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A lot of credit goes to @Reef Breeders for making a fantastic light!

Blues/violet
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White added
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Needed space for some new large corals that arrived today, so I removed a rock overgrown with gsp and sold it to the LFS for 50$

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Freed up an good amount of real estate for my 2 new acanthophyllia !
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They still are adjusting and hopefully will be comfortable and fully inflated in a day or two

Also picked up this guy from the LFS
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I have said it before that "goni" is sweet!

That little plate coral is nice too. I have done the more "common" ones in the past standard, purple/green, orange, They do ok for a while for me maybe 8-16 months then fail. Thinking since I put them on the sand it was eventually the sand getting on them and irritating them. If I try again ill put them on a nice flat rock.
 

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I have said it before that "goni" is sweet!

That little plate coral is nice too. I have done the more "common" ones in the past standard, purple/green, orange, They do ok for a while for me maybe 8-16 months then fail. Thinking since I put them on the sand it was eventually the sand getting on them and irritating them. If I try again ill put them on a nice flat rock.
What is the brand of scrubber that you have
 
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Welcome to Reef2Reef! I need more info! Lol and pics

What info do you want :)

More pics. Ok. My new acanthophyllia’a are adjusting well and bigger than I’ve ever seen so far! I thought I cleared enough space but…maybe not

And some gonipora pics too cause why not! And if anyones interested…I do have other tanks I could share some pics of, if requested. All my tanks are low maintenance design with no water changes

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Short stem banana torch
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Lps all over
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Long palythoa - convinced these are indestructible. And, they don’t spread and take over
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Bounty hunter
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Malaysian Banana
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Goni
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Exosphere
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Hungry Taiwan chalice
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New blastos - can anyone ID? Or know a blasto person to tag?
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Rainbow monti
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Great looking tank and amazing pictures! I'm also running the reefbreeders Photon 48V+. Would you mind sharing your lighting schedule? Thanks
 
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Great looking tank and amazing pictures! I'm also running the reefbreeders Photon 48V+. Would you mind sharing your lighting schedule? Thanks

Ok. Get ready to laugh. Keep in mind this is not a traditionally maintained / kept reef. I break all the rules and prove they don’t need to be rules.

I made the cloud preset:
Ch 3,5,6 = 35%
Ch 1,2,4 = 0

I made the sun preset
Ch 3,5,6 = 50%
Ch 1,2 = 0
Ch 4 = 8%

I made night preset
Ch 3,5,6 = 10%
Ch 1,2,4 = 0

Soooo every day somewhere between 9-11am I manually turn on to the cloudy preset, I like it best, and every night around 1 am I switch to the night preset, and around 4 am I turn it off completely

Random times on random days I’ll switch to the sun preset, for photos, or just to give the corals some periods of higher brightness and white light added in

It’s completely random based on my schedule and no two days are exactly the same

And I had a programmed light schedule. But my remote went crazy on me one day and deleted it. Don’t ask. Replaced remote. Never reprogramed the schedule.

Turns out, a consistent schedule is overrated and unnecessary
 

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That's an interesting lighting arrangement you have there! I've been running 3,5,and 6 at 60 and 4 at 20 with a little 1 thrown in at max intensity. Never checked par but was thinking about dialing it back some. What your doing clearly works for you.
 
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That's an interesting lighting arrangement you have there! I've been running 3,5,and 6 at 60 and 4 at 20 with a little 1 thrown in at max intensity. Never checked par but was thinking about dialing it back some. What your doing clearly works for you.

I started with 3,5,6 at 50% and that worked well but newer corals I found were bleaching so i initially lowered as part of a acclimation thing. Then I noticed many corals doing better and others just fine, so I kept 3,5,6 at 40% for a while. Just recently I decided to try and lower to 35% because I have 2 bleached corals I want to recover and i am testing if lower light temporarily will help speed things up

I have a par meter and every zone is in healthy range for LPS

And another reason I lowered intensity a little is because of my prolonged photoperiod.

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would love to know how you get away with no water changes! do you not vaccum the sand?

I do not vacuum the sand and would not recommend that to 95% of people/situations.

I prevent sand issues with lots of sand stiring snails. I have a lot of the 1-1-5” white nassarius snails, probably 20+, and probably another 20-30 of the smaller dark nassarius snails. Plus a fighting conch, that constantly is cleaning the sand. I broadcast feed corals quite often and there is a lot that ends up on the sandbed so I need a large crew to focus on the sand and leftover food.

My sandbed is is white and I never have to stir it or vacuum it
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I have never been a believer in water changes. I have aggressive nutrient control through natural algae filtration, my parameters are kept at low levels naturally, and thanks to all for reef I can keep alk and calcium in target ranges, while also replenishing trace elements
 
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