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So I’m a little late with this build thread. My reefing keeping started 20 years ago with all live rock and sand from the LFS and from what I can remember it was high quality LR. At the time I was living at home with two older and very jealous brothers. I had the tank running with MH lights and wet dry system with bio-balls for filter no skimmer no GFO for a few years and I couldn’t keep things alive and GHA filled the tank. When I moved out in 2007 I decided to shutdown the tank. I knew it would be awhile before I could restart the tank so I used the garden hose and cleaned the rocks I didn’t keep the sand. As I was cleaning the tank I found dryer sheets or cleaning wipes stuffed in between the double wall of the overflow boxes. Still today no one will confess. I let the rocks dry for a few years then I got the reefing bug again. This time I was going to do it right and did some research on how to clean the rocks. I used lots of buckets and did the acid dip. All the rocks were clean and white. I soaked them in buckets of saltwater for months and my wife started calling it Jon’s buckets of rocks. She still giggles and asks me how’s my bucket is doing. After setting it up letting run for awhile checking all the parameters everything looked good added some cheap fish and no corals but was running the MH lights. It didn’t take long for the rocks to turn green and then got some advice from LFS said my phosphate was too high. So I got GFO reactor and bio-pellet reactor. It didn’t take long for Dino to set in. I didn’t know Dino wasn’t an algae so I kept the phosphate fight going. So after fighting Dino for about three years I joined reef2reef one year ago now. I finally feel like I have a reef tank that is alive. If it wasn’t for the great people here I would of pulled the plug on my bucket again.
Tank is 120 gallon DT 55 gallon refuge
Temp 81
pH 8.2
Salinity 1.026
Ca 450
ALK 8.5
Mag 1440
No3 10ppm
Phosphate 0.22
Lights are 2 giesemann Vervve on DT running reef 1 presets. Refuge is maxspect recurve running opposite of DT on preset 1.
Tank is 120 gallon DT 55 gallon refuge
Temp 81
pH 8.2
Salinity 1.026
Ca 450
ALK 8.5
Mag 1440
No3 10ppm
Phosphate 0.22
Lights are 2 giesemann Vervve on DT running reef 1 presets. Refuge is maxspect recurve running opposite of DT on preset 1.