Just set up my first reef tank.

[furcifer208]

Tank is looking nice and dirty after two days with the new SBOX light.
Should I:
a) do a 50% water change (to get rid of ~1ppm PO3 from 1.5 gallons of treated tap water, oops)
b) turn on the protein skimmer
c) add more bumble bee snails!
d) stop feeding twice a day
e) do all of the above
f) let it get nice and dirty(do nothing).
Turbo snail is still on the egg!

 

[JollyReefer]

Increase the clean-up crew.

 

[NY_Caveman]

I would definitely run the Skimmer. I feed my new tank sparingly every other day.

 

[AlyciaMarieee]

Welcome to the family!!!

 

[JAYD]

Hello and welcome to R2R :)

 

[Turbo's Aquatics Verified Sponsor]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[furcifer208]

Can you find the clown goby? Any suggestions on getting him back in the display tank? ... or should we just leave him back there? The two clowns were giving him a hard time.

 

[furcifer208]

5 month glamour shots.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Looking good, your tank is coming along nicely. :)

 

[dbl]

Congrats...things are progressing nicely.

 

[JasonK84]

That gsp has really taken over that rock!
Looks good

 

[furcifer208]

That gsp has really taken over that rock!
Looks good

Thanks! Yeah it grows pretty fast. I glued some on the back of the tank to the left of the heater. Basically as far away from the intakes as possible.
We plan to sell the egg shaped rock once it takes off on the back of the tank.

 

[Cencalreefer]

Welcome to R2R

 

[furcifer208]

A couple of shots of the watchman goby.

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Looks great!

 

[furcifer208]

Holiday project complete.

 

[furcifer208]

~10 months.

 

[vetteguy53081]

The first tank is the best memory we all have in this hobby !

 

[Hitman]

Welcome to R2R

 

[furcifer208]

Update: Woke up to severe bleaching of bird's nest coral(see picture). I think it could be STN/RTN (base had been white for a week or so), low salinity (I'll explain below), or the clown goby (%$#%@~!).

Salinity: I replaced my return pump back in May with Aquatop SWP-480 192GPH after failure of the factory pump (it had granulated carbon in it, maybe it's still okay?). This resulted in a water level increase in the tank. This led to a massive salt creep problem. This led (I think to a decrease in the salinity from 1.025 to 1.023).

Fixed it this morning with some plastic hose(see picture). I upped the water change from 0.5L/day to 1L/day and decreased the ATO refill rate from 0.7L/day to 0.2L/day. Will run it like this for 7 days to get an increase from 0.31 to 0.34ppt using 0.35ppt new salt water.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve(40*.31+x*.35=40*.34,x)

Any thoughts?

Water parameters are here.