My first nano reef 28g

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Hello there,

It's my first marine experience. It was set-up on the 7th of September.

The size of the display is 60x50x40 cm, about 24x20x16 inches rounding the number.
The sump size I'm not sure as the project changed so many times, but it's about 40x40x40 cm, about 16x16x16 inches.
The total volume is of the fish tank + sump is 135L (~35g).

Equipment:
DOLED HD-70 Lights
Red Starfish N-130 Skimmer
Nyos Viper 2.0 Return pump
Aqamai KPS Wavemaker
Roxin 100w Heater
SilverStone 120cm Cooler
Coel Z31Y Temp. Controller

Fish:
1 x Chrysiptera hemicyanea
1 x Amphiprion ocellaris

Corals and cnidarians:
Green Start Polyps
Carpet Brown
Blastomussa Merletti
Discosoma cardinalis (Mushroom Red)
Laptoseris Jack O Lantern
Zoanthus Baby Black Blue
Duncan
Palythoa Utter Chaos
Palythoa Green?
Discosoma striata (Mushroom Blue)
Zoanthus Vulcan Blood?
Zoanthus Radioactive Green
Zoanthus Fire and Ice
Zoanthus Tequila Sunrise
Rhodactis inchoata (Mushroom Green)
Caulastrea curvata (Trumpet)
Rainbow BTA

*Some of the Zoanthids I'm not really sure of their ID's.

Others:
2 x Astrea, 5 x Nish and 4 x hermit crabs.



I'm not very satisfied with the rock layout and will be changing it soon.

I'm open to every suggestion, layout, stock, lighting, water movement, wavemaker setup and position...


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You rockscape looks OK to me. You just need to wait for more coral to grow out. BTW, re-doing rockscapes can be addictive. I just did a major re-do in my 90g tank. The more corals you have, the harder it is to do. That is, you need more equipment.
 
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I've taken some more pictures of the corals, quality is not that good.
I did find some a little black bug that I'm not really sure what they are. I use levamisole hydrochloride, milbemicyn and Revive, but could have come from eggs since I didn't quarantine most corals. I'll post them in the Hitchiker ID forum section.

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Good evening everyone!

Quick update on the tank build. BTA split about 2 months ago and the pair seem to have found a good place to stay. Before the split, it spent almost a month crawling around the tank looking for a good place to stay, lucky me it didn't sting anything.

I'm about to move to a different city, 5 hours away. Been reading about the rip clean "method", and it seems like the way to go since I've been having problems with cyano every now and then since the tank has been set up. Whenever phosphate bottom out I get tons of cyano.
 

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