kingrowland1217

Its supposed to be a walt disney. Jus cant get it to color up very well yet lol. Im about to do another teiton test and see what i need, none of my acros are very vibrant. They grow,and polyp ext is good, just not coloring up.

Any brand should work. Idk of any that you HAVE to buy their refill filters.Its super simple to add on, or change filters. RODI systems look much more difficult and overcomplicated than they actually are. I have mine tapped into my sink water, i turn a valve and let it run a few hours into a brute trashcan and shut it off. From the trash can I just have a marineland pump with a hose hooked up and flip a switch to fill my sump. All manual, no auto fill. Good to go.

I use Spectrapure 4 stage. Highly recommend. Its one of the things you only have to buy once if you get a good one. So i went with a pricier one. Alot of people like the BRS one though. You change the actual filters like yearly anyway. So you could always buy pricier name brand filters down the road if you want. It doesnt use power, just water pressure. It has to be a certain level of pressure to be effective though. City water should have enough pressure but some well water may not. I bought the pressure gauge just to be sure. You can buy a $5 valve and hook it straight to your cold water line on your sink and fill a 10 gallon trash can once a week or whatever.

Welcome. Nice rock setup. You can have a good mix of sps and softies. Look forward to what you do with it.

New updated pics. Everything is growing. Even had to start trimming the birdnest and mushrooms. Got a little aiptasia problem. But I have a peppermint shrimp in there now to try and help. Most are too low to try and cut out or treat with a syringe. Frustrating. Ill try a filefish next if I need to, but everything is so balanced right now with my fish I dont want to try and add. I have a foxface, 2 barred rabbitfish, tomini tang, xmas wrasse, clownfish, a goby/pistol shrimp pair, lyretail anthias, and a royal gramma. Theyre doing really well together. Still really want to add a trigger and/or a angel. We will see.

Got a new camera filter so adding my new pics. Tank is doing amazing right now. I actually used Vibrant and it destroyed my hair algae problem. If you look at my earlier pics you can see my rock was COVERED. It did take about 10 weeks, but I was super impressed. My coral seem to deeper colored, growing faster, and healthier now that it doesn't need to compete for nutrients.Found a sweet spot for sure. Ive only been doing 10% water changes twice a month, but I blow the rocks off and use filter for a day before a wc. I was doing 20% weekly, but backed off. I have been feeding all my coral reef roids now too so Im sure that helped. Shootin for tank a month when everything grows out lol.

Finally got my stand finished. Looks like a real tank now. Still battling hair algae, but I think instant ocean was a big cause. Switched to marin tropic and its slowly but surely going away. Added a birdnest, frogspawn, and finger leather.

And I fed Julian Sprung Seaveggies. Also I have a ground probe so its def not stray current. Did not QT, i know shame on me lol. I will def in the future after all this. Sent from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk

Here's a couple pics. Haven't ruled out a temp spike, but it would've had to have happened twice and the other fish lived through it. Idk. I'm not ruling much out, kind of baffled. Sent from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk

Yea thats the strange part. And I didnt buy them all from the same place so I dont think its a store issue. I tested for nitrates and ammonia after the tang died. And both were minuscule, dont remember exact but I ruled them out at the time. Ill test again tonight.