Heres how i spend all my free time - Reefer 425xl

andrew james · Oct 19, 2017

My tank's one year birthday!!!
Im really trying to remember to get a FTS each month so I can see growth better. Here's Oct.
To celebrate my tank's birthday I redid all my the tubing for my dosers and pumps today, what huge pain in ths butt that was. Re ran all the lines up from the crawl space and my dosing cabinet. Took me like 5 hours, and I'm happy to be done.

This month also celebrates one year I've been running 24/7 auto water changes. My tank a Red Sea 425xl is about a 100ish gallon system and I've been changing out about 3 gallons per dayevenly spread out over 24 hours. Switching over to 24/7 auto water changes has had an enormous, amazing impact on coral health and growth. Far beyond what I was getting from good husbandry and stable parameters. I've been trying my best to do serious reefing for about 5 years and I think the 24/7 water changes have helped take me to that next level.
Knock on wood here for sure. I'm just really so happy and proud of how well this tank is doing.

Sahin · Oct 23, 2017

Very nice. Keep up the awesome work.

BTW what is the nitrate level currently in your tank?

andrew james · Oct 23, 2017

andrew james · Oct 25, 2017

Just did a triton everything is in the green except p04. I'm definitely guilty of overfeeding my reef I dose 30ml of oysterfeast every other night around 2am. Combined that with all the frozen food and I see why my PO4 and NO3 are so high. But it looks good so Im not going to stop.