Robert's 300G SPS & Angel Build

[roberthu526]

Finally the year-end is over and I can take a breath

 

[roberthu526]

New fish in QT

 

[roberthu526]

Took a couple of quick videos on the tanks.

The 300G

The 150G

 

[roberthu526]

Another quick update: most of the SPS are encrusting nicely. Not super fast but the colors are finally showing up. I have not done a water change since the tank was setup but I plan to do a couple of 30G in the next two weeks.

Alk is around 8.3 very stable. Floating up or down by 0.1 on a weekly basis.
Cal is around 420, dropped 10 in about 1 month.
Nitrate is finally 1 ppm. It took me almost two month to finally get it detectable via Red Sea Pro kit.
Phosphate is 0.13 ppm via Hanna ULR checker.

 

[roberthu526]

@Paul B Come see how many clams I have fed after reading your post! All fish go nuts after I drop in the sliced clam every morning. The copperband eats huge pieces off the shell!

 

[jessezm]

Looking good!!

 

[roberthu526]

Another update. Most of the frags are still growing downwards. Colors are mostly stable and pronounced. I am thinking about ramping up the light intensity from 45% to 50%.
Water test results below as of yesterday:
Alk: 8.4 DKH
Cal: 425 ppm
Nitrate: 4 ppm
Mag: 1,040 ppm This is pretty low but I am not sure if the result was accurate because everything in the tank looks pretty good.

 

[jessezm]

The acros look pretty cool without all the polyps LOLOL

 

[juniorrocketdad]

Tank looks amazing so far well done

 

[roberthu526]

The acros look pretty cool without all the polyps LOLOL

What’s polyp? Lol

 

[roberthu526]

Tank looks amazing so far well done

Thank you!

 

[najer]

What’s polyp? Lol

I have a flame angel in in my mixed reef, I understand polyp shy!

 

[roberthu526]

I have a flame angel in in my mixed reef, I understand polyp shy!

Yeah with an angel dominant tank it's expected that we don't see polyps often

 

[roberthu526]

Running into some nitrate spike and lost some Acro frags. I am now dosing 80ml of NOPOX and just added a chaeto reactor in addition to the refugium. Time will tell.

 

[roberthu526]

Thought I should keep a list of the fish because every time someone asks me "how many fish do you have?" I always say "I am not sure"..

Dwarf Angels: 4
Flame Angel
Coral Beauty
Potter's Angel
Ventus Angel

Big Angels: 6
Rock Beauty
Regal Angel 2
Emperor Angel
Majestic Angel
Gold Flake Angel

Tangs: 7
Sailfin Tang
Regal Blue Tang
Pacific Blue Tang
Yellow Tang
Purple Tang
Yellow Eye Kole Tang
Powder Brown Tang

Wrasses: 2
Soloen Fair Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse

A pair of clown fish

A Lyretail Anthias

A Copper Band Butterfly

So Total of 23 fish in a 300G tank.

 

[roberthu526]

I guess I am a fish person.

 

[roberthu526]

After struggling with SPS for a few month I finally realized maybe it’s time to try something different.

 

[roberthu526]

Scored some good colonies from local reefers.

 

[roberthu526]

Did four 25 - 30 gallon changes this week. Nitrate is at 12 and phosphate is around 0.3 a little higher than I like but I am hoping the chaeto will work harder after trimming.

 

[Thaxxx]

Beautiful tank. Love the scape and huge variety of fish.
Any problems with aggression?