Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27)

[marie]

red planet


corals that somehow made it up to my return lines

[riceboy]

Gorgeous tank! So you don't use zeo or anything and don't do water changes that often and that is the result I am very impressed. Do you dose anything at all then? And what is your secret lol I have been struggling for a year now and can't seem to get any growth lol. Well nothing like yours anyways lol

[marie]

Today I did the first water change in 6 weeks, I add 1.5 l of kalk/vinegar saturated top off water and 250 ml ea of cal and alk daily which isn't enough as it turns out. When I tested today (for the first time in 2 months) my alk was at 3.5 DKH

[riceboy]

That is amazing I'm gonna let my tank do its own thing a see how that goes lol kinda getting tired of doing a test every couple of days and tinkering with the doser and skimmer every couple of days lol

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by riceboy

That is amazing I'm gonna let my tank do its own thing a see how that goes lol kinda getting tired of doing a test every couple of days and tinkering with the doser and skimmer every couple of days lol

Maybe toss me a few more zoas before you do that ok?

[marie]

I truly believe the secret to my success has been, fat fish and at least once a year completely redoing everything, changing rockwork, pruning corals right back and probably the most important.....periodically adding new live rock, straight from the source that I cure myself

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by marie

periodically adding new live rock, straight from the source that I cure myself

I did that too in the last version of my tank.....except I ran out of room for corals so added more and more and more LR to stuff more coral in.....

I love all the big mature corals in this tank!