ReefNewby82 Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Soooo...many of you know Jenn and I have multiple tanks. And have never started a thread....WELL, here is one of them!! haha In our entry way we have a 58g SPS dominate reef...pretty minimally equipped as far as a sump and skimmer goes. But it is working and shows that ya dont always have to have the best of the best equipment if your water chemistry and husbandry is sound. Dont get me wrong, I slack off on occasion...but not much with this tank as it is a little more finicky with being mainly SPS. on 12/20/16 I spent 14 hours breaking down the tank, cleaning algae off of corals and substrate, replaced rocks with Real Reef Rock and cleaned all the equipment. A big shout out to Alan for helping me disassemble pumps and get this project rolling!! Equipment: Reef Breeder Photon 32 LED Aqua C Remora Pro HOB skimmer with mag 3 8w UV Sterilizer TLF 150 phosphate reactor Gyre 130 for flow Eheim 1260 return pump Tunze nano ATO Livestock: Bonded pair of Blue line Snowflake clown fish Tailspot blenny Pygmy Pink Streak wrasse peppermint shrimp trio nassarius vibex, red stripe trochus, baha cerith snails, 2x small mexican turbos Future livestock: pedersen shrimp pair or white spot anenome pair haliocheres wrasse species like a red line wrasse or a timor orange dashed wrasse here are a few pictures: Everything has settled in from the sand and rock swap. I have been dosing MicroLube Special Blend and feeding reef roids and coral food daily while monitoring main water perams. ReefGen Rainbow orchid stylo was the most upset with the swap. I have been target feeding it with PhycoPure from AlgaeGen to assist in xooanthellae repopulation from the areas that have bailed out. While i have not seen new tissue regrowth I have noticed the spot necrosis has stopped. I will be pulling it from the DT this Sunday and target feeding it and soaking it in the PhycoPure in its own tub. Will see what happens!! Cheers for now!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke33 Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Looking good man! Nice growth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted January 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Thanks...still gotta epoxy down some corals and do some moving of a few others. But all in all not bad results for a complete tank re-set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBugmaster Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Looks good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlfalin Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Nice looking tank. Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted January 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Thanks folks! As always it is a work in progress. And I get bored with the same scape and swap it around so this tends to happen 1x per year, or I'll sell lots of stuff off and replace with different species. I'd like to replace the stand, skimmer and sump for the next project. I already have a zero edge 3 foot sump for it. Plan on having the stand built mid year, and am still researching skimmers that will work for this set up and a near future shallow 80g or 100g. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted January 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 Plan is to use some TLF pink epoxy to mount a few sps coral to the branch rock today. I am going to add some carbon before I do this and get 5g of water mixed up to do a water change after i am done. it seems my protein wet skims anytime i mount corals with this product. once i woke up to my skimmer pump going crazy and about 3 gallons of water in our foyer. not fun. i am hoping this process relieves me of this wet sock problem i have woken up to... alk, calcium and mag have all been a tad low so am raising those up slowly as well. guess the corals settled in faster than i assumed after the tank swap and resumed their normal ppm intake. shows what testing does for you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke33 Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Epoxy or coral puddy always makes skimmers go crazy. Have you checked out the plastic beads that melt? Pretty awesome product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted January 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 I actually just went back and looked at a thread on the DIY that Pat put up a while back. Never messed with it personally... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted February 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 phosphates at .04 nitrates at .25 loving where the phosphates are currently....would like the nitrates up to around 2 ppm though. been feeding coral food cubes every other night and feeding the fish a tad more than normal also. did not get around to mounting corals last weekend. something always seems to come up lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted February 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Well somehow a minute amount of macro algae must have been in the sandbeds or elsewhere. The macro has grown and shot runners under rocks and around corals again...I'm losing my wits with this nuisance. spent a lot of money on new rock and sand just for the same issue to re-occur. Besides a tang to throw ich into my equation....anyone have any other ideas? May just need to sell it all off and start from scratch...don't know that I have the time, heart, or funds to do so though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 An urchin may help you. And a foxface/rabitfish I think do a better job than a tang. Or you could try the vibrant I heard it works on macro algae haven't tried it yet. And what kind of macro is it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryansweet Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Let me know what type of algae it is. I have a couple different things I've had really good success with as far as algae's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted February 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 It is weird...I would have to take pics, it's like a fern calurpa almost. Not grape... Long runners with short leaves that look like a fan blade. Runs under sand, attaches VERY well and is sticky, like I've had to use tweezers to pull any shoots off of corals or rocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 It probably is a calurpa. They can be tough to get rid of . As I said a foxface has been my best means of control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Ordered in a 2.5 inches tomini tang. Getting frag tank ready to acclimate there for now. Will try to make some headway on the 58g this weekend. Will need to do more manual removal of algae off of rocks and corals, going to do a lights out for a few days after a water change and some new GFO in the reactor. Hopefully this will buy me some time. A few corals are really getting aggravated, so will be moving the psammacora and leptoseris into jenn's tank until some headway is made. I feel I've done everything right with this tank from day one as far as husbandry goes. Then to be beaten down my some infiltrating macro algae...it's just frustrating to say the very least. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted February 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 Thanks to Kodiak66 for coming over on Saturday to help with this ongoing macro battle. We pulled all the rocks and corals and picked off the sticky macro. Cleaned all equipment, swapped out UV for a larger wattage, and changed all media. Kept as much of the DT water as possible. Ryan came to get a sample of the macro algae and discussed possible dosing of fluconazole which may help rid this specific macro strain. Still debating. I have the tomini tang in QT but he isn't eating well if at all. May need to transfer to the DT early so it can swim and be happy, hopefully inducing an appetite. I'm not a huge fan of the new scape but will leave it be for now. Will try to get pics up at some point this week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ReefNewby82 Posted March 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2017 did a little work on the tank this weekend. levels have all balanced out after the macro issue. have added a small tomini tang (not my pic above...still very shy) to the DT and started an octofrog garden. threw anot actual pic up of my timor orange dash wrasse as well, who has really came around the last couple weeks and is now very active. this guy loves to see me walk in the room now...little food mooch!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsc Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 How is your Tomini tang getting along? That guy is also on my list, as I have read great things about them. What do you feed him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted March 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 tomini is doing well now that its out of its shortened QT. it is a spaz but eats nori sheets like they are going out of style. occasionally it will come out for dr. G caviar, frozen cobalt cubes or LRS. but i have to be far from the tank...its a scaredy cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulS.46122 Posted March 17, 2017 Report Share Posted March 17, 2017 Tank looks great! Nice and full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted March 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2017 Thanks Paul! There have been some set backs like most reefs here and there. Just working on keeping the oddball macro at bay, while swapping focus toward more of an LPS dominant lower SPS upper reef. You will have to come check out the tanks at out our meeting in May :v) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmits41 Posted March 20, 2017 Report Share Posted March 20, 2017 You're hosting the meeting in May? Every month I want to make it but my work schedule prevents it. You live about a mile from my work so I may be able to get to it. Also is your tang going after the macro? How's the battle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2017 Hey...Yeah in May, you'll have to swing by on your break. Algae the tang likes is what I out in the IM grazer. Hadn't seemed to nip on other stuff. I been pulling out a tad I've seen in sand bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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