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Thanks for the input. So if I start the week at 9dkh and it gradually drops everyday, and by the time I need to do my water change, it's at around ~8.4 or 8.5. Safe to say a .5-.6 jump after a water change should be considered fine? Sounds good, I'll just vacuum the top layer algae in the...

Here’s a shot after a water change. Nothing impressive compared to what others on here have. As you can see I have a Goni that got bleached from putting it too high up. It may not recover based on how it looks like. Next weekend I’m going to rearrange the corals. The plan: I’m going to go with...

Water Parameters: Nitrate:5-15ppm Phosphates at .1-.2ppm Alk: 8.5-9.1dkh This so far has been working for me even though my phosphates are on the higher side and some consider it "dirty" My weekly maintenance I try to test Nitrate, Phosphate, and Alk every week. When I don't have time...

Sounds good. I'll try that approach and relocate some coral towards the bottom and free up the top for some future corals.

Thank you! Once I redo my aquascape I will. You can really tell its such a newbie aquascape since its just an arch lol which doesn't have the best area to mount frags. I plan on just taking out the rock and breaking it then rearrange it. I didn't want to put new live rock pieces and possibly...

Thanks! I’m on Northside of Chicago but visit the Schaumburg area a lot. I agree I think the overflow area isn’t the greatest compared to other tanks I’ve seen.

I just wanted to share my 2 and half year journey so far. I've meet some really genuinely nice people on here who are local to me. When I started I never thought there was really a forum for other local reefers in Chicago or nearby area. I wished this site was a little more active since a lot...

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An Alveopora coral would be nice to try. Thats kind of what I been eyeing lately.

do you guys plan on doing this again? I would be interested next time.