I’m back! AIO IM 40G build

[ronnie]

List of Zoas:
Awesome Blossom
Death Stars
Exosphere
GMK
Lady Vamp
Pink Zipper
Psychosis
Purple Heart
Purple Rain
Scrambled Egg
Sunny D
Utter Chaos

List of SPS:
Green Slimer
RRC Pink Caddi
WWC Yellow Tips
Oregon Tort
Mint green Sarmentosa
Tubbs Stellata
Tyree Pinky the bear
Walt Disney
PC Rainbow
Random Mille
Random Pinkish Acro (hoping it colors up well)

Others:
Duncans
Frogspawn
Sunkist bounce
Derasa Clam
BTA

 

[ronnie]

Top down shot from last night when feeding.

 

[robotrash]

Still using the reefnroll? Was looking at it for my IM 20G

 

[ronnie]

Still using the reefnroll? Was looking at it for my IM 20G

Yep! It’s been solid so far. I have it running on the apex and it rolls once a day instead of using the eye on the actual unit. I just swapped out my first roll.

 

[robotrash]

Nice, good to hear!

 

[ronnie]

It’s been a while since I’ve had any good news to update with. I have been battling green hair algae and am finally getting it under control with water changes. I lost a few zoas and acros unfortunately through the battle, so I’ll have to replace them next year.

 

[ronnie]

Acros continue to slowly color up. I am hopeful I’ve turned a corner. I’m still chasing an old school MH fixture - may have one in a couple weeks if all goes well. The conundrum I may have is if I keep getting coloration like I have since the beginning of November.

Alkalinity has been pretty stable around 8.7 and I’ve started dosing zeo again at an even slower rate than I did initially.

 

[ronnie]

Starting to really notice color coming back. Below are some pics of the more recent acros that really dropped their color quickly due to tank conditions. Stability has been the biggest factor - I’ve made sure the water change parameters match more closely to my tank. Fritz is running 7.0 alk and I’m trying to keep it around 8.7-9. So doing 10g water changes was a big swing as that is probably half the water volume in the tank.

Death Star (I think)

BC something

BC blue light special (no name)

BC blue light special (no name)

BC blue light special (no name)

Blue ghost grow out - seeing some growth.

 

[ronnie]

 

[ronnie]

If all goes to plan today, I’ll be picking up a cade 900 s2 in a few hours as part of my unplanned upgrade!

 

[ronnie]

If all goes to plan today, I’ll be picking up a cade 900 s2 in a few hours as part of my unplanned upgrade!

I am hoping to get this tank up and running this week! I ordered a set of new gaskets and clamps that should be here tomorrow. New build thread soon!