60 Gallon Rimless Cube Build

[Lilly45nano]

Tank is looking good...
I do a small weekly WC and siphon clean the sand bed at that time. Do you have any Super Tongan Nassarius Snail (Nassarius distortus)? They help keep the sand bed clean!

[mjohns27]

Thanks Lily45nano!

A few more upgrades to the tank. Added some zoas, palys, a volcano chalice, a scroll coral. Also added an apex with lab grade pH probe and breakout box so I can control the water level in either my SW mixing station (to come) or shut off my skimmer if it overflows.

[ken1977]

Originally Posted by mjohns27

Just a few updates on the tank.

Copper Band Butterfly
Algae Blenny
Emerald Crab
Sand Sifting Star
Yellow Tang

Frogspawn
Kenya Tree
Mushroom Leather
GSP

I lost a hammer coral and a nauty spiral monti unfortunately. Do you guys think this is because my tank is not ready for SPS since it is new?
I also have not seen my algae blenny in a few days, he has been way less active in the past three weeks or so, any ideas as to why?
I have a fair bit of cyano growing, I have just been doing water changes and siphoning as much out as possible.
I feed frozen mysis, brine, and new life spectrum sinking pellets, once a day, or every other day roughly. The coral get reef roids 2 or 3 times a week.

ANY SUGGESTIONS OR ADVICE IS APPRECIATED!!! Thank you.
Sorry for the poor quality photos, all I have is an iPhone.

Looks very nice, watch those tangs the usually catch the ick or other illness from stress in a smaller tank like that (they need to be in a 90+ minimum) I had a bad experience with them in a 60 g cube about two years ago.

[mjohns27]

Thank you. How big were your tangs when you began to see problems? Mine are about 3" right now.

[mjohns27]

Couple updates!

Added a Neptune Dos, dosing BRS cal and alk. Also have been dealing with dinoflagellates for about two months now, so I have not done any water changes, turned the skimmer off, added an air stone, and borrowed a UV sterilizer from a friend which has been running for about a week now. I have been blowing off the rocks and siphoning the sand bed through a filter sock periodically. I have also done two 4 day blackout periods to help with the dinos. So far no luck, but I am being patient and hoping the UV will help.

I added a green slimer frag, purple bonzai, meteor shower cyphastrea (all before the dinos took hold).
Also picked up a pair of black and white clowns but had one jump the very first night, so I've since added a screen. Added a royal urchin as well.

Sorry for the terrible quality pictures.

[mjohns27]

Couple updates.

Moved to a new house in November and was able to plumb the tank through a wall into the furnace room. Much more room for everything. Mostly everything survived the move. Had another reefer take my fish and coral in a temporary tank for a few weeks thankfully so made things much easier and allowed me to set up without any livestock to worry about.
I have a 40 breeder on order to make a refugium out of., should be in by mid February. The manifold I plumbed has a barb fitting with a gate valve that is closed right now but ready to be plumbed it.

I will add more updates when the fuge arrives!

[mjohns27]

Whoops, wish I could get these pictures figured out!