Coming up my coral stocking plan for the new tank.
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This tank is about three and a half months old and I'm just taking it
really slow. I'm taking my time.
I really believe that nothing good happens in reef keeping when you move things
along too quickly. So I want to take my time.
I want to kind of get used to certain things that I'm running on the tank in
terms of equipment. You know, I haven't run a calcium reactor in a long time.
So I've been running that I do have some, um, Coleen algae in the tank.
So there is a, uh, a very slight demand for calcium and alkalinity,
but, you know, I'm just really trying to dial in my equipment, dial in my tank.
I'm running the lights at a very, uh, low intensity,
just to kind of make sure that don't have anything pop up in terms of
problematic algae, but things are going really well. You know, I've got,
I've got a lot of fish in the tank. So I think the, um,
the biology of the tank is, is, is really on solid ground. There's like 20 fish.
So next up is, is corals. And that's really the fun part.
So typically when I add a new curls to a reef tank,
and this is going to be an SPS dominant reef tank,
I like to start with LPs corals because they're, they're heartier than SPS.
So I think it's a good way to kind of test the waters, so to speak,
to see how the LPs do before adding an SPS. Now,
the good thing is I have in my 187 gallon tank,
I've got a lot of LPs. It is an SBS dominant tank, but I do have a lot of LPs.
I've got some great, um, hammer corals, big colonies at hammer curls.
I've got a ton of Alveo Purim.
So I've got a colony of 'em and I'll be a poor,
I could put it into this new tank. I could even frag up some Alveo Purim.
I've got some Zun DIDs,
although I'm not sure I want to put a [inaudible] in this tank and have them
spread all over the place. So it's good to have the, uh,
the options in terms of the LPs. So I'm going to, I'm going to do that.
I also have some clownfish in my frac tanks that, um,
I like to add to this new tank. So I'll,
I'll try to do that in conjunction with adding in some of those, uh,
LPs in the hopes that they'll, they'll host the, uh, the LPs.
I do have two pairs, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I did talk about this in the other video about, um, my fish stocking plan.
My hope is to have two pairs of clownfish. So, so hopefully that'll go, well,
it is a large enough tank, I think 225 gallons. And, um,
yeah, fingers crossed on that front in terms of SPS.
I always like to kind of start with the, uh, the heartier corals.
Now I do have this big cupping Monta pore. It's a beautiful cap,
one of my frag tanks. So maybe that's a good call to put into the new tank,
but I also have a lot of, um, other corals in my one eight,
seven gallon tank that just are growing like weeds. I've got an Oregon tort,
I've got a Cali toward Tyree red dragon tubs to let them auntie
some of these corals, you know, are not necessarily beginner,
SPS types of corals, but I have so many frags and I'm not going to really, um,
lose a lot of sleep if I do lose some of those frags. So, you know, I'm,
I might try some of those first in this tank to see how they do and give that
time. I'm just going to give it time, see how they, um,
progress in the new tank, make adjustments along the way.
And once I see that things are kind of hunky Dory with those, um,
starter frags in terms of the SPS, then I'll start adding in some,
some corals that, um, I don't have in my tank. So I'll bring in some corals,
some more, a high-end type of, uh, SPS.
And that's really what I want to do with this,
but it's the tank I want to kind of focus on the high end stuff and just, uh,
you know, have fun with it, let things grow.
That's why I have the open app escape in this peninsula tech.
I just want to give things a lot of room to spread their wings and, uh, yeah,
just kind of take it from there. It's a bit of a journey anyway.
So that's the plan. And, uh,
this will be the last video in this series for a few months.
I'll come back in a few months and,
and give you the progress in terms of how the corals are doing well.
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