Pedro

Cool

Will you be seeing up the fresh tank with one?

Congrats! Did it walk off the rock you wanted it on?

Thanks for sharing this with us!

Got it.

Go down through the wall, it's easier to fix the wall later.

Lol. I wasn't going to go there again, but now that you did!

You can do the basement sump!

Thank you Roni. Yeah it might just need some more time. I am trying to up the feeding but will be doing that slowly. I did start the tank completely dry but then added a rock from a trusted source when I gave up.

Here's a pic after everything settled Any and all recommendations are welcome!

Thanks for the reminder!

Hi everyone, Tank has Coraline everywhere, still getting some slow tissue necrosis on the frags. The tissue is getting darker on most frags, i physically lowered the lights a bit to see if i could get them more light. Here are my parameters Salinity: 35.7 Temp: 77.8 F Alk: 9.0 Cal: 444 PO4: 0.03 NO3: 0.0 I have been increasing the feeding a little. Still running zeovit. Dosing some aminos too. Has grown a little but the stn is getting to it and has darken up a bit. Polyp extension Growth is there sorry for the clouded image this was after cleaning the tank a bit. Here's before the cleaning. I don't believe the wrasse has shown up in the build yet. Got him a month or two back. He is doing great. He's in there with a tomoni Tang and two cardinals, a bunch of astra snails and blue leg hermits. I put some gorgonians in, they have been a canary in the coal mine for me in the past. If i see them closed i know something is up.

I'm excited to see how you fill this tank up!

Beautiful tank

It's time for the croc sump!

Did he learn his lesson or is he still moving around?

Show a picture of the tank!

Trying!

This was about half the frag. The other half was lanky do it easy glued to the back so that it had space to sprawl out as needed.

Here is a picture today. Pictures up some corals recently. Was very pleasantly surprised with the free green slimmer "frag"! Thank you WAMAS.

Here is a picture from when the last post posted. Wanted to take a less blue picture but did not get around to it before I left for the holidays.

Hi Everyone, I have fallen off from updating you all on every detail, things were not working out for a while and I just needed to figure out why. I know the community is there to help but I didn't want to just ask and wanted to learn things the hard way! I am back and open to any and all suggestions (for the time being!). Thank you. I will post pictures soon, nothing crazy going on with the tank, but it is looking cleaner than before. So, after those weird phosphate readings, still not sure what was going on there. Is there a phosphate cycle for new tanks? Or was I just not cleaning the vials before hand and getting a misread? My phosphates leveled out to 0 after that last crazy reading. I put in another test coral (another green slimmer frag) and it too died. I was not sure what was going on, all the levels I was testing for were coming in fine. Three major cleanings, full toothbrush rock scrubs and all, the algae kept on taking over even with, the parameters I was checking looking fine. I left for vacation and the fish I had in there started dieing off little by little and when the last one moved on I didn't know what else to do. I asked a WAMAS member with a good record of keeping pestless nice looking tanks for a larger rock, to see if I could seed the tank with beneficial bacteria. That rock came with a bunch bristle stars amphipods and other critters. I didn't care at that point. Slowly they too died off though. During that time another WAMAS member recommended I reduce my photo period to just 6 hrs, so I did. This curbed the algae growth a little but did not stop it by any means. Ammonia was not detectable at all at this point. I decide to send out some ICP tests. I had 3 laying around from my birthday 2 years ago. I used them all. My 75g wasn't looking too good either(it is still not looking that great, thankfully all the fish are fine though). I sent out samples of the 40g sps system, the 75g, and my RO. The two reef tanks came back with high lithium, tin, and Sulfur, and Barium. RO came back fine as it should have. Since there was nothing "alive" left in there I purchased new salt (went with tropic marin) and did 3x 50+% water changes as quick as I could make the water up (I believe this was the turning point, I hope things stay on an uptrend). A few weeks past and I finally started seeing life in the tank (aside from the crazy algae growing all over the display), there were actually pods (amphipods and copepods) I went ahead and added another container of pods to the tank. I kept on seeing life, so I added in a sixline and lawnmower blenny. Then I purchased a clean up crew from reeftopia, the astra snails(also purchased some peppermint shrimp and blue leg hermits and an urchin) devoured all the algae in the tank. I thought I had done a great job with the 3 algae scrubs I carried out in the tank but they put me to shame. During that time I did one 50% water change to the 75g and started putting the excess snails into that tank, they are sadly not doing very well in that tank. I have increased my photo period in the 40g system back to 12 hrs to promote algae growth and food for the algae eaters. I have continued to add fish into the system, they are doing well thankfully (a tomini tang, and some bangaii cardinals). And the parameters I am checking are at: Salinity: 34.9 Temp: 79.9 deg F Alk: 8.6 dkH Cal: 414 ppm PO4: 0 ppm NO3: 2.4 ppm I've been keeping up with the zeovit dosing, and have started feeding a good amount more, trying to get the nitrates and phosphates to detectable levels, and have some algae for the clean up crew. ( I know that the zeovit system will pull lots of the nutrients out)

I'm glad it's doing well, even with the loving it is getting.

The clowns are loving it!

Thanks!