My 65 Gallon build - Page 6

sde1500 · 01/03/2017, 04:02 PM

Just realized my tank turned one the other day! Been quite the year for it, and me. For my first full blown reef tank, I'm quite happy with where it is right now. Not seeing quite the growth I'd like, I swear that pink birdsnest coral hasn't grown at all, but nothing is dying. Fish are a little tougher for me, I've lost more than I had hoped too. Pains me that it may be my fault and that my learning pains have caused a fish to die. Hard to say, but who knows. This year I resolve to get better at it, including a more refined approach to QT. I'm aware I have been lucky up to this point, now I want to be smart. Still on the fence about QTing corals, probably not going to still. We'll see. And I'll end with an updated FTS.

sde1500 · 01/12/2017, 06:15 PM

The phyto culture is expanding.

sde1500 · 01/19/2017, 05:07 PM

Couple SPS shots.
Red dragon, starting to encrust more on the base, can't tell how much it's actually growing otherwise. Def slowly for me.

Forest fire digi. Growing. Nicely, a lot of encrusting on the base already on the rock not just the plug. And the branches are growing. Kinda bummed though it's not really green with red polyps anymore. More white with red polyps. Still looks cool but I miss the green.

sde1500 · 01/31/2017, 04:29 PM

Having issues with my ATO again. If Tunze wasn't so responsive I'd probably be cursing their name. But as it is working with them to figure out what is wrong, pump isn't pumping and this is the replacement barely a month old. Hope to have it worked out soon.

And since no post is fun without pictures, probably my favorite coral is about a year in my tank now. I'm a big fan of zoas, but can't at all beat the growth I've gotten and the movement I get from this torch. Got it as 4 heads it's easily 12 now and I can see a few more splitting right now.

Year ago:

Mere minutes ago:

sde1500 · 02/15/2017, 07:34 AM

Came home the other day to my fairy wrasse missing. Found it dried out behind the tank. Don't know how it made it out of the tank, it was too big to fit through the egg crate. Sucks, it was such a pretty fish. Only thing I can think of is it got through the overflow into the external box which isn't covered. Might rig something up to cover that, just in case. It will be a while before I add any new fish to the tank, everything has been running so well for a while, I don't really want to do anything to possibly upset that. Won't add another wrasse though. As much as I like them, my Melanurus did chase the fairy around a lot, so probably best to leave that as the only wrasse.

CL8869 · 03/22/2017, 08:31 AM

Nice build! Nice seeing a fellow RI member also!

sde1500 · 03/22/2017, 08:57 AM

Hey thanks! It certainly keeps me happy and busy.

sde1500 · 04/03/2017, 04:30 PM

Well after a couple water changes where I was adding a little more water than I was removing my salinity had crept up. Now how did I catch this? Sadly not with my refracometer but my red dragon RTN over night. Lost one accidental frag and had to cut 3/4 of the colony off. Sucks. Lesson learned though to be more careful adding water back. It had crept up near 1.029. Waterchange to bring it back down and added carbon just in case. Seems to have stopped the tissue loss. Everything else seems ok, beyond a little extra algae. Though this mermaids cup is getting borderline out of control. Got a ton of stalks everywhere and it seems to really be bothering my gsp colony. Not going to do anything drastic yet but we'll see.

sde1500 · 04/21/2017, 09:47 AM

Got lucky yesterday. Came home earlier and found that my heater had failed. Failed off though. Fish were all cold, water was cold, but other than that no problems. Back up smaller heaters in and a new heater/controller from JBJ in the mail.

sde1500 · 04/25/2017, 03:45 PM

Tank is warm again. Though my new heater isn't in yet. In as in the tank. It's in my living room. But doesn't fit the sump lol. Whoops. Backups keeping up for now so no worries there. Might just go in person to Petco to make sure I get one that fits.

