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Awesome tank! I would recommend ditching those vortech covers and get some 3d printed ones. Ebay sells them for 20 bucks for a set.
Thanks for the recommendation. Didn't like those foam guards anyway.
I'm probably going to purchase this one:
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You might want to consider adding t5 to your lights. I have 3 ap700 on my 180 and love them, however as your corals grow you get a lot of shadowing.

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You might want to consider adding t5 to your lights. I have 3 ap700 on my 180 and love them, however as your corals grow you get a lot of shadowing.

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That's something we definitely will consider, thanks.
 
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Been a while since my last post. We've been battling all types of algae and the tank had honestly been ugly to look at for a couple months.
We switch gears and went with a different maintenance company, and they seem to have really turned things around.
They also completely changed the rock work, and I couldn't be happier with it.
Very soon we'll be adding a group of tangs and then corals soon after that.

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What’d the new crew do different?


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They removed the rocks one by one, scraped all the hair algae and muck off manually before putting them back in. A massive water change after that. They put one of the mp60 on the overflow side.
They introduced a large clean up crew.
They completely cleaned the refugium inside & out.
Then all the normal maintenance stuff.
 
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I trapped the Naoko fairy wrasse to prevent him from bullying/killing our new redtail tamarin wrasse. I put him in the sump and introduced the redtail to the tank.
4 days later, the naoko is nowhere to be found. I checked everywhere, inside and outside the sump to no avail.
I guess its possible it got sucked into the skimmer, but that seems highly unlikely to me.
Maintenance crew is coming today, hopefully they can locate it.

The redtail tamarin is doing excellent in the tank. It is almost always out swimming and picking at the rocks.

We have ordered 4 tangs (Yellow + Blue + Atlantic Blue + Naso) through the maintenance company. They're going to be doing a month of observation and QT/treatment if necessary.
 
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Gorgeous new rockscape! Loving the build, ITreefer!
Thanks, the new rock layout is a massive improvement over the last for sure.
I need to find a way to back my truck up and load up IT Reefers 450g.. thats way to much tank :devilish:
Load up my bank account first, then we can talk ;)
 
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Last Monday, the maintenance guys added a diamond goby to keep our sandbed clean.
Almost immediately, the diamond invaded the blue jaw's home and picked a fight. No one has seen the blue jaw, nor has it come out during feeding time for over a week.
The maintenance guys will be replacing him for us, but it is quite depressing. He was, by far, the most active and personable fish in the tank.

I hate the diamond goby :mad:
 

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man that sucks, i know a guy that is keeping a diamond goby and a blue spot Jaw fish In the same tank. And he has a 65gal. Not sure how he did it, Man that goby must have some beef with jaw fish.
 
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man that sucks, i know a guy that is keeping a diamond goby and a blue spot Jaw fish In the same tank. And he has a 65gal. Not sure how he did it, Man that goby must have some beef with jaw fish.
Yeah our maintenance guy said hes never had an issue mixing them before now. Unfortunate that the more expensive fish didn't win the battle lol
 
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