Hello all, my name is Tristan and I am a British immigrant who has moved to the North Shore and also, after 35 years, finally moved from freshwater cichlids and made the move to saltwater (and wish I'd done it years ago).
I have a 180 gallon 'reef' tank (with the few corals I've been able to keep alive, mainly softies, a few lps and gorgonians) with a lot of fish, plus a connected display 60gallon cube refugium and another 50 or so gallons in the recently added sump (after I finally gave up on trying for the last 2 years to run the tank with the 3 FX6s I had when it was freshwater).
I would really, really love to up my game and start keeping sps, especially plating montis and easier branching varieties. At this time I don't dose, I was adding kalk to the RO but I think it's time to stop this and try dosing 'All For Reef' on a routine basis instead for stability.
I do battle very high nitrates and phosphates, I have recently added a GFO reactor and literally last week, a reactor for biopellets.
I would greatly appreciate experienced reefers here helping me to improve and reach that goal of sustaining SPS. I don't want to be an acropora legend, but just be able to keep the easier sps.
I have a 180 gallon 'reef' tank (with the few corals I've been able to keep alive, mainly softies, a few lps and gorgonians) with a lot of fish, plus a connected display 60gallon cube refugium and another 50 or so gallons in the recently added sump (after I finally gave up on trying for the last 2 years to run the tank with the 3 FX6s I had when it was freshwater).
I would really, really love to up my game and start keeping sps, especially plating montis and easier branching varieties. At this time I don't dose, I was adding kalk to the RO but I think it's time to stop this and try dosing 'All For Reef' on a routine basis instead for stability.
I do battle very high nitrates and phosphates, I have recently added a GFO reactor and literally last week, a reactor for biopellets.
I would greatly appreciate experienced reefers here helping me to improve and reach that goal of sustaining SPS. I don't want to be an acropora legend, but just be able to keep the easier sps.