Ayoob's SPS dominated Cube

I run both purigen and carbon, with sps hardly possible to clean / polish too much, as long as its done slowly at the point of introduction and exchange, especially when adding quality carbon.
Flow rate is fine from sump to tank, a hang on filter in sump with around 400 lph flow rate will be fine. To be honest, can't remember the name, but I know its something - biocubes, could be nitraguard.
 
@irie ivan Thanks a million for your advice. Will get some Carbon, phosphate remover and bio cubes. What do you recommend me use in brands of carbon and phosphate remover that is quality?
 
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That's it till next time. Any advice on placement of these corals will be great and proper I.D will be appreciated as they all on temporary placement as to what their requirements could be. As for stylerpora and birds nest they were easy to compile as for the rest not much besides them being Acropora.
 
Ayoob said:
Thanks you all for feed back. I haven't added any fish besides a clean up crew. 3 cleaner shrimps and 3 turbo snails. Any suggestions on fish would be great. I currently have

Sml flame angel
Sml Pair of black percular clowns
Sml Tailspot blenny
Sml Pink bar goby
Tiny regal Tang
Tinny cleaner wrassse

All in my holding tank till I have decided what my list should be like dont want to add something and later regret.
Was thinking of adding a sml shoal of chromis maybe 4. What do you
reefers suggest?
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Nice list for your sized tank. Maybe a small shaol of chromis would add some extra movement. You could also add a Bangai Cardinal or Pajama Cardinal. Would really make for a tank with lots of harmony. The only fish That could pose a problem is the "tiny Regal Tang". They grow exremely quick and could become a 20 cm monster within 2 years. Except if your plan is not to keep him for to long. :blush:
 
Ayoob said:
@irie ivan Thanks a million for your advice. Will get some Carbon, phosphate remover and bio cubes. What do you recommend me use in brands of carbon and phosphate remover that is quality?
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I would recommend Seachem matrix carbon, due to its high iodine number, low ash content and its virtually zero PO4 leaching characteristics. I have tried and tested a few other brands throughout the years and always gone back to seachem. To maintain po4 at near undetectable levels, definitely worth investing in a good brand of carbon. Stay away from the cheap ones.
For po4 media, I must say I was quite impressed with the Orca phophaguard, it really stripped the po4 out my tank. Was quite interesting watching the photometer drop every few hours.
I am however not a fan of gfh/ gfo or aluminium based media and am awaiting a sample on a new approached being researched which I will run some tests on.
Good brands to use in the interim would be seachem phosguard (al based), rowaphos (fe based) and of course the Orca brand (fe based)

Some nice looking corals there, what you have to do now is let them go brown and then colour them up and tweak the colours by slowly altering nutrient levels, micro minerals, trace elements etc.
 
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Would be boring otherwise now wouldn't it?:whistling::lol:
 
Helga said:
Nice list for your sized tank. Maybe a small shaol of chromis would add some extra movement. You could also add a Bangai Cardinal or Pajama Cardinal. Would really make for a tank with lots of harmony. The only fish That could pose a problem is the "tiny Regal Tang". They grow exremely quick and could become a 20 cm monster within 2 years. Except if your plan is not to keep him for to long. :blush:
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Thanks, I have added 4 chromis to the tank they are real stunners was never into them till now that I have my own. Regal tang is so tinny about a R2 coin size, When it gets big ill surely change it to a smaller 1.
 
irie ivan said:
I would recommend Seachem matrix carbon, due to its high iodine number, low ash content and its virtually zero PO4 leaching characteristics. I have tried and tested a few other brands throughout the years and always gone back to seachem. To maintain po4 at near undetectable levels, definitely worth investing in a good brand of carbon. Stay away from the cheap ones.
For po4 media, I must say I was quite impressed with the Orca phophaguard, it really stripped the po4 out my tank. Was quite interesting watching the photometer drop every few hours.
I am however not a fan of gfh/ gfo or aluminium based media and am awaiting a sample on a new approached being researched which I will run some tests on.
Good brands to use in the interim would be seachem phosguard (al based), rowaphos (fe based) and of course the Orca brand (fe based)
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Funny enough I have purchased seachem matrix carbon and phosgauard , I believe in seachem products never had problems.
Ill go have a look at the Orca brand seeing you have mentioned it. Will check it out over the weekend.
 
irie ivan said:
what you have to do now is let them go brown and then colour them up and tweak the colours by slowly altering nutrient levels, micro minerals, trace elements etc.
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Thanks a lot, isn't going brown in color something bad?
 
Not noisy at all. And the return Pump is 3500lph, I guess it all depends on your return pump. Still deciding to reduce flow to something smaller only for more skimmer Action.
 
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