Swiss Red Sea Reefer 200XL Reef

[chipchipbro]

List of Acros:

EC Hot Mess Mille
EC Rainbow Zazzy Frill Mille
EC Crazzy SSC
EC Rainbow Abrotaniodes
EC Aquaman Table
EC Super Orange Tangerine Dream
EC Pink Cadillac
EC Blueberry Fields
EC Purple Night Fury

On Order:
EC Blue Monster
EC Cookie Monster
EC Hello Kitty
EC Red Bull Table
EC Pink Passion

 

[X-37B]

Well.. after a 10 day vacation and my neighboor taking care of the tank there was a little accident..
my skimmer went nuts during my absence and sprayed a little around in the sump.. My neighboor told me hes going to empty the cup and sent me a pic after "i cleaned all the mess in the sump and on the sump door". Well, I came home, everything was looking off and I tested parameters.. Alk had dropped to barely 5 and I found out, that he turned off my dosing pump when he was cleaning the mess from the skimmer.. He must have pressed the on/off button..

So over 1 week I slowly worked my Alk back up to 7.5

Hopefully everything will bounce back..
colors did suffer and 1-2 corals died..

Now, patience is the key again I guess..
Added 3 new pulcherrimus anthias to the tank last weekend.. fully QT'ed

PS: Coral beauty and Hippo tang will be moved to my friend new 800g tank in approx. 3 weeks.


Tank after accident:

Nice! I still prefer the hd look over the radions. However the radions are growing on me.

 

[X-37B]

Well, my no3 skyrocketed to 45ppm
I did start carbon dosing a week ago and did 30% WC.

As of today my no3 lowered to 32ppm and I think my carbon dosing starts to kick in.

The acros darkened alot and I hope they will get lighter and glow again when my goal of 10-15ppm no3 is reached.

Once this is reached I will try dosing NP Bacto Balance to keep my levels of nutrients.

Best way I have found to keep no3 low, and I feed alot, is to use an oversize skimmer. I cant remember the last time my no3 was 10. Its usually <5.
I do have and did use ez carbon but it was to feed the bacteria as I never realy used it for nutrient control.
Keep a close eye on it as its easy to bottom out no3 if you dose to much.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Coral looks really good!!!

 

[chipchipbro]

Coral looks really good!!!

thanks man!

 

[chipchipbro]

Best way I have found to keep no3 low, and I feed alot, is to use an oversize skimmer. I cant remember the last time my no3 was 10. Its usually <5.
I do have and did use ez carbon but it was to feed the bacteria as I never realy used it for nutrient control.
Keep a close eye on it as its easy to bottom out no3 if you dose to much.

Well its a Nyos Quantum 120 for my 200Litre tank.. should be slightly oversized or no?

I have too many fish for sure and will rehome some soon!

I dont want to bottom out but yeah.. 0 no3 would be less a problem than 0 po4, or what would you say?

 

[X-37B]

Well its a Nyos Quantum 120 for my 200Litre tank.. should be slightly oversized or no?

I have too many fish for sure and will rehome some soon!

I dont want to bottom out but yeah.. 0 no3 would be less a problem than 0 po4, or what would you say?

I run a skimmer rated for a full 270g reef. I ran it on my 120 and now my 80.

Well you dont want zero of either.

Both my systems run no3 at 1-3 typically.
My 45's skimmer is rated for a 90g full reef system.

Reducing fish population will help too.

 

[chipchipbro]

some new shots…. wow long time no update..

 

[Koh23]

Torch

Wow!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

some new shots…. wow long time no update..

Tank looks like it is still doing great!

 

[chipchipbro]

tank is coming along nicely!
algae control is pretty nice with 2 mexican turbos.
stuff begins to grow and looks like coloration is being better and better

sorry, lights almost out

 

[chipchipbro]

some new daylight pics.
naso will be rehomed once he eats well and is healthy again

 

[chipchipbro]

Moonlight magic

 

[chipchipbro]

Ok rescape and some new stuff…

 

[chipchipbro]

lets go, everything happy so far!

 

[chipchipbro]

ok update time!

 

[X-37B]

ok update time!

Been awhile. Looking good!