Kevin's 36 gallon reef

[kwandrsn]

Ok been a while. I've been dealing with a lot here recently. I have lost a good number of corals and have as few not looking good.

I regenerated my purigen and I think I may have not got all the bleach out. Anyways all of a sudden I had corals die. All my candy canes, favia, green cyphastrea, meteor shower all dead

2 of my acros turned brown, and my deepwater acro the main base has turned white.

All my parameters are fine. I removed purigen, added carbon, I done a large water change and added prime to my tank 2 days in a row. Since then I removed the carbon cause my phosphates are reading 0.25

Most everything else seems ok so far

I was adding a 10 gallon sump and then decided to wait until I get everything back to normal first

Adding a reef keeper lite this week

Oh yeah and I noticed my hermit crabs eating the flesh off of the candy canes. I am fairly sure they were dead. Is this normal behavior?


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[mebo926]

Yeh the whole recharging thing scares me with the purigen. At $8.99 I will buy a new one every couple months to make sure my investments stay good.

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[kwandrsn]

Exactly I learned a very expensive lesson

Worse part is knowing that it was my fault

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[ifarmer]

very nice and clean

 

[kwandrsn]

very nice and clean

Thank you

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[kwandrsn]

Ok I got my rkl. Every plug is filled up lol



I think I got it all set up. I had to calibrate the temp sensor. I have a glass and a digital thermometer and they both were reading 79 and the rkl temp sensor was reading 77
Is this normal?

I just want to be able to figure out how to make alarms sound is temp gets too low or high

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[kwandrsn]

Ok here is a update. I added a 10 gallon sump. Everything is going good so far. I'm losing about 1/2 gallon a day due to evaporation now.

I'm looking for suggestions on a new fish to add. I'm down to 2 occ clowns and a six line wrasse. The female clown is a little bi*©h so to speak toward the other clown. He stays hiding in the rock most of the time now

I'm off for a couple of days gonna head to lfs and see what I can pick up

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[kwandrsn]

Ok figured I would see what y'all think of my current stock. I want a few more corals mainly sps cause that is what everyone seems to want. Up for suggestions




Updated list of my corals and fish. I may have forgot a few corals and I didn't list multiple pieces

Briarium Gargonian
Devils Hand Leather
Duncanopsammia
Candy Cane Coral
Frogspawn
Cabbage Leather
Pulsating Xenia
Kenya Tree
Mummy Eye Chalice that isn't doing good
Blastomussa
War Coral
Meteor Shower
5 unknown types of zoas
Green Bay Packers Zoas
Dragons Eye Zoas
Eagle Eye Zoas
Bam Bam Zoas
Space Invaders Zoas
Tubs Blue Zoas
Green Palythoas
Unknown Palythoas
Devils Armor Palys
Pink Gold Palys
Orange Star Polyps ?
Green Star Polyps
Hammer Coral
Couple types of mushrooms
Neon Green Nepthea
Greenish Yellow Nepthea
Unknown Green Monti
Orange Monti Cap
Blueberry Field Monti
Reeftech Starburst Monti
Monti Confusa
Pocillopora
Unknown Green Acro
Deepwater Acro
Green Slimmer
Branching Green Digitata
Green Millipora
Green PE Orange Birdsnest
Tri-Color Valida
Tri-Color Prostrata

Fish:
2 Occ Clownfish
Six Line Wrasse
Firefish
Royal Gramma




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[revhtree]

Nice list! How are you liking your new controller?

 

[kwandrsn]

Nice list! How are you liking your new controller?

I love it! It has made things so much easier. I'll be happy when I get a net module.

Wish it had more plugs though. I've got all 8 plugs filed on the pc4s and I need one more plug for my sump light lol

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[kwandrsn]

Ok correction I found out that what I was told was a blueberry fields monti is actually a tyree flower petal monti

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[kwandrsn]

Ok im swapping tanks. I'm going from my 36 gallon bow front to a 35 gallon as acrylic tank. The tank is 6" longer than my current tank and the height of 6" shorter which is what I want.

It's going to be a slow process because I have to build a new stand and I'm changing from my 10 gallon sump. I'm gonna build a 20long sump

I'm gonna get the new tank drilled on the bottom and going to go from a 300gph return to about a 800.

I'm worried about throwing my tank into a cycle and killing things. I know to buy new sand and I'm gonna buy all live sand. What are your thoughts on this. Do I need to be worried? Any suggestions?

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