120g SPS Reef Aquarium Update

A huge update on my 120g Acropora Dominated Reef Tank!
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[@MrShishi]

Nice Vid Abe.. I honestly love my Hanna checkers, I've never used the ones you have but the ULR one has been spot on for 2 years. I've had it go up to .4 when my cheato disappeared and at time tested bi-weekly and the reading correspondent well to the algae growth and feeding. I do unload the power on a piece of paper prior to running the test and I always rinse and fill my tubes up with water so no residue can build up. Give the Hanna ULR a try. its much easier to get reading when its in PPB form

[@CoralEuphoria]

Sup Buddy! For me, at this point I don't see the point in checking phosphate becuase it's been over a month since I restarted Rowa and things continue to grow and color up like I'm used to seeing. For the vast majority of time I had Acropora dominated tanks, my phosphate has never been zero and have always had to run Rowa. So what I think is going on is the phosphate test kits are just not picking anything up but there is phosphate really there. Maybe the UL phosphate test will pick something up, but if it does or it doesn't I'm going to run RowaPhos regardless. I trust how well my corals are doing over some hobby-grade test kit that in my experience eventually goes bad.

[@MrShishi]

@@CoralEuphoria Yeah if it works for you just keep doing what you doing.. My Phosphates went from around 10PPB to 137PPB once my cheato died back and this was after not testing for 3 months. Everything was growing very well during this time so I figured id just leave it. After adding cheato in about 2 months it dropped back down to 20PPB (which is .06). I probably test every 2 months but its just good to rule out Phosphates as a sign of any issues, especially in your new frag tank and perhaps QT tank...

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@MrShishi Yeah that is one thing that I didn't mention. My frag tank was blah and also meaured 0.00ppm phosphates. After I added the Rowa to that tank it started to do better. I can't say that Rowa or any GFO or 0 phosphates is the answer for everyone but for me it works.

[@fasting4lyfe]

Love your style of videos man and knowledge glad I found this channel it seems like these smaller channels are actually better than the bigger ones hopefully you blow up and get big.

[@coraladdict5059]

What an awesome video, thanks so much for putting this together man.

[@NationalReefing]

Nice update I like how you explain the reasons behind your decisions. Good luck with the transition later this summer! 👍🏾

[@Reefgrrl]

So nice to see an update from you! Things look great and I think it’s always a smart move to go back to basics when things look a little off. And the bowing - 😱- that would freak me out big time....

[@thepassionreef]

It’s about time you release a video and well well well i wasn’t disappointed at all...you videos are so full of knowledge...you do a great job in explaining every small details...that was a bummer about phosphates i guess test kits are only good to a certain extent...i like your method of changing the Rowaphos every 2-3 weeks this way you eliminate testing on it...

[@moneysmoneywoney]

Glad youre back

[@fedeuma]

Thanks for the update man! Love the info and the Urlacher Jersey 😉 BearDown

[@MikeLemming]

Nice video man! Your tank is looking awesome! I have subbed!

[@ProppedNutFPV]

Love your videos. Nice to see a new one

[@braveheartreefer525]

Great update can’t wait to see the rebuild

[@The_reel_archer]

I really enjoy your videos man thanks

[@TheDashCave]

Awesome man, just found your channel. Love it.

[@WilSantiagoReefing]

I love your videos! Keep them coming..

[@tonycloseukreef3799]

Abe you have thought this through big job ahead looking forward to the next video cheers 👍

[@jatoz1984]

Wazup bro! Welcome back 👍

[@JoseSanchez-ku3up]

Love your tank, cant wait to se what is it going to look like after summer 👍✌

[@jcbueno369]

Good update, gime lots of good ideas, Thanks posting this video ,

[@abrad3061]

Love your videos and I was thinking about moving to a calcium reactor but I appreciate you talking me out of it

[@TheReeferYT]

Love your videos abe. Tank is looking great. 👍😁

[@trureef2319]

Man this tank is awesome. If I was upgrading I would definitely do the rock scrubbing. Just seems like such a heavy task with colonies that size. Of course with planning though we prevail. I may start 2 part myself I hear good things about it. Great update.

[@CescaTheDarkHorse]

Nice update enjoyed watching :)

[@tplummer217]

Awesome ! Subbed!

[@sunnygoold9449]

Wow - amazing tank and I gotta go back and watch more (all) of your videos Can you talk more about your flow - I've heard that rocking is really helpful for corals and may even mean you can use less flow. I have just setup my first tank (observation tank, while I am planning my build) and I got it rocking and love it. I've seen elsewhere SPS growers using the blue cloves to create space between bases and that tuxedo urchins eat them. Thanks so much - there is a heap of great info and the corals just look incredible ;)

[@Cristos_Santos]

Love this video bro thanks for sharing it..very informative n detailed..keeping up...sub for sure

[@patrickfeeke5629]

Your channel is really inspiring as you simplify everything and remove the all the unnecessary hype. I also do not test for Phosphate nor Phosphorus,

[@Val_Halla777]

Shout-out from Vancouver BC. Cool shirt Abe!

