I don't think this topic is brought up much in this hobby as all I see online is "bigger is better" but ever since upgrading my aquarium to a 750 litre I've had none stop issues... the tank has been set up for close to 2 years now and it's just been one problem after another.
This is when I first set up the aquarium and from the move to a new house that was an hour away, we lost A LOT of corals I'm talking about $2000 AUD dead. gone, not just the corals but I lost a blue tang and royal gramma too...
This extremely demotivated me and I was depressed and didn't want much to do with the tank.
I kept getting cyano that smothered and killed Zoas, GSPs and mushrooms it was just a huge back and fourth battle with this never-ending-nightmarish-bacteria it was only about a year later I started finding my groove again, doing regular water changes and dosing kalk (I don't have an auto doser), corals looked good, fish were fat and healthy, but that didn't last long! NOPE even now the tank is just covered in cyano and algae... this is in mine and my partners living room it's a centre piece and it's just become a huge eyesore.
Because I know people will ask what my parameters are:
Salinity - 1.025
phosphate - 0.1
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 4
Alk - 7
Mag -1260
Calcium - 420
Equipment:
Red Sea Reefer 750
3x AI hydra 32s
Clarisea filter roller
Deltec 1500i protein skimmer
Red Sea Reefwave 45
The only thing stopping me from just downgrading right now is the fish, I LOVE all my fish pals and it would kill me to get rid of them, but this tank is an unbeatable boss for me! any advise or maybe if you know some cheat codes to reefing please, PLEASE help me!
This is when I first set up the aquarium and from the move to a new house that was an hour away, we lost A LOT of corals I'm talking about $2000 AUD dead. gone, not just the corals but I lost a blue tang and royal gramma too...
This extremely demotivated me and I was depressed and didn't want much to do with the tank.
I kept getting cyano that smothered and killed Zoas, GSPs and mushrooms it was just a huge back and fourth battle with this never-ending-nightmarish-bacteria it was only about a year later I started finding my groove again, doing regular water changes and dosing kalk (I don't have an auto doser), corals looked good, fish were fat and healthy, but that didn't last long! NOPE even now the tank is just covered in cyano and algae... this is in mine and my partners living room it's a centre piece and it's just become a huge eyesore.
Because I know people will ask what my parameters are:
Salinity - 1.025
phosphate - 0.1
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 4
Alk - 7
Mag -1260
Calcium - 420
Equipment:
Red Sea Reefer 750
3x AI hydra 32s
Clarisea filter roller
Deltec 1500i protein skimmer
Red Sea Reefwave 45
The only thing stopping me from just downgrading right now is the fish, I LOVE all my fish pals and it would kill me to get rid of them, but this tank is an unbeatable boss for me! any advise or maybe if you know some cheat codes to reefing please, PLEASE help me!