My 2.5 ft LPS mix reef

[icliao]

My 2.5 ft LPS tank set up 1 year back.  

[Guest]

Nice bro, can post your setup spec here like lighting and equipment too?

[shy88devil]

Nice tank 

Welcome to the big family 

Please share with us your equipment and how you maintain such a nice tank. 

[vincentwangz]

Oh wow this is such a lovely set up! Welcome to SRC! Hope to learn about how the journey has been in the past year.

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[Neutral]

Your water must be very tip top.. Can see that all ya corals open up.. Care to share how u managed to maintain your tank to get such an awesome result?

[icliao]

Hi there. Thank you for your warm welcome.

This setup has been through hell initially.  I had very bad base rocks and a few sub par liver rocks to begin with.  The water actually turn yellow and milky a few days later. I also made the common mistake or stocking fast and furious.  It was loaded with 20 fish and full (every inch) of corals.  I thought I can pull through with chemical filtration such as RowaPhos, Biosphere and Algone but the system continue to be plagued by red slime and hair algae to the point I really want to give up.  Many livestock lost and everything I do such as massive water change/ siphoning just didn't help.  So a few months ago I decided to tear it down and start from ground zero.  I shut off light completely over a week to kill all micro algae and remove all livestocks/ sand and clean all rocks up and redo the tank. I kept the what's left over fish and the tank went through a short algae boom and after 3 weeks I added the corals and again the tank went through another mini cycle. I also reduce the rock frame and added more Tunze pumps one aim into the center of the rock cave blowing into the bottom so I don' t have any dead spot anymore.  Now my tank is 2 months after the reset and the water looks sparkling.  I still use the same equipment but I think the key is not to over stock and stock slowly and don't overfeed.  I had a big group of barlet anthias before and I had to feed several time a day and that may have accounted to the problem. 

My equipment as following:

Light:  AI Hydra 26 x 2 set

Skimmer: Delctec SR 1455

Circulation:

Tunze Turbella 6095 x 2

Tunze wavebox

Mainpump: Deltec 5000l/h

Chiller: Resun CL650

Chemical filtration: 

RowaPhos

Polylab Biosphere

Algone

Addictives:

Polylab One

Polylab Reef-roid

This is the photo of my old tank before crash.  Glorious but over stock and did not last unfortunately.

[Admiraltian]

Ur old setup really look gorgeous!!

[icliao]

Ur old setup really look gorgeous!!

I am happy with what I have now, as long as no more red slime and hair algae problem.

[SubzeroLT]

Wow...very nice indeed.

[Yxh]

Hi bro, any sump tank picture to share .. Thanks 

[icliao]

Here is the photo of the sump

[shy88devil]

mind to share what's your dosing ???

[icliao]

mind to share what's your dosing ???

Not much really.  Just Polylap One weekly and feed The coral Reef-roid weekly.  That's it.

[icliao]

Sorry I dose Polyplab One daily

[Yxh]

Here is the photo of the sump

bro, what is the one sitting on your Rowaphos bottle?

[icliao]

Kalkwasser stirrer connected to auto top-up system