75 Gal w 30 Gal Sump Reef(I told you guys Im back)

[bauder1986]

Well update time for everyone. Tank is running smooth. Smoother than any tanks Ive had in the past. Parameters are all at near 0. Skimmer is running smoothly. Carbon and GFO reactors are doing their thing.

Added a frag or two of zoos and a nice frag of aussie green branching Duncans.

Also picked up a 4 point auto doser. Using that to Auto dose the ATI complete 2 stage and also for my water top ups. These dosers really make life nice and easy and lazy. Just need to figure out how to auto spot feed my coral at night...

Next thing to work on is add a Sand Dollar to keep the substrate in good order and a nice 6 line or 8 line wrasse to add more life to the tank. And then build a refuge in a reactor container.

[bauder1986]

Well Couple of months in and I have to say that the tank is running fine as feck. Honestly its abit disconcerting how well this tank cycled and stabilized compared to previous systems of mine.

So like I said, I picked up an auto doser. Pump one and two on it are running 95ml per day of the 4:1 RO/ATI Essentials mix Part 1 and Part 2. That stuff is honestly the shit. Its a full water change in a bottle. I have only done one water change and it was a small 5% one to stabilize my salinity that slowly dropped due to minor salt creep and dumping the skimmer over a few months. Pump 3 is just for topping up my water. Honestly, Im that lazy. And since Im home everyday I can decide to keep the hose in the RO water for the tank or just pull it out before the next programmed dose time of RO water. Once I get more funds Ill change that into an actual ATO. But for now Im okay with this.


Sump Needs cleaning....Thats for another day.




Also added some more livestock

Yellow Tang. Healthy and Hungry lil Bastard. And pretty curious too.


A Neon Dottyback. I really enjoy watching this guy. He is a hell of a swimmer.


A sand sifting star fish. Curious little creature these are. But it does the job keeping the substrate from turning in a rock of its own.


A small Lobo Brain. Loves its nightly feeding of cyclopods. I hope its colors improve with time.


Neon Green Aussie Branching Duncans. God damn these things grow fast!


A Blue Gonipora. Just starting to reach out.


A Green Gonipora. Happy as can be.


Pretty certain this is some kind of Rhodactus Mushroom. Big Guy once it stretches out. Bright too.


Chaos Palys!!!!!! So So So Bright! And they grow soo fast!


Mystery Palys. The skirts on these were brown when I got them. But are now starting to turn a nice Red.


And then there's everything else in the tank thats from before. All doing good.









And last but not least. FTS

[bauder1986]

Got bored, here's me progress(or there lack of) with getting the right camera shot.