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Evening,
Been in the saltwater game since 2002 mainly nano reefs 25 gallons and under. Spent enough money to buy a small island (lawnman quote with nothing to really show for it. My most successful tank was a Red Sea Max Nano that crashed due to streets being tarred (Skimmer line outside). Nano tank parameters have been a roller coaster to keep stable because of my love for Sps and traveling for work.
Sold the max nano and purchased a IM Lagoon 25 to recreate what I lost. Sps were doing great for a while, then polyps would disappear and slowly they would wither away. Parameters were spot on, but icp kept reporting high tin. No metals deteriorating in tank, RO station all new filters. Tried using purit, and metasorb to no avail. Only thing I could throw a finger at is maybe all my dosing tubing which I just use petsmart Airline tubing. In short, found a,product called “continuum aquatics power cleanse”. Heavy metal remover. Things immediately turned around! Sps polyp extension was incredible! Still don’t know for sure, but using this product until I can find the culprit.
Things being stable now, I wanted to move to a larger tank. Found a great deal on a Reefer 200xl G2 from a reefer on here.(Thanks Lawnman!)
So this is the start of my journey to a Mature tank with colonies, not frags!
Location of tank is settled….first problem is all my Focustronic equipment. I can’t keep it where it’s at since lines can’t be lengthened. I also can’t put any cabinets near the tank (wife’s order). The room is already cramped and I agree, I want a clean setup to math the tanks lines. Not enough room behind the tank either. I’m pretty much left at selling my whole Focustronic ecosystem including brand new Focustronic light that I haven’t even opened yet. I love the Focustronic system, but am close to buying the Reef factory ecosystem that is 1/10th the size. Reef factory smart tester only allows one test configuration at a time which is very limiting. Reviews aren’t happy with GHL…..I need a reliable KH tester and a Nitrate and Phosphate tester that are small. Manual testing would be fine if I didn’t travel, hence my investment into automatic testers.
Some sacrifices will have to be made. I also will have to downsize my Kalkwasser system. I guess TLF kalk 300 would work in the sump area. Why all this equipment for a nano? Simply for future upgrades. Figured equipment will come with me. Really didn’t think through the storage of all this equipment.
Plan on doing another floating reef such as this
Equipment
Red Sea Reefer 200xl G2
ATI Straton or Solartronic (figuring out equipment storage)
Focustronic Ecosystem Mastertronic,Alkatronic,Dosetronic,Solartronic. Possibly downsizing to smaller controller I.e. Reef Factory
Hydor E-SK 600 Skimmer
Jebao DCT-4000 DC return pump
IM Helios 200 watt heater
Hydros Controller
2 Mp10QD or 2 Icecap 2k Gyre pumps mounted vertically on back wall
Reefeco floating rock wall mount
Marco dry rock in coralline red
Excited about the bigger tank and planning everything out. Right now it’s getting a citric acid cleaning followed by a freshwater rinse. Once the Reefeco order comes in, I’ll mount the brackets and wait the 10 days for it to cure. Then I’ll build the rock structure and start the cycle. I want to take the transfer slow as I have a lot of expensive acro. Once parameters are stable, I’ll start with a frag of green star polyps(canary in a coal mine) and a montipora frag to see how they react. I’ll probably buy the new automatic tester this week after more research and hook it up to the new system to get everything dialed in and Then list all my Focustronic for sale.
The journey continues folks…….
Been in the saltwater game since 2002 mainly nano reefs 25 gallons and under. Spent enough money to buy a small island (lawnman quote with nothing to really show for it. My most successful tank was a Red Sea Max Nano that crashed due to streets being tarred (Skimmer line outside). Nano tank parameters have been a roller coaster to keep stable because of my love for Sps and traveling for work.
Sold the max nano and purchased a IM Lagoon 25 to recreate what I lost. Sps were doing great for a while, then polyps would disappear and slowly they would wither away. Parameters were spot on, but icp kept reporting high tin. No metals deteriorating in tank, RO station all new filters. Tried using purit, and metasorb to no avail. Only thing I could throw a finger at is maybe all my dosing tubing which I just use petsmart Airline tubing. In short, found a,product called “continuum aquatics power cleanse”. Heavy metal remover. Things immediately turned around! Sps polyp extension was incredible! Still don’t know for sure, but using this product until I can find the culprit.
Things being stable now, I wanted to move to a larger tank. Found a great deal on a Reefer 200xl G2 from a reefer on here.(Thanks Lawnman!)
So this is the start of my journey to a Mature tank with colonies, not frags!
Location of tank is settled….first problem is all my Focustronic equipment. I can’t keep it where it’s at since lines can’t be lengthened. I also can’t put any cabinets near the tank (wife’s order). The room is already cramped and I agree, I want a clean setup to math the tanks lines. Not enough room behind the tank either. I’m pretty much left at selling my whole Focustronic ecosystem including brand new Focustronic light that I haven’t even opened yet. I love the Focustronic system, but am close to buying the Reef factory ecosystem that is 1/10th the size. Reef factory smart tester only allows one test configuration at a time which is very limiting. Reviews aren’t happy with GHL…..I need a reliable KH tester and a Nitrate and Phosphate tester that are small. Manual testing would be fine if I didn’t travel, hence my investment into automatic testers.
Some sacrifices will have to be made. I also will have to downsize my Kalkwasser system. I guess TLF kalk 300 would work in the sump area. Why all this equipment for a nano? Simply for future upgrades. Figured equipment will come with me. Really didn’t think through the storage of all this equipment.
Plan on doing another floating reef such as this
Equipment
Red Sea Reefer 200xl G2
ATI Straton or Solartronic (figuring out equipment storage)
Focustronic Ecosystem Mastertronic,Alkatronic,Dosetronic,Solartronic. Possibly downsizing to smaller controller I.e. Reef Factory
Hydor E-SK 600 Skimmer
Jebao DCT-4000 DC return pump
IM Helios 200 watt heater
Hydros Controller
2 Mp10QD or 2 Icecap 2k Gyre pumps mounted vertically on back wall
Reefeco floating rock wall mount
Marco dry rock in coralline red
Excited about the bigger tank and planning everything out. Right now it’s getting a citric acid cleaning followed by a freshwater rinse. Once the Reefeco order comes in, I’ll mount the brackets and wait the 10 days for it to cure. Then I’ll build the rock structure and start the cycle. I want to take the transfer slow as I have a lot of expensive acro. Once parameters are stable, I’ll start with a frag of green star polyps(canary in a coal mine) and a montipora frag to see how they react. I’ll probably buy the new automatic tester this week after more research and hook it up to the new system to get everything dialed in and Then list all my Focustronic for sale.
The journey continues folks…….
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