Hi. NOOB here.

Utubereefer · Sep 1, 2025

Welcome to the club

p1u5h13r4m24 · Sep 1, 2025

DTTB23 said:
p1u5h13r4m24 said:

Zoas and Xenia are good but I’d go with fireworks clove polyps. Xenia is invasive from my understanding. For what your looking to do nitrate and phos you want to keep around 10n .1 phos. Will be hard to see them until u get Hanna checkers. Cal. Mag and alk are also very important. Your mag probably won’t change much as long as you do weekly or monthly water changes. Hanna checkers that u want to get will be for alk. Ulr phos, and high range nitrate. For calcium and magnesium use salifert. Hanna has those as well but from my experience are not accurate.

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Its all wrote down in the note pad. It shall be looked into next. This would eliminate or decrease a need for macros as to leave the nutrients for future corals?

Absolutely! I actually dose nitrate and phos because my corals consume so much nutrients!

1112-425XL · Sep 1, 2025

DTTB23 · Sep 1, 2025

p1u5h13r4m24 said:
Absolutely! I actually dose nitrate and phos because my corals consume so much nutrients!

Thanks for the confirmation.

Peace River · Sep 1, 2025

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

DTTB23 · Sep 1, 2025

Really interested in the idea of a "goto 10" kind of ecosystem. Thinking of that should I pick up more or different clean up members?

Mike1970 · Sep 1, 2025

ChrisfromBrick · Sep 2, 2025

Welcome! Thats the exact setup I had in 2009. 40b wit 20L. I like that you're not rushing the process and being patient. Thats a good footprint for a reef tank.

BryanM · Sep 2, 2025

DTTB23 said:
New tank owner here. A 40 breeder with a 20 long sump. Always been interested in saltwater tanks simply for the cool diversity one can have. I know now there's also a lot in freshwater but the creatures just aren't the same lol. My tank has only been up and running for a couple months now.

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