[@trignate5373]

great video dude!

[@rickb7242]

Awesome tank man. I must say I almost shot a booger out my nose when the gangster you said it's dope 😂

[@bikelifeishmike3917]

good info thanks for the video

[@ReeferGil]

Great looking system

[@JV-nl7lh]

Nice Setup!

[@andrewnewton4393]

Damn your killing it.

[@bayareareefs8616]

Tank is looking good

[@ChenteChaks]

WOW just realized we are from the same city!

[@gregorymills252]

Amazing understand do what you gotta do support that tank

[@ReeferDave]

That's dope son!

[@ProducerReef]

This is a super dope vid. I love the way your tank just grows. Man I’m trying to get there as well. Doing a fresh build myself. If ur selling any coral, please let me know. I hav ethics on repeat.

[@BlueCarbonReefing]

Cool channel and beautiful tank! I just found you on KZbin and subbed. I will go back and check out some more of your older videos! 👍

[@Micha-vn6mv]

Hi man i’m from Germany and I love you‘r Videos and learn a lot of them. It‘s so great to sea you‘r Videos. What‘s up with you‘r 120g Tank now? You have My Thumbs UP👌🏼👍🏼

[@karentskk]

Do more video , really learn alot from your video

[@hectorlmunoz6955]

Saludos tremendo tanque

[@parasiticthoughts3558]

I also have spawning green Pocillopora everywhere I use Red Sea aptesia-x on it .

[@petarst]

You can use red sea no3/po4 test kit

[@ghost61]

is that a Chicago bears jersey awesome

[@Wise7771]

I love your videos very good info. I had a question what would you recommend for Dino’s algae reactor or uv

[@CoralEuphoria]

UV, but the belief out there is that UV only works for a certain type of dino. UV works for the dinos that i get. Reef2reef forum has good information about dinos but just takes a bit of reading. Good luck. they are a pain in the butt can be defeated

[@Reefahholic]

Bro, you’re so heavily Acropora dominated that the corals are literally sucking up all the nutrients like a sponge. There’s obviously plenty of Phosphate and Nitrate available because all your colonies are very healthy. They’re just giving you zero readings like Dave’s Nano tanks. Both of you guys have very healthy stable tanks with zero readings due to the coral growth. If you’re at zero Phosphates, I wouldn’t run any GFO unless those colonies are browning out. They look very colorful and vivid from what I’m seeing. BTW...great role playing. 😄

[@9StickNate]

I’m really considering one of those Tunze wave boxes. I really like the wave that is produced. Which version is that?

[@CoralEuphoria]

Yeah i love them. They effortlessly produce a quality wave. I think a lot of people do not like the space that they take up. But I think it's worth it. Its the 6208

[@atfinthehouse8631]

Wow! Where are you at? I can help with those frags and colonies.

[@Reefahholic]

Bro, try the Hanna ULR for PO4. You’ll love it. Only way to go.

[@laurens6267]

Try the red sea po4 test most people like it. Salifert po4 is realy bad and you have to be realy precise with the hanna po4 for it to (Maybe) work.

[@EmanM45]

I had blue clove polyps years ago, and I swore never again

[@ashgriffiths3596]

Get the elos high resolution phosphate test kit much more accurate

[@Reefahholic]

Glad you figured it out! What’s your T5 bulb combination?

[@CoralEuphoria]

6 blue+ 1 purple+ 1 coral+

[@Reefahholic]

Coral Euphoria - Thx man. That green mili in the front is 🔥. Hey, another quick question. What would be the best way to add Kalwasser in with my two part? Should I dedicate a dosing head or do a DIY drip, etc. I wanna do the easiest and safest way. Seems like it would be really easy to throw it on one head of My GHL. I can dose 160x a day.

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@Reefahholic yea i agree i think using the doser is best. Probably more consistent too

[@Reefahholic]

Coral Euphoria - Yeah I think it might be best. I know it’s hard on pumps. The thought of putting it in the ATO reservoir is hard to resist, but if it were to fail...yikes! Thanks for your knowledge and input. Your tank speaks for itself. Let me know when you frag that green mili up front! That thing is so nice! 👍🏼👌🏼😝

[@arileandro]

How’s 2 part dosing vs calcium reactor doing for you? My calcium Rx keeps getting clogged too and contemplating of switching to 2 part.

[@CoralEuphoria]

It's so much easier. I'm sticking with it until the time comes I get a tank too big for 2-part.

[@cochisestar3120]

I love the blue cloves with the sps do they really hurt the sps?

