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Major tank renovation this weekend: I was having issues with my parameters (specifically ph / alk). While I could dose alk and get some stability I was finding that I was hitting a ceiling with C02 and buffering. This is partly due to being in a basement. I did add an airstone to the sump to...

Those look great! Those mushroom cages are super helpful!!!

Lesson Learned: Don't Throw out Frag Plugs just because you think the coral died. I have 2 encrusting montis, 1 monti cap, 1 digi monti. When I added to the tank at the end of December they all freaked out and receded, loosing color and structure. The encrusting and caps bleached nearly white...

Quick Update: Got through the diatom phase with some hair algae starting to crop up. Swapped the astrea snails to the sump and added 8 trochus to the display. Still looks real ugly but most of the diatoms are no longer growing. Harvesting 75% of refugium macro weekly. Added a doser for 6ml of...

I have a tomoni bristletooth tang that's been in my tank for 5 weeks, 3 weeks quarantine. We saw today that it has white strands coming out of it's gills and has started flashing/scratching. Not breathing rapid, still eating normal. I have not confirmed with RODI water yet if it's gill flukes or...

TANK GROWTH SETTINGS FLOW AND LIGHTING FLOW SETTINGS GRYE Mode: Constant (single arrow) Intensity: 30% Time: 24/7 MP40 12:00a–7:00a Tidal 10% 7:00a–8:00a Tidal 10% 8:00a–12:00p Tidal 20% 12:00p–2:00p Tidal 30% 2:00p–4:00p Tidal 20% 4:00p–6:00p Lagoon 30% 6:00p–8:00p Lagoon 20% 8:00p–10:00p...

Added corals in December: Orange Leptoseris Blue Sympodium Mystic encrusting monti Confused encrusting monti Forest Fire Digi Monti Sunset Cap Monti Fire and Ice Zoa Fruit Loop Zoa 1) orange lepto bleached out and receded. I moved it off the frag plug and mounted to the side of the cave where...

Something like this? Full blue/Violet with 50% whites most of morning. The whites come off as the halides turn on for 4-6 hrs.

Hi all, I am setting up the LED Bars on my 65 gallon mixed reef tank. I have 4x Reef Delight Ultra Bars, 2 at the front pointing to the mid and two at the back pointing mid. The LED's are for pop/daytime veiwing. I have 2x250w 14K Metal Halides for growth/par currently running at 4 hrs/day...

12/20/25 Lights! We got the halides and LED bars up today. My son and I worked on this project together. Pics below. Super Strut: We used a 10' length of "Super Strut" that we cut down to 2x3' pieces + 1x4' piece. All 3 were painted with exterior grade black matte paint. We lag screwed the 3'...

Here’s a pic of the sand box I put in the Q tank for the choris wrasse, has about 1.5" sand (for scale the PVC is 3" PVC). Overnight the wrasse floated at the top of the tank or settled into one of the holes on the frag holder (back of picture). Is this normal behavior? Thoughts?

LFS got a couple fish/corals on my list in for me this week, they are currently in the 40B quarantine, ate some “Reef Frenzy” right after acclimation: Yellow Choris Wrasse Tomini Bristletooth Tang Purple Firefish Corals: Blue Sympodium Fruit-loops Zoa

Look what came in the mail today!!!

Sounds like a great tank build idea shaping up! Highly recommend scchase tanks. Would be worth it to visit other members and see what’s possible/get ideas. A sump room is a huge plus. Electric: I have 2x15amp for my 65 we are building and will be adding 2 more circuits to it for additional...

Seneye Probe reads 1.5* less than the Apex probe: In amongst the boxes of reef stuff we got in the initial sale, we found a “Seneye” probe. After digging some we got the seneye transferred to our account from the original owner and setup. We have the strips on purchase for ph, n03/n04. Currently...

Quarterly TOTM sounds like a great change!

Where do you all recommend getting metal halide bulbs? I need 250 watt double ended in or near the 14K spectrum.

Or different "weight classes" like 0-10 gallons, 11-30, 31-60, 61-90, 91-120, 121-250 using the display tank volume as the level. Each month could be a rotating class, 6 per year? This would keep someone from always winning and showcase nano tanks, midsized, and large?

Small win: Pods are starting to show on the sides of the refuge and in the aquarium. Macro algae seems to be settling in and growing well. Parameters are leveling out.