ReefingRelapse

13 hours ago, Jimbo662 said:

What's your definition of "a lot". Also, what's your stocking list?

Aminos every other day. Mysis and rotifers twice a day. Reef chilli every other day

2 clowns, 6 line, tailspot blenny, royal gramma, and yellow watchman... It's a full house. Lol

Should I slowly stop vinegar entirely or would I be able to maintain higher nitrates by using a lower amount?

I feed a lot, I'm shocked that I have zero

Do any of yall use a hanna checker for phosphate I've been trying to figure out which model to get. Currently using salifert but don't know how much i trust it

Soo lately my SPS have seem to become more and more pale. Even my montipora spongeodes is losing some of its green

Overall, everything else seems fine in terms of growth and polyp extension, nothing is dying.

i haven't made any really significant changes to my tank tank recently

Currently running 2, T5 and a AI prime on a 32 biocube. With skimmer in chamber 1. And in chamber 2, phosguard, carbon, and macroalgae.

Parameters

Kh 9.5

Ca 450

Mg 1500

Nitrate 0

Phosphate 0

I'm doing no water changes. And instead dosing 2 part, vinegar, trace elements, and aminos.

Everything I read online seems to be either too much light or not enough nutrients. Starting to think about wheening off the vinegar, maybe my Nitrates are too low?

43 minutes ago, FarmerTy said:

Sorry about the losses. If you remember what you got from me, be happy to replace them for you free of charge. Glad you're back in the game and everything is doing well.

That'd be awesome! I saw your recent frags post, i definitely am interested in few. Running out of space up top so I'm trying to decide on some lower light sps for the bottom.

Long over due update.

Went full sps

Had an unexplained tank crash and lost most of them. Cleaned out the fuge, started running carbon, did multiple water changes and things went back to normal.

Added tailspot blenny and 6 line wrasse

Added the Aquaticlife 115 skimmer, it works I guess.

Made a ghetto hybrid system with 2 $40 t5 kits from Amazon.

Added 2 jebao powerheads

Started dosing vinegar. Reef advantage calcium and alk. Fuel amino and red sea trace elements. Haven't had to do a water change in a couple months, things have never grown or looked better. Acro's are finally growing and encrusting!!!

Ca 440

Kh 9

Mag 1500

Nitrate undetectable

Phosphate undetectable

All frags are doin well btw, I'm having a cyphastrea race with yours and another piece

It's a powerhead puzzle to keep my long tentacle plate coral happy

Mainly want to do just sps in general. It kind of a pain to try and keep flow in cube in a way that makes sps and lps happy

Your tank inspired me, think I might ditch all my zoas, acans, low flow corals, etc. Lol

12 minutes ago, mFrame said:

Looking great!  Love the bi-color blenny, one of my favorites in a small tank!

He was mine too until he developed a taste for acropora...

Hey yall thanks for the add on here. Thought I'd share the tank I have going at the moment. It's just a 32g biocube with AI prime and the back set up as a fuge.

This is not my first tank, but the first tank that I've had in about 8-10yrs. (And wow has this industry changed!) I probably even had an account on here many years ago. Lol

Livestock: 2 occelaris, bicolor blenny that may get evicted, peppermint shrimp that never moves, a conch that does serious cleaning, other inverts, and half my corals that hate my tank.

Considering transitioning to an all sps tank. Don't mind the frags on the ground I've already cooked a few acros, trying not to do that again.

Wow impressive. looks like you got some pretty good flow. Are you running just 1 AI prime??