Red Sea reefer 250 - Mixed reef!

[Chrille26]

Blue kenya opening up!

 

[Chrille26]

Giving my Nikon another shot, here are some attempts at snapping some fish shots.

My hosting Clowns, they look pretty but make no mistake, they will bite hard!

Scarlet pinstripe wrasse and pulsning xenia.

Yellow coris wrasse, my personal favorite.

 

[Chrille26]

Time to kick algaes butt!

Also added lots of new dry rock to the sump. Hopefully next week I get a big shipment of pods thst I can seed the rock with!

In other news, my Urchin grabbed my Montipora Setosa.

 

[Chrille26]

The tank is doing good! Fluconazole has been working for a week and first dose of Vibrant is in! Hopefully within 8 weeks I am free of all stubborn algae.

 

[Chrille26]

Just recieved 720 ml of Copepods! Despite the fact Sweden has been cold for a few days, around 8,6 f or - 13 degrees, all the bags was popping with life.
Going to pour them all onto my new dry rock in the sump to seed it with life.

Have a nice weekend!

 

[Chrille26]

Both my brackish Mollies are doing great. They have acclimated perfectly and after the initial beating they took, mainly from my Clowns, thwy are accepted in the group.
They are even great hair algae grazers, especially the female (whiter of the two), she is constantly ripping tufts of algae.

 

[chadfish]

This is a great journal! I’m in a similar situation where I have a reef-ready FOWLR but I’m hesitant to start adding coral, especially stony coral, because I was told I need to dose calcium and trace elements. It seems like you are getting by mainly with water changes? How do you dose, and how often do you test your parameters? Also, how do you keep your phosphates so low?

 

[Chrille26]

This is a great journal! I’m in a similar situation where I have a reef-ready FOWLR but I’m hesitant to start adding coral, especially stony coral, because I was told I need to dose calcium and trace elements. It seems like you are getting by mainly with water changes? How do you dose, and how often do you test your parameters? Also, how do you keep your phosphates so low?

Thank you, appreciate it!
Yes, my main source of trace elements and alkalinity is by doing weekly water changes. I do have ati 2-part that I supplement with but as long as I do atleast one weekly water change it seems stable enough.
I test my water for po4, no3, mag and cal weekly. Alk I tend to test two to three times a week to mitigate swings.
About the po4, I think the water changes goes a long way. Also I remove alot of nutrients by skimming and filter socks, and to be honest, I have been dealing with big algae outbreaks so I am not the right guy to take advice from in that regard! I think have had some fake low readings since the po4 is probobly bound up in green hair algae at that point.
My algae issues is soon a distant memory though.

 

[Chrille26]

Some changes have been done the last couple of days. I have rehomed my BTA and Urchin.
the Anemone split and both the mother and son started to vander. I gave me a scare so I removed them both during the night and traded them in at the lfs.
the Urchin was rehomed due to remodelling my corals and just bulldozing around the reef.

I replaced the Anemone with a Sinularia Dura frag:

Otherwise everything is going good! My tank is basicly algae free! dang Fluconazole is a beast at killing of algae.

Also, I have taken it upon myself to try and save a Euphyllia from another tank that was on the brink of death. One of three heads alive. I will nurture it back to its full potential!
Right after dipping and scrubbing for pests:

And one hour later (lots of blue light, it is supposed to be yellow/blue):

 

[tgcreef]

Tank looks great!

 

[Chrille26]

Tank looks great!

thank you, appreciate it!

 

[Chrille26]

Water change sunday!

Some happy corals appreciate the clean, fresh water.

 

[Chrille26]

Acro/sps mountain!
Added a big dry rock from my sump as a big centerpiece in my rock work. Right now it sticks out as a sore thumb but as soon as it matures and gets covered with sps I think it will look decent.

 

[Chrille26]

Moved yet another piece of dry rock from the sump to the display. As they get covered in coralline and corals its going to blend in nicely. I wanted to add more room for corals but also add more hide outs and swim throughs for the fishes.

 

[Chrille26]

Came home to find my yellow coris wrasse stuck in the overflow box.
Allways fun having to roll up the sleeves before even having dinner to do some tank shores, but atleast he didnt end up on the floor or behind the stand.

 

[brdracing]

Always Fun!

 

[dropoff729]

So far looks great, only thing I see is the light looks really close to the top imo. I’ve never had a good luck with diamond gobys I’ve given up on them. But your Firefish is a great addition love it. Best of luck with the mixed reef.

 

[revhtree]

Looks nice!

 

[Chrille26]

Yay! My Lawnmower blenny is now eating veggie pellets! Was worried he would thin out and starve when my algae disappears but it seems like ge will be alright.
The freshwater Molly in the backround tries to grab some pellets also.

 

[Chrille26]

Big things ahead!
I have a new tank coming in on monday! A Red Sea reefer 250. Right now I am preparing to do a full tank transfer, I am removing and cleaning all the equipment not needed to keep my current tank running.
I am also making lots of new RO water, I wont replace all the water but alot, some will be moved over to the new tank along with all the rocks, corals and fish.
I have also decided to remove all my bio spheres, I am going to keep my new sump clean and easy to clean.

Making RO för the new tank:

Cleaning all the reactors, UV and pumps that isnt nessessary until new tank arrives:

Removing all the bio spheres from my sump:

First shipment for the new tank, more sand, new return pump and more dry Marco rocks:

FTS of the current setup, about to be torn down and rebuilt: