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FTS: 1/29/15 New Scape

 

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8/5/14: 1 year.

 

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FTS: 7/23/14 ~ Almost a year. Haven't really kept updating this this thread since I started.

 

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Start date: 8/5/13

 

Display Tank: 40G Breeder.

Display Lighting: Reef Breeders Value Fixture w/ 120 optics

Stand: DIY Stand. 2x4 frame with an Poplar board shell.

Sump: 40G Breeder [Skimmer section l Fuge l Return Section]

Total System volume is approx 75G.

Overflow: Bean Animal Overflow.

Refugium Lighting: T5ho

System Water: South, FL.

Display Water circulation: 800gph, and koralia 425gph.

Controller: Neptune Systems Apex Jr.

Return Pump: Danner Mag 7.

Skimmer: SCA-303

Evaporation Top Up Unit: Manual Top off.

Chemical Support:

 

Livestock:

  • Pair of Mandarins
  • Pair of Clowns
  • Harem of Anthias
  • Mccosker's Flasher Wrasse
SPS
  • Red Planet
  • Forest Fire Digi
  • Red Monti Cap
  • Neon Green Cap
  • Sunset Monti
  • Reverse Sunset Monti
  • Poccilipora
  • Milliepora
  • Garf Bonsai
  • Green Acro
  • Teal Acro
  • Incredible Hulk SPS
  • Neon Birdsnest
  • Pink Millie
  • ORA Green w/ red polyp cap
LPS
  • Frogspawn
  • Purple w/ lavender tip Hammer
  • Green w/ Purple tip Hammer
  • Acans
  • Blasto
  • Neon trumpet
Softies

  • Pink zippers
  • Blue Hornets
  • King Midas
  • Dragon Eyes
  • Lunar Eclipses
  • Gold Mauls?
  • Orange PPE
  • Fire & Ice
  • Florida Ricordea
Inverts

  • 2 x Pom Poms
  • 2 x Sexies
  • Blue legged hermits
  • Assorted CUC
  • Sand shifting star
  • Blue Maxima Clam
  • 2 x Rainbow BTA
  • 1 x Green BTA

This is the upgrade from my 29g which was running for about 5 months.

FTS: 8/5/13

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My tiny female

 

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The fatty male

 

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Haha I see you took that name I gave your scape! lol :D

 

The mandarins doing good in there? They're one of my wishlist fish but I'm a little afraid to try them in a 40b.

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Haha I see you took that name I gave your scape! lol :D

 

The mandarins doing good in there? They're one of my wishlist fish but I'm a little afraid to try them in a 40b.

 

I've had the male for about 4+ months. The female for about 2-3 months. The female arrived emaciated and skinny one of the worst I have seen. She quickly fattened up and eats like a pig. They both love live brine soaked in selcon, they also eat frozen brine and the occasional mysis. At night they sleep and cuddle up next to each other :). I still have my HOB fuge along with the 40 sump as the hob fuge was maintaining them in my 29g. I'm a bit scared to take it off just yet as it has a very good pod population and is the main source of pods till my fuge in the 40 sump gets more established.

 

The mandarins were the only fish in the 40b for a while. Before I got my anthias and wrasse from LA.

 

And yes, yes i did haha.

 

Is that my nem? Lol

 

IT IS! it finally split haha. So i have two :) If ya ever wanna trade ill more than gladly give ya back one of your nems clones :D They have made speckles and crazy colors.

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I always love 40b and you got a nice one sir

 

 

Looks nice!

 

Thanks guys! The pics really don't do the tank justice. Looks much better in person. These are all taken with my phone.

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IT IS! it finally split haha. So i have two :) If ya ever wanna trade ill more than gladly give ya back one of your nems clones :D They have made speckles and crazy colors.

I may take you up on that offer, that one is from AquaSD. If you're interested in trading I may be picking up some speckled neon green ones soon

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I may take you up on that offer, that one is from AquaSD. If you're interested in trading I may be picking up some speckled neon green ones soon

 

Havent been feeding them as much as I should. Going to start daily feeding and see if I can get them to split again and one of those will have your name on it for sure :)

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Havent been feeding them as much as I should. Going to start daily feeding and see if I can get them to split again and one of those will have your name on it for sure :)

Awesome! I also have some zoas that'll be posted up Tuesday if you'd rather some of those

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Got bored and turned off my pumps so I could take pics and I decided to take a video. I love my mandarins. Make sure to watch in 1080p!

 

 

The little fatties.

 

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coralline is starting to turn white... any suggestions?

 

 

Had 7.4 ph this morning so i used some reef buffer and got it to 8.2

 

Tested once i came home from work

 

Ph: 7.8ish

Ca: 400

KH: 12

Mag: ?

 

All were done by my api test kit. Doing 10g weekly changes with IO, not reef crystals.. Everything "looks" healthy, slow growth on everything including sps, and lps.

 

What can be causing the coralline to die off? what should I be doing/testing? Are my 10g water changes not enough? Do I need to start dosing?

