Water change day.
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TecknikReefer
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I am new to this and I just bought the Hello Reef kit myself. Finished the aquascape today and hope this is something fun I can do with my kids. Can’t wait and hope mine gets looking nice as yours does one day! What kind of testing do you do and how often?
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Girlfriend definitely getting a custom @Kraken Reef made for the tank next week! I'm so stoked!! The tank took a year or so to but it's slowly working into how picured it.
The biggest bump was it going through a bad hair algae stage and a lot of my coral died off. I had gotten sick with cancer so that sorta took over and I let the tank go a while (not a good excuse but just what happened). But i scrubbed what I could out and off the wall and rocks,buffed my clean up crew and went back to weekly 5 gallon water changes and started with testing water parameters. So after a few weeks of that it started to turn around as I thought and hoped. This is where the 10 years of experience came in handy, I knew the solution was good consistency of good husbandry practices,not anything in a bottle or quick fixes.
Once it was under way again I started to restock some. I had a big zoa colony still alive and added a small green bta. Then thought,hey, let's up the lights, I like blue let's go with the G6 and call it a day! And that really made the tank take off. Really tied the tank together like the Lebowski rug.
So now my goal is to enjoy the husbandry aspects fully and consistently to allow for my tank to have the best chance at success,I appreciate you reading this and following along!
The biggest bump was it going through a bad hair algae stage and a lot of my coral died off. I had gotten sick with cancer so that sorta took over and I let the tank go a while (not a good excuse but just what happened). But i scrubbed what I could out and off the wall and rocks,buffed my clean up crew and went back to weekly 5 gallon water changes and started with testing water parameters. So after a few weeks of that it started to turn around as I thought and hoped. This is where the 10 years of experience came in handy, I knew the solution was good consistency of good husbandry practices,not anything in a bottle or quick fixes.
Once it was under way again I started to restock some. I had a big zoa colony still alive and added a small green bta. Then thought,hey, let's up the lights, I like blue let's go with the G6 and call it a day! And that really made the tank take off. Really tied the tank together like the Lebowski rug.
So now my goal is to enjoy the husbandry aspects fully and consistently to allow for my tank to have the best chance at success,I appreciate you reading this and following along!
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You just reminded me I need to do a water change today as well, haha.
TecknikReefer
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Nice! I am debating on getting one. I just wonder if the AI Blade light that comes with the kit will interfere with it or if it just sits without issue on top of the lid.
Is that montipora setosa in second to last picture? Beautiful tank!Some random from today.
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