Thanks, ya looking back i overlooked the sand and zeovit... acutally the sand all together has been a pain. As far as i know, and from seeing some others tanks all running zeo and uv, you can run uv and zeo as long as they are placed stratigically. The free floating bacteria from zeo when pumped/agitated (the mulm produced on the zeolites in reactor) is the food for the corals and also what UV will kill. I figure As long as the output from Zeo is after UV in sump, the tank will still receive the nutrients/bacteria. Now this is my opinon and what im trying based on what others are doing and seeing their tanks.

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Yeah the QT needs much more attention than a large DT for sure..

Ive got about a tenth of the sand out and everything seems to be happier..in the process of rescaping everything, i didnt plan out enough of each height.

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the wild acro has really started to turn blue with beige polyps..

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I think im going to get a coral viewer for pictures.. top down does look the best.

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I used tropic eden reef flakes in my tank which is running with zeo and used the same sand in the RSM s500 I'm building at my friends office

Best sand ever and its really difficult to blow around, worth looking into that if you want sand and premium aquatics sells it if you're interested

Man I feel like such a slow poke now, tank has been running for 4 months and all I have is a bare minimum clean up crew.

Your corals look really nice.

Thanks, but looking back i would have taken the time to set up a qt and added fish slowly, this ich outbreak was pretty hard...

You got a ton of fish in that tank in a very short period of time ... And I need to somehow setup a at as well

spent 4+ hours moving coral and rock, siphoning sand and rescaping rock... its levelish for now.. i kind of like it, i figure theres room to change this way. Plus there is way more room for corals and better flow. About half the sand is out! F yes.

Pics are after disorientating everything in the tank, only a few corals are angry.

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Cleaner pics to come..

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Finally lit from end to end, added a xr30 last night. Having issues programming again, no surprise... It seems the easiest and least frustrating way to add a radion to a group of radions is to start from scratch and create a new group on ecosmartlive and do them all overone at a time. Lame but saves frustration ad doing it ths way in the end.

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added a little frag rack for all the little broken pieces. I really like the black acrylic rack on the black overflow.

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best photo so far with a cell phone

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the more sand that leaves, the cleaner and happier everything is, almost all types of algae are dissapearing, small brown/green patches on rock and sand, and the glass is finally not needing a clean everyday..

here are some awesome new corals i found today..

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and my new favourite.. huge rainbow monti

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these crabs are awesome.

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be fannin with the fans...

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made time and got rid of the sand, re did all the rockwork, nightime fell and dosed coral snow.. update tommorrow when the dust clears, a new tank!

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wow, hard to imagine that you just set this tank up two months ago! You're motoring along !

I would keep an eye on that Red Coris Wrasse. He may be fine now, but they do tend to to get quite destructive as they age. They naturally love invertebrates :sad:

Curious, do your two mandarins eat prepared foods are have you determined that you have a large enough pod population for them?

the madarins were doing fine, lots of pods after feeding dt's phyto and getting lots of pieces of rock and coral from tanks with fat mandarins.. until i had dosed with polyp lab for some ich releif, but after a few days of treatment i would see dead pods floating around. a few weeks later and only one mandarin remains, i think food was limited and the fought it out, they fought anyway anytime they saw each other..should have had only one.

as for the wrasse, hes angry about the sand leaving.. hope he doesnt take it out on the crabs.

Im convinced the routine zeo dosing, daily water changes and good lighting has made it possible in 2 months...loving every minute.Although my wallet is thin for some reason...

Daily water changes and fully stocking your tank in 2 months will tend to do that :lol:

That is a pretty aggressive start for being up such a short time, I hope your success continues. Just a word of advise - I would be careful where you put the rainbow monti as it can quickly out grow & over grow many of your other corals and be a pain so I recommend giving it it's own area away from the other sps if possible. (you'll thank me later):biggrin:

Thanks, i havent glued or permantly placed anything yet, ill make sure to keep those rainbows away.. in your experience are all montis going to encrust over acros?, or specifically rainbows? do some acros win?

new scape:

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christmas tree coral

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cool. Don't see those too often. Are you target feeding it and the carnation coral every day or just letting it catch its own food ?

the carnation does well with medium flow, as long as the anenome doesnt cover is with more slime.. so i have just been letting it catch its own food. i have tons of pods again and i never miss a dose. I just got the christmas tree, its pretty cool although tempermental so far. if you even bump it, it retracts for a day or so.. well see what happens with what im dosing.

here is my dosing schedule for reference:

daily-
10ml coral snow at night
2 oz dt's phyto, worked up from 1 oz
5ml zeo coral booster
5ml k balance
2 ml zeostart3
8 drops kaliumiodid-fluor (potassium lodide flouride concentrate)
8 drops sponge power
10 ml flatwormstop
2 tablespoons zeozym ( help with all the chaos and sand removal for excess organics)

bi weekly-
8 drops zeobak
8 drops zeofood7

weekly-
10 ml b-balance
10ml zeo spur macroelements

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new acro

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can anybody id this acro?
 

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stuff..

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new mushroom

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added t5ho...

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Beautiful!

changed the t5 bulbs to 1/2 fiji purple and 1/2 super blue... super happy, corals are too.

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this guy finally seems to be growing a little..

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what is that coral in the first pic?

Christmas Tree, or medusa coral. Sphaerella spp.

i am very tempted to go to all t5ho, sell most of my radions and get 2 48" ati fixtures... corals are showing major improvement in days.

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new coral with tons of different coloured duster worms, mainly blues.. and red ones. they come out a encrusting sps of some kind..

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blue hornets

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new clown..

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better pics..

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ok i'll admit it think ive gone doser crazy...

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picked up another ghl doser 2 to dose more zeo products.. Now 11 pumps in all, 2 for auto water change, 1 un-used and currently using 8 for automated dosing:

Alkalinity
Calcium
Magnesium
zeo Pohls xtra
zeo start3
zeospur macroelements
zeo coral booster
zeo strontium

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What salt are you using. ????

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So far, this stuff is my go to..

added a few small fish, 2 small black leopard wrasse and a smaller male clownfish for the female, both host with the carpet anenome but the female is still pretty territorial.

he is hard to get photos of..

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also some new favourites, forest green pocillopora and a huge hydnophora

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