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I was going to ask how your coral growth was with your reefbreeders light, bt you just answered that lol. I hope you figure out your coralline figured out, can I ask why you are using IO, instead of reef crystals? I'm very new to reefing but seems like maybe just a change in salt mixes to help keep your levels more stable could help with the coralline algae and speed up coral growth, but I could be wrong

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I was going to ask how your coral growth was with your reefbreeders light, bt you just answered that lol. I hope you figure out your coralline figured out, can I ask why you are using IO, instead of reef crystals? I'm very new to reefing but seems like maybe just a change in salt mixes to help keep your levels more stable could help with the coralline algae and speed up coral growth, but I could be wrong

 

The growth has been great honestly. These reefbreeders > t5s by far. Just lately my water chem has been out of whack. Ph going all over the place, calc being low. and the only reason i had IO is because i had a gift card from petco. Reef crystals was my #1 choice. Before i was using oceanic salt and had good results so idk if i am going to go back to oceanic or take the risk with a new salt (again) and get the reef crystals. Just trying to finish up the bucket so i can get a new one.

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coralline is starting to turn white... any suggestions?

 

 

Had 7.4 ph this morning so i used some reef buffer and got it to 8.2

 

Tested once i came home from work

 

Ph: 7.8ish

Ca: 400

KH: 12

Mag: ?

 

All were done by my api test kit. Doing 10g weekly changes with IO, not reef crystals.. Everything "looks" healthy, slow growth on everything including sps, and lps.

 

What can be causing the coralline to die off? what should I be doing/testing? Are my 10g water changes not enough? Do I need to start dosing?

 

Your KH is 12?!!? Isn't that just a little high? What is it normally at, are you corals looking pissed off? If not and this is what you normally run it at, then I wouldn't worry about it, I've had my tank up for 2 years and the coraline goes through phases. Covering every surface imaginable some months, and then virtually gone except on the rocks the next

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Your KH is 12?!!? Isn't that just a little high? What is it normally at, are you corals looking pissed off? If not and this is what you normally run it at, then I wouldn't worry about it, I've had my tank up for 2 years and the coraline goes through phases. Covering every surface imaginable some months, and then virtually gone except on the rocks the next

 

I have great PE on everything and nothing at all seems pissed honestly. Sps, Lps, zoas and nems all look great. I've been chasing this chemistry problem and I think all I have been doing is making matters worse.

 

I feel like I should just use my eyes as judgement and leave the tank be. The only thing bother me is the coralline. Large portions of deep purple on my rocks are starting to turn white :c. I love my purpley rocks....

 

Going to start mixing some water and I'm going to test it to see if maybe the salt I'm using is the culprit.

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I have great PE on everything and nothing at all seems pissed honestly. Sps, Lps, zoas and nems all look great. I've been chasing this chemistry problem and I think all I have been doing is making matters worse.

 

I feel like I should just use my eyes as judgement and leave the tank be. The only thing bother me is the coralline. Large portions of deep purple on my rocks are starting to turn white :c. I love my purpley rocks....

 

Going to start mixing some water and I'm going to test it to see if maybe the salt I'm using is the culprit.

 

If that's the case, then as you mentioned I'd leave it be. Sorry, but there's no instant fix to stop the coralline die off... checking your salt isn't going to do anything. If it's started dying off, a fair portion will start turning white and falling off-nothing you can do about it. The good news is it will be back :lol: P.S. maybe it's your mag? It probably dropped a little which can halt coralline growth from what I understand

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If that's the case, then as you mentioned I'd leave it be. Sorry, but there's no instant fix to stop the coralline die off... checking your salt isn't going to do anything. If it's started dying off, a fair portion will start turning white and falling off-nothing you can do about it. The good news is it will be back :lol: P.S. maybe it's your mag? It probably dropped a little which can halt coralline growth from what I understand

 

Ill get my LFS to do some testing with their salifert kits tomorrow.

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Testing done by my LFS with salifert/API test kits:

 

Salifert:

 

Calc: 480

Mag: Too high read over the max

Po4: 0 or close to it

 

API:

 

Ph: 8.1

Nitrite: 0

Nitrate: 0

 

SG: 1.025

 

Any ideas why my mag is so high/what can I do to bring it down?

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I honestly forgot I made this build thread... well its been about 9 months of growth since the above pics.

 

6/26/16 FTS

 

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Ricordea has come a long way. Many pieces have been fragged off to go in a lil pico i started. So it used to be bigger, Along with a scoly i picked up by trading some corals :)

 

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The frog and monti have gotten huge, as well as the purple hornets.IMAG1375_1.jpg

 

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The trumpet was a single head in the pics above in the sand bed, look at it now.

 

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All frags that I just picked up from a recent frag swap and online. The big colonies in the garden are ones that I have had.

 

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Last but not least my fav paly... the pink zippers, currently over 30 heads and it grew from a 2 polyp frag. (this is after fragging, thus the valley)

 

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This acro and the millie have grown a lot. The millie encrusted all over the plug, but still hasnt reached out yet. The green acro is branching out like crazy.

 

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Any updates? How are those anthias doing? I'm looking to get some for my 40B

 

 

Anthias are doing great. Eatting like pigs. One of my females however, is growing a fin like the male. Not sure what's gonna happen with that but they are fine. Very active. I want to get more and different kinds but the ones i have are already a handful (cant spot feed corals anymore bc they rip the food out, they bully any new fish, aggresive eaters lol.)

 

Few things have changed in my setup... I now run the photon 24 and not the value fixture (great light), I do water changes every week without fail, I feed twice a day cube of mysis and brine every feeding. I try to spot feed coral but my fish dont allow me.

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