So you’ve got all the acros already? Just kidding. Sort of. Excited to see what this looks like as they grow out.
Yes. I have designed this tank with acros as my target. This is not my first reef
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Here is the thing, I have been slow to get the bacteria up, have a refugium running since the beginning with macro algae, have already seeded it with copepods and phytoplankton for several weeks now. My clean up crew have been in the tank from the beginning. My parameters are very consistent with all the built in automation/redundancy. My ORP is over 400 already.
I am adding corals slowly to see how they do before adding more. All corals are being dipped and quarantined. This allows me to get my parameters dialed in as consumption starts. When consumption starts, I slowly modify the dosing to manage the consumption.
I did a Triton test before I added anything to the tank to get a baseline. I will be monitoring it as things progress. With the Triton testing, you take the guessing game out of it. When I did a reef back in the late 90's, it was all a guessing game because the hobby level test kits are simply not comprehensive enough to know what is really going on from a chemistry perspective. Today, we can know exactly what is going on.
I am only at the beginning and trying to pre-empt the typical problems with the reef hobby
. Yes, it is expensive, but golly, it is sure nice to know exactly what is going on at any point of time whenever my OCD on parameters takes hold of my personality LOL. I am always on my Neptune and/or GHL cloud sites LOL...
