Evening All,
My names Allister, I'm new to Reef2Reef and I'm over in the UK.
I've been a long time reader of the site when searching the Internet but never joined or posted.
I used to have a 5x2x2 mixed reef about 7-8 years ago but got out of the hobby when we had our daughter.
In April I finally got a new tank and got myself back into a hobby I wish I never left.
I setup a Red Sea Reefer 200 G2 in April last year and until recently had been running pretty smoothly.
I've suffered a couple of coral losses such as a larva chalice stripped, a picacu acro stripped from the base up and my Red plating montipora has lost a lot of colour.
My LPS seem to be a lot healthier but have struggled to pinpoint the exact issue I'm fighting and how to remediate it.
I usually do 25-50 litre water changes every week or bi weekly if I'm busy.
I feed one cube of frozen TMC gamma a day and mix it up between mysis, brineshrimp and a mixed one. I dose 10ml of Red Sea Reef Energy AB+ a night too.
Stock wise I have the following:
2 clowns
1 bangai Cardinal
1 leopard wrasse
1 starki Damsel
1 Royal gramma
1 sandsifting star
Tuxedo urchin
Red and blue leg hermits
1 fire shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
Turbo seals
Serith Snails
Feather duster worm
Latest parameters are:
Mag 1410
Calc 425
Nitrate 1ppm
Phos 0.03ppm
Ph 8.15
Dkh 8.45
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25.7
Filtration is:
Red Sea ReefMatt 500
Red Sea DC Skimmer 300
UV Steriliser.
I have the Red Sea Reef Dose 4 however, I'm only dosing Red Sea Alk and NoPox
Alk is 3ml per day and same for NoPox 3ml.
Lighting is Reef Factory Reef Flare Pro M at about 50% intensity at its peak.
Flow is the display is a Red Sea ReefWave 25 on 60% and return is a Red Sea ReefRun 5000 on 80%.
UV runs off a separate TMC 2000 DC pump.
Lighting starts at 10pm and ramps up to peak by midday and lights off at 10pm.
Water level is maintained by the Red Sea ATO+ so salinity shouldn't swing.
Temp is also controlled by the D&D dual controller with a 300W titanium heater.
Also running a CO2 scrubber through the skimmer. Using Reef Zlements Zorb media.
I've got a ICP test I'm sending off tomorrow so will update when i have results back.
I've also had some green hair algae growing on the back glass and noticed some corals have a brown algae growing on them such as the red plating monti and a few others.
I'll add some pictures and would be great to get your thoughts.
Cheers
My names Allister, I'm new to Reef2Reef and I'm over in the UK.
I've been a long time reader of the site when searching the Internet but never joined or posted.
I used to have a 5x2x2 mixed reef about 7-8 years ago but got out of the hobby when we had our daughter.
In April I finally got a new tank and got myself back into a hobby I wish I never left.
I setup a Red Sea Reefer 200 G2 in April last year and until recently had been running pretty smoothly.
I've suffered a couple of coral losses such as a larva chalice stripped, a picacu acro stripped from the base up and my Red plating montipora has lost a lot of colour.
My LPS seem to be a lot healthier but have struggled to pinpoint the exact issue I'm fighting and how to remediate it.
I usually do 25-50 litre water changes every week or bi weekly if I'm busy.
I feed one cube of frozen TMC gamma a day and mix it up between mysis, brineshrimp and a mixed one. I dose 10ml of Red Sea Reef Energy AB+ a night too.
Stock wise I have the following:
2 clowns
1 bangai Cardinal
1 leopard wrasse
1 starki Damsel
1 Royal gramma
1 sandsifting star
Tuxedo urchin
Red and blue leg hermits
1 fire shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
Turbo seals
Serith Snails
Feather duster worm
Latest parameters are:
Mag 1410
Calc 425
Nitrate 1ppm
Phos 0.03ppm
Ph 8.15
Dkh 8.45
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25.7
Filtration is:
Red Sea ReefMatt 500
Red Sea DC Skimmer 300
UV Steriliser.
I have the Red Sea Reef Dose 4 however, I'm only dosing Red Sea Alk and NoPox
Alk is 3ml per day and same for NoPox 3ml.
Lighting is Reef Factory Reef Flare Pro M at about 50% intensity at its peak.
Flow is the display is a Red Sea ReefWave 25 on 60% and return is a Red Sea ReefRun 5000 on 80%.
UV runs off a separate TMC 2000 DC pump.
Lighting starts at 10pm and ramps up to peak by midday and lights off at 10pm.
Water level is maintained by the Red Sea ATO+ so salinity shouldn't swing.
Temp is also controlled by the D&D dual controller with a 300W titanium heater.
Also running a CO2 scrubber through the skimmer. Using Reef Zlements Zorb media.
I've got a ICP test I'm sending off tomorrow so will update when i have results back.
I've also had some green hair algae growing on the back glass and noticed some corals have a brown algae growing on them such as the red plating monti and a few others.
I'll add some pictures and would be great to get your thoughts.
Cheers