My First Reef: Redsea 525XL

[Newjack]

good to hear from you Phong! fallen reefer MIA

 

[roostertech]

Dang, that's a good size solorensis there.

That one came from @Gablami. He has an annoying habit of splashing water (to knock the floating food from surface down).

that gps is making me nervous

I trim them back every few months. The branching type on the right started out as one stick last year.

It’s so good to hear an update. Like it’s already been said, your tank looks awesome.
So if all you’ve been doing is water changes what does that look like? How much and how often do you do it?

May be 10% every 2 weeks? I should do more since I don't really test the water any more.

 

[roostertech]

One of my WAV pump gave out after 2 years. Pondering if I should replace it with another WAV (cheapest option) or switch to MP40.

 

[ashburn2k]

Get gyre.


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[roostertech]

I considered gyre before but my scape is not gyre friendly. Middle cluster of coral go all the way to water surface.

 

[Edgar Sandoval]

I considered gyre before but my scape is not gyre friendly. Middle cluster of coral go all the way to water surface.

I’ve had the Neptune Wavs in the past and I personally like the mp40s better. I recently got a Gyre and they are amazing. Soon I will be running one mp40 on the back glass and gyre on the side


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[Ibn]

Run a gyre on the vertical orientation instead of the horizontal orientation.

 

[roostertech]

Run a gyre on the vertical orientation instead of the horizontal orientation.

That would be an interesting configuration.

Though back of the tank wouldn't work well because of the in tank overflow. And it would be too intrusive at the front corner of the tank I think.

 

[Ibn]

You can't situated under the in-tank overflow? If not, you also have the back left and back right corners (back corners of the tank).

 

[roostertech]

Quick update video

Trimmed back the plates quite a bit.
Moved the colony of orange digi to the front
Added 2 more clowns

 

[Coral reefer]

Still looks full! Those are some nice big candy cane colonies!

 

[roostertech]

Still looks full! Those are some nice big candy cane colonies!

Looking back 2 years ago they were just a few polyps. I have FTS snapshots on the first post.

 

[Newjack]

Still looking good Phong. Tanks on auto pilot now. Just sit back and enjoy.

 

[Zumareef]

Wow, just stumbled across this build, great looking tank!