Hey guys thanks for the support! Don't worry I wasn't done without a more detailed write up just got too late so here goes nothing. The tank is a 55g 36x18x20 it's drilled and gravity fed to a 20g sump that I keep about 15g in so 70g total water. When I started it had a HOT prizm skimmer and an eheim canister filter with carbon and filter floss. I ditched both of those and am now running a reef octopus 110 and a TLF reactor with GFO. I also change out a bag or carbon that I have my overflow flow onto in my sump. My lighting started as a 250 MH and is now a Chinese LED. It's 55x2W led half white half blue and am hopefully buying one of Kratos' IT2080's for a final upgrade once he is done with them.
I am running the tank bare bottom as it seems a little easier for me to control and especially get as much detritus out as possible. The bottom is almost completely covered in coraline now so it really isn't that noticeable. That being said I have my return through a SCWD which is about 1500gph if I remember(can't really without looking ?) and the 3 power heads trying to create a lot of flow and not allow things to settle. Two of the powerheads are 1000gph and 1 600. I have tried moving them all around and still haven't found an exact placement I love except for the smaller one. It is currently in the back right corner underneath my rock work blowing out to the middle so I don't get build up.
I currently have a very basic ATO consisting of a garbage can gravity feeding a float valve which I only put a few gallons of water in just so it can't flood the house and I refill twice a week or so. I am in the future going to be putting together an ATO pumped up from the basement so that I can run my RODI to a large reservoir and mix up batches of Kalk and top off with that. But that's still a ways off. (Maybe Christmas!)
I have a few fish in there:
Clown
6 line wrasse
Blue spotted watchman goby
Bicolor Blenny
I got a clean up crew of snails from reef cleaners and maybe 6 hermits.
-Coral wise I have:
green button polyps that bounced back like nothing happened
-Green trumpet coral that bounced back but are being choked by hair algae and I have been fighting back with tweezers and a tooth brush
A few blue mushrooms
A random Gorgonian of some kind
I have also added (free from another reefer, said they weren't doing well)
A cabbage leather which has grown already and looks great
Star polyps which have almost tripled and my clown tries to host (much to their disliking ?)
Well that's the end of lunch break ill see what you all have to say and get back to it later.
Thanks!
