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Thank you very much!!!

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Just for you to see my humble tank and explain the routines I follow. Sadly in Spain we haven't got the opportunity to buy WD nor jawbreaker colonies...So don't expect to see hyper awesome colours. :(

It is an 80x80x55cm 10mm tank (85gallon aprox)

Illumination: 2 radeon g4 30wpro

Skimmer: Vertex Omega 180

Flow: 2 tunze 6095 + Vectra M1

Dosers with complete Fauna Marin Balling

Feeding: Fish: Mysys + DKI pellets
Corals: Reef Roids + Polyp Booster + EasyBooster

Animals: Japonicus, black ocelaris, kaudermi , Iridis , Marginatus , Hexataenia , Bipartitus, Aurora goby, 2 nocturna, pistol shrimp, 3 wundermani shrimp

Corals: Mixed reef mainly dominated SPS tank

The tank has been running 5 years now, but only the last two years it's been looked after properly.

Try to mantain low detectable levels of nitrate (almost imposible to raise it m0re than 1) and phosphates (0'01/0'1)


Suffered 8 months of STN and had lots of losses. Can't confirm it was due to low feeding, but almost sure it was the cause. Still have some colonies affected but almost none is in risk.

General View at January:

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Evolution up to July:


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Promise more progess updates.

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Absolutely gorgeous tank. You have a mound of fabulosity!
 
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Have you ever tested par? Very curious how much you have around your lps.


Hello. Haven't been able to test par. And I would love it.
My lps take loads fo light. And there seems to get no problems for it.
But I'm sure they would get better without less light. But my sps rule so I'm almost unable to keep acans.


@Da8 May I ask how you fixed your STN problem? My nutrients bottomed out and I’ve been having trouble and losing coral. It’s starting to get back on track now, but still would like to hear how you solved your problem.


I guess that each stn is different.

Mine I'm sure ( but don't know fore sure) that was an N and P lack, but I ve experienced many more due to high iodine, rust, lack of flow,etc... Etc.. Etc..


So to answer your question.

I would try to fix as many weak points of your system.

Flow is much more important than many people consider. Everybody thinks they have a lot and almost none have when they come to sps.

Nutrient balance.

As in when it comes to kh and Ca we all pay special attention to stability, we should do the same with feeding so to keep balanced and consistent N and P levels.

That's been the best for me.

But, still having some losses. But always animals that were not fully accustomed to the tank.

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Hello. Haven't been able to test par. And I would love it.
My lps take loads fo light. And there seems to get no problems for it.
But I'm sure they would get better without less light. But my sps rule so I'm almost unable to keep acans.





I guess that each stn is different.

Mine I'm sure ( but don't know fore sure) that was an N and P lack, but I ve experienced many more due to high iodine, rust, lack of flow,etc... Etc.. Etc..


So to answer your question.

I would try to fix as many weak points of your system.

Flow is much more important than many people consider. Everybody thinks they have a lot and almost none have when they come to sps.

Nutrient balance.

As in when it comes to kh and Ca we all pay special attention to stability, we should do the same with feeding so to keep balanced and consistent N and P levels.

That's been the best for me.

But, still having some losses. But always animals that were not fully accustomed to the tank.

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Very beautiful corals. How long have you been nurturing these guys? Nice job.
 
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Very beautiful corals. How long have you been nurturing these guys? Nice job.
Thank you very much.

Been using easy booster and evo many years ago.

New setup is just one year old, but it comes from a very mature six year old tank.
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Thank you very much.

Been using easy booster and evo many years ago.

New setup is just one year old, but it comes from a very mature six year old tank.
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I guess I’m not very well versed on the acronyms and Aquarist lingo. It was like when son went into the Marine Corps,
I didn’t understand a lot of what he was talking about. ‘evo’ & ‘easy booster’?
 
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I guess I’m not very well versed on the acronyms and Aquarist lingo. It was like when son went into the Marine Corps,
I didn’t understand a lot of what he was talking about. ‘evo’ & ‘easy booster’?


Hello.

In this case they are just the names of the product.

Easy reefs produces two reef foods that can be dosed daily by dosers.


Search for them.
You are going to love them
 

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Tank has really been looking great! Love the instagram updates too!
 
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Long time no see...sorry.

It's been crazy amount of things since my last post.

The tank had to be ended because I moved to another city.
One year on a storage room, and back to the business.

The tank is now 9 months old.

Very happy with the evolution since everything is started with my previous dead rock.

Animals are setting base and growing with nice colors .

I'm not using skimmer, and very happy with the results.

Not much more to add.

Hope ypu are having a happy reefing.

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Corals look great! Love the green stylo. What is the orange bottlebrush that looks like an echinata?
 
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Corals look great! Love the green stylo. What is the orange bottlebrush that looks like an echinata?

Thanks for your comment!!

Not really sure of which one you are asking.
Guess you are talking about a mini frag of millepora. It's been damaged by many mistakes I made on this months but the animal is ready to settle and start growing I guess :D
 

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Corals look great! Love the green stylo. What is the orange bottlebrush that looks like an echinata?

Thanks for your comment!!

Not really sure of which one you are asking.
Guess you are talking about a mini frag of millepora. It's been damaged by many mistakes I made on this months but the animal is ready to settle and start growing I guess :D
@drawman, I think you're looking at the acropora carduus/fenneri type, similar to the red dragon acro. except this one appears to have the yellow polyps, similar to the variants common known as Little red ferrari or fire dragon.

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