Cali Kid Corals

Ryan’s 40G first reef

Added the snail part of my CUC. Reef cleaners ships the bags with a disturbingly little amount of water…
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Blenny picks at the rocks but hides when it sees me, 6 line hunts at nonexistent pods all day and also hides when it sees me, Royal Gramma is getting more confident but hides by its cave, cleaner shrimp hangs out on the same spot all day, firefish is hiding but occasionally seen, my clowns seem ok but still sleep like they're dead with the lights off and some snails have moved.
So far I think I'm doing ok with only one fish loss due to unknown reasons.
 
Wow my par is terrible! I’m at 75-100 at the sand bed and 175-200 above my rock work. NooPsyche K7 V3 set to LPS. If I set it to LPS/SPS then my par is 350-400 up top and 125-175 on the sand. I’ll just tweak the lps/sps preset settings to achieve a good color.

Now comes the super annoying part as my light has no acclimation mode. I’m assuming I can’t just jump all corals par by 50-100% par without bleaching?
How much par can you safely increase per day?
 
Lost my first coral. :( It was from the frag swap and never inflated. A few days later I saw bare skeleton and today I knew it was a gonner.
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Accidentally set my return pump to off instead of feed mode last night. Woke up to an unfiltered chilly reef. No losses yet and everyone seems to be ok.
My heater is in my middle aio chamber which still makes contact with the DT water even when the pump is off.
 
rdriggett said:
Lost my first coral. :( It was from the frag swap and never inflated. A few days later I saw bare skeleton and today I knew it was a gonner.View attachment 36803
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That's a downer, but it happens. Just keep in mind with the hyper speed setup you're doing you should expect to lose corals (possibly all of them). You might not, but better to be prepared to lose it all than be let down when things go awry.

Accidentally set my return pump to off instead of feed mode last night. Woke up to an unfiltered chilly reef. No losses yet and everyone seems to be ok.
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I've had that happen too. Major downer. If you have a smart outlet involved, make sure that when power goes out and comes back on that it returns to the state it was last in. I didn't realize my smart outlet defaulted to off and almost lost my tank. However my 13.5 I did the same as you, accidentally turning the pump off and forgetting. New tank stability issues and all that can be from not having developed habits as much as from having bacteria issues.
 
Thanks all for the continued advice and comments, please keep em coming! I do appreciate it.

Everyone seems to be eating LRS reef frenzy nano. Blenny finally took a nibble today after only pecking at my rocks. Death wish blenny likes to sit in my wave maker while it's on feed mode. I really don't want minced bicolor. Wrasse is behaving himself even thought I added a firefish after him. I'm still waiting on a YWG from clearwater and then I am fully stocked fish wise.

I'm developing GHA on my sand and frag plugs, badly. Any advice? I've stopped feeding AB+ daily and reef roids 2x/wk.
 
GHA is taking over, ugh. Starting a fuge instead of putting a skimmer in my free AIO filter chamber. BAR chaeto is so much cheaper than AlgaeBarn. Everyone seems to be eating and acting ok. I've stopped feeding all coral foods to cut back on algae.
Also rearranged my corals so SPS are in behind my rocks and LPS are in the front. Other than one Acro I accidentally ITN'd (instant tissue negligence) trying to remove algae from its frag plugged everyone is still alive. I move my hammers around every few days because the purple one isn't fully extended on one corner.
I shifted my wave pump over a few inches and now I get a circular swirl in the tank.
Dialed my blues up to 100% and whites to 10%. 120-160 par in the sand and 200ish at the top of my arch. This K7 V3 has plenty of par for LPS but I have to crank whites to 100% to get SPS par. I'm a bit disappointed.
 

Listen to a few minutes here, they talk about the ugly phase, from here through the 11 minute mark at least. Through 12 is applicable too.

In general, I don't like running any piece of equipment at 100%, think about tuning your lights back to 80%. I bet your corals will be fine, and it won't be light holding them back.
 
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Added a YWG and it nor I can find my tiger pistol in weeks. Added 2 turbos and 10 trochus. I’m hopping with my much larger CUC, no coral feeding, and only feeding frozen I can fight the uglies harder.
 
In the video above, they said leave it alone for a few weeks and it fixes itself during this stage.

Get your test kits going and build a picture of what the parameters are doing with data. Is your po4 .02, or .2? That matters and will tell your if you are feeding too much if your phosphates are tracking higher.
 
Po4 test kit has been “in transit” for a week. I’ll test and post numbers as soon as it arrives. I know I’m not testing a critical component and I would test right now if my kit has arrived.
 
H2OPlayar said:
In the video above, they said leave it alone for a few weeks and it fixes itself during this stage.

Get your test kits going and build a picture of what the parameters are doing with data. Is your po4 .02, or .2? That matters and will tell your if you are feeding too much if your phosphates are tracking higher.
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I’ll start doing biweekly phosphate and nitrate tests and post them here. I will rewatch that video tonight.
 
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what is your po4? did you even test that yet?

you are thinking way too much. take a few steps back, relax, and let the tank run its course.

again. dont rush it and have patience.
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I understand I must wait out the uglies and I will do it. I just didn’t want an entire tank full of GHA on month 2. I will leave my current setup alone for a month or two and keep posting updates.
 
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