Velcro's frag/display hybrid.

[Velcro]

This is a placeholder for many more details. Please stay tuned!

I recently broke down my 93 gallon cube and moved everything into an established frag system in my office. For now, it's just the frag tank though I plan to add a display next to it and tie it to this system. more on that later.

As is today:

Specs:
48x30x13 great lakes aquarium tank
Trigger systems ruby sump
ATI 8 bulb T5 with a reefbrite XHO blue
Precision marine calcium reactor
Neptune DOS AWC (1.5 gallons a day)
Gyre XF250 (x2)

Fish:
Kole tang
Yellow tang
Melanarus wrasse
Blue star leopard wrasse
Ornate leopard wrasse
3 oscellaris clowns
springerii damsel
Hawkfish
Filefish
Mandarin

Notable SPS:
Vivid confetti
SC orange passion
JF homewrecker
JF solar flare millepora
JF fox flame
JF UC strawberry shortcake
JF tyree tierra del fuego
RR Crazy T monti
RR pink floyd
RR the vinh
BC Fleshdunce Millepora
BC nilbog resident
BC spainbow
BC twilight dragon
Wet Thumbs OG tierra del fuego
Walt Disney
CC kombucha tenuis
PC superman
PC sunset
PC rainbow

parameters
35 ppt - 78F - 7.0 dKH - Ca 420ppm - Mag 1350ppm - K 400ppm - NO3 <0.25ppm - PO4 undetectable (hanna ULR P)

Nutrient control: Skimmer, refugium lit with mars hydro 300W, marine pure brick. No carbon dosing, no filter socks, no GFO. 25-50% recommended ROX GAC changed every few weeks.

As you can see my nutrients are rock bottom, which i don't love. I have been feeding the heck out of the tank to account for this. Things don't seem unhappy.


Tank is loaded with 99% SPS. A few LPS here and there. It's eating like 2.5-3 dKH per day

 

[hybridazn]

If you want to keep alk at the level it's at now I would leave the nutrients where they are at now. Bumping them up with low alk could end badly.

 

[bubbaque]

If you want to keep alk at the level it's at now I would leave the nutrients where they are at now. Bumping them up with low alk could end badly.

whats the issue with higher nutrients and low alk?

 

[Velcro]

If you want to keep alk at the level it's at now I would leave the nutrients where they are at now. Bumping them up with low alk could end badly.

I'm talking about dosing to hold like .25 nitrate

 

[Velcro]

 

[d_adler]

How do you like calcium reactor with the auto water changes?

 

[ksfulk]

... I feel like I know some of these corals you keep...

 

[Velcro]

How do you like calcium reactor with the auto water changes?

Love it! Was having a hard time dialing the calcium reactor in for some reason, so I switched from the drop counting method to the steady stream with a higher reactor pH. Worked wonders.

 

[Velcro]

... I feel like I know some of these corals you keep...

The pink lemonade and nilbog resident I got from you are pictured and doing amazing!

 

[aarbutina]

Looks awesome! A tad bit jealous. What bulb combination are you using for the T5s?

 

[Velcro]

Looks awesome! A tad bit jealous. What bulb combination are you using for the T5s?

Currently 5 blue+ 1 coral+ 1 pure actinic and 1 purple plus.

I'm going to switch the pure actinic for another coral plus.

 

[USMC 4 LIFE]

Very sweet 93g cube that you had and I’m sorry you had to take it down but I’m positive you’re experience and success is going to carry right over to this tank.

Keep us posted so novices like me can learn a thing or two.

 

[Anirban]

Great job man....

 

[Velcro]

Unfortunately, my blue star leopard managed to jump out of the tank at some point yesterday. I don't know if it was when I was working in the tank and I didn't notice, or if it made it through one of the very small gaps between the screen top and tank wall. This was my favorite fish and I have a pit in my stomach.

I'll keep the main photo of the thread as her but it definitely makes me sad to see it

 

[Anirban]

Ohh man....its a great looking fish

 

[NikoO]

@Velcro
Do you have a Full tank shot?
also - what kind of tiles are safe to use for coral frags?\
I've wanted to put a few pieces on plates for growout, but I don't know which tiles are okay

 

[Velcro]

@Velcro
Do you have a Full tank shot?
also - what kind of tiles are safe to use for coral frags?\
I've wanted to put a few pieces on plates for growout, but I don't know which tiles are okay

I'll work on a FTS soon. You wasn't natural travertine tiles. They should not be filled... Ie they should still have holes on both sides.

Honestly I like the aragonite tiles from oceans wonders better. The 2 and 3 inch tiles on their site are awesome

 

[coseal]

nice collection! what kind of lighting schedule do you run? my bulb combo will be nearly identical to yours...

 

[Velcro]

14 hours of reefbrite, 12 hours of 1x blue plus and 1x pure actinic, 6 hours all channels.