Copepod and phyto cultures are back on track. Managed to save both phyto cultures and just got them split so that's a win at least. Pod culture is really doing well. Might be able to do a mandarin soon.

sde1500 · 05/10/2017, 05:49 AM

New heater and controller are in.

Little side project for the phyto, made an improved looking system. Design wasn't my idea but looks a lot nicer than what I had going. All pvc with two LED grow light strips in tubes. Increases my control of the airflow and also my capacity for growing. Can now connect more bottles than before. Hopefully does well enough that soon I can add a culture of rotifers in to start feeding the coral.

sde1500 · 05/27/2017, 11:14 AM

Memorial Day weekend FTS update. Tank coming off a water change and 2 day blackout and looking really good. Amazing how little algae survives after just a couple days of no light.

sde1500 · 08/01/2017, 05:35 PM

Quick update. Tank going pretty well. Almost everything is growing, algae included... Been working hard to keep the GHA down. Don't have a recent test results but never really seem to have many nutrients when I test. Did a 3 day blackout and very large water change. Admittedly I've been a little slacking on those. Resolving to set a day to do one every week now. Of course while doing the WC I knocked off a large branch of my forest fire digi, sucks was just about to do a comparison pic from when I first got it. It's been growing well, guess I have two to grow now. Stuck it on the same rock, figure they'll grow together eventually. Haven't added anything in a while, starting to get the itch it buy a few more corals and fish but I want the algae managed first.

sde1500 · 10/31/2017, 07:03 AM

Been about as active keeping up on my tank as I have been updating it here sadly. Home improvements have taken all of my time, as I rush to complete a bunch before my son is born in the next couple days. Algae has been a steady grower, I keep it pruned when I can. After I wrap up the house updates I'll be putting together a pump system to greatly simplify water changes, I'm done lugging buckets.

Tank currently has no power, and I really need to get a generator to stop worrying about it. Ran some pumps and a heater off my car all evening yesterday, it lasted all night without any aeration, ran pumps again for a couple hours this morning. Hopefully it lasts again until I get back from work. Currently wrapped in a flannel sheet to keep some heat in.

sde1500 · 10/31/2017, 02:43 PM

Tank ain't dead yet! The three fish not good at hiding are accounted for. The others are missing assumed hiding. Might be another 24 hrs of this. I now know the tank can make it close to 10 hours no heat or circulation on a chilly fall day. I'd prefer not knowing this, a generator will be purchased in the coming weeks for sure.

sde1500 · 11/01/2017, 02:49 PM

I have power again!! Tank is looking just ok. Digital thermometer reads 63. House is 54. I have my robust house heat blasting and all my backup heaters in the tank. Coral are unhappy. Fish I can find look cold. GHA looks entirely unphased naturally. Also my astrinea population seems to be gathering for a meeting. Took the opportunity to scoop a ton out. They were getting too plentiful.

sde1500 · 11/21/2017, 05:13 PM

So tank had recently taken a back seat. Why? Well the house is a bit of a fixer upper and I've been doing a ton of work on it. All in preparation for this guy.

And now that he is here well I don't have much time still. Tank looks decent, but algae is a plague. Decided to dose the tank with Fluconazole. Read a ton of great things so I want to give it a shot. I have two doses worth. 1600mg went in the tank just now. Pics below taken today. I'll be sure to update as time progresses. Carbon and skimmer are off line. I think it will take about three weeks. In the meantime I may add a coral or two at a Black Friday event, but my main focus will be setting up a pump and drain to connect my sump directly to a drain and my saltwater bin in the basement. I don't do water changes often enough and I don't like lugging buckets. Simplifying it will allow me to spend less time messing with the tank but still keep up maintaining it. I hope...

JamesZebedee · 11/21/2017, 06:26 PM

Hey, i just read through this thread. great work keeping it all updated, etc.

Congratulations on the kid, and good luck with the algae.

dvddelay43 · 11/21/2017, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesZebedee

Hey, i just read through this thread. great work keeping it all updated, etc.

