The official reef-pi display tank - RedSea Reefer 300 XL

[Ranjib]

Not to bother your build thread.. ( and by the way it looks awesome!) Could you share your prometheus.yml file... I am a hack at best and have it up and running and can play with "data that it points too" but for the life of me I cant figure out how to connect it to ".../x/metrics".. we can take it over to the Reef-pi forum as well.

Sorry to hi-jink.

sure, you can configure prometheus to scrape the reef-pi metrics like this:

global:
  scrape_interval:     15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
  evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'reefer-300xl-app'
    metrics_path: '/x/metrics'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['<IP of reef-pi server>']

 

[ColoredRock]

sure, you can configure prometheus to scrape the reef-pi metrics like this:

global:
  scrape_interval:     15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
  evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'reefer-300xl-app'
    metrics_path: '/x/metrics'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['<IP of reef-pi server>']

Thanks.. got it working the other day.

My issue was the idiot behind the keyboard...

Loving playing with reef-pi.. thanks for all you do.

 

[Ranjib]

Tank health, through grafana charts

 

[Ranjib]

Long due update . Lot has happened since Jan. I had some major issues during aquashella visit. Skimmer overflow .. leading to few acro loss . Lost a few fishes (anthias ) not sure due to fighting or some other issues . But things are getting better otherwise.
FTS

most of the corals are doing ok. Alveopora

Micromussa lord

strawberry shortcake , it was located on the lord island, moved it to one of the main rock structure .

Myagi tort , visible growth

purple stylo

Green slimer

red milli

grandis

New addition .. shroom , don’t know the name .

A look at the Central Valley

green plating monti

forest fire digi. Glued it in the main structure recently , from bottom

Another new addition (a month ago ), not sure what it is , I think encrusting chalice ?

Another encrusting no name coral

as you can notice , I have ample GHA. I’m not too worried about it. Right now I periodically remove them (mechanically , by plucking them out by hand ). I plan to get my nutrient export stabilized over time as the fish population and coral coverage stabilize.
another acro from battle corals .. can see visible growth at the base

I’m doing tropic marine all for reef through ato . No additional dosing till now . Keeping alk at 7.8-8.1. I intend to ramp it up to 9 over the course of few months. Also more fish … not sure which one though . Definitely a wrasse , now that I have then net in place

 

[Ranjib]

Current FTS

Gsp and acan lord island. Since I removed the acro frag from top, gsp has covered it . I don’t hate it , but I have to keep it in check

left side of the tank , purple stylo is humming along

Strawberry shortcake , relocated from the gsp island is growing

I also relocated the coco worms. At the bottom they were constantly being moved around by critters

Right side view of the tank , probably my favorite due to the alveopora colony

Myagi tort continued its growth . Unfortunately I dislodged it during tank cleaning ;-( . Reglued it back in same place , hopefully it will continue to grow at same pace

red milli pora is showing many more tips .. I think it’s settling down . It’s turning out to be a hardy sps

Another view of the same milli

I think this is a challice .. but not sure , it’s encrusting and growing slowly

tank is doing alright. I’m doing minimal water change, barely 10% a month . I’m doing tropic marine all for reef through ato . Alk is stable at 8.4. I am thinking if i should bring it up to 9… we’ll see

 

[eag]

Since I removed the acro frag from top, gsp has covered it . I don’t hate it , but I have to keep it in check

How do you manage it?

 

[Ranjib]

How do you manage it?

its kinda out of real estate in that island. theres no place to grow, the rainbow acan (acanthastrea echinata) is pretty potent and stings the gsp all the time. Also, i wont call it secured yet, you never know when it will break free

 

[Ranjib]

Current FTS

things are spiking ok. Algae is growing faster than the corals. Skimmer is definitely not performing as expected. I dial it for a certain consistency of skimmate, but the filter water change schedule, combined with regular cleaning requirements makes it very happy n consistent. I am still learning to tune it. The algae problem is one side effect of this. I am reconsidering the power head location as well. I knew it might not do the job , when mounted on the back wall, now i know the detritus accumulation on the rocks due to absence of direct flow.

