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The sump under my tank fills the cabinet. It’s a pain. Eventually I’ll replace it to free some room up. Go the shorter one and save yourself the trouble

I just picked up an Avast K1 reactor and will be using a dosing pump to dose kalk. Up to this point I've been dosing BRS 2 part - currently 40ml soda ash and 20ml calcium chloride daily. How do I figure out how much powder should I add to the reactor and then how much should be dosed to the tank? Or is there an online resource somewhere to get me close?

nice!!! Be sure to post a build thread!

me? no NEVER

but if you buy it then you'll HAVE to make room

DO IT!!!!! You won't regret it - they're absolutely beautiful tanks - and now you can get an IM sump. I'm already wishing I went with the 200 instead of the 100 but that's a problem for another day

I've been really happy with the Hydros controller. Easy to set up and get going - the app is really nice and so far really stable. It's already prevented cooking the tank when I had a heater go bad.

Things are finally starting to take off!

If you do that with yours please post pictures!

The EXT does have a full acrylic glued to the back glass - the acrylic is all 1 piece and does have the weir cut into it. I guess you could pull the acrylic backing off but honestly not sure why you would?

Thank you! I love the IM tank so far - probably the only thing I would change would have been to go with a bigger tank - but I think that would be the case no matter what size I got The tank is finally coming around - got through the nasties and coraline is popping up on the rocks. I did get a better cuc - more snails and hermits. Also now have a PB Tang and a purple tang. I did lose the first couple of 'test' corals but picked up some more from Hendi and they seem to be doing good Also added a PaxBellum chaeto reactor and have been building out a controller via Hydros Current params as of this morning: CA 460 KH 8.6 MG 1380 PO4 0.03 NO3 7.4 PH 7.9x - 8.1x

Yeah I don’t think the boss will approve new window treatments. Would something like this make a difference? https://a.co/d/7KrjlQz I hear you about patience and giving it time. I’ll also bump up the CUC too

I’ll lower phosphates @ReefdUp ? some great suggestions !!@howaboutme As I was doing my weekly maintenance I realized that since I only have fish, lights aren’t necessary and turned them off. They were running 12hrs. I’ll leave them off for a few weeks and see what that does. I’ll also cut back to feeding 2x while keeping portions the same. Then since I was done with chores I decided to sit and have a cup of coffee. As I was reading your post I look over at the tank and see this: In the morning the sun comes in in the right side of the tank then moves across as you can see now. Not sure how I overlooked this important detail Would adding 1-way window film help with this or do I need to think about moving this to a better location?

Tank is now 7 months old and has hit the ugly stage (maybe 4-6 weeks ago) and I'm trying to figure out if I should continue with the current course or make some adjustments to get through this. Goal is a thriving SPS dominated tank - details are here: https://wamas.org/forums/topic/99623-innovative-marine-100-ext-sps-build/ Tank was started using BA Microbacter7 and Start and pods were added. Current Conditions: Brown algae (diatoms?) covering rock and glass Some red (cyano?) on rock both are easily blown off with a turkey baster or power head Cloudy water No coraline algae Current water params (as of this morning) CA 485 KH 7.9 MG 1410 PO4 0.25 NO3 6.6 Feed frozen 2x day and pellets 1x day Weekly 10 gal water changes I'll bring KH and Mg up while dropping NO3 slightly I've watched the BRS WWC hybrid videos countless times and pulled from them that for my tanks age I should be targeting the following: CA 480 KH 8.6 MG 1440 NO3 2ppm PO4 0.5ppm I'm not trying to chase these exact numbers but using them as a guide with focus on stability. With all this in mind, I'm wondering if I should resume using Microbacter7 and maybe adding Clean? But if adding Clean will that reduce PO4 and NO3? Looking at everything I see a lot of conflicting info and I'm hoping you all can help me straighten it all out. I really just want some coralline algae to start so I can trying adding frags again (I have added some established rock w/ coralline for diversity).