20 Gallon Nano

Awesome! I am in love with this tank. ha the music kept me glued to watching it, so much so I missed the bus. ha

 

I had most of the soft corals already and transferred them over from my old 90 gal tank. The others were added a couple at a time every couple of months.

 

The solution to pollution is dilution

 

Sorry about that. Hope you caught the next one.

 

Sure did. That allowed me to watch it a second time.

 

haha. Way to go.

 

haha

 

I have been battling some gelidium algae for the last little while. I have raised the magnesium levels and that seemed to at least slow it down a bit but it is very stubborn. So I purchased a bio-pellet reactor. I got the SWC UR-80 Bio-Pellet Reactor and it is being powered by a King 400 (by Resun) water pump. The media I am using is the SWC Xtreme NP Reduction Bio media. They recommend 250 ml of pellets so I started off the 125 ml. Here is a video of it in action.

 

Crash

Some bad news...
I was out of town on business last week and had a fairly major tank crash. For some unknown reason, the return pump decided to quit. Because I have the heaters in the sump, this means that if there is no water movement between sump and the DT, then there is no heat in the DT. Unfortunately, the temp probe from the Apex was also situated in the sump. This caused two problems: 1)the return pump still had power so no warning message from the apex and 2)the sump remained heated so the temp probe showed normal temp range.
Best guess is DT was without heat for 24-36 hrs. Temp in DT was 68F.
I have now put the temp probe in the weir of the DT so that if the return fails again then I will be notified by the apex of a temp drop.
All SPS corals died as well as devils club leather, colt coral and hammer coral.
On the good side of all this, I was able to take out the chunk of rock that had some algae on it and replace it with a nice new chunk of dead rock I had laying around.
And I put in an order for 11 new SPS frags to fill in the now empty looking tank. Frags have all opened up and look healthy...pics to follow.

 

Sorry to hear about the crash. Sounds like you are making the best of it though.