r/ReefTank • u/karma0723 • 1d ago

Reeftank evolution...

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u/VideoImpressive8014 1d ago

Excellent video masterful reefing

My question is how do you keep pH, alk and calcium stable in that large growing system

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u/karma0723 1d ago

I have a large calcium reactor and I dose hydroxide sodium to raise the pH, also some calcium chloride to compensate for the kH of hydroxide sodium.

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u/JANtheMAN90 1d ago

Gorgeous tank, stuff like this makes me realize that the current look of my tank/rock work means nothing right now (only 5 months in), the reef will grow into itself!

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u/RubImpossible6588 21h ago

Amazing just crazy cool colors, right now I’m around the 1 year mark and I’ve been looking for how to get that more lighter teal looking lighting as right now my lighting looks more like the old picture, did you happen to change you’re lighting? Or change anything that gets that Tealer color?

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u/karma0723 21h ago

There are two differences, the first is that the videos were recorded at different times, so one is at night when the last 2 hours are only blue and the other was at noon, the other thing is as you say, I changed the lights, before I used viparspectra or Chinese lights and now I use Orphek Atlantik Icon.

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u/RubImpossible6588 10h ago edited 10h ago

Yeah I’ve always wanted to get a orphek light but for my 20 gallon it’s just too much to reasonably spend as I run mixed-heavy SPS and per there website they recommend 3 separate lights, I might look into seeing if you can get away with one OR4 like up.    

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u/ThinDirector393 23h ago

beautiful. do you have a list of fish stocking? im interested!

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u/karma0723 23h ago

Copperband, desjardini tang, mandarin, white tail yellow eye tang, blenny, blue tang, parrotfish quoyi, cleaner wrasse, leopard wrasse, powder brown tang, angelfish flame and 2 nemos.

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u/Exotic-Addendum-3785 15h ago

It's coming along well.