What have you done to your set up today?

Yeah, I use the walls of my tank to divert some of the flow from these wavemakers also.

I would only turn off my WP10 at night and leave the WP25 going. LPS don't need the higher flow anyway, so IMO, a little less flow at night won't hurt the LPS. At least this is my theory.

 

I have them in my 20 long, what kind are these?

 

Today I finished my diy sump and diy overflow. This new setup is day and night comoared to my hob filter I had.went from 200gph to close to 600gph.

 

picked up two emerald crabs for my bubble algae breakout and an orange diamond gobie to help keep the sand clean

 

Hand dosed and drip dosed some 'stuff' MOstly for Alk, Mag, and Ca+.

 

After re-calbrating my refractometer, I realize my Sg was at 1024, so to bring it up, I already have about 20g SW made.
So to bring the SG up w/o a WC, I added 5g of the 1.026 to my system, and shut off my ATO. So basically, for the next 2-3 days my repolacement water is 1.026, instead of 0tds.

I also tinkered with my sump/fuge's chaeto basket again- which releases hugh amounts of pods/detritus into the DT. So although I don't 'feed' any of my corals anything, they still get a bunch of food. I often do this 'chaeto turning' at night, when more of the corals are actually feeding vs. photosynthesis.

I"m LOVING the new growth and colors since switching to the full spectrum/dimmable/90degree lense LED's!

 

Installed a BRS GFO/Carbon reactor to help keep my phosphates down.

 

Started the cycle on my 60 gallon cube with a $0.18 shrimp……now……the wait……..

 

Last week I was in San Diego for work, so the day before I left my RTBA blew up. I don't know what happened, everything was looking great and I wake up and gone. I have some ideas, he was walking around, maybe he got sucked into a powerhead or the overflow. I had some "substance" floating in the tank, so I'm assuming it was the torn up RTBA. Everything else is fine and looking healthy.
The tank was a mess, so I did a ten gallon water change, then left for a week and came home and did a 20 gallon water change yesterday (2/2/14). While I was at it, I got out the gravel vac and sucked up the sand that was directly under where the RTBA was living. I removed a lot of detritus and now I have a nice clean section in the tank.

 

Re-scaped some rocks to make a space for new clam.