Upsizing My Coral Farm

[@nmarq005]

I’m surprised that juvi orange shoulder hasn’t demolished that hair algae. When I added mine he cleaned it in a matter of days.

[@acrocapital]

Same! I need to stop feeding them so much frozen lol, theyre getting lazy.

[@MikeLemming]

Nice looking setup. Love how everything will be plumbed together! I’m looking forward to watching this progress!

[@acrocapital]

Thank you!

[@plyr6369]

stock up on t5 bulbs! i bet theyll be hard to find soon

[@user-tk2wh2fj9b]

Don't often comment but felt compelled to as you are crazy like me 🤣😅..... a lot going on and flirting with that passer angel - i love it! Gorgeous fish! Totally my style! Enjoy your content. Thx!

[@acrocapital]

Thanks man! Greatly appreciate the support!

[@c4snipar]

That 10ft will be awesome

[@Danzig1387]

Awesome! Keep the updates coming. Really unique setup.

[@acrocapital]

Thank you! Yes definitely will.

[@codys_corals]

Bro amazing set up and i love the living room tank!

[@acrocapital]

Thanks man! Killer name btw (I’m a Cody as well)

[@kevinwhite1077]

nice video keep them coming love from the uk

[@acrocapital]

Thank you! I will try to post more often.

[@gt3forme]

Where do you get those large white shallow tanks? Thanks for posting! cool video and setup

[@acrocapital]

I got the fiberglass trough from Pentair's website.

[@DoYouEvenFishTank]

Get after it brother, looking good.

[@acrocapital]

Thank you!

[@Reefahholic]

Love the setup. What model T5 fixtures?

[@86andur]

Looks more like chrysophytes then hair algae to me, good sir. Why do you have a refugium, to suck up nutrients right? You have a light fish stocking compared to your volume of water, and plenty of corals to take up nutrients. Red macro algae grows alot slower then caulerpa or cheato, and there arnt too much for him to suck up from the water. Imo you only need a refugium if your nitrates and phosphates are sky high and you cant lower them with other means. Otherwise youre just taking nutrients from the corals. Food for thought. Your system looks very sleek, keep it up!

[@acrocapital]

hey! Thanks I agree definitely chrysophytes, it was mainly hair algae a few months back and then morphed into just being chrysophytes. Fuge helps out alot with keeping everything in check, in my opinion its an added buffer to help consume what the corals cant.

[@Coral-reef.]

Hey i have a 60 gallon reef tank on a fluval fx4 canister filter. Ive been having problems with nitrate and phosphates what is the absolute best media you think i should run in it to help ?

[@acrocapital]

Hey! I would do phosban and WC for immediate results then switch to rowa phos after your back in the normal range for the long term. But the best results are unfortunately going to be upgrading to a sump and skimmer.

[@Coral-reef.]

@@acrocapital yes i do need a skimmer i was thinking of a tunze 9004 dc skimmer in tank for now to help out but a sump will be impossible for now unfortunately. I have my fx4 filled with ceramic bio balls and packed with seachem matrix do you think that is good or will the ceramic bio balls trap too much gunk ?

[@ARandomTrex]

Do you have a lot of fish? Try not to overfeed. Do smaller amounts more often or just smaller overall. When you feed, don't just dump it in. Let them eat it all and if they need more, feed a bit more. Especially if we're talking pellet/flake food. Clean your mechanical media in your canister more often. That's all rotting food and poop in those sponges. If you can clean it 3 times a week that would help. Throwing a bit of gfo in a mesh bag (in your cansiter) wouldn't hurt. I don't know how old your tank is but the more mature it gets the easier it can handle the load. When it comes to nitrates, in your case about the only thing you can do is water changes and adjust feeding. Be sure to use good clean ro water when mixing salt as well.

[@himmat_dhillon]

That doesn’t look like hair algae. Probably chrysophytes? Nice setup tho!

[@acrocapital]

I think youre right, It was hair algae originally and then morphed into that. I assumed it was still just hair algae! thank you for pointing that out!

[@tommyl.8951]

Did u say 90 g ever 5 days?

[@acrocapital]

Just bumped it back to 110G over the course of 5 days, but Saturday and Sunday its off so I can mix more.

[@tommyl.8951]

Are you doing that because tanks are not mature, thats whats feeding that algae bro

[@acrocapital]

How would that feed into the algae? My idea behind that is to maintain low nutrients.

[@tommyl.8951]

@acrocapital newer water can feed algae depending on whats in it,also as much water as your changing out can deplet nutrients which can cause unwanted algae and also the dreaded dino

[@acrocapital]

@@tommyl.8951 Interesting I wasn’t aware of that w/ new salt and algae. Definitely will take that into account. I had Dino’s first when I first started the system a few months back. Always a fight with those lol.

[@mihaia6026]

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