Other than this , alk level are holding steady at 8.2-8.4 with tropic marine all for reef through ato. I am thinking of a dedicated doser soonish.
Here is how the milli looks now

The valley

green slimer

Alveopora

yellow leptoseris

Blue leptoseris

Zoas

cleaner shrimp doing some clean up work

goniopora . I think the flow or location is not best for this dude

One of the Acros from battle coral, slowly growing up

a no name challice

the Miyagi tort is looking happy as usual , it’s growth spurt is reduced I feel. But don’t know , this log will capture better

Clown fish has suddenly decided to use the elegance coral for hosting . Not sure what’s the long term consequences. We’ll see

stawberry shortcake acro is continuing its growth spurt

 

[Ranjib]

Some updates . Tank is humming along . Corals are growing , and so is GHA.
here’s latest fts

I recently added a reef mat . Very pleased with it. Skimmer or filter socks was not a good experience for me. I think this will help stabilize the tank. I also moved all for reef to a dedicate dosing regiment (using timers in reef-pi ) , previously it was through ato. This should help stabilize Alk (right now it’s hovering around 8.2 )
Here are the state of corals
Myagi tort , growing steadily

This is a new teneus from recent lfs haul . Two weeks , it’s holding steady.

No name teneus 2 from lfs

A no name challice ,,

This is relatively older blue leptastrea , it’s has grown considerably in recent time .

Goniporas

Added a new raja rampage challice

Alveopora

Strawberry shortcake was getting bigger , I broke the two different parts and placed them apart . Plan is to cover as much surface area on live rock as I can . And eventually beat algae by removing real estate , while I stabilize the nutrient export story

Pink stylo is growing as well

red milli has grown second most i think among the sps.. after green slimer

green slimer

 

[Ranjib]

Current FTS

Some less blue pics .
Myagi tort

pink stylo

Raja rampage

Rainbow acan is having a warfare with gsp . I am not sure if I should intervene yet

Red milli continued to grow

Goni looks ok

strawberry shortcake

alveopora

Thinking of not changing anything for some time . I have to come up with some plan to attack aiptasia and slowly cover all rock surface with corals. Alk is holding steady with all for reef dosing now on timers .
I’m very pleased with the roller mat. It’s working like a champ. I’m still using the skimmer , we’ll see after few months if I have Low nitrate or phosphate issues , if not I’ll continue using skimmer .

 

[Ranjib]

Tank is humming along. Other than growing aiptasia and algae I have no complain. I know how I’ll deal with both. Algae should be easy , I just have to be patient and keep up with the chores. As corals grow out and tank stabilizes, things will settle in.
for aiptasia , my current plan is to introduce a file fish . I already got one couple of weeks back , and it has cleaned up the nano tank (very light infestation ). I’m just being careful about the lps and other corals before introducing the file fish in this tank .
Here is the current fts (orange filter on )

Black cap basslet , very shy , after couple of weeks of staying he is finally coming out for food . Absolutely gorgeous fish. After the yellow tang , this was another wishlist item for me . Very happy to have him here, i hope I’ll be able to keep him for long

Some of my oldest lps colonies. I got these when they were like two heads only , back in 2016

rainbow acan

I am planning to break this rock , otherwise I think the rainbow acan will slowly kill rest everything

starry blenny. Eats algae all day long

One of the several Zoa colonies

Sps collection
Myagi tort

Strawberry shortcake

Another child colony (from a broken branch ) of strawberry shortcake

Side view , you can spot green cap, a massive forest fires digitata colony and other frags

A no name tenuous

One of the challice

posting these images for documenting their growth , please bare with me
Another challice , I think it’s called cloudberry

Zoa colony , just grafted relocated it from the bottom

Alveopora

 

[Ranjib]

Tank is holding steady , here is an FTS

alk consumption is growing steadily . Adjusting all for reef dosing regimen accordingly . Sps are growing , but slow I think , but not sure . These journal logs should help with that .
Took some top down shots during water change . Strawberry shortcake

this is `Joker` from battle corals. It has grown barely, i believe it needs strong light. I was foolish to glue a frag of forest fire very close by, that one grew quickly and later i was worried it might kill the joker. Thankfully it seems the joker is wining over forest fire.

another yellow tenius, cant recall the name.

orange digi and green slimer, my old horses, growing fast. I have already fragged both of those two multiple times. I really dont want to dump them down the drain. But i think i still have few months or a year before that

acan

one of the zoe colonies that i have glued in the middle, darker place in the left island. For the time being its mostly to prevent algae by denying real estate. will see how the raja rampage grows and act accordingly.

myagi tort. cant tell it has grown or not , have to check this thread back and forth to understand if it has grown at all . definitely not growing at a rate as it was 4 months back,

milipora, fragged once already, and intend to frag it again. Idea is to make it arch laterally by fragging, while i reuse the frags to propagate them in near by places

Theres still plenty of gha and turf algae. I mechanically remove them during every water change (every 2-3 weeks now). The growth rate was rather high few months back. On retrospect i had run kessil pretty high and pretty white for a new tank. Well, hind sight is 20/20. Couple of months back i did a round of reef flux, followed by lowering kessil intensity as well as color (blue). Corals were in shock in the first week, but after two months, its obvious it made an impact. GHA growth is at check, turf alage grows but managable. Reef mat 500 also made a big difference i believe. I also change all for reef dosing from ato to dedicated doser.

Too many changes i did in one go. I dont know if it was wrong step. There will be only that many times a year i;ll make changes, and observe them for months, and in the first two years i want to adapt fast... and settle on a long term strategy after 3-4 years (unless i get a bigger tank )

Next few months goal is to focus on the corals health a bit more. While sps are growing (not rapidly, but not in bad shape as well), my hammer and elegance is in real bad shape. Some due to location, and a lot due to the clown using them as anemone. Not sure how i'll approach this .. but i am thinking

During yesterday's water change i finally took a stab at the aiptasia issue. I injected high concentration of NAOH solution (thanks you evan from reefbuilders for the youtube video) to all the visible aiptasia i could spot. I am sure there are many left, and I'll get back to those again.
thats all for this update

 

[Ranjib]

Coral and algae both are doing good
Fts

Chalices ..

Sps are growing steadily

Strawberry shortcake . Can’t say how much it grown, but it is now encrusted on the rock, few weeks back it was loose frag l

This no name acro frag has encrusted more and also grown bit taller

Purple stylo + myagi tort .. not sure how much it has grown , have to scroll through this thread

Another acro

this blue lepto used to be a coin sized frag., now it’s fighting for real estate with the yellow leptoseris

Alk is holding steady at 8.4 ., just replaced reef mat fleece role . Lasted almost 3 months . Not bad

 

[Ranjib]

Current fts

Right side island, myagi tort , pink stylo , red milli , strawberry shortcake , orange monti digitata , forest fire .. all have grown in s

the right side island , green slimer is overgrown, I’m planning to trim it in one side, else the other acro will be shaded

Close up of myagi tort . It’s bit brighter in color now. I think this is due to a combo of temp fluctuation and poor water quality (not keeping up with weekly water change ). I think I changed water almost 3 weeks back :-(

Grandis colony , one of my oldest corals

alveopora, perhaps the most showy coral in the tank

cleaner shrimp

Close up of pink stylo

this rainbow monti had a sever nudibranch infestation. You can notice in the lost surface area. After some turkey baster based manual cleaning and a wrasse introduction , I think the infection is in check. At least I don’t see any nudibranch during day time . Tissue loss seems to be frozen as well. Let hope it recovers quickly

one of the challice

The rainbow acan finally stung the lord . It lost 6 heads , but still has many more left. I really have to break that rock and separate those , there’s at least 5 different zoa in there that I should salvage and reglue

Strawberry shortcake , photo from underneath

this is another no name yellow acro , it had grown almost twice since last update , I think

Things are holding ok. Had a weird issue of one of the heater malfunctioning , leading to systemic temperature (as low as 74F) fluctuation for several days . Reef-pi was alerting as expected , but since I was busy it took some time to get this sorted. After some tinkering it turns out to be a calcium deposits on the heater leading to wrong temperature sensor (internal to the heater) . After cleaning the heater thoroughly and getting rid of the plastic jacket , it was fine.

I have ordered couple of more heaters , better safe than sorry. Looking at the graph , clearly I should have responded early .

 

[Spieg]

Looking good.

 

[Ranjib]

My rainbow acan echinata finally stung the micromussa lord, . I was hoping I’ll have some time . Anyhow, the acan lord lost a few heads . I went ahead and broke down that piece and separated out the rainbow acan . Current FTS

Rainbow acan is in the back

I have glued the acan lord in middle of the left island, I felt it’s bit high, but I think this place will slowly more shade due to the acros. You can notice the lost heads

Zoas are distributed in both islands, nukes and crannies

I’m curious how they grow in different heights

here are some more blue light with orange filter sps shots . Local lfs yellow acro

Myagi tort , battle corals

another nonname lfs acro

Battle corals red millioira . It’s growing at the same pace as green slimer, monti and strawberry shortcake .

left island. Strawberry shortcake is currently dominating the visual appeal

Pink stylo

Alk is holding steady at 7.8-8.0. I have received a box full of sps frags that I had order from fraghouse corals , during Black Friday sell. Will share some pics in next update

 

[Ranjib]

Got the fraghouse corals glued. I took some top down shots (with orange filter). Documenting them here to track how many I can keep alive and if so , their growth rate. I have tougher time with more demanding acros ( water chemistry is not as pristine , I broadcast feed and don’t have refugium ). I have already lost two of the frags. One of them was dead on arrival , while the other withered away last night (rtn). I have the names of each of these, but can’t recall which one is which. Will see which ones survive and learn their names on the way

here are the frags

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As you can see , all the frags are pretty chunky. They came in very healthy condition. My tank water quality is not so good, and algae is also there on the rock. You can notice the cyano on top of algae wherever corals are taking back real estate. This is my personal strategy for algae control , do water change till corals grows , tank matures and algae has no real estate. Once that’s done , bring back white light and less water change. Till then more rigorous water change and blue heavy photoperiod.

 

[Ranjib]

I took some top down shots of the existing colonies as well.
red milli pora

myagi tort

Yellow teneus ,not that big. I’m glad it survived and has grown almost 5 times in last few months

Strawberry shortcake

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One of the challice

My zoa rock

Fungia

Alveopora

Left sps island

that’s it for tonight . Thank you for tagging along

 

[Ranjib]

Thinking of getting rid of skimmer in lieu of a refugium. Not sure if it worth as chaeto growing is not always easy . But skimmer is constant maintenance , risk of over flow. ..

 

[Ranjib]

Current fts

Frag house coral frags are still holding on. No bleaching or burnout . But no visible growth as well. Here are the photos of the frags for tracking

Rest of my old sps are all going strong. Forest fire is branching well in the backside

these milliopora frags were taken from the colony next to it , originally sourced from battle corals. I am using them to cover most of the rocks to manage gha (No real estate ). The frags are now fusing and growing small heads

This is the close up of the main colony

the acan lord is doing better after breaking off from the original island . The two lost heads (from the sting of rainbow echinata ) has not recovered yet. I was worried about the height & light exposure , but I think it can handle those . The polys look healthy and fluffy

One of my favorite Zoas . I hope it grows , now that it’s separated from the original , heavily congested island

Myagi tort

Side view of the ta n