I feed my fish mysis shrimp. Might as well get in the good habit now.
davyjone - I had misread your last post I read raising. I see now you meant rinsing...LOL.
I thought I remember reading something written by Randy Holmes Farley that not rinsing frozen foods had that much of an overall impact on the overall po4 levels in our tank? I will look around for the article. Also, do you think that was too drastic of a drop for the corals in your tank?
Steve - Thanks for the the link. I read through it an it has some pretty good information. I am surprised Randy does not think rinsing food buys us much. Oh well I am going to keep rinsing...LOL. I also did not know how much my nori was adding to the tank.
General Updates - Partial Order from Aquarium SpecialtySo being the impatient person I am I placed an order with them on the 18th(I could not wait for labor day sales)...after a few days there was no shipping email so I called. Not to my surprise something went wrong...lol. I spoke to one of the ladies (Sabrina) and was informed the order did not come through to their account. Interesting as my card was charged
. Anyway they rush shipped my items (8/29) so I this weekend I had planned to be be really productive with the tank.
This is what I ordered:
- IceCap T5 Endcaps x 2
- Coral Vue T12 Screw Mount Stand Offs (Pair) x 1
- Sunlight Supply II T5 RetroFit Lamp Clips x 4
- Tunze Power Supply Unit 12-24V DC x 1
- ZEOvit Magnesium Complex 500ml x 1
- UV Lighting 36" 39w Aquasun T5 Lamp With Reflector x 5
- Miro-4 T5 Reflector for 39W Bulb & Clips x 2
This is what arrived Friday (8/30)...lol*
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*not pictured are the 5 T5 bulbs
I felt like I wanted to make a sandwich and had the peanut butter but no jellly...LOL.
Between changing the lights, regular water changes, changing the flow in the tank, and increasing my supplements (Alk, Mag, Cal) things are starting to look a bit better. I have noticed in my frag tank the and the main display some of the cyno is slowly disappearing. I have increased the flow in the tank and I am waiting on a new power source for my Tunze 6055. I have moved the WP-40 to the frag tank and I have it on one of the various flows. The flow is keeping the detritus from accumulating in one place and I am happy that the nasty sludge algae that was on the back of the tank is gone. The T5 lights have been off for several days now and I think they were part of the issue as well. They were giving off a weird yellowish light due to a bad bulb.
I still have a ways to go
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I tried a few different things but I could not get the shared slideshow to work from Flickr. Each time it would just display a black box on the screen when I selected preview so I gave up. It also wants the photo from a shared slideshow to be public so I had them public but it cluttered my Photostream. I have moved them back to private but the link should allow anyone that wants to see them to see them. I am attaching the link to the photos. Each photo has a date and is in order from when I initially started the build up until I had replaced the carpet with hardwood flooring.
From this
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To this
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To view the slide show do the following:
- Click on the first picture after clicking the link below
- Click on the the three little dots on the lower right
- Click on 'View Slideshow'
- Enjoy Recap!
Build Recap
Putting dates on the all the pictures was time consuming so I did not add a good description for each picture. I may go back and do that later or link them back the page on the build thread somehow.
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