Prostar Rimless 230 V2 Build

[Mandalorian]

Some updates:

So most of my Coral is looking healthy, I did loose 2 corals quickly, both Montipora. My guess is I was not expecting the Alk draw to pick up so fast. Strangely enough, I had 2 other Monitipora frags and they look fine I had been checking once a week. It dropped pretty low. I have sense started dosing 2 part and brought it back up. I am not sure if its the Brightwell NOX plates, or the Refugium light, but I have had undetectable Nitrate and Phosphate on Salifert test kits. the glass stays very clean. I was worried about being too clean for the coral, so I have feed heavier, even with reef roids, turned off the skimmer and dosed Red Sea AB+. I have never had the too clean water problem.

Since fixing the ALK, I bought a Apex DOS and plan on setting it up to dose Calk / ALk, its my next project. I believe I am seeing a dusting of coraline, and some of the coral is encrusting. The Hammer has about 3 new heads sprouting.

Still need to repipe the plumbing, I will probably purchase an extra bulkhead from Prostar, too deep now to cut the installed factory one up if I mess it up. Want to swap the complete repipe with the flow meter.

Lost a chromis too, down to 5, but picked up a yellow tang. They all appear to be healthy.

I purchased a phytoplankton culture kit from Mercer of Montana, had a successful 1st bath, have been happy with the setup. they have pretty good instructions. I am culturing Nanno and Tetra. Got a cheap LED strip light from amazon, has worked well so far.

Spitfire and Indy, both my choices, although was always partial to Rocco boards, and Hstreet.

 

[Shorebreak]

Haven't updated in a while, but tank had been coming along. Most corals are encrusted and seem healthy, the dersa and maxima are showing new white growth. The dersa has doubled in size in a few months. I am down to 6 chromis, went down from 12 pretty fast, but these 6 are holding strong and don't seem to terrorize each other.

I can't seem to grow birdsnest, had 4 different types of frags die slowly over a few month, puzzling as most other stuff is doing well. The tank has pretty low nutrients, that's my best guess. I've been having dosing nitrate and phosphate to keep them above zero. Been a challenge to keep balance, over shooting one without other bottoms the other out. Thankfully no bad algea or dinos, Just a little cyano.