Its been one year since I upgraded my Red Sea Reefer 450 (~90g) to a Innovative Marine Nuvo 170g EXT. I did a lot of work on the tank over the year, as upgrading a reef using the same rock and coral is not always as straight forward as it seems. Even with all the work, I was able to achieve some amazing SPS and acropora growth. While I would say my tank did overwhelmingly positive, I did have some speed bumps along the way, and currently I am dealing with some slow tissue necrosis (STN) on some of my Acropora after finding a cracked heater.
This video documents how the last year went, along with my future plans!
Link to the WWC video of my tank: https://youtu.be/5BqgSfqi39k?si=ByC12X_1GJAu9XbB
My Equipment:
Tank: Innovative Marine 170 gallon EXT with Aluminum Stand
Lights: ATI Straton LEDs (x3)
Pumps: x2 MP40qd, 1 Tunze Stream 3 and 1 Maxspect Jump Gyre 4K
Skimmer: Deltec 1000i with inline CO2 scrubber
Sump converted to a frag tank
Return: Current USA eFlux DC pump (3000gph)
57w UV inline with return
ESV 2 Part dosing + Kalkwasser
Apex EL with Trident (alk/Ca/Mg)
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Coral Update
03:54 - Low lights
05:02 - Lessons Learned
08:55 - Fish Updates
12:34 - Equipment Overview
16:14 - Coral Health
18:27 - If I started from scratch...
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/rapt
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