Congratulations on the kid, and good luck with the algae.

Do some water testing check your phosphates might be high get some crabs to help them get the hair algae down
David

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

sde1500 · 11/22/2017, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesZebedee

Hey, i just read through this thread. great work keeping it all updated, etc.

Congratulations on the kid, and good luck with the algae.

Thanks for reading through it! It has been a trip. Got to share the good and the ugly and its been a little of both. Few tweaks and I think the tank will really be where I want it to be. Got a few small little projects for it that I'll kick back into gear once its clean too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dvddelay43

Do some water testing check your phosphates might be high get some crabs to help them get the hair algae down
David

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Hey thanks for stopping by, and welcome to ReefCentral! I do know how to keep the tank algae free. Unfortunately like I said, just haven't had the time. Getting it cleaned up quick hopefully with dosing now, then I'll be back on track to maintaining it.

sde1500 · 12/04/2017, 06:43 AM

Been close to two weeks with Fluconazole in the water. Did some manual removal as well. Going to give it another week or so then do a big water change and more manual removal. Looking better but there is still a lot. Restarted my algae reactor too, to start getting nutrients down.

Shrinkette · 12/09/2017, 08:30 PM

Wow, what a journey!
Really interesting read --
So glad you included pics,
And congrats on becoming a father to that beautiful boy!!!!!

sde1500 · 12/09/2017, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shrinkette

Wow, what a journey!
Really interesting read --
So glad you included pics,
And congrats on becoming a father to that beautiful boy!!!!!

Thanks! Yea its been an interesting almost two years with this tank. Overall theme sadly seems to be algae but it is starting to fill out with coral nicely. Theme for next year definitely will be keeping up with maintaining it. Should be a interesting task with the little one around now.

sde1500 · 12/11/2017, 05:35 PM

Ok Fluconazole has been in the tank 23 days. Worked great. I would recommend a big water change before and after. I didn't do one before and with the die off nutrients started to have adverse affects. However it's much better than GHA. Seems like some areas of cyano and that's all. Hope these pictures come out visible enough. Weekly progress shots top to bottom is start to finish.

sde1500 · 01/07/2018, 08:47 AM

Interesting observation. Post Fluconazole I have a cyano outbreak. Kinda expected it, that was a lot of GHA die off. Its appearing to kill a lot of the aiptasia that are in my tank. Keeping it off the corals, letting it stay on the aiptasia to see what happens.

01/03/2017, 04:02 PM	#126
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Just realized my tank turned one the other day! Been quite the year for it, and me. For my first full blown reef tank, I'm quite happy with where it is right now. Not seeing quite the growth I'd like, I swear that pink birdsnest coral hasn't grown at all, but nothing is dying. Fish are a little tougher for me, I've lost more than I had hoped too. Pains me that it may be my fault and that my learning pains have caused a fish to die. Hard to say, but who knows. This year I resolve to get better at it, including a more refined approach to QT. I'm aware I have been lucky up to this point, now I want to be smart. Still on the fence about QTing corals, probably not going to still. We'll see. And I'll end with an updated FTS. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

01/12/2017, 06:15 PM	#127
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	The phyto culture is expanding. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

01/19/2017, 05:07 PM	#128
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	My 65 Gallon build Couple SPS shots. Red dragon, starting to encrust more on the base, can't tell how much it's actually growing otherwise. Def slowly for me. Forest fire digi. Growing. Nicely, a lot of encrusting on the base already on the rock not just the plug. And the branches are growing. Kinda bummed though it's not really green with red polyps anymore. More white with red polyps. Still looks cool but I miss the green. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1. Last edited by sde1500; 01/19/2017 at 05:34 PM.

