Jbj 20 gallon cube

[Bzborder92]

Just hit 90 days! I've been out of the hobby for several years. I was brought up with large freshwater tanks and always admired marine tanks. Due to basic knowledge and a love for science and marine life I feel accomplished and please with how my tank has done. I went through 28 days of pretty gnarly diatoms, and 23 days of some small green hair algae. Things have been very straightforward for the last 14 days. Currently adding my own cultures of phytoplankton and copepods. I have 2 mocha clowns, a tail spot blennie who is a monster at eating algae, and a dotty back. Different species of sand dweller snails, rock and glass dwelling and hermits as well as a cleaner shrimp. Weakly water changes and cleaning on the sand bed. I actually have found this much easier compared to planted FW tanks. What a blast it has been!
This was around day 50

1. Jbj AIO
2. HD prime 16 Reef
3. Ink bird controller
4. Nero 3
5. Kamorer x1 pump- all for reef ( 3.5 ml daily)
6. Reef glass skimmer
7. This shot was today
   

 

[Peace River]

#WelcometoR2R and congratulations on the new adventure!

 

[Bzborder92]

So I'm about 100 days in and I'm thinking about starting to feed my corals. I purchased some reef roids. I know they will add some nutrients to the tank. How often do some people feed? Lights off I presume?

I have tracked and logged my parameters every 2 days for the last 100 days. I've noticed within the last 30 days things have seemed to maintain very stable. Corals seem to be growing and are happy and extending their polyps.
Temp- 79
Salinity- 1.026
PH. 8.5
Nitrate- 4.5
Phosphate-.01
Alk- 10.8
Calc- 465
Mag- 1440

 

[shadow_k]

Love your setup ! I too have the same exact setup as you haha besides the skimmer and dosing pump, I feed reef roids depending on my water change schedule I do biweekly water changes, so the first week I’ll feed once and second week I’ll feed twice since I’m gonna export the excess nutrients.

Here’s a pic of my tank!

loving your tank