[@CoralEuphoria]

No. Not at all. The acros just encrust right through them if they wanted to

[@TattooedDancer91]

Oh yeah, it's here you say you switched out the reactor :D My bad.

[@tsurro8086]

What kind of two part u using. ? I switched to brs, but I think my colors have faded a bit might go back to ESV

[@CoralEuphoria]

DIY randy Holmes farley recipe

[@mattfish9]

Can you recommend a T5 combination ? i have a 4 bulb fixture with LEds , and i agree with you the atinic don't do much . What do you use besides the Blue Plus ? It looks like in the vid you have Coral Plus ?

[@CoralEuphoria]

I went back to actinic and blue plus becuase i get a ton of natural sunlight (not direct) hitting my tank and it was making it too white for my taste , so I went heavy blue. So right now I'm running four blue plus, 3 actinic, and one Coral Plus. It really just depends on your color preference. I was wrong about the actinic bulbs not putting out a lot of par. That is old thinking, when people didn't have the correct par meter to measure that wavelength. But I still agree that it doesn't do much for color in general. I just use the actinic because I didn't want to run 7 blue Plus. I have also used purple plus and aqua-blue special in the past. Unfortunately, with T5 it takes a bit of experimenting. But since you have LEDs, you can kind of tailor that to your color liking, correct? I would think that the whites can come from your LeDs and use blue T5 bulbs? Have you tried 2 blue plus and 2 actinic?

[@mattfish9]

@@CoralEuphoria Thanks on that , i,ll add one Coral Plus , see how it goes.

[@Arie_Idaho_Reef]

Its ight.

[@lavasyst]

what do you do to lower your nitrates? Great channel, please make more video's !!! :-)

[@CoralEuphoria]

thanks. I don't do anything to lower nitrates. they are always undetectable

[@atfinthehouse8631]

Love to have some of those blue clove polyps too. Can you frag them from rocks ? 2-3-4-5” pieces? You have some amazing corals there. Just all sps you raise, except for the blue clove polyps?

[@CoralEuphoria]

I usually sell them on ebay but currently out of stock. Check back in a couple of weeks!

[@MrSkitso69]

@@CoralEuphoria I did not realize you also sold on ebay. What is your ebay ID? I cant seam to find you on there. The no name hairy acro I purchased from you is my favorite acro in my tank!

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@MrSkitso69 awesome! I just relisted everything on ebay since im back in town. Its coraleuphoria (no space)

[@FriendM2010]

Charge those guys admission for viewing the tank! Too funny ... What are your source products for making 3 part?

[@CoralEuphoria]

I use randy holmes-farleys recipe for making 2 part. Except I use brs calcium chloride and mag choride instead of the driveway salts just in case. But I never had problems with those in the past.

[@LordFarquaad007]

My Hanna phos URL checker sucks, I always get different readings even if I run it several consecutive times. I know the windows to get a reading is small so I use a timer in every step. Still get different readings. Which test kit do you recommend today for phos?

[@CoralEuphoria]

Idk 🤷‍♂️. I gave up testing phosphate. I just run rowaphos and change it early (every month)

[@LordFarquaad007]

Coral Euphoria I’ve picked up rowaphos and had several reefers praise it thank you for your reply and keep up the good work

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@LordFarquaad007 yeah so much better than those generic gfos

[@wilsonline90]

What about selling the rocks covered with the undesirable (for you) coral and already have some others cycling.?

[@CoralEuphoria]

I completed the breakdown of the 120 back in April. My next update video will cover this. Basically I broke the tank down, acid washed the rocks, and while all that was happening, i plumbed a temporary vat to my frag tank. And i stuck the contents of my 120 in that vat. After i nuked the rocks, I also stuck them in the frag system so they could cycle for several weeks.

[@majdsirhan9964]

hey, this time i want to ask you about the 2 part dosing, i have tried a recipe from ultimatereef, 1 alk, 2ca, 3naclfreesalt, the last 2 week after everything was ok, i started insanly increasing the dauly dose ,alk wont raise and dropped to 5.3, all coral sps most are doing good! i noticed that ca is 450 after it was 420 all the time, i can not figure out if the recipe from ultimatereef not good, or the part 3 from aquaforest has calcium in it and driving the balance out! so i want to try randys 2# recipe, my question is do you dose the 3 part on dosing pump? or the mag par manually? he stated that the part 3 will be not as much as the others, if you put it on dosing pump how much do you dose +/-? and can you tell part 3 in grams? i can not masure in cups :S thanks in advanced

[@CoralEuphoria]

Hello again. Yes I dose all three on a dosing pump.

[@CoralEuphoria]

Compared to calcium and alkalinity, yes I dose a very little magnesium. I dose about 30mL mag, while dosing about 200 mL alk daily. But I use a salt that has good magnesium levels. Sorry I don't know the conversion of cups to grams.

