I'll TRY to keep this short. In Jan. I upgraded from a 55 to a 75 non RR (rethinking that already). Equipment aqueon 75 gallon tank(new) and homemade stand. used ? pounds established live rock and 70# new sand.
2 korilia 750 and an mj 1200
tlf 150 reactor currently using phosguard (see alk issue below) w/mj 900
current usa 4 bulb t5 (no comment) with ati coral plus and blue plus & current 12000k and 460nm atinic
hydor heater
reef octo bh2000 skimmer, (can only compare it to my old cpr pakpak) this thing is a beast
brs 75 gpd 4 stage value plus ro/di.
IO salt switching to Reef Crystals mixing 50/50 til IO is gone
Fish: O.clown, firefish, sleeper goby, yellow clown goby, royal gramma, six line 2- pj cardinals, 4- black/gold chromis and a smallish hippo tang (I know I know I didn't buy it or put it in)
corals I'll mention below
Everything went great til May, everything happy and healthy just not much growth except for my hammer popped a couple new heads So I'm switching bulbs over to ati as they get old. Also started testing for the first time ever with red sea pro and levels were all good. For reasons unknown even to Me I let a layer of carpetlike algae grow on the back wall so to further "improve" My tank I scraped it off and started running gfo in a reactor. Some corals were turning white I assumed from lower phos. levels after about 2 weeks I posted about it and was told to check alk as gfo can strip it (?) sure enough it was down to below 5dkh.
So far as for corals I lost my hammer, blastos, xenia, leather, chalice, gonipora and maybe moon coral(its still lite green but don't know if its alive)
Surviving corals: My Duncan started as 3 heads and popped out 2 more, green and red shrooms, ric and 4 types of polyps/zoos. Ive since bought a leather to keep my clown goby off the Duncan. Unfortunately wifes job has been real slow so letting things simmer and watching my levels till I can get some extra cash to start buying more. That's My story and im sticking to it. I'll get some pics up soon.
2 korilia 750 and an mj 1200
tlf 150 reactor currently using phosguard (see alk issue below) w/mj 900
current usa 4 bulb t5 (no comment) with ati coral plus and blue plus & current 12000k and 460nm atinic
hydor heater
reef octo bh2000 skimmer, (can only compare it to my old cpr pakpak) this thing is a beast
brs 75 gpd 4 stage value plus ro/di.
IO salt switching to Reef Crystals mixing 50/50 til IO is gone
Fish: O.clown, firefish, sleeper goby, yellow clown goby, royal gramma, six line 2- pj cardinals, 4- black/gold chromis and a smallish hippo tang (I know I know I didn't buy it or put it in)
corals I'll mention below
Everything went great til May, everything happy and healthy just not much growth except for my hammer popped a couple new heads So I'm switching bulbs over to ati as they get old. Also started testing for the first time ever with red sea pro and levels were all good. For reasons unknown even to Me I let a layer of carpetlike algae grow on the back wall so to further "improve" My tank I scraped it off and started running gfo in a reactor. Some corals were turning white I assumed from lower phos. levels after about 2 weeks I posted about it and was told to check alk as gfo can strip it (?) sure enough it was down to below 5dkh.
So far as for corals I lost my hammer, blastos, xenia, leather, chalice, gonipora and maybe moon coral(its still lite green but don't know if its alive)
Surviving corals: My Duncan started as 3 heads and popped out 2 more, green and red shrooms, ric and 4 types of polyps/zoos. Ive since bought a leather to keep my clown goby off the Duncan. Unfortunately wifes job has been real slow so letting things simmer and watching my levels till I can get some extra cash to start buying more. That's My story and im sticking to it. I'll get some pics up soon.