01/31/2017, 04:29 PM	#129
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Having issues with my ATO again. If Tunze wasn't so responsive I'd probably be cursing their name. But as it is working with them to figure out what is wrong, pump isn't pumping and this is the replacement barely a month old. Hope to have it worked out soon. And since no post is fun without pictures, probably my favorite coral is about a year in my tank now. I'm a big fan of zoas, but can't at all beat the growth I've gotten and the movement I get from this torch. Got it as 4 heads it's easily 12 now and I can see a few more splitting right now. Year ago: Mere minutes ago: __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

02/15/2017, 07:34 AM	#130
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Came home the other day to my fairy wrasse missing. Found it dried out behind the tank. Don't know how it made it out of the tank, it was too big to fit through the egg crate. Sucks, it was such a pretty fish. Only thing I can think of is it got through the overflow into the external box which isn't covered. Might rig something up to cover that, just in case. It will be a while before I add any new fish to the tank, everything has been running so well for a while, I don't really want to do anything to possibly upset that. Won't add another wrasse though. As much as I like them, my Melanurus did chase the fairy around a lot, so probably best to leave that as the only wrasse. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

03/22/2017, 08:31 AM	#131
CL8869 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: RI Posts: 60	Nice build! Nice seeing a fellow RI member also! __________________ 180G DT - 150 Gallon sump system using (3) 55G tanks linked and pumped back with a Reeflo Goby.

03/22/2017, 08:57 AM	#132
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Hey thanks! It certainly keeps me happy and busy. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

04/03/2017, 04:30 PM	#133
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Well after a couple water changes where I was adding a little more water than I was removing my salinity had crept up. Now how did I catch this? Sadly not with my refracometer but my red dragon RTN over night. Lost one accidental frag and had to cut 3/4 of the colony off. Sucks. Lesson learned though to be more careful adding water back. It had crept up near 1.029. Waterchange to bring it back down and added carbon just in case. Seems to have stopped the tissue loss. Everything else seems ok, beyond a little extra algae. Though this mermaids cup is getting borderline out of control. Got a ton of stalks everywhere and it seems to really be bothering my gsp colony. Not going to do anything drastic yet but we'll see. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

04/21/2017, 09:47 AM	#134
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Got lucky yesterday. Came home earlier and found that my heater had failed. Failed off though. Fish were all cold, water was cold, but other than that no problems. Back up smaller heaters in and a new heater/controller from JBJ in the mail. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

04/25/2017, 03:45 PM	#135
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Tank is warm again. Though my new heater isn't in yet. In as in the tank. It's in my living room. But doesn't fit the sump lol. Whoops. Backups keeping up for now so no worries there. Might just go in person to Petco to make sure I get one that fits. Copepod and phyto cultures are back on track. Managed to save both phyto cultures and just got them split so that's a win at least. Pod culture is really doing well. Might be able to do a mandarin soon. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

05/10/2017, 05:49 AM	#136
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	New heater and controller are in. Little side project for the phyto, made an improved looking system. Design wasn't my idea but looks a lot nicer than what I had going. All pvc with two LED grow light strips in tubes. Increases my control of the airflow and also my capacity for growing. Can now connect more bottles than before. Hopefully does well enough that soon I can add a culture of rotifers in to start feeding the coral. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

05/27/2017, 11:14 AM	#137
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Memorial Day weekend FTS update. Tank coming off a water change and 2 day blackout and looking really good. Amazing how little algae survives after just a couple days of no light. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

08/01/2017, 05:35 PM	#138
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Quick update. Tank going pretty well. Almost everything is growing, algae included... Been working hard to keep the GHA down. Don't have a recent test results but never really seem to have many nutrients when I test. Did a 3 day blackout and very large water change. Admittedly I've been a little slacking on those. Resolving to set a day to do one every week now. Of course while doing the WC I knocked off a large branch of my forest fire digi, sucks was just about to do a comparison pic from when I first got it. It's been growing well, guess I have two to grow now. Stuck it on the same rock, figure they'll grow together eventually. Haven't added anything in a while, starting to get the itch it buy a few more corals and fish but I want the algae managed first. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