[@majdsirhan9964]

@@CoralEuphoria aha understand, you mentioned that you follow randy's recipe, the #1 or the #2? i stopped the dosing pump for 2 days now, cirrected manually ca and alk, today tested and alk dailyconsumption was 2.6dkh, is it possible?, i have 12 sps frags that are crusting now, few lps that got bigger and noticed coralline build up on the background! on one hand can be 2.6 daily on the other hand i think it is too much, what do you think? until now since 11 months dkh was stable at 7.8! and yes since adding the frags, it started to change!

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@majdsirhan9964 yes it certainly possible to consume that much alk daily. Of course that's going to depend on the size of your system and their rate of calcification of , like you said, the coraline and your Stony corals. But there are other consumers of alkalinity, such as CO2. So it certainly possible. If that is what it takes then just go with it!

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@majdsirhan9964 i follow the one that helps increase pH, where you bake the baking soda

[@regentsaquariums5692]

Screw those test kits send test to Triton just to test phosphorus and phosphate

[@regentsaquariums5692]

Update on your 140 please

[@lumbeejerk]

Do u have to dose two part equally or can it be a little more than the other ECT. 10 mil all 05 mil calcium Or vise versa

[@CoralEuphoria]

It has never been equal for me. I just test each and dose independent of each other. My tank always consumes more alk. Good luck!

[@lumbeejerk]

@@CoralEuphoria awesome thanks!!! what two part do u use or you make your own

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@lumbeejerk just make my own 👌

[@lumbeejerk]

Your next video be on diy two part lol

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@lumbeejerk lol. I've been using this recipe for 10 years: reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/rhf/index.php#11 Except i don't use the driveway salts anymore. I use the BRS calcium chloride and mag chloride. But i do use baking soda and epsom salts.

[@jcbueno369]

I can’t get my acros to grow ,

[@fadetoblack.-]

Hey man out of 20 years plus of using a calcium reactor. I can tell you that you using the clear lines was not helping the lines at all. using clear lines in a calcium reactor clogs the reactor. Also all those people in California that you've had problems with with your CO2 Exchange. You should have just went to another CO2 Exchange retailer. A calcium reactor is not a hard thing to own it's very simple. Also you should have checked into the kamora pump. It has a microprocessor in it that keeps the lines from clogging and steady drip rate. But if two part is easy for you then go for it I guess. Running on calcium reactor is probably the most steady thing in a reef if set up properly.

[@jakeatkinson901]

The kamoer pump for reactors works perfectly. No clogging on lines at all. I literally haven't messed with my reactor in months. As my alk starts to drop from consumption I increase flow rate on the pump. Doesnt get any easier.

[@jcbueno369]

Do you use rowaphos from D-D aquatics ?

[@CoralEuphoria]

Yessir

[@kokobean7476]

Amazing vid! I hope you make another one soon!

[@CoralEuphoria]

👍👌

[@UnderwaterDreamsUWD]

Man more videos please... nice excellent info

[@jeffrynassar5338]

Hi question feeding corals with reef roids it gets phosphates way high then have to deal with it for a week or so to bring it back down what are your thoughts about it ?

[@CoralEuphoria]

🤷‍♂️. what are you doing for phosphate removal?

[@jeffrynassar5338]

Phosphate-e and phosphate minus from aqua forest

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@jeffrynassar5338 i guess you just need to feed less. Is the high phosphate having an effect on your corals? Does reef roids help?

[@jeffrynassar5338]

Anything less than 0.15 is ok I guess but let’s say phosphate is 0.03 after feeding reef roids the second day if I check it’s 0.15 .. so I stopped I thought it’s a big swing and then work on bringing it back down .. you tell me is feeding corals worth it ?

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@jeffrynassar5338 well thats a good question. I've tried things in the past and havent really noticed a difference with coral-specific foods. Although i have never tried reed roids. I think i get good or better results when i just feed the fish heavy. Its cheaper too

[@skzion2]

Maybe certain corals were grabbing almost all the phosphate, and these corals were toxic to the Acropora? I like the light spectrum in your tank. I've seen lots of Windex Blue thanks where color rendering is just awful.

[@drumklok9346]

LOL!!

[@Rundown74]

Wold like to buy some of your frags.

[@CoralEuphoria]

check out the website brotha, www.coraleuphoria.com/shop. thanks!

[@PicoLatrinidad]

You selling colonies? I'm at San Diego.

[@322sheffield]

Any new update? It's been a while...and bring back the nerd and gangster...lol

[@richardwalker4220]

High ph High potassium Massive coral growth!

[@angelg6470]

Salifert po4 testkit is garbage, it comes out at 0.00 every single time.