24 Gal Cube SPS nano reef tank

[project1004]

Tank front shot. I went and added two fish (blue damsel (being harassed by both the clown and purple sorry back who was mean to the clear shrimp. Plucked his whisker off once). So only two clownfish in the LpS tank. I hope they mate or something.



Minor changes due to removing water to catch the fishes.



Only thing I’ve added from the LPS tank is the brain coral.







I will be adding new white sands in both tanks. Very reason I hate color line algae and the amount for calcium deposits and the amount of work I am doing to clean, I think I will add sand. Will get 20lb bag and add 5lbs to the small tank and 25lbs to the 48.



I have not finished scraping off the coralline algae. Will finish some other day.




My parameters as of now. Cleaned out the probes best as I can few hours ago and added back. (Unable all the probes and soaked it on a conifer water for about 45mins. Cleaned. Added back and waited 30mins and re enabled. I don’t know what changed but I think my pH is definitely lower than before.




At 6AM: the Alk was at below. And Nitrate at 0.6 and phosphate at 0.0.

I added some coral booster and 20ml of liquid nitrate (10ml twice). I will go add 10ml of liquid phosphate now. And test tomorrow at 6am and adjust accordingly.

 

[project1004]

Left side front


Front middle


Front right

 

[shanepike]

What is that large orange/green/yellow coral covering the rock in the dead center of that Front Middle photo?

 

[project1004]

I believe it’s sunset montipora. Encrusting type}

 

[Hunna]

What is that large orange/green/yellow coral covering the rock in the dead center of that Front Middle photo?

Sunset monti possibly?

 

[project1004]

Surprisingly the evaporation isn’t too bad. About a gallon atm.



Passed power outrage test.



Tank shot from the stair




At 6am: Nitrate at 2.2. Phosphate at 0.37 alkalinity at 9.8







Tigrio pod culture in 5Gallon vessel

 

[project1004]

Today’s test results

Phosphate is down from 0.37. I didnt add any phosphate source directly. I will wait for this number stabilize and adjust accordingly,


Nitrate is up from 2.2 to 3.6. I’ve added total of 20ml of liquid Ammonium chloride mixtures for a day. (On automatic dose for 15ml starting today. Test and adjust with more feeding and adding fishes etc.)



dKH is up from 9.8 to 10.1. That’s with adding EXTRA 2liters of saltwater and 1 EXTRA liter of kalk solution and EXTRA 10ml of ESV part 1. 2pt is off line as of yesterday. Will re start ESV within next few days.




2 bought 2 x 20lb bags of Reed Sand from LFS. I will add it once the tank is settled for few days.

Planning on adding 3-4 possibly 6more fishes. He

 

[project1004]

Test results today: (But before I do, I must mention that I’ve added 20lb of reef sand AS WELL AS, adding 3 new fishes. (Tomini tang, Miss Mccosker and black leopard wrasses).

Phosphate is down to 0.12. No additional phosphate was added. I will like to maintain this number. So, I’m going to add about 10ml of liquid phosphate on top of my feeding to see if it will raise or maintain or fall.



Nitrate is down to 2.8. So adding 15ml of liquid nitrate on top of my regular feeding is somewhat maintenaning the Nitrate. Adding sand will decrease the nitrate (allowing more feedings as well). Which I want to so I can stop dosing nitrate and phosphate source. So, I will continue dosing 15ml of liq ammonium chloride.



My Alk is down to 8.9. I wasn’t expecting this number to drop already. But seems about right. With having extra volume of water (3times more than before), alkalinity consumption will be decrease as much.

I will start adding about 20ml of ESV 2pt starting today. And adjust accordingly. (I was adding about 45mls of each 2parts per day on the nano on top of fully saturated kalk solution (For those who like numbers x.x)



Tank shot

 

[project1004]

Today’s testing:

Alkalinity is stable (down 0.3. So maybe it will be down another .03-.05 tommorow?!?) , nitrate is up, (has doubled over night) (Expected as feeding has increased and am only feeding frozen as always has) and phosphate is down. So, I will continue with extra feeding and lower ammonium chloride to 10ml. Eventually wing off it. Phosphate, I’ll be adding powder coral food to maintain the phosphate were it is.


Happy reefing <><







Today was the last day to test consecutively the 3 big test. I will test once a week for nitrate and phosphate and two times in the week of the water changes. Once on the day of the water change and once day after the water change). Alkalinity test are always the done the most and will be every 2-3 days. Sometimes daily~.