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I am also considering just moving my reef tank into the living room to only have 1 move to deal with. My better half is coming around to the idea, but she would prefer a freshwater planted tank. Don’t shoot the messenger!!

I'm also planning on installing new flooring throughout our whole house, which means I have to move 5 tanks in my office. Following along to see what works best.

I was tempted to use my old AI Sol Blues I have in the garage... They're practically antiques at this point. I ended up getting a PIF ReefCasa puck to use for my budget build.

I found keeping Acros really difficult prior to the 1-year mark in my tank, I lost a few to STN in the early days. I know others have success much earlier, but my experience was different. Must be something related to the microbiome in newly established tanks. But yeah, phosphates are pretty...

Just sent venmo for 2 tickets.

I recently had to pry a frag off my tuxedo's back. Maybe I should have left it :p

Looking good! What kind of puffers are you keeping?

I think getting my vermetid snail population under control really helped my corals... I added about 25 bumblebee snails and started dosing coral snow with water changes (this was about 3 months ago). I also don't feed my corals anymore, since I think this was exacerbating the problem. I still...

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How do you like the AliExpress light so far?

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Reef Builders did an article on cycling tank with corals (source). In addition to kickstarting your microbiome, fast growing soft corals consume excess nutrients and shade area where algae could otherwise grow. I use a similar method with planted freshwater aquariums, plant densely from day 1.

Yesterday, I filled the tank with established sand and live rock from my 65g reef. I also added a few corals. Here are a few pics: Red Death (?) Paly ($19.99 @ Neptune) Utter Chaos ($0.00 - Fragged from my 65g) Orange Zoa ($9.99 @ Neptune): Jawbreaker Discosoma ($0.00 - Fragged from my...

I'll PM you, thanks!

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Interesting, thanks!

I'm curious as to why? Aside from potentially bottoming out phosphate to 0 with too much...

Overall Budget Goal: I want to distill a vibrant and colorful reef tank down into a small but manageable volume of water. The cost of setting up a new reef tank is a big barrier in this hobby, so I'd like to show what's possible with simple equipment and some generosity from the club. While it's...