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Already, now we're getting somewhere. Finally got the wall painted and the stand moved into place
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Officially cycled. I used a combination of a couple small live rocks from the existing tank, filter floss and pad from the sump and then fritz 900 just for good measure. It's been a week and a half and nitrates are now at 2.1ppm.
Next steps are to transfer the existing tank (coral, fish and inverts) and move over the rest of the hardware (2 AI primes and ATO) instead of running two return pumps I'm going to use the existing one as a water change pump and backup.
Next steps are to transfer the existing tank (coral, fish and inverts) and move over the rest of the hardware (2 AI primes and ATO) instead of running two return pumps I'm going to use the existing one as a water change pump and backup.
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Best of luck with the transfer!
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Transfer is officially complete. I had to sacrifice a chalice and a couple of zoa's that had too many pests on them but otherwise it went fairly well
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Definitely going through the ugly stages right now. Went away for a week and had a tonne of algae buildup on the glass and rock
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Glad the transfer went smooth for you!Transfer is officially complete. I had to sacrifice a chalice and a couple of zoa's that had too many pests on them but otherwise it went fairly well
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Picked up the bubble magus curve 5 elite the other day and after a couple days breaking in it's officially skimming waste. This is the first time I've ever run a skimmer on a tank and I can't believe how much it pulls out for such a young tank.
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Also picked up a few more fish. Blue Tang, One spot foxface, and a royal gramma. I know I'll have to rehome the blue tang at some point but got him small because he's my son's favourite. The tang and foxface have been hanging out since they went into the tank. It's been really cool seeing how they interact.
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Tested my RODI water the other day and realized that it was at 85ppm. My guess is that I didn't pack the DI resin well enough and it was channeling through it since only the bottom had changed colour. This forced me to install the new unit I had picked up (my old one was 7 years old in my possession and I bought it used).
Cut and painted the plywood so I would have something to screw it into. Now it frees up a lot of shelf space.
Cut and painted the plywood so I would have something to screw it into. Now it frees up a lot of shelf space.
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Been working on automating some of the common tasks with Home Assistant. I have a "Meeting Mode" which now turns off the lights since it was turning my camera into only showing me as purple. Feed and Maintenance mode which turns off all of the pumps when I need it, etc...
Tunze ATO died on me so I added a Kamoer ATO. It's been fantastic (more in-depth review).
Finally, I added a lamp beside the tank to add a little more warm light into the room. Tank is located in a basement office so I needed to balance out the reef lights.
All of the fish have been doing really well. The Foxface and Blue Tang have been munching on the hair algae like it's nobody's business. The firefish and clowns just hang out in the right hand of the tank all day. The royal gramma and the goby are the shyest fish of them all, mainly coming out to eat.
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Tunze ATO died on me so I added a Kamoer ATO. It's been fantastic (more in-depth review).
Finally, I added a lamp beside the tank to add a little more warm light into the room. Tank is located in a basement office so I needed to balance out the reef lights.
All of the fish have been doing really well. The Foxface and Blue Tang have been munching on the hair algae like it's nobody's business. The firefish and clowns just hang out in the right hand of the tank all day. The royal gramma and the goby are the shyest fish of them all, mainly coming out to eat.
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Picked up a Tomini tang and Midas blenny today. The tomini joined the blue and foxface right away. The midas started peeking out from a rock which was hilarious to me. See if you can spot him
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I'm shocked at how much algae the tomini has eaten. If you zoom in you can see how much was covering the rocks. Within two days he's eaten all of it, the rocks are spotless.
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A reminder to dip every single time. Traded with a local hobbyist and one of the frags had a couple of bristle worms
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Here's a three month update. Lately it's been a waiting game. I've added a few new corals, the dragon soul favia went from 3 mouths to 5, the GSP exploded (no surprise). Everything else is fairly slow growing so far.
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Here's the 7 month update. Not much has changed to be honest. Fish are doing well, coral is _very_ slowly growing. I'm still struggling with aiptasia and have tried a few things that haven't worked yet but other than that I feel like things are going smoothly. I keep the skimmer off most of the time since I've bottomed out nitrates.
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Coming along nicely. Soon tank will be full of color.
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Woke up this morning and the midas blenny was dead, stuck to one of the powerheads. It seemed perfectly healthy yesterday and never hung around that powerhead so I'm not sure what happened.
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Oh no. Sorry for the loss. Never underestimate any fish.... Minds of their own.
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I've been struggling to get my Nitrate/Phosphate's to show at all. I have Hanna checkers for both and they're consistently at 0. I try to feed 2x a day and use reef roids once a week. Any suggestions?
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