Hello! New to R2F here’s my nano reef!

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Hello another person obsessed with everything reef so it’s nice to find somewhere I can come and post freely.

This is my nano reef, lps dominated but with some softies and a few bits of sps.

Specs:

Tank - ADA 60-p
Skimmer - Bubble Magnus QQ
Reactor - Aqua Medic running NP pellets
Small hang on filter (running carbon in a filter bag)
Wave maker - Vortech Mp10

Anyway here’s some pictures, looking forward to hearing from you all!

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Welcome and very nice!
 

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Thank you! It has been running since Sept 2017. My first reef tank, I’m loving it. Hopefully one day I can have a much bigger tank. Limited to fish stock unfortunately with this one.
You've stocked it very well! I love the hammers, bubble and Candy Cane corals especially! And we all want bigger tanks probably LOL!
 
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You've stocked it very well! I love the hammers, bubble and Candy Cane corals especially! And we all want bigger tanks probably LOL!

Thank you! Yes I love the tank size for maintenance but for fish stocking and more room for corals I am limited. I love the hammers too! Lps addict lol.
 

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Beautiful tank! Would like to here details on your maintenance, parameters, salt, feeding, etc.; did you encounter any of the so called "ugly phase" of the new tank?
 
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Beautiful tank! Would like to here details on your maintenance, parameters, salt, feeding, etc.; did you encounter any of the so called "ugly phase" of the new tank?


Thank you!

Maintenance is weekly water changes of around 20% - I used aquaforest salt and my gravity is always kept at 1.026.

Parameters:
cal - 400
Mag - 1350
KH - 8
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite -0
Nitrate - 5ppm
Ph - 8

Feeding - twice a day either frozen brine or mysis shrimp supplemented with flake food.

Yes I experienced the ugly phase, typical diatoms algae when first set up. Also I had a problem with air fresheners/candles leaching stuff into the water which caused my tank to turn into milk and everything was covered in white string. A lost a couple of corals due to this but now I run the reactor and carbon I don’t have any problems. I think every reefer has a few hurdles at the start.

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