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Hello! Just posting my nano reef here as an opportunity for the more experienced reefers to critique my progression on the challenge of keeping SPS long-term in a nano reef environment.
I will document some the progression on this thread apart from the thread on my own page. A detailed description of the setup can be found there as well. The tank is about two months old and is just getting over a second diatoms bloom brought on by adding an acrylic baffle in the sump for the refugium.
I'm still on the fence about adding any soft corals as there is very limited space and this is my deep dive into the world of keeping acropora. My experience stopped after I tore down my 3 year old 10 gallon mixed reef whos most difficult corals were some very hardy montis.
My game plan is to take things slow. I would like to start slowly increasing the bioload with a few lps corals on only the sandbed until my tank is mature enough to add a bubble tip anemone. I may add some more lps around the edge between the sand and rockwork but pretty much everything being mounted on the rocks will be sps. I am going to stick to my guns and go slow this time, so don't expect a whole lot of excitement in this tank for the first year!
Anyway enough rambling, here's the tank:
I will document some the progression on this thread apart from the thread on my own page. A detailed description of the setup can be found there as well. The tank is about two months old and is just getting over a second diatoms bloom brought on by adding an acrylic baffle in the sump for the refugium.
I'm still on the fence about adding any soft corals as there is very limited space and this is my deep dive into the world of keeping acropora. My experience stopped after I tore down my 3 year old 10 gallon mixed reef whos most difficult corals were some very hardy montis.
My game plan is to take things slow. I would like to start slowly increasing the bioload with a few lps corals on only the sandbed until my tank is mature enough to add a bubble tip anemone. I may add some more lps around the edge between the sand and rockwork but pretty much everything being mounted on the rocks will be sps. I am going to stick to my guns and go slow this time, so don't expect a whole lot of excitement in this tank for the first year!
Anyway enough rambling, here's the tank: