184g basement 8ft reef

[kien]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

Although my wallet is thin for some reason...

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

[Snappy]

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)

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by Snappy

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)

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?

[Roskoreef]

new scape:

[Roskoreef]

christmas tree coral

[kien]

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 ?

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by kien

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