Maarten's 110g Dutch Reef (AM Maginifica 130 CF)

[Maarten]

It's been a while since my last post, but today I had some free time and it's about time I started my tank thread!

The System:
Tank: Aqua Medic Magnifica 130 cf white
Skimmer: Deltec 1456
Light: 2x Ocean Light LED 72 watt incl Sunrise Controller.
Reactor: Aqua Medic Multi Reactor M
Refill: Tunze Osmolator
Feed: AM DC Runner 3.0
Current: 2x AM Eco Drift 8.0
Dosing: AM Reefdoser EVO 4
Fluids: Reef Life System, Aqua Medic

Fish:
2x Choati Wrasse - Macropharyngodon choati
2x Two Spot Bristletooth Tang - Ctenochaetus binotatus
2x Zebra Barred Dartfish - Ptereleotris zebra
1x Premium Snowflake clownfish - Amphiprion ocellaris
1x Clown fish - Amphiprion Percula
2x Sleeper Banded Goby - Amblygobius phalaena
1x Diagonal Bar Goby with pistol shrimp - Amblyeleotris diagonalis



Corals:
Rainbow Rim Trachy
Superman Scoly
Ultra Green Scoly
Ultra Green Fungia
Orange Fungia
Superman rhodactis
purple and red discosoma
Green, rainbow and ultra acans
Montipora australinsis
Acropora carduus
Acropora misc
Acropora strawberry shortcake
Duncans
Calendrium

And probably various other corals. Some will be replaced for more rare species. Soon to be added Montipora setosa red.

History:
Been in the hobby for several years now and was finally able to get a larger tank at the beginning of this year. Must say that for unknown reasons this was one of the roughest tank cycles ever! I had to deal with it all this time, high nitrate, high phosphate, cyano's, dino's and various other algae problems. However after battling all this for the past half year it finally seems that my tank is coming to a rest. My phosphate is still a bit higher then I want it to be but it's heading the right direction. So hopefully now my tank will soon develop some proper growth and some more color.

Pics in the next post!

Got questions? Just ask.

 

[Maarten]

 

[steelheader.262]

Looks great!!!

 

[Diesel]

Helemaal niet slecht!

So what is your Po4 level?
Not to forget to add that N03 # as it's importance can mean a lot to your success of reef keeping.

 

[Maarten]

Helemaal niet slecht!

So what is your Po4 level?
Not to forget to add that N03 # as it's importance can mean a lot to your success of reef keeping.

Thnx Diesel

Po4 is 5 according to my red sea test... yes 5 so I think my test is fubar, because my corals would not be looking like this at 5 po4. Currently waiting for my hanna checker to arrive so I can do a proper test and go from there.

No3 is steadily cruizing at 2-3 ppm.

 

[Diesel]

Thnx Diesel

Po4 is 5 according to my red sea test... yes 5 so I think my test is fubar, because my corals would not be looking like this at 5 po4. Currently waiting for my hanna checker to arrive so I can do a proper test and go from there.

No3 is steadily cruizing at 2-3 ppm.

OOPS!! Dat gaat je niet in de natte kleren zitten............just to get things straight here, 5 as in...........5.0 or 0.5 or 0.05??

 

[Maarten]

OOPS!! Dat gaat je niet in de natte kleren zitten............just to get things straight here, 5 as in...........5.0 or 0.5 or 0.05??

zeker niet, beter not translate that, it would just look akward in english lol.

But yes 5 as in 5.0

 

[Diesel]

What are you using/doing to reduce that as we speak?

 

[Maarten]

Currently i just have some po4 remover granulate in my media filter. Mostly because i do not believe the value.

If it turns out to be high i will use microbe lift po4 remover.

 

[Diesel]

With a high Po4 level like that you have to find the source where it's coming from as you really easily load up the granular you use.
Which means you have to change it on a daily base.
We call it here GFO (Granular Ferric Oxide).
You also can do daily water changes to bring down that # somewhat.
Of course there are many more like no feeding for fish, or reduce the feedings, Bio-pellets but that will take a while when that kicks in, stop feeding corals, adjust skimmer to a more wet skim.
Maybe @Randy Holmes-Farley our good friend here who wrote many articles about this can shed some light on this.
Give us your weekly maintenance schedule, WC, feed, dose etc.

 

[Maarten]

Thnx for the tips. Double checking my po4 later today.

My tank's battle rythm:
3 feeds a day, twice pallets, bassleer biofish chlorella. Once frozen mysis. All small quantities, 90% gets consumed within minutes.

Twice a week i feed my corals preis coral energizer.

Once every two weeks i do a WC.

Dosing the reef life system from aqua medic.

I think the increased po4 is a leftover from battling algea and cyano.

Will update later today when i figured out my po4.

 

[Diesel]

Dosing the reef life system from aqua medic.

I don't know what this is, explain?

Well, you can see where the problem is laying.
With just 11 fat fish maybe you should not feed your corals anymore
Back-off the feedings to your fish only once a day and half the amount of one feeding you do now.
Change twice a week 5 gallons of water.
Set your skimmer to a wet-skim and with time your Po4 problem will drop.
Remember not to make any other changes as setting off your balance to much can't be good.
If you thing you go slow. slow down even more.
Only bad things happen fast in this hobby.

PS: what's your ALK, CAL and MAG?

 

[Maarten]

Just tested my po4 again with a new test. Now worries, its 0,04 . Thnx for the tips. Guess my test really was fubar

 

[Diesel]

That's awesome bro.
Keep it up.

 

[Maarten]

Proud .