Maac's 180ish gallon Dream Reef Savvy Tank

[Maacc]

I unfortunately had some loses, with both clams not making it and losing my pink square anthias and 3 of my lyretails.

 

[Maacc]

Some February shots.

Elegance growing like gang busters

 

[Maacc]

Later in February I added some wrasses:
An eight line flasher
A royal flasher
Lineatus

 

[Maacc]

Current Stock List:
Bluespotted watchman goby
Copperband Butterfly
Rainsford goby x 2
Eightline flasher wrasse
Exquisite wrasse
Firefish x 2
Foxface
Blue hippo tang
Kole tang
Melanarus wrasse
Lineatus wrasse
Lyretail anthias x 5
Neon goby x 2
Pintail wrasse
Solarensis wrasse
Royal flasher wrasse
Yellow wrasse
Tanaka possum wrasse
Yellow headed jawfish x 2
Black oscellarus
Frostbite oscellarus
Cleaner wrasse


I would like to add a flame wrasse to complete the livestock.

 

[Maacc]

New clam

I have some glass cleaning and sponge placement on my to do list.

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!

 

[Maacc]

Sandbed growing algae, should I siphon sandbed more or add some flow lower? I have 2 gyre 250s currently.

 

[Maacc]

Lost my copperband today sometime, got home, no fish no corpse

 

[Maacc]

And fortunately, @Battlecorals impressed upon me the importance of daily alk tests. My calc rx feed clogged, alk dropped from 7.7 to 6.7 in a day. Bumped it back with some 2 part to 7.5 this morning after fiddling late last night.

 

[Maacc]

Siphoned out the sand bed last night and blew out the rock work. Made a big difference. Sand really white again, I just need to get that into a monthly routine.

 

[Maacc]

Here are a couple early morning shots before things open up.

 

[thenissantech]

It’s always my favorite to watch the tank come to life!!!!

 

[Maacc]

Thanks!

 

[Maacc]

 

[Maacc]

 

[Maacc]

Just got ATI ICP results. Everything still looking pretty good.

 

[Maacc]

So today I re-learned the lesson of not going by your eyes to set your light intensity. I have 4 photon v2s about 15" off the surface, and had them set about 40% at peak. I have had a seneye par meter but with the business of life hadn't really gotten to check the tank. Turns out I was only getting about 90ish par at the surface and 70-80 at the bottom.
It's really bad when you know better and you still do it wrong

 

[Maacc]

Today I vacuumed out parts of the sand bed. Had my supermale solarensis jump out on to my tile but I was able to pick him up and put him back in within about 40 seconds. Fortunately none the worse for wear.
I thought I had lost a royal flasher wrasse but he came out to eat live blackworms today. He looks a little thin but he ate like a pig and his colors are still bright, no idea why he vanished for 3 + weeks.

 

[Maacc]

Pulled out some birdnest colonies and poci colonies to make room for some more frags from @Battlecorals

 

[wowkingjames]

Nice set up...