a simple sps tank
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glaukos
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lol,everyone in the gang is doing ok matt buddy!
I've started feeding very much and many more foods and they all enjoy it
My yellow tang is history....he was fighting too much with gold rim and generally was a bit of a troublemaker so he met lfs's owners again
Now things are way calmer.
Crazy eye is starting slowly to show some blue color.Leucocheilus is growing and changing some of his colors too.
Emperor is developing some new lines and still nipping.Jax(MI) and chtenochaetus pretty much the same and quasimodo is and always be quasimodo
As for the tank i lay low on purpose matt.....since....since....i can't even say it....since i put sand back in the tank
Have lost count
Everything went ok,no major issues.I washed it with RO water and diatoms where minimal.
Put a sand sifting starfish to help keep it clean,plus i'm thinking to stir it up periodically.I've done it a couple of times to spread it everywhere and i got some really good PE after that.Maybe that was a coincidence.
Added a second vortech,removed BP's,a couple of new branches with some relocated corals
on them,changed left island's position a bit and i'm really thinking of using after many years carbon and antiphos,now that the reactor is empty.
I'll try to get home early and get some pics tomorrow matt,thanks for stopping by bud:beer:
I've started feeding very much and many more foods and they all enjoy it
My yellow tang is history....he was fighting too much with gold rim and generally was a bit of a troublemaker so he met lfs's owners again
Now things are way calmer.
Crazy eye is starting slowly to show some blue color.Leucocheilus is growing and changing some of his colors too.
Emperor is developing some new lines and still nipping.Jax(MI) and chtenochaetus pretty much the same and quasimodo is and always be quasimodo
As for the tank i lay low on purpose matt.....since....since....i can't even say it....since i put sand back in the tank
Have lost count
Everything went ok,no major issues.I washed it with RO water and diatoms where minimal.
Put a sand sifting starfish to help keep it clean,plus i'm thinking to stir it up periodically.I've done it a couple of times to spread it everywhere and i got some really good PE after that.Maybe that was a coincidence.
Added a second vortech,removed BP's,a couple of new branches with some relocated corals
on them,changed left island's position a bit and i'm really thinking of using after many years carbon and antiphos,now that the reactor is empty.
I'll try to get home early and get some pics tomorrow matt,thanks for stopping by bud:beer:
plyle02
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lol,everyone in the gang is doing ok matt buddy!
I've started feeding very much and many more foods and they all enjoy it
My yellow tang is history....he was fighting too much with gold rim and generally was a bit of a troublemaker so he met lfs's owners again
Now things are way calmer.
Crazy eye is starting slowly to show some blue color.Leucocheilus is growing and changing some of his colors too.
Emperor is developing some new lines and still nipping.Jax(MI) and chtenochaetus pretty much the same and quasimodo is and always be quasimodo
As for the tank i lay low on purpose matt.....since....since....i can't even say it....since i put sand back in the tank
Have lost count
Everything went ok,no major issues.I washed it with RO water and diatoms where minimal.
Put a sand sifting starfish to help keep it clean,plus i'm thinking to stir it up periodically.I've done it a couple of times to spread it everywhere and i got some really good PE after that.Maybe that was a coincidence.
Added a second vortech,removed BP's,a couple of new branches with some relocated corals
on them,changed left island's position a bit and i'm really thinking of using after many years carbon and antiphos,now that the reactor is empty.
I'll try to get home early and get some pics tomorrow matt,thanks for stopping by bud:beer:
Mike,
Yeah, let's get those pics up bud!!! I would love to see some pics of your tank
glaukos
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Thank you too,so much for the interest perry:beer:
Came home early but i didn't manage to get a descent pic
I don't mind them being a bit blue but they where blurry,so i deleted them.I'll try again tomorrow with different settings:thumbsup:
Only those two came out a bit nice.
It's my "branching" habbit,lol
Now i "branch" even on corals
Took an old dead coral as a base,glued it onto my red digi and placed my "sneaky bello" suharsonoi 
The thing is that as i was trying to get pics(which means that i spent more time to the tank than usual) i saw jax(MI) nipping hard some of my sps and the brain
That's the first time he made some damage spots on the corals.Emperors nips too but never leave marks.Just some polyp retraction.
Wish he stops in the next few days.I'd hate to take him out
Came home early but i didn't manage to get a descent pic
I don't mind them being a bit blue but they where blurry,so i deleted them.I'll try again tomorrow with different settings:thumbsup:
Only those two came out a bit nice.
It's my "branching" habbit,lol
Now i "branch" even on corals
Took an old dead coral as a base,glued it onto my red digi and placed my "sneaky bello" suharsonoi
The thing is that as i was trying to get pics(which means that i spent more time to the tank than usual) i saw jax(MI) nipping hard some of my sps and the brain
That's the first time he made some damage spots on the corals.Emperors nips too but never leave marks.Just some polyp retraction.
Wish he stops in the next few days.I'd hate to take him out
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Thanks for the update Mike! You need to invent a retractable sand bottom for your tank - then you could change it every daylol,everyone in the gang is doing ok matt buddy!
I've started feeding very much and many more foods and they all enjoy it
My yellow tang is history....he was fighting too much with gold rim and generally was a bit of a troublemaker so he met lfs's owners again
Now things are way calmer.
Crazy eye is starting slowly to show some blue color.Leucocheilus is growing and changing some of his colors too.
Emperor is developing some new lines and still nipping.Jax(MI) and chtenochaetus pretty much the same and quasimodo is and always be quasimodo
As for the tank i lay low on purpose matt.....since....since....i can't even say it....since i put sand back in the tank
Have lost count
Everything went ok,no major issues.I washed it with RO water and diatoms where minimal.
