Red Sea Max Nano - Drakal

[Drakal]

Hi everyone,

This is my 1st reef tank, but i have a freshwater tank aswell.

The harware i'm using :
Red Sea Max Nano
ReefLED RS50
3D printed wear baffle
AquaMedic Refill System 2.0
Jebao Jecod DCS-1200
Jebao SLW-10 with 3D printed guard
AquaMedic T controller Twin
AquaMedic Titanium heater 100W
Stock skimmer with CO2 scrubber (skim breeze)
Lid Kraken Reef
UV Filter GKM
Red SeaReefDose 2 and ReefDose Kit
For bacterial support :
Marine Pure gems
Seachem Matrix

Hardscape :
Mix of live and dry rocks
Caraibes sea arage-alive bahamas

Here is the tank, 7 m/o :

Population :

Fishes :
Amphiprion ocellaris x2
Assessor flavissimus
Elacatinus figaro
Koumansetta ranfordi
Stonogobiops yasha

Inverts :
Alpheus randalii
Cerith x2
Erasoria annulus
Lybia tesselata
Lysmata debelius
Lysmata wurdemanni
Mithrax sculptus
Munida sp.
Nassarius x2
Neopetrolisthes maculatus
Paguriste cadenati
Sabellarastre X4
Strombus bulla
ophiocoma nereidina
And all the stuff living in the rocks like stomela, mini bristestars, asterina, collonista, chiton etc...

Corals :
Alveopora
Bernadopora
Blastomussa welsii
Caulastrea "blue" big mouth
Cyphastrea "Spicy pumpkin"
Euphyllia paradivisa
Euphyllia parancora
Montipora encrusting
Montipora "incredible Hulk"
Montipora digitata red
Montipora aequitubercula
Montipora blue polyps
Pachyclavularia viridis
Palythoa sp
Palythoa "red death"
Plesiastrea red/green
Pulsing xenia
Ricordea florida (yellow/blue...)
Ricorda yuma (red/green/blue..)
Seriatopora "Bird of paradise"
Seriatopora caliendrum "Rot"
Seriatopora histrix pink
Sinularia
Stylophora pistillata
Tubipora musica
Zoa blue kisses
Zoa scremble egg
Zoa sp (red, green, orange)

And 2 Phymanthus crucifer, 2 gorgonians

About supplematation and feeding :
I use ATI absolute ocean salt and Essential Pro balling.
I dose PolypLab acids (1drop) and Nyos nectar (1 drop) every two days.
I have a phyto culture, i dose about 30ml daily
Nyos iodine every 5 days (low iodine from last ICP)
I feed reefroids and minS every 3 days
I feed LPS 2 times a week with frozen foods.
Feed fishes and iverts everydays with all kind of foods, mostly frozen food and sometimes live food.

Here is my tank parameters ;

And here is the last (and 1st) ICP test(there is aluminium due to Marine Pure but nothing alarming) :


Thank you ! More pictures soon !

 

[lapin]

Nice

 

[ScubaFish802]

Looking good

 

[Drakal]

Everybody seems happy, exept the alveopora, hope he comes back, and the sand is not even because my clowns always blast it everywere

Also have some kind of algea on the sand bed, not sure what it is so i'm trying the UV filter (there is less in the morning and more at the end of the day), here since the begining, so i don't worry too

much about it...

 

[Drakal]

A video of the bad boy of the tank, Munida sp., if you get too close he will be ticked :

 

[lelolai15]

I am very impressed, especially within 7 months. I have a max nano would like to see how you have all your equipment set up. Mine is about 8 months old and trying to look to improve the performance. I just got coralline algae starting up now.

I am curious about your light settings too.

 

[Drakal]

Hi,


Not realy pretty, but everything works fine :

For the light :

 

[ABQ_CHRIS]

Nice set up. I doubt I'll be able to make similar progress in 7 months. Good work.

 

[Drakal]

Little update :

Everything is doing fine, corals are growing, i still feed a lot and i didn't perform any water change since 3 months since i struggle to keep nitrates et phospates up, and honestrly i feel like SPS are growing better since i didn't perform any water change...

So it's really a simple maintenance setup, appart from the daily heavy feeding and filtration cleaning, i just test my KH weekly to adjust it if necessary and trim some corals when they get to close, the tank is really healthy i couldn't be more happy with how it turns out. I have to move / adjust the position of some SPS as they are going to touch each other soon.

I have a lot of vermetid snails but corals don't mind so i just let them be

 

[ABQ_CHRIS]

Nice! You have some great colors. I hope that I can get my max nano to the same place eventually.

 

[Drakal]

Hi,

Here is some pictures :

 

[Stin999]

Hi

Hi,


Not realy pretty, but everything works fine :

For the light :

Hi Drakal! Can you please share with me the exact times on this screenshot? I can't seem to tell what time each point is at. Thanks!