Article: The breakdown of my 280-gallon reef tank

[mhowe9]

Marc, having this system set up for a little over three months now. Is there any thing that you would do differently? or any long term issues that you ran into. I am shortly going to be doing something similar as I upgrade my tank.

[melev]

I don't recommend a lot of traveling - that had a major negative impact on my livestock. Additionally, test all parameters regularly. Had I been more vigilant, I wouldn't have lost some of my SPS corals. Some variations in parameters could have been avoided if I'd done the full set of tests weekly instead of only measuring Alk and PO4 from time to time. NO3 caught me by surprise, for example.

Temperature has been pretty stable over all, only swinging about 1 to 1.2 degrees per day.

[mhowe9]

Thanks for the advice Marc. I appreciate it.