Hello from Orleans!

[Emeraude1484]

Hello!

I've been wanting to join here for awhile...  It's taken to long  

I have a 90gal mixed reef, 2x250w xm20000k 2 t5s, running gfo, tunze skimmer, starting balling from Ocean Fresh Aquatics and Prodibio.  Have 2 clowns, 1 firefish, 1 mandy (finally felt I had enough to sustain his diet) and a yellow watchman. 

Have been having issues with cyano and valonia and acros birdnests have stn but have gone from this:


To this:


Within the last few weeks with scraping and siphoning and 15-20gal water changes weekly.
My parameters
Specific Grav 1.025
PH: 8.2
Ammonia:0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate:0
Phosphate:0
*DKH:7* lowered from 9 in 24hrs
Calcium:420
Mag: 1200

Also thinking about getting a membership and joining in   Might be fun for us to chat with others with the same obsession!

Thanks!
Stef

[washefuzzy]

Welcome aboard! Nice set up. Your tank looks well established. 

[brotherluv]

Great pictures and very nice healthy looking tank!  You're experience will be valuable here. Welcome!

[Emeraude1484]

Welcome aboard! Nice set up. Your tank looks well established. 

Thanks!  Did a bit of re-aquascaping a couple days ago because we didn't know why we have the birdnests and acros having stn and wanted to see if we could get the flow going differently.  We found a rusty hair clip in the sump yesterday... grrrrrrrr  Lets see if the corals stop melting now! Maybe I can get myself some nice blues and reds now

[Emeraude1484]

Great pictures and very nice healthy looking tank!  You're experience will be valuable here. Welcome!

Thanks!    I'll be happy to tell people what NOT to do for now   We can learn from our mistakes as well as other's.

[Rybren]

Welcome to OVAS!

It's always nice to see another Orleans-based saltie.

BTW, The tank looks very nice.

[Emeraude1484]

THANKS!!!!
I'll be updating progress with prodibio and Balling salts

Welcome to OVAS!

It's always nice to see another Orleans-based saltie.

BTW, The tank looks very nice.