Wesley's 185G minireef

[Vteclover]

Hey
I'm wesley ,born in 1979 and from belgium
I'm into the hobby for over 5 years.
Trial and error in the hobby 1 year with a 60 G 90cm tank .
Then i stepped up to a 185 G tank (160cm) still running today for over 4 years

Maybe its easier for a little impression movie and start from here.
[video=youtube;Z5wlLFxon5I]
Little technics
Lightning are 4 ai sol blue with 2 t5 80w supplement.
Deltec sc 1455
Streamers Gyre xf230 + tunze 6055 + 6 loc-lines from the return pump aquamedic ecorunner 6000

Always did bi-weekly 16g waterchanges and 3 part dosing from fauna marin with the trace elements.

I love zoanthus but those always have been troublemakers for me

 

[hdsoftail1065]

That's a terrific looking reef Wesley!

 

[NewbieReefer11]

How wish my tank was that nice

 

[JMetaxas]

Very nice sir !!

 

[Captain Quint]

@Vteclover welcome to R2R.

Your pic and video are beautiful.

Congrats on becoming an expert level reefer in 5 years.

 

[SPR1968]

The tank looks beautiful Wesley and welcome to R2R as well!

 

[tripdad]

Welcome to R2R! Nice tank.

 

[Vteclover]

Txs guys.
Expert level or lucky
I'm learning fast but still learning,again for the last 3 months.

First mention:
Just had phosphate remover the first three weeks .
The only thing i ever had for controlling nutrients whas caulerpa b. Growing In the sump at night.

After a while i measured 0,00 phosphate with a hanna checker.
As a newbie i listened to the most experienced reefers that where always saying "you cant have zero phospate with no phosphate remover or carbon source and very little refugium.
At this time i whas feeding flakes and pellets.
Moved over to frozen food for more phosphate.
Over the weeks it remained 0,00 until i started acro bleaching from the base.
Did my first ati labtest and confirmed i had undetectable phospates.

Had to dose phospate from a bottle for a while :-0

Been in the lean side for over 3.5 years

Last summer there whas a change i never would imagine
Did not measured to mutch becose it whas always the same.
There whas a dark arcro that never coloured up but now he did .
so i thought i whas facing towards 0,00 phosphate again
Boy i whas shocked
Nitrate +25 and phospates 0,25 :-0
Al the other corals color stayed the same as ever

This one took of at 0,25 phospate lol
So the basics or not the basics anymore for me

And it is not for 2 weeks but 3-4 months now .
Zoa are nice to for the moment.
I started slowly with carbon dosing with nopox .
Dont want things to get really out of control.
For the moment no3 =10 and po4=0,18
Now that i know my reef can take nitrate near 50 and phosphate 0,25 my goal is no3 5-10 and po4 0,10
Had more troubles with my mixed reef on the lean side than rich

 

[Vteclover]

One of my favorite zoa.
For a long time i thougt they where miami vice but someone told me they where blue kiss becose the polypt are a litte bit bigger than regular?? What the heck for the name ,they are nice ;-)

One of my favorite lobo
Have this for 3 years now and doubled in size since i got it.
Never spotfeeded it

 

[Vteclover]

Fish stocking
-2 decora n
-2 nemo
-Male and female Synchiropus splendidus
-ramosus blenny
-apistognatus (jack in the box)
-halichoerus chrysus
-labroides d
-puellaris valenc..
-Zebrasoma flavescens
-Zebrasoma xanthurum
-Acanthurus tristis
-Acanthurus japonicus
Cant post them all
My second fevorite dreamfish,the first one i take my hands of

My oldest tang i have for 5 year that was moved from my first tank

The boss of the tank

Keeps the sand clean

 

[Vteclover]

Bought an update for the future
Second hands 3 hydra 52 with director

Dont know if i will buy a 4th armature.
Maybe i'll get away with 3 and for now i'm going to keep the t5 supplement.
Now with 4 sols many light shines on the reinforcement strips.
The hydra in the middle will come right between the strips.
3 sols before in the same way did not do the trick with the 70/40 lenses
for the spread of the color for the sps
Maybe the wider lenses of the hydra will do the trick

Its a little search with the director and settings but i,m learning fast hehe.
I drawed a sheets for the lightshedule i have now.

Maybe i tweak it a little like david saxby and give the flat line max hours a little peaks and downs
Still dont know what % i should begin with?? The same of the sols or 50 or 60% ??