Johnson556
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Some late Sunday chaos, I have made quite the mess. Looks like I’ll be taking the day off tomorrow to aquascape and fill. Cannot wait to have this complete and the carpet professionally cleaned haha.
Since my last post the tank has been a complete headache. Nothing is making any sense and I’m just going to blame it on new tank syndrome at this point. Yet, I have to deep clean my MP40’s almost every 3 weeks because of how fast they get coated with Coralline. I haven’t added any corals in over two months yet two weeks ago I notice AEFW on numerous acros...funny how that happens. Everything’s been dipped and dealt with. Haven’t seen any signs of them in a weeks time and have inspected 90% of corals for eggs.
I’ve lost numerous acro colonies and frags in the past three months. I just noticed a big rainbow acan colony deteriorating today. Tank has been stable between 7.8-8.0dkh, calcium balanced out around 430PPM, and Nitrates at 2PPM. I can tell phosphates fluctuate depending on how the glass and sand looks, added some GFO while the scrubber seeds just to keep them low. I do 40g water changes each month and sometimes a quick 10g in between using Red Sea blue bucket.
I disconnected the scrubber in June to let my nutrients accumulate due to everything being so pale before hand. Because of that I’ve developed this weird green crap all over my rocks and have some nice brown acros as well....decided it’s going back on. I plan on adding more fish and making it a high import/export system with the scrubber. I feel like the scrubber worked so well on my 90G (along with everything else) because I added the scrubber when the tank was 8 months old. I also had a significantly greater bioload in respect to what this tank has.
Added a Neptune Dos last week and let me tell you, so far I hate it. The Auto programming is garbage and it’s loud. I plan on going full nerd to program how I want later this week. BRS 1.1ml dosers did a fine job and I should have stuck with them.
Going forward I’m just going to let the tank mature until things color up and everything’s in good health/stable. Going to be adding some more fish and cuc in the mean time. Hopefully by December I can confidentially dump 20+ sticks in it.
What happened to the first 2 tanks?? You purchased one used had a chip in glass but did that tank fail you? I am trying to set up a 180 also in my basement right under a window very similar set up! I am trying to go used... but am finding it hard to find a 180.
nice build thread! I went through this with the 120G upgrade ended up battling dino 2x. fingers crossed I’m done with that forever. I’ll tell you best thing I did was set up a CA reactor. since I have done this the system parameters have been super stable. it like the ronco electric oven set it and forget it [emoji23] Look forward to seeing the 180 progress along[emoji106]
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nice build thread! I went through this with the 120G upgrade ended up battling dino 2x. fingers crossed I’m done with that forever. I’ll tell you best thing I did was set up a CA reactor. since I have done this the system parameters have been super stable. it like the ronco electric oven set it and forget it [emoji23] Look forward to seeing the 180 progress along[emoji106]
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Thanks Corey, I was so close to getting a Ca Reactor but I backed out last second and went with the dos, will Deff make the switch with future tanks.
Tank since my last post has been rock solid however, Oct. 1st I ripped all of the SPS out of my tank and tossed it. Time to start fresh, no pests, no nonsense and thorough dippings/QT going forward.
I also started doing 30G water changes weekly (for now) and the tank is looking crisp. Been exactly where I want to be with the exception of PO4, still waiting for scrubber to take off. Completely revamped it 5 minutes ago; smaller screen with higher flow to fine tune it appropriately. Here’s and updated shot just after the lights turned one.
Added about 30lbs more of rock to the display to increase the hieght a bit in some areas.
Current Stock List
-2 Purple tangs
-3 yellow tangs
-melenarus wrasse
-yellow coris wrasse
-lubbocks Wrasse
-ruby head wrasse
-Solon fairy wrasse (currently in timeout in a 10G)
-trio of lyretail anthias
-swallowtail Angel
-orangetail damsel
-pair of clowns that spawn non-stop
1 male 2 females, but it took 2 males and 6 females to make that trio....
Can’t wait to put acros back in, game plan is to throw a few testers in before thanks giving then if all is well come January I will load up again.
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