Jon's Red Sea 200xl Reef

[Tchung23]

Some pictures of Maui, Grover and Dozer.

The anemone is getting close to the duncan, so may have to move it.

The tissue around the mantle of this torch has retracted and the top side polyps have gotten a bit shorter. There was a white haze around the mantle area, and I had read about a possible fungus. I tried wiping it with 3% hydrogen peroxide on a q-tip, then a few days later a 5 min Coral RX dip. I also noticed that it is starting to get an indention near the midpoint (pinching) so I think it is just getting ready to split.

Still figuring this out. My pearlberry is a brown/ red color with no polyps. Tried different lighting etc. I think it is still alive as the tissue is still there with no sign of STN/ RTN, probably just needs time. I was running KH 9-10 for a while and NO3 was 0.. Now at KH 8 and NO3 ~2.

What’s the Angel fish you have??

 

[helipilot]

Hey Jon great tank. I’m in the process of setting up the same and am running out of room in the sump area! I love the cabinet you have, I see you say it came from Target but I couldn’t find it on their website. Can you remember what it was called?

 

[Jon's Reef]

Hey Jon great tank. I’m in the process of setting up the same and am running out of room in the sump area! I love the cabinet you have, I see you say it came from Target but I couldn’t find it on their website. Can you remember what it was called?

Ellsworth Floor Cabinet with Side Shelves Espresso Brown - RiverRidge Home

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[helipilot]

Ellsworth Floor Cabinet with Side Shelves Espresso Brown - RiverRidge Home

Read reviews and buy Ellsworth Floor Cabinet with Side Shelves Espresso Brown - RiverRidge Home at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.

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Brilliant thank you!

 

[kpoj9]

Hey - on your UV sterilizer where did you get those elbow barb connectors?

 

[Paduar26]

Long time lurker, first time reefer. Started this project for spending time with the kids, worked out well with stay at home. About 3 months out now. Big learning curve, but found lots of good info here!

Hardware
Red Sea Reefer 200xl
Radion G5 XR15 Pro with RMS and Diffuser
(2) MP40
Custom Clearview top
~30 lbs Marco rock, ~20 lb Marco shelf
Caribsea special grade sand
VCA Reefer return nozzle upgrade kit (loc line with dual RFG)
Vectra S2 return pump
25W Aqua UV sterilizer
Upgraded return line bottom and top to 3/4" fittings
CPR Aquafuge small
CPR bubble trap
Aquafuge pump repurposed for flow in the refugium
(2) Tunze 8831 Refugium lights on timer
Alage Barn Chaeto and Ecopods
Skimz quietpro 1.2 DC pump to refugium
Skimz 143 QP skimmer
Inkbird ITC-306A temp controller
300W Finnex titanium heater
Red Sea Media cup with filter floss
BRS CO2 scrubber
Vornado Fan
Seneye reef monitor
Target cabinet
Child cabinet locks!

"Soft"ware
BRS 4 stage RODI with second membrane
Tropic Marin Pro salt
Tropic Marin All for reef home-brew mix
Dr. Tim's One and Only and IO BioSpira
Arc Reef pink and purple coralline algae
Algae Barn Ocean Magik
Red Sea nutrition AB+
Food (LRS Reef Frenzy + Herbivore Frenzy)
Red Sea test kits
Hannah Salinity, Alk, Ca and ULR PO4

Livestock
Mabel and Dipper (ORA snowflake clowns)
Gale (Black Cap Basslet)
Grover and Dozer (ORA Yellow Watchman Goby and Tiger Pistol Shrimp)
Maui (Potter Angel)
Steve Rogers (Yellow Fin Flasher Wrasse)
Morty (Algae Blenny)
Pierre (Skunk Cleaner Shrimp)
Patty (Peppermint shrimp)
Mr Crabs (Emerald Crab)
Gary (Tonga Conch)
Seattle Sunburst Anemone
Snails

Purple with green tip torch
Vivid Ultra Gold torch
Frogspawn
Hammer (ORA)
Metallic Green Galaxea (ORA)
Sprung's Stunner Chalice (ORA)
Bubble Coral (ORA)
Duncan (ORA)
Sonic Boom Zoa
Misc Blue Zoa
Rainbow Acan
Rainbow Blasto
Florida Ricordea
Pearberry (ORA)
Red Planet (ORA)
Yellow Tip Acro (WWC)
Walt Disney
PC Rainbow
Forest Fire Monti
Rasta Zoa
Green Star Polyp

Typical Params
Temp: 78
Salinity: 1.026
No3: 2
PO4: 0.04
KH: 8
Ca: 440
Mg: 1320
PH: 8.3
Ammonia: 0

Pics

Great tank!!!
I love the small cabinet, can I have the name?

 

[Jon's Reef]

The cabinet is linked in the post above

 

[J2010701]

Some new updates. Decided to re-aquascape to give the fish a little more swim room and the corals a little more flow.

Replaced the NEROs with MP40s. Partly because I wanted full control in mobius and partly because I wanted to use the preprogrammed modes.

Got a new fish, Rey the Tomini Tang. Maui (potter angel) did not like her to begin with. I applied from reflective window cling to one side of the tank for ~2 weeks and the aggression stopped. Combined with the re-aquascaping and everyone is getting along now.

Fighting a little bit of Cyano, hopefully the increased flow will take care of that.

Upgraded to Hanna checkers. They are amazing. Alk, PO4 and Ca. I can see where the packets are a little tricky, but tapping a few times on the sides before cutting on the line works well. Ca gives good results. One issue was that it was reading high when I used my RODI water as the base, I switched to distilled from the store and now numbers are right where expected.

Last thing for now, tank was heating up a few degrees. The cabinet felt a bit warm so I added a few fans off of Amazon to ventilate.

Do you like the MP40s? I have one MP10 and was thinking about getting another one or a MP40? I have some LPS and I’m worried they’ll get blasted with the 40.Thanks!