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Reef Tank - Aquariums - 13.5G Evo! Acan looking good!

13.5G Evo! Acan looking good!

Posted: 06 May 2020 08:43 PM PDT

My budding scolymia: 11 hungry mouths to feed.

Posted: 06 May 2020 08:06 PM PDT

My first reef tank is up and running for a couple months now.

Posted: 06 May 2020 07:14 AM PDT

Cruising around

Posted: 06 May 2020 03:42 PM PDT

First addition, going down there rabbit hole!

Posted: 06 May 2020 06:10 PM PDT

Phat trachy, war favites, dragon souls

Posted: 06 May 2020 11:10 PM PDT

Thought this shot looked good.

Posted: 06 May 2020 11:06 PM PDT

Peek-a-boo! (Bi-color Blenny and an open brain coral.)

Posted: 06 May 2020 07:25 PM PDT

Happy Acan

Posted: 06 May 2020 09:15 PM PDT

Thoughts on rock landscaping? Should I move rock up against the back and leave one rock in the middle?

Posted: 06 May 2020 08:24 PM PDT

What are these little white “worms”?

Posted: 06 May 2020 08:07 PM PDT

Sps are coming along nicely, much better than my photography skills :)

Posted: 06 May 2020 09:40 PM PDT

How long did it take for your BTA to “settle” in to your tank?

Posted: 06 May 2020 09:06 PM PDT

Been in the tank three hours

Posted: 06 May 2020 07:52 AM PDT

Excited to celebrate the end of the cycle on my 10 gallon! Little bit of algae but we will survive.

Posted: 06 May 2020 07:17 PM PDT

Working on photography settings (Galaxy Note 9, pro mode, with polarized filter)

Posted: 06 May 2020 09:06 PM PDT

Fragging went bad on the head at the bottom. Should I remove what’s left or is there any chance of survival for any of the broken pieces?

Posted: 06 May 2020 09:04 PM PDT

Obesity is a problem in Reefs too.

Posted: 06 May 2020 03:29 PM PDT

Finally got one of my clowns to shelter in my torch! Question: will the coral get used to him and not be as receded as it is now?

Posted: 06 May 2020 11:02 AM PDT

New gold flake and goldxlightning maroon clowns!

Posted: 06 May 2020 02:04 PM PDT

Helppp this just magically grew idk what it is

Posted: 06 May 2020 11:15 PM PDT

I’m not a reefer atm, just posting because I was cleaning out my garage the other day and stumbled upon this. One of my family members must’ve found it and brought it home many years ago. Is this a dead coral? If I were to ever start a tank can I put this in there??

Posted: 06 May 2020 08:53 AM PDT

Quarantine boredom got me to setup my fluval spec 3 again. Any recommendations on what direction to go with this?

Posted: 06 May 2020 03:57 PM PDT

Can I get some help on making my tank SPS dominant?

Posted: 06 May 2020 09:26 PM PDT

Title says. I've been a reef keeper for 15 years now, and I recently got a job and home that could afford me my dream tank. I have a Red Sea 750 XXL (the new one, after they fixed the stand problem), and three Radion Gen 4s, two MP-10s. The problem is, I'm struggling to get everything to look happy, and I want to make sure I have everything that I can to make this work. I worked at my LFS probably a decade back, and everything in the industry seems to have changed a lot since.

Equipment:
Red Sea 750 XXL tank
Two MP40 pumps, one aged Coralia on the back (not sure the pump speed on that)
eHeim heaters
Salt is Reef Crystals (tests at 465ppm Cal, 10.1dKh Alk)
Skimmer: Bubble Magus Curve 9+
Media: RowaPhos and Activated Carbon, both dosed according to the box
Two filter socks (as per the 750 XXL tank)
Cheeto algae

Livestock:
Fish: a midas, an ancient blue hippo (the tank is for him), a desjardini, a magnificent fox face, and seven anthias. I feed them two cubes mysis shrimp and a pinch of aquadine flake daily. I also feed seaweed 2x per week.
Coral: A mix of new and old. Frogspawn and my 25+ year old red monti cap are doing great. I have just started getting Across--a needle in a haystack, fox flame, and pearlberry table acro. I also got some new types of zoas--illuminati palys and cats eyes inclusive, both of which have been causing me a bit of trouble. I feed my corals ~1/3 teaspoon of BenePets daily, and everything looked great as a result. To supplement, I started hand feeding ~1/4 teaspoon of Reef Blizzard-S to my new corals.

The Situation:
I want to make my tank SPS dominant, and keep acros. This is new to me. I recently set up an auto-doser, dosing Reef Carbonate and Reef Complete. I still dose Reef Plus by hand, though I have purchased Red Sea Reef Energy AB+ as a replacement--once I run out of Reef Plus.
Two of my new zoas--illuminati palys and cats eyes--are stretching. No other zoas are stretching. I have confirmed they have enough light with a Par meter I rented from my LFS. Likewise, my Pearlberry is not opening along the tips--it is opening along the middle, but along the tips seems a little more stressed. This only occurred after measuring with the Par meter and moving it UP, from 250 lumens to ~310 lumens, right where I thought would be the acro sweet spot.

  1. My Phosphates never go below or above 30ppm--they just kind of sit there, taunting me. I am testing with Hanna. Is feeding less the solution here? Would a media reactor help?
  2. My Calcium eludes me--it always seem below 400, and my Alkalinity is always right where I want it--around 10.1-10.3dKh. I have just increased my dosing via the auto-doser (I WAS dosing 60mL of Carbonate, and 18mL of complete. I have increased to 30mL. Prior to my red sea tank, my calcium was always ~500 and my Alkalinity always <8, so I am reticent to swing that direction again). I am slowly increasing the dosing to try to tune it in. Is this the right approach?
  3. My lighting and flow is... frustrating. I am running the Worldwide corals 75g light profile on my radions--this is new as of last week. Prior to that I was running a custom setting with a lot of white. Now I have switched much of that intensity over to my UVs, which were only at 20-30% before (now at 100%). My MP40 flow was set to between 65-75% throughout the day, and I sought to crank it up to 85-90%. Now, my frogspawn and other zoas don't look as happy, and my acros don't look any better. I used the par meter to measure light intensity for all my corals to confirm that they were in a happy place--and so I imagine they should be good. Should I decrease my flow? Should I move my lighting back to something with less UV and more white, so as not to shock my coral?

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can improve this situation? I want all my coral to be happy--my old frogspawn look like they're getting too much flow now, and my zoas are less happy... but my pearlberry acro doesn't look any happier after adjusting it to a place where I expected it to be doing better.

TL;DR: Concerned long-time reef keeper trying to keep acros and zoas happy, none of them are. Suspect some combination of phosphates, calcium, lighting, and flow--but that's a lot of things to try to operate with at once.

Any help is appreciated.

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