti tubbs stellata
Bubble gum digi monti
Plating red monti
Grafted sun monti
Bugout stylo
Red planet
Route 66 Mega chrome monti

tracy Morgan gorgonian
Purple candelabra gorgonian

soft corals
green capnella
Pink Japanese nepthea
Green sinularia
Green cabbage
Pulsing sinularia
Pink finger leather
Green polyp toadstool
Yellow Fiji toadstool
Long polyp pink toadstool
Neon green green star polyp
Branching green star polyp
Devils hand leather

Mushrooms
og bounce
Sunkist bounce
Interstellar bounce
Frankenstein
Magic carpet
Jawbreaker
Orange yuma
Rainbow yuma
Orange rhodactis
Pink dot mushrooms
Blue mushrooms
Blue striped mushrooms
Green hairy mushroom

zoas
purple monster
Rasta
Star gazers
Utter chaos
Sunny d
Nirvana
Scrambled eggs
Gatorade
Radioactive dragon eye

LPS
Neon green candy cane
Merleti blasto
Red with black mouth blasto
Dragon soul favia
Grafted war coral
Splattered hammer
Gold hammer
Green hammer
Bubble coral
Space invader chalice
Orange fungia plate

 

[dungdatinh]

Very nice tank

 

[Arricefe]

Very nice!

 

[sdubler]

Hi!! Do you happen to remember the source of where you got your Tracy Morgan gorgonian? I’ve been looking for them for a while now.

Thanks so much,

sdubler

 

[Coralsdaily]

You done stocking or adding more?

 

[Grsfish]

I have battled different types of algae and increased phosphates and nitrates and lost a bunch of corals. I have also battled ich and lost some fish. Now over the last month or 2 everything finally seems to be doing really good both fish and corals. Alkalinity has. Even pretty stable around 7.6 calcium around 550 magnesium around 1200. Phosphates have been reading about .01 and nitrates still a bit high at 20-40

 

[Grsfish]

Here are some updated pics

 

[Grsfish]

Full tank shot

 

[Grsfish]

Here are some updates to my tank. I lost some fish from ich. I waited a couple of months and was then able to start adding some new fish. My biggest problem right now is I have high nitrates which I believe has caused some of my Lps and sps to die or just not look as good. All my soft corals and my anemones seem to be happy. I have added I replaced my jebao dosing pump with 2 Kamoer dosing pumps to dose calcium and alkalinity. I added a bio pellet reactor and a diy algae turf scrubber.
Current water chemistry
Alkalinity. Stays about 8.0
Calcium around 410
Magnesium 1230
Phosphate .09
Nitrate 65 down from 75+

 

[Grsfish]

Current stock list
Fish
4 ocellaris clowns 2 have paired off in my anemones and 2 in one of my leathers
Blue hippo tang
Dejardini sail fin tang
Mimic tang
Niger trigger
Valentini puffer
2 blue chromis
2 firefish
1 orchid dottyback
Melanarus wrasse
Coral beauty angel
3 Lyretail anthias
Mandarin dragonet

clean up crew/ inverts
Cleaner shrimp
Harlequin shrimp
Coral banded shrimp
6 conches
A bunch of trochus snails
Cerith snails
Blue/red leg hermits
Derasa clam

 

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[tautog83]

You have a harlequin shrimp with a Niger trigger ?? I have a feeling some of those shrimp will eventually molt and never return lol. Keep his belly full. But real nice tank , hope to do this with next tank a real true mixed reef!! Looks great and good growth

 

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