Psyire
Premium Member
Thanks for the reminder, I definately need to do an update...
Here's a quick one:
With the absence of my Anthias school (death due to jumping and a few mysteries) My bigger fish were very 'nerve' wracked. They were touchy and sketchy. I figured this was due to the fact that there were no smaller fish swimming around (or very few).
I decided to add some smaller fish to see what happened, and I was right. Since adding a few more smaller fish that openly swim in the upper part of the tank, my bigger fish have totally relaxed.
Current Fish List:
4x Yellow Stripe Cardinalfish
3x Blue/Green Chromis
1x Threadfin Angelfish
1x Ocel. Clownfish
1x Magnificent Foxface
1x Orange Spot Rabbitfish
1x Bluethroat Trigger
1x Purple Tang
1x Redsea Sailfin Tang
1x Atlantic Blue Tang
1x Lawnmower Blenny
1x Mandarin Dragonet (Female)
I just recently added a Female Mandarin Dragonet to replace the male that I had lost due to unknown reasons. So far she is doing great and getting fatter by the day. (a tad skinny in the store)
I'm still fighting the brown algae which I have concluded is due to my high nitrates (35) I am currently in the process of trying to bring these down. (more on this below)
I added the Threadfin Angelfish to try and do something about my huge outbreak of aiptasia. This worked wonders as she has ate every last one in a short amount of time. (also eats anything I put in the tank including Nori) She has left all my corals alone except my big matt of Green Star Polyps. These stopped coming out and now the entire matt