Brock Fluharty
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My stepdad has a 60 gallon hex that looks awful. It has a yellow tang, blue velvet damsel, big eyed squirrelfish, 3 striped damsel, and a red reef lobster. It is a hex, so HOB filtration is hard to do. It currently has a whisper power filter...THAT'S IT!!!!! I don't know how these fish are alive. it has 1 powerhead, but it's so clogged with hair algae that it's barely running. He bought 2 corals at the swap, and both nearly died before I put them in my system. They were a fungia and a colony of the big green protopallys. The glass is covered in hair algae, as are the rocks. He buys hermits and snails, but the lobster kills them. He bought a cleaner shrimp to deal with the ich, but the lunar wrasse ate him (he's gone now). I keep telling him that if he wants a successful system, he's gotta kick the damsels out. At least the mean ones. He thinks that our tanks are a contest. People come over and see my corals and blue tang and clowns and they are pretty impressed. So he comes over and says "MY tank's got a LOBSTER!". It's really immature. He tries to feed my octopus to show her off when shes already eaten, and ends up trying to scare her out of the rocks. It's horrible. Anyway, kina got side tracked because of venting but, how can we soup up the filtration on this tank? Natural ways are not working. Macro died in this tank. The hardiest corals wither away in days. The first thing that needs to happen is getting the fish out. Not all of them, but most, if not all, of the damsels, and the squirrlfish. he also needs a new light. He's using my old LOA and it's yellow. I think he'd be much happier with a standard 55 long or something. he feeds this tank 6 or 7 frozen cubes of brine shrimp. I tell him over and over again that it's too much, and brine shrimp is nutritionally poor, but does he listen? Nine. I know what needs to be done to this tank, but he won't listen to me, so I would like some opinions that I can print out and show him.
Thanks!
Thanks!