IM 20G Fusion mixed reef

[Jason Scalise]

Awesome to witness this cerith laying eggs for over 7 hours. Any tips to raise the young?

try to avoid naming them at this stage.

 

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Ignore the dirty glass. Got some early morning sunshine on the reef

 

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Amazing growth recently too after using afr

 

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I had a build thread so long ago but only came back into reefing maybe 4 months ago. I did have a 6g but after that got stocked decided to pick up a used IM 20G fusion. Posting here whenever new pieces come in and just for colour and growth updates. Sadly all the acros are browned out but im sure after everything settles they'll come back. Tank was set up with pre established media and rock/sand around a day ago

Tank: IM 20G FUSION
lighting: radion xr15 Gen 4 (planning to add 2 more lights so support since there's lots of shadowing

Roughly 20lb live sand (pre established) 21lb lr

Fish stocking: just 1 springeris damsel that the person I bought the tank off of had, planning on a watchman goby, orchid dotty, and Maybe a 6 line (may hold off but I designed the tank to have lots of interaction)

Inverts: 6 cerith, 4 nass, 1 skunk cleaner from my 6g, 1 tiger pistol which was given alongside the springeris. Once the tank establishes itself 1-2 acro crabs

Parameters: red sea blue bucket
Phosphate 0.04 (slowly been bringing it up, having the fish helps)
Nitrate 5-10
Cal roughly 430
Alk 9 (fluctuates around .3 a day)
Mg 1390-1400

Softies:
Bowser zoa
Spellbinder zoa
Stratosphere zoa
Gmk zoa
Sticker shocker zoa
Always been a fan of zoas, looking at a big bird, illuminati, lsoh, and some of those classic higher end zoas

Lps:
Gold hammer
Rose hammer
Bowerbanki
Now that I have the room a lot of the lower portions will be lps. Next week plan on adding an 8 head of Duncan, couple random bowerbanki, and a rainbow Tracy

Sps:
Monti cap (fully browned since I took it from a buddies but the polyps have returned. Originally neon green)
Forest fire digi

Acros:
Maleficent
Blueberry wine
Cherry pie
Strawberry shortcake
Pc rainbow
Hellfire mille
Bali slimer
Milka stylo
Unfortunately the majority have browned out from the move. It's unfortunate but im hoping colors return within a couple months. Only the ssc and the cherry pie are unfazed. Usually I find they recover within 3 months so hopefully its the same here

Within the month I plan on picking up a couple lps, most notably a holy grail micromussa, big bird zoa, and a rainbow Tracy. Thanks for following, updates will come with any new changes

Been excited to do a 6 month update on the tank

After some recent troubles the stocking is 1 clown, 1 springeri, 1 watchman, and a talbots damsels. Everything seems to have found their home with eggs being produced and sold weekly

I finally started dosing afr since my acros have been blasting off

Little acro showoff and current tank, awesome to see the new pieces and old and how much they've grown

 

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Its been good for the reef this last week. Ive been able to start getting money back from my zoas, ive gotten a pink tequila, got a rainbow monti today. None of that tops today's grail, the JF homewrecker

 

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Top down

 

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It took months and months and I was about to throw out the strawberry shortcake but im finally noticing some green. Browned out during my phosphate spike and I thought it would never come back despite the others

 

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I'd say one of my oldest pieces i have would be my PC rainbow (since my 6g) and has consistently been one of my hardest pieces to color up

The difference between November 15th of last year to now is insane and the process was amazing too. In the original 6g you can see the browning process. To be able to bring the greens, reds, and yellow back the the fullest has been so achieving. Last piece is the ssc

 

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Sadly I couldn't fit a t5 hybrid setup but for 190 cad an Ai prime and 4 t5s wasnt bad

 

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Changed the spot for the cherry bomb and ssc but the colors are getting good. Blues, reds, Yellow, and green finally showing

 

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3 Anemones and they choose a duncan i tried hiding from them

 

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Little update. About 2 weeks ago i went through a mini crash with an anemone being shredded. Things are bouncing back so I thought id do a showoff of some of my higher end pieces

Photo 1
Rainbow splice
SKA Jackpot

Photo 2
ASD rainbow
Vivid confetti

Photo 3
Merlins staff
Pc rainbow
FG homewreaker
cornbreads malificent

 

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Corals are recoloring but little dump

 

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Some recents of the tank. Been a minute since everything's been shown

 

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Little lps flex

 

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Little lps flex

Loving the gonis!