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update time: Parameters have been nice and stable. All my coral has begun to color up which is a great sign! I added a bigger clean up crew, a couple snails, a sand sifting star fish and two fighting conches. Here come the pictures!

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Rainbow Milli from CY, I fragged it and put the other piece in a high flow area so will see where it grows better


Blue hammer from Reef lounge and Green bubble from Mystic Reef


Also added a Mandarin she was nice and fat eating pellets so I had to have her, I also feed her prawn eggs (she loves them) purchased from mystic reef


Two Ricordeas pink and blue, Orange and blue purchased at Reef Lounge during there Labor day sale!


Fighting conch these guys do work on the sand bed, had a bunch of diatoms in less than a week they were gone!


This little BTA is a champ! Ive put him through some rough conditions and some how he's pulled through


Added some Cheato and Mangrooves to the sump, the refugium is bursting with pods!
Next Update will probably be after FRAG planning on buying a bunch of coral! maybe a couple of BERGIA (I've noticed some Aipistia in the sump want to get them before they reach the display). Contemplating a reservoir from AA
 
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Ivan, you might try Peppermint Shrimp to take care Aiptisia than Bergia especially in sump.
Peppermint might eat your left over in there after it finished with aiptisia, but Bergia will die when the aiptisia are gone.
I have 2 peppermint shrimps in my sump and like them.
 
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NVTE said:
Ivan, you might try Peppermint Shrimp to take care Aiptisia than Bergia especially in sump.
Peppermint might eat your left over in there after it finished with aiptisia, but Bergia will die when the aiptisia are gone.
I have 2 peppermint shrimps in my sump and like them.
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I've heard about that, I keep my fuge light on all day I don't know how that would affect the shrimp though.
 
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nice update! tanks lookin good! i just noticed your water level in the sump and i definitely need to raise mine up.
 
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update time! Did a my weekly water change this morning, every things looking really good. Many corals are beginning to color up. I've changed the Ai hydra settings, I wanted a more blue color so the settings are now as followed

Whites: 40% Red: 80% Green: 80% Royal Blue: 100% Deep Blue: 100% Violet: 100% UV: 80% I love the color I am getting.

On to the fish: I had my phantom jump, which really bummed me out. I was thinking about replacing him with another phantom but didn't want to start a war with the already established clowns. So I added a small yellow tang, he's been eating really well and really active which is nice. He has been picking at a fire shrimp though ate all his antennas. The Mandarin is gaining weight which is also a good sign, he's been chowing down on prawn eggs I buy from ebay.

I took some pictures during my water change,



This one weeks worth of skim, not bad hu



Got Pods? my pod population has exploded! even after I add the mandarin.
 
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no FTS!?!? sucks about the clown jumping...BRS had a sale on their mesh tops last week and theyre now sold out. i need to start lookin into a screen top. your settings seem pretty high, how are the corals liking it? any reason for the high uv? did you add pods to your tank?
 
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Rrocky said:
no FTS!?!? sucks about the clown jumping...BRS had a sale on their mesh tops last week and theyre now sold out. i need to start lookin into a screen top. your settings seem pretty high, how are the corals liking it? any reason for the high uv? did you add pods to your tank?
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It's really hard to take one with the LEDs, I'll try and take one soon. I'm not really into the mesh top kinda defeats the purpose of rimless. It's the only fish that one jump out of the water. It was trying to show off how tough it was, I had the UV max out at 70 before and all the corals seemed really happy, so I don't think 80 will be too much I'll tone it down if I see any ill effects. Things are coloring up really nicely though. I had a pretty good pod population in my last tank, transferred all the rock over so they've really taken off lately.
 
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last update of the year! I had some trouble with the skimmer last week and my rainbow milli RTN'ed on me, was super bummed about that. I also started experiencing a bad case of diatoms. I was feeding ALOT, so I've eased off it and am feeding lightly now. all the fish are looking great, mandarin is nice and fat also found out she's a red mandarin not a green. Tang has been really happy, picks at the rocks all day. All the other corals have been growing really well. thinking about fragging some. One of the ultra ricordeas I got from RL spilt it was really cool to watch. Also tested my params again testing with API so who knows how accurate it is.

Nitrates 0
Ammonia 0
Ph 8.4
Nitrites 0
Salinity 1.25

Anyways enough rambling here are some pics.
All whites on


Heres my soon to be ricordea garden



Space invader has really colored up lately


heres a picture with all the lights on
 
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SchnitzelReef said:
In some of the pics ur LEDs look very "spot lighty". U should maybe raise ur lights or change/ remove the optics


Hot Dogs are GOOD!
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Yeah in the older pics they were around 12inches off the water line, I moved them up too 16, I think I solved it. Thanks for the compliment!

Reefomeez said:
Nice tank! Do those nems move much? I like how evenly dispersed they are.
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Thanks! no they haven't moved at all, that side of the tank has very low flow so I think they like it there
 
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