Sorry for the multiple posts, it will not let me post more than 10 photos per post and I decided to break it up anyways instead of having a massive wall of text in one post lmao.
So fast forward to about a month ago, I decided to pull the trigger and try out some easy sps. Got myself a few stylophora, hydnophora & montipora frags which all took well to the tank, they were growing and having massive polyp extention but all that was short lived. A few weeks after getting them my wife went into labour and for about two weeks the tank was forgotten completly along with the daily dosing of aquaforests componant 1+2+3 which is KH, Cal, Mg and trace elements, when I noticed corals start to bleach the damage was done and KH was down to 6. Few days of tweaking and I got all the parameters where they need to be but sadly it was to late and I lost all the sps I had bought, so it was about time I forked out some more cash and replaced my old broken doser. Few days later and my order had arrived, the coral box wifi doser is so small I was sceptical at first but man am I impressed with its acuracy and the controlability with the phone is brilliant. So now I think the tank should be stable enough to start adding sps again which should hopefully be next week.
As it stands here is all the equipment and stock I currently in the tank:
Reefer XL 525
X3 RS reef led 90
X2 RS reef wave 45
Rs 600 skimmer
Maxspect turbine duo return pump
Jebao Uv steriliser
X2 marine pure large bio blocks
28kg aqua forest bio sand
20kg D-D natural rock (adding a few more KG of Aqua forest rock soon)
Coral Box wifi dosing pump
X2 filter sock
X2 backets with 50/50 rock rubble and filter floss
Livestock:
P.cardinal
Regal tang
Large vlemengi tang
1x 8 line wrasse
Blue cleaner wrasse
2x juvenile clown fish
Bristletooth tang
Pistol shrimp
Skunk cleaner shrimp
Sandsifting star
Variety of bumblebee, ceritium, turbo & nasarius snails
Tomorrow I will be running my tests on the tank and I will see if I can take a few pictures of how the tanks currently looking, Ill drop a pic of how it was a few months ago just so you can get an idea of how its looking along with a few recent pics.
I am also contemplating getting a monitoring system and I am trully leaning towards the apex and the trident, however a few newer systems have various additions which would be nice like monitoring No3 for example. I was also looking at the GHL but I feel like its to bulky for the whole system and way more expensive. Anyways if you guys have any feedback on the matter or some personal experiance I would appriciate it as I really want an apex but its a lot of cash to fork out for a monitor.