Starting with a 40 Breeder Build

Philly Reefer · Jan 10, 2021

Well.... Unfortunately I lost 1 banggai cardinal...
Still boggle my mind that it's gone. I can't find it anywhere.

I swapped zoa with another reefer today. my purple heart zoa and fire&ice swapped with a Pink diamond zoa.

I'll take a pic tomorrow when it opened up.

Now I need to frag more of those zoas.

Water Parameters:
Salinity: 35 (Apex)
Alkalinity: 8.4dKh (Hanna)
PO4: 0.06ppm (Hanna)
NO3: 12ppm (Nyos)
Calcium 420 (Hanna)
Magnesium 1500 (Aquaforest)
Temp 78 F (Apex)

Philly Reefer · Jan 11, 2021

Pink Diamond

Philly Reefer · Jan 12, 2021

Dang it... I think my pistol shrimp killed my cleaner shrimp.

Just caught him dragging in the shrimp..

Now I really suspected that he also killed the Banggai

Philly Reefer · Jan 16, 2021

Got a 3 heads hammer yesterday.

And today picked up a rainbow nem, torchs, and another hammer

Philly Reefer · Jan 16, 2021

Pretty looking nem

Philly Reefer · Jan 17, 2021

Soo... The high and low of reefing...
I think my nem is dead. Hopefully not.

On the other hand, my new torch and hammer looking good

Also fragged some zoas

Philly Reefer · Jan 21, 2021

And... anemone is dead...
cant find it anymore.. dang it.. ammonia test is 0 though.

also I got my ICP test.
TLDR:

Aluminium is high 60.45 µg/l - Main suspect is Marine Pure Sphere.
Tin is high.. not sure if I need to worry about this.
need to dose Iodine

Tin: 12.93 µg/l Recommended: 0.50 µg/l
Aluminium: 60.45 µg/l Recommended: 0.10 µg/l

Molybdän Recommended Dosage 1,00 ml 2
Vanadium Recommended Dosage 0,20 ml 1
Mangan Recommended Dosage 0,30 ml 1
Iod Important Dosage 0,10 ml 3

Now I need to find out how to dose these Aquaforest A B C that I have

Philly Reefer · Jan 24, 2021

Weekly Update:

Water Parameters:
Salinity: 35 (Apex)
Alkalinity: 8.3dKh (Hanna)
PO4: 0.09ppm (Hanna)
NO3: 12ppm (Nyos)

So as I mentioned anemone is dead. I think it was my mistake during transfer.

I found the culprit of the aluminium and tin

I put cuprisorb on my filter sock and we'll see in couple days if that are absorbing those.

Hopefully by taking those out my other LPS will recover.

Also start dosing Aquaforest A B C since icp test showed need some trace element.

Also bought Tropic Marin High Precision Hydrometer. Love it.

1.0265sg = 35.168ppt

Close enough.

Philly Reefer · Jan 25, 2021

I found out that there is a stray voltage in my tank. It was around 40 volts.
So I got a grounding probe, which just arrived today.
To my surprise, as soon I connected the grounding probe. The Apex Salinity probe jumped up.

So I searched around and confirmed that stray voltage does affect the apex salinity probe. I should have thought about from the start.
And.. I confirmed it with my Tropic Marin High Precision Hydrometer (pic above)
So now it's kinda closer to that reading.

O well. All I care is the salinity probe to be stable.

Philly Reefer · Jan 26, 2021

Got myself some new rocks.
Used a window blind rod in them.
I tried to get it cover the rods with epoxy. Should be ok. Seems strong enough
Going to place then on the left side of my tank.

Philly Reefer · Jan 31, 2021

Weekly update:

Moved the diamond zoa, torch, and 2 hammers to get more light.

Got a neptune probe holder from a fellow reefers

I really need to get chaeto to restart my refugium. Nitrate and phosphate are looking pretty stable now. Then I would need to consider the fuge light. I think I need to get a better one. But I want to test it out.

Still didn't out the new rocks in the tank. I will do that next week.

Water Parameters:
Salinity: 35.3 (Apex)
pH: 8 to 8.2 (Apex)
Alkalinity: 7.7dKh (Hanna)
PO4: 0.14ppm (Hanna)
NO3: 12ppm (Nyos)

Philly Reefer · Feb 2, 2021

God Dang It...
My Purple Firefish is dead.

The crabs are cleaning it up

Philly Reefer · Feb 5, 2021

Swapped some of my zoas for some SPS

Philly Reefer · Feb 6, 2021

Weekly Update:

Water Parameters:
Salinity: 34.9 (Apex)
pH: 7.95 to 8.23 (Apex)
Alkalinity: 7.7dKh (Hanna)
PO4: 0.15ppm (Hanna)
NO3: 5ppm (Nyos)

Unfortunately I lost another fish last Tuesday. The shy Purple Firefish. The night before it was fine and eating. The next morning, I saw my hermit crabs were chomping on something.. then I saw the tail... It's suck. I like that fish.

Yesterday and today I swapped some of my zoas frags for some SPS.

2 Purple Heart Zoas
2 Purple Death Zoas
1 Goblin on Fire

Orange Setosa

I was told this is Cornbread. Then a fellow reefer told me this is Anacropora. Looks similar to "The thing Anacropora" from top shelf aquatic website.

Branching Montipora Stellata

German Blue Digitata

Yellow/Green Digitata

Birdnest

I also got some chaeto to restart my refugium.

Philly Reefer · Feb 7, 2021

I got new dry rocks. I was thinking of cycling it in a separate bucket and wait up. But after talking to my friend. I just decided to throw it in.
So a small redecorating.