Octo High End SPS Skip Cycle Build....

[SoAg Reefer]

Would you be able to send me the file? I'll dm you my email?

Sure if I can figure out how to do it. I started at 65% intensity and now Im at 68%. I'll move it up 1% every 3 months

 

[PegasisR]

Sure if I can figure out how to do it. I started at 65% intensity and now Im at 68%. I'll move it up 1% every 3 months

Thank you all you need to do is go into edit your schedule and you'll see this upload arrow on the right. You click that and you can save the template and then click it again and export it

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Thank you all you need to do is go into edit your schedule and you'll see this upload arrow on the right. You click that and you can save the template and then click it again and export it

Got it! All saved and ready to go

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Thanks that was what I was hoping to hear! Think I’ll grab one, do you mix the mysid and Calanus together or just one or the other?

I mix them together with some freeze dried brine. All from BRS

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Top down pics during water change tonight. Almost one year since I started. 11 months today. I still have the first two fish I put in and first few corals. Everything still going great

parameters:

Alk 6.5
Cal 435
Mag 1430
PH 8.1-8.4

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Fruity pebble month still growing up the digitata lol. Bunch of pics from this morning

 

[Pkunk35]

dang soag I’m so jealous of your sps growth! I’m still struggling with on and off growth of them with the few I have.
If I recall you did rock from the ocean on this build yes? Would be interesting to see a biodiversity test on your tank, I am thinking about getting one if they are still available to do (I started with dry).

amazing tank as always! The Solid sheet of corralline on the back wall is awesome haha!

 

[SoAg Reefer]

dang soag I’m so jealous of your sps growth! I’m still struggling with on and off growth of them with the few I have.
If I recall you did rock from the ocean on this build yes? Would be interesting to see a biodiversity test on your tank, I am thinking about getting one if they are still available to do (I started with dry).

amazing tank as always! The Solid sheet of corralline on the back wall is awesome haha!

Thanks! I started with 2 pieces of live rock from a long established existing tank that was broke down then used life rocks shapes for the rest. I get triton tests done once a quarter. No issues. The tank really took off when I introduced dosing of easy sps and easy booster. I'm using 35ml a day of TM All for Reef just to maintain alk at 6.5. Thats a great product. Cal and Mag rarely move and alk teeters between 6.3-6.6. I also added a refugium and my phos stays around .08 and Nitrates i dose weekly. Thats with 7 little fish lol.

I worry sometimes that the coralline is gonna bust the glass. When i leave for the weekend, Monday morning the coralline is growing on the front and sides. I also have to use citric acid on my vortechs every 2 weeks. Coralline is even growing in the refugium. Its like a pest now! lol

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Everything growing in nicely. Vivids Confetti turned the frag rock into a permanent staple now lol. speckled krak I purchased 1 polyp a year ago for $75. I hate zoas but these are pretty zoa takeover....I need to clear them all from that rock. Messing with my sps lol. I dragged the digitata before the fruity pebbles monti completely took it over. CC Voodoo Magic growing nicely Pink Panther, Cherry Bomb and Captain Jerk are 3 tenius in this pic ive fragged a bunch recently, everything going well. Up to 40ml of all for reef a day now

 

[jcosta98]

Great tank mate, been following since those were all baby frags..

How are you going to get those Zoas that are messing with the Acros out? I have a similar situation and don't know how to deal with it , since I can't take the rock out of the aquarium

Thank you!!

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Great tank mate, been following since those were all baby frags..

How are you going to get those Zoas that are messing with the Acros out? I have a similar situation and don't know how to deal with it , since I can't take the rock out of the aquarium

Thank you!!

Thanks for following! The zoa takeover is real lol. I’ve been using a scalpel around the acros but I need to bite the bullet and take the rock out and remove them all. It’s a pain using the scalpel but it’s doable. However within a few weeks they are back, it’s never ending. I should’ve known better but this is a sps tank fully now so they gotta go. Without being able to take the rock out which I shouldn’t cuz rocks are fused together by montis now I was looking for a zoa eating fish that won’t touch sps. Regal angel was what I was told but my tank is too small to risk it. More cutting and they do release toxins so have to do it in moderation focusing close to the sps. At least that’s what I do

 

[jcosta98]

Thanks for following! The zoa takeover is real lol. I’ve been using a scalpel around the acros but I need to bite the bullet and take the rock out and remove them all. It’s a pain using the scalpel but it’s doable. However within a few weeks they are back, it’s never ending. I should’ve known better but this is a sps tank fully now so they gotta go. Without being able to take the rock out which I shouldn’t cuz rocks are fused together by montis now I was looking for a zoa eating fish that won’t touch sps. Regal angel was what I was told but my tank is too small to risk it. More cutting and they do release toxins so have to do it in moderation focusing close to the sps. At least that’s what I do

What a pain mate... I guess I will wait for now to see if they mess with the acros growth AlthoughtI think it will not be a huge issue, because the base at least is not shared , they are kinda separated by a dropoff that is shadowed, so hopefully the zoas will not grow into the shadow,

Thanks and good luck to you man!

 

[PegasisR]

Everything growing in nicely. Vivids Confetti turned the frag rock into a permanent staple now lol. speckled krak I purchased 1 polyp a year ago for $75. I hate zoas but these are pretty zoa takeover....I need to clear them all from that rock. Messing with my sps lol. I dragged the digitata before the fruity pebbles monti completely took it over. CC Voodoo Magic growing nicely Pink Panther, Cherry Bomb and Captain Jerk are 3 tenius in this pic ive fragged a bunch recently, everything going well. Up to 40ml of all for reef a day now

Nice stuff! Get those zoas out before they start making acroa's, from growing onto the acros XD

 

[SoAg Reefer]

What a pain mate... I guess I will wait for now to see if they mess with the acros growth AlthoughtI think it will not be a huge issue, because the base at least is not shared , they are kinda separated by a dropoff that is shadowed, so hopefully the zoas will not grow into the shadow,

Thanks and good luck to you man!

tHANKS, SAME TO YOU!!

 

[jurgenph]

great looking tank! well done.

but i have to ask...
you're putting those frags awfully close together, aren't you worried that this will become a problem when they all will start fighting for space to grow? it doen't seem like any of them will have enough space to grow to their full potential.

are you planning to just keep snipping them as they get grow?


J.

 

[SoAg Reefer]

great looking tank! well done.

but i have to ask...
you're putting those frags awfully close together, aren't you worried that this will become a problem when they all will start fighting for space to grow? it doen't seem like any of them will have enough space to grow to their full potential.

are you planning to just keep snipping them as they get grow?


J.

Yea, I'm facing that now and have been fragging a bunch along with moving things around. Limited space and a project that proved succesful but to say i went overboard with the frag buys early on would be an understatement. My intent is to grow out and sell off a bunch removing them from the equation while fragging the others and moving them as I can. They are already fighting at the bases which expedited my plans on several. Voodoo magik as an example had an acro right next to it and decided to grow up the base of that acro so I moved it the weaker of the two and sold it off. Same will happen with a few others. Believe it or not, I've already sold off 11 whole corals and a bunch of frags to avoid shading.

 

[Nelsons_reef]

still Looking great about to start putting some decent sticks in my new build here soon

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Excited to get some corals from @SBB Corals in the tank. These 3 arrived today and all had polyps out while still in the shipping container. Pic without filter. Will post more ad they get acclimated

 

[SoAg Reefer]

Pics while in acclimation box

SBB Renegade

BK Chem Froot Loops

SBB Red Rocket

 

[brandon429]

Right now as we speak a web forum that has never validated, believed or understood the concept of skip cycling is reading this thread because I linked it to them