Patrick's 48 Gallon Reef Tank Build

[ptrick21186]

Ok time for some updated pics of the tank. Just shy of 6 months old. Still fighting some ugly stuff but it's really not too concerning for me. Takes on a pretty neat purple color under the blue lights

 

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Started dosing live phyto again. Think I'm gonna try shutting the skimmer off for a while and see what difference it makes. Need to get these nitrates up more.

 

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Finally got my nitrates up to about 5ppm. Cyno bloom is starting to get pretty noticeable. Gonna do a water change on Sunday and see if I can suck most of it up.

 

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Got the new lid the other day. Love it!

FYI pic is before I added the required spacers for the light mount. It doesn't overlap

 

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Had to start dosing phosphate. Nutrient levels seem to be in a good spot now. Magnesium is starting to drop out of range. It was 1200 today. Started dosing that as well. Everything else seems to be stabilizing. Just need to keep an eye on the Mag, Nitrates, and Phosphates.

 

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Cyano as really taken off since I lifted the nutrients in the tank. Seems to be out competing the what I still think are chrysophytes but very slowly. Hopefully once this bloom is over the tank will be pretty settled down. Hopefully.....

 

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One of my chromis is MIA for 3 days now. No corpse to be found. Must have been eaten. Ugh......On the plus side the cyano seems to be calming down some.

 

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The Cyano seems to have subsided. Tank looking pretty good for now and parameters are super stable. Found the 3rd Chromis.....or at least the Nassirus snails did. Guess that ends that mystery. Tank photo tomorrow. Did my WC kinda late and the lights are off by now.

 

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Wow. Never posted that tank photo did I lol. Maybe tonight. Started running the skimmer during the day and shutting it off at night to prevent the phyto from being removed. Did this for about a week and my phosphates started dropping pretty fast. Gonna leave the skimmer off for the time being until the nutrients build up/stabilize.

 

[Lebowski_]

September 6th, 2022

Ok so I figured out what was up with my RO unit. When I replaced the membranes I installed one of them backwards.....

Been there

 

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Been there

And of course it had to be while I was initially filling the tank

 

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Ok here's a more up to date pic of the tank

 

[Lebowski_]

Looking real good. Is that a Royal Gramma I see?

 

[ptrick21186]

Looking real good. Is that a Royal Gramma I see?

Ya!!!