Nanoreefer22's 200g DD Build

[Quang]

Aw shoot, all grown up... the tank that is. Looks great Kris.

 

[fredro]

Beautiful tank! Can I ask what you dose and how much/often?

 

[jackson6745]

Rescaping a bit this weekend to incorporate some more tonga branch in one section of the tank. Also gonna move some corals around with growth in mind.

gonna kill some cyphastrea too 5*5 patch. If anyone wants to trade a rock for a rock, I'm open to it

Pics or it didn't happen

I want to see more top down coral pics :tongue::tongue:

 

[Slamajamajama]

i like the way it is...ive gotten away from branches too..um... I guess what im trying to say is as you get older in reefing you understand its a painting, a Picasso, putting in branches is like drawing stick figures......

its good to see corals larger than frags...let it grow

way to deep for this crowd I think....lol

 

[nanoreefer22]

Thanks Q! I gotta change my screen name now

:lol2: Mike. Corals larger than frags is a good thing.

Rich, :bunny: no more pics, this thread will just be more of me talking about random things. More top downs in a week or two

Fredro, right now I'm using a calcium reactor to keep my alk at 9dkh and calcium at around 430ppm. My water changes keep my magnesium in the 1300-1350 range and I supplement a little here and there if necessary. Aside from that I dose Bio-digest and bio-optim every other week from Prodibio. On weeks I don't dose prodibio I dose special blend and I dose nite-out after every water change.

I've had some ups and some downs with this tank, lost some pieces while others have had great growth and color.

 

[Hockeynut]

Looks great Kris

 

[nanoreefer22]

Looks great Kris

Thanks Rob!

Will get some updated pics up this weekend.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Adding a 30g display fuge.

 

[oh207]

Awesome. I got some dragon's breath if you need any.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Wooo I will definitely take some of that stuff!

I texted you but I think I might have an old number for you. Hit me up when you ahve some time.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Sadly, I bump this thread to let you all know this tank has suffered a major set back. I've lost most of my coral colonies, though I haven't removed them yet as some are still clinging to life. I expect when this is all over that at least 75% of the tank will be gone, which sucks.

I started having issues a few weeks ago and it turns out my father began lighting incense around the same time. Thought is the incense has some sort of chemicals in the smoke that was taken in by the skimmer and then mixed with the tank water, creating a slow death for the tank as the chemicals built up. I only noticed he was lighting it this weekend and he has since stopped.

I've been doing large water changes, running carbon and I'm getting some polyfilters tonight.

Aside from the corals, I've lost about 15 fish in total. Hoping the ones that are left pull through.

I'll rebuild slowly, this time with a mixed reef. Softies dont seem affected and LPS show only minimal signs of stress.

Just needed to share that.

 

[NL146]

Sorry to hear Kris.

 

[noelskii]

Hmm...I used to vape A LOT in my room, where my old tank was. It used to make my skimmer go crazy from all the smoke that it was taking in also (I guess). MAYBE that was the cause of a lot of my Euphyllia and Duncan deaths... :scratchch

 

[oh207]

Sorry to hear. I got some softies for you when you ready.

 

[Jaftica]

when u are ready kris, stop over with your bone cutters and frag up my tank to stock u back up

 

[nanoreefer22]

Thanks for the support! Tank is doing better know. Death has finally stopped and he things that are alive are doing way better. Lots of water changes and carbon and poly filter did the trick.

Rob I'll actually be out your way this weekend on Sunday. Let me know if you're around I can bring those clippers with me

Oh I'll text you.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Little video update. Picked up this amazing blue S gigantea from a local vendor who had it for about 4 months. Hard to find one of these already established and healthy, so I jumped at the chance.

Tank overall is doing better, switched from a CA reactor to a doser since I don't have the high demand from SPS any more. Things seem to be going well. Going to start getting some more SPS in the next few months once I am sure things are 100% stable. Right now my LPS garden is growing, next buy is a neon green haddoni.

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[1UCKY]

Nice!

 

[nanoreefer22]

Thanks!

Tank is bouncing back nicely, time to add some more sticks to fill in the top half of the tank. Also changing my bulbs to 5 ATI blue + and 2 10kXM bulbs. Trying to get good growth over the next year and then possibly switch back to radiums.

 

[JHOV2324]

My reaction to reading all this from page 1 today
:bigeyes2::pimp::Hydrogen::shocked1::Lurking::splitspin:flower::headache::Yikes::letitallo