Dusty's 75 Gallon First Reef Build

dustynavy · Aug 4, 2022

Hi, everyone I have my tank up and running with a clean-up crew and one clownfish. I was wondering if I should use the media reactor when I have a cleanup crew? Do I want algae for them to feed on or should I have this on all the time to keep the bloom down? Thanks again for any advice.

dustynavy · Aug 4, 2022

The lights arrived and the cleanup crew. Probably got the clean-up crew too early but I’m going to just feed them until the tank is a little more established.

Stevesw718 · Aug 29, 2022

Hello, was just reading through, where did you settle on the blue/white setting? I’ve been playing with mine, corals seem to bloom and open up of all settings, I do like the higher blue for looks, like 80% but wasn’t sure if that was too high. I have two vispectra on a standard 75 gallon, right now I’m at 25 blue and Whites are on 1…

Visually, blue on like 80-90 gives the corals and nice glow, but I’m still trying to see what #s are best. I have windows in the room with the tank, during the day there is sun light. I’ve had my tank running since April, have too much algea growing on my rocks, so I took the whites down from 4 to 0 and back to 1 about a week ago, just noticed today I have a bunch of purple spots growing over the hair algea, hopefully a good thing as I try to increase the blue setting, I think whites will leave to 0 or maybe 1 for a couple hours since I have day light in the room

dustynavy · Sep 2, 2022

dustynavy said:
The lights arrived and the cleanup crew. Probably got the clean-up crew too early but I’m going to just feed them until the tank is a little more established.

Rick's Reviews · Sep 16, 2022

Great to see you got spare shells for cuc

From your pics I believe bubble tip anemone is on the move, also you are getting algae from lighting (as all sits on top/where light from above hits), this is unavoidable in most cases so I would not worry too much.
What settings do you have your vispectra blue and white and also what times have you set, how long are they on per day
mine currently blue at 40%, 8:00am on, then whites at 40% 8:30 am on. Whites off at 6pm, (blues still on throughout the day) then blues off at 6:30pm

Your aquarium seems to be moving forward nicely

dustynavy · Jan 30, 2023

Hi I haven’t posted in awhile but thought I would update my build thread so I can keep track of the tank’s progress. There has definitely been some ups and downs but I am still loving the tank. Hope everyone is having a great start to their year.