Put a sand sifting starfish to help keep it clean,plus i'm thinking to stir it up periodically.I've done it a couple of times to spread it everywhere and i got some really good PE after that.Maybe that was a coincidence.
Added a second vortech,removed BP's,a couple of new branches with some relocated corals
on them,changed left island's position a bit and i'm really thinking of using after many years carbon and antiphos,now that the reactor is empty.
I'll try to get home early and get some pics tomorrow matt,thanks for stopping by bud:beer:
glaukos
New member
Thanks mark,glad you like it buddy!That branching thing has become a hard to stop habit.I like it a lotLove the 'branch'.
Unfortunately jax didn't stop nipping so he belongs to tank's history now
Wish he hadn't.He was a really cool fish to watch.He was always nipping at almost every coral but never did serious damage.I guess now that grew up his teeth or mouth size wasn't so easy to handle.
Emperor has the same behaviour but no damage there.At least for now
Yellow tang left the building too.Was fighting all the time with the gold rim so trap and to the lfs.
Having my fish gang getting smaller in numbers puts me into thoughts that maybe it's time to get an achilles again.We'll see
Thanks dom,happy you like it mate!Love the look of the acro's glued there!
I like seeing things hanging over the air and always try to place things in that way.Sometimes it's silly tbh lol
lolThanks for the update Mike! You need to invent a retractable sand bottom for your tank - then you could change it every day
True matt!
There a soccer stadium in germany that has a retractable field.
Will consult them so i can do the same
glaukos
New member
Having a lot of things to deal with in your life and making changes in the tank is always a challenge or 100% wrong
So taking out my BP reactor led to some kind of imbalance regarding my bacterial population.
No3 started rising up gradually.That caused a pause in corals growth which in turn resulted in some high levels of kh-10 and ca-520.
Unfortunately i didn't make tests to see what was going on so i used vodka to deal with the continuously rising No3.
Vodka and high kh is never a good combination....
I'd never use it but silly me,didn't make a test before i start the usage of carbon source.
I always rely on my corals look but having so little time to do it and my confidence in my corals made me skip it.
I haven't used carbon in maybe 5 years.So the water had almost always a slight yellow tint.Thought it was time to try it again.See if i was missing something all these years.
Used seachem matrix.
That made the water super clear.I was really impressed.
The thing is that the tank now was really really brighter compared to the no carbon era.
Some corals may got too much light at the time.
So the use of vodka with high kh,the extra clear water or the combination of those two led to some white tips.
Left them as they were just in case they could fight it of.
Unfortunately algea started growing on the tips and that's never a good sign.At least it's a take action sign.
When i started cutting of the tips i discovered they where very fragile.
So my initial plan of cutting the dead tips took a turn in cutting the coral up to the point the skeleton is strong.
After spending sometime underwater that's the result.
Thank god no coral losses,just some "shorter" and smaller acros.
Ah what the @#$& they'll grow back again
Later,when the lights are on i'll get some more pics
So taking out my BP reactor led to some kind of imbalance regarding my bacterial population.
No3 started rising up gradually.That caused a pause in corals growth which in turn resulted in some high levels of kh-10 and ca-520.
Unfortunately i didn't make tests to see what was going on so i used vodka to deal with the continuously rising No3.
Vodka and high kh is never a good combination....
I'd never use it but silly me,didn't make a test before i start the usage of carbon source.
I always rely on my corals look but having so little time to do it and my confidence in my corals made me skip it.
I haven't used carbon in maybe 5 years.So the water had almost always a slight yellow tint.Thought it was time to try it again.See if i was missing something all these years.
Used seachem matrix.
That made the water super clear.I was really impressed.
The thing is that the tank now was really really brighter compared to the no carbon era.
Some corals may got too much light at the time.
So the use of vodka with high kh,the extra clear water or the combination of those two led to some white tips.
Left them as they were just in case they could fight it of.
Unfortunately algea started growing on the tips and that's never a good sign.At least it's a take action sign.
When i started cutting of the tips i discovered they where very fragile.
So my initial plan of cutting the dead tips took a turn in cutting the coral up to the point the skeleton is strong.
After spending sometime underwater that's the result.
Thank god no coral losses,just some "shorter" and smaller acros.
Ah what the @#$& they'll grow back again
Later,when the lights are on i'll get some more pics
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Took an old dead coral as a base,glued it onto my red digi and placed my "sneaky bello" suharsonoi
Nice one Mike. Let's hope you will not break that thin monti branch by mistake.
reefmutt
Active member
Mike! Sand..... Nice!!
You are the master of the overhang so I love the 'suharsonoi hang' awesome!!
Do you worry about the digi being strong enough down to road to hold the growth weight? Whenever I have had digis, I have always found them to be very fragile.
I think it's a good idea to cut away odd skeletal growth.. It allows the coral to begin growing properly again.. I did something similar to a Fiji coral that had amazing colour and growth at the base but very poor health on the ends.. I decapitated it!!
I hope the changes work themselves out, Mike.
You are the master of the overhang so I love the 'suharsonoi hang' awesome!!
Do you worry about the digi being strong enough down to road to hold the growth weight? Whenever I have had digis, I have always found them to be very fragile.
I think it's a good idea to cut away odd skeletal growth.. It allows the coral to begin growing properly again.. I did something similar to a Fiji coral that had amazing colour and growth at the base but very poor health on the ends.. I decapitated it!!
I hope the changes work themselves out, Mike.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
I don't think Mike does much worrying...its part of his charm:thumbsup:
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