10/31/2017, 07:03 AM	#139
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Been about as active keeping up on my tank as I have been updating it here sadly. Home improvements have taken all of my time, as I rush to complete a bunch before my son is born in the next couple days. Algae has been a steady grower, I keep it pruned when I can. After I wrap up the house updates I'll be putting together a pump system to greatly simplify water changes, I'm done lugging buckets. Tank currently has no power, and I really need to get a generator to stop worrying about it. Ran some pumps and a heater off my car all evening yesterday, it lasted all night without any aeration, ran pumps again for a couple hours this morning. Hopefully it lasts again until I get back from work. Currently wrapped in a flannel sheet to keep some heat in. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

10/31/2017, 02:43 PM	#140
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Tank ain't dead yet! The three fish not good at hiding are accounted for. The others are missing assumed hiding. Might be another 24 hrs of this. I now know the tank can make it close to 10 hours no heat or circulation on a chilly fall day. I'd prefer not knowing this, a generator will be purchased in the coming weeks for sure. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

11/01/2017, 02:49 PM	#141
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	I have power again!! Tank is looking just ok. Digital thermometer reads 63. House is 54. I have my robust house heat blasting and all my backup heaters in the tank. Coral are unhappy. Fish I can find look cold. GHA looks entirely unphased naturally. Also my astrinea population seems to be gathering for a meeting. Took the opportunity to scoop a ton out. They were getting too plentiful. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

11/21/2017, 05:13 PM	#142
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	So tank had recently taken a back seat. Why? Well the house is a bit of a fixer upper and I've been doing a ton of work on it. All in preparation for this guy. And now that he is here well I don't have much time still. Tank looks decent, but algae is a plague. Decided to dose the tank with Fluconazole. Read a ton of great things so I want to give it a shot. I have two doses worth. 1600mg went in the tank just now. Pics below taken today. I'll be sure to update as time progresses. Carbon and skimmer are off line. I think it will take about three weeks. In the meantime I may add a coral or two at a Black Friday event, but my main focus will be setting up a pump and drain to connect my sump directly to a drain and my saltwater bin in the basement. I don't do water changes often enough and I don't like lugging buckets. Simplifying it will allow me to spend less time messing with the tank but still keep up maintaining it. I hope... __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

11/21/2017, 06:26 PM	#143
JamesZebedee Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 12	Hey, i just read through this thread. great work keeping it all updated, etc. Congratulations on the kid, and good luck with the algae.

12/04/2017, 06:43 AM	#146
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Been close to two weeks with Fluconazole in the water. Did some manual removal as well. Going to give it another week or so then do a big water change and more manual removal. Looking better but there is still a lot. Restarted my algae reactor too, to start getting nutrients down. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

12/09/2017, 08:30 PM	#147
Shrinkette Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 34	Wow, what a journey! Really interesting read -- So glad you included pics, And congrats on becoming a father to that beautiful boy!!!!! __________________ Humbly and with much thanks, --Carol Current Tank Info: 25 gallon nano with soft corals -- 57 gallon native species tank with northern pipefish and friends

12/11/2017, 05:35 PM	#149
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Ok Fluconazole has been in the tank 23 days. Worked great. I would recommend a big water change before and after. I didn't do one before and with the die off nutrients started to have adverse affects. However it's much better than GHA. Seems like some areas of cyano and that's all. Hope these pictures come out visible enough. Weekly progress shots top to bottom is start to finish. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1. Last edited by sde1500; 12/12/2017 at 06:30 AM.

01/07/2018, 08:47 AM	#150
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Interesting observation. Post Fluconazole I have a cyano outbreak. Kinda expected it, that was a lot of GHA die off. Its appearing to kill a lot of the aiptasia that are in my tank. Keeping it off the corals, letting it stay on the aiptasia to see what happens. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.