This setup is about 1.5 years old now and is growing and healthy. I've been having some issues with pale corals and am working on that. I've also been "cooking" this huge rock I managed to zip tie and putty together to use in my aquarium. I cooked this rock for around 5 months and the phosphates weren't coming down fast enough so I decided to grab a phosban reactor, add the rock to my tank, and hope for the best.
Day 2 after having the new rock in the tank and the phosphates jumped up to .37. Not good at all. I added the phosban reactor the next day and took some results a few days later. After 3 days the phosphates are down to .1. Tested a day later and down to .09.
I will continue to test daily for phosphates to make sure Im not stripping them all out. So far I've noticed a few pieces of SPS are coloring up really quickly.
Having such a small footprint with this new setup is great. To get any detritus out all I have to do now is slide the main rock forward a little. This is where all of it builds up now.
I still need to glue down a few frags but other than that everything is looking good so far.
Day 2 after having the new rock in the tank and the phosphates jumped up to .37. Not good at all. I added the phosban reactor the next day and took some results a few days later. After 3 days the phosphates are down to .1. Tested a day later and down to .09.
I will continue to test daily for phosphates to make sure Im not stripping them all out. So far I've noticed a few pieces of SPS are coloring up really quickly.
Having such a small footprint with this new setup is great. To get any detritus out all I have to do now is slide the main rock forward a little. This is where all of it builds up now.
I still need to glue down a few frags but other than that everything is looking good so far.