Thank you ! I've seen some impressive reefs in my years. It's about time my reef shows up. Much appreciated

They are so beautiful! Awesome to hear I'm not the only one!

I appreciate the love. Yours will come around. Stay the course.

Appreciate that .

His tank look great!

@@MaineReef ya it is! I’m happy to see his sos doing well. They’ve been my nemesis for years!

SPS were mine back in the day. The 6 footer looks great !

@@MaineReef thanks man, I’m trying. Taking it slow. I have a small monti that’s doing well so I’m thinking of throwing in something easy like a digi or slimer. Fingers crossed!

@MikeLemming slimer the way !

Glad I could help !

My back chambers are simple. I removed the stock sponge setup. First chamber has my pumped for my algae reactor. On top the pump is a bag of carbon and bag of gfo. On top the bags is filter floss. Second chamber has matrix media. My heater is in chamber two. As well as my ato. Chamber three return with wood air stone for bubble scrubbing.

My blue are 100% whites peak at 10% blue ramp up from 8-9 am white ramps from 930 to 2 then ramp down. Blue ramp down 7-8. Lights out at 8

I use kalkwasser for alk calcium and ph. Alk is consumed quickly. Enough that I would see swings with testing. So I started with kalkwasser. A small amount. To keep the alk from falling to far. The benefit of kalkwasser is calcium and ph buffer as well. I also use water changes weekly. That will replenish my trace with out dosing. KALKWASSER is not a fix all though. I highly recommend starting slow. Not going full saturation. You must test for alk calcium and ph. Kalkwasser also will not take care of all needs when coral gets to a certain size where it is using more than you are adding. You want to keep things relatively steady.

I do run the 1600. I also run an upgraded return pump as well. I tend to use a lot of flow. It really depends on where your corals are with the flow. Also, what type of coral as well. My wave maker is maybe 3 inch below the surface, and I never get an error message. The error comes on when the wavemaker sucks air. Mine rarely pulls air.

What I did was start slow with the ato. I used half the full saturation dosage. I check my ph and alk to make sure it didn't raise to much. If you see high consumption in alk. Mix in more kalkwasser. Dialing in is a slow process. Some people go full saturation. I did not do that. I went slow. Watched ph and alk

@@MaineReef got it👍🏼

@@MaineReef do you ever have any issues with kalk slurry from it being mixed up and them settling?

@SilentBiscuit17 no I usually let it sit before using. Make sure you clean container every so often and pump if you aren't using gravity fed ato like I am.

@@MaineReef I have 0 experience with Kalk but once you mix it, doesnt a lot of it settle to the bottom of the barrel, so all the stuff at the bottom is super concentrated no?

This light is a Nicrew hyperreef 50w with controller. It's on Amazon. Its a great light!

@@MaineReef oh man thank you. I just set up a IM 15 AIO gallon and I need to get a light noa

@jamesbroderick3660 price point on this light is exceptional. Comes with mounting. Controller is separate. I do recommend just for ease of getting a schedule with out a timer or smart strip.

Two clowns home one corner by the return. Been there since day one. Have three blue green chromis who live with in the rock and coral. One ora purple dotty. One green warpaint goby. Lives in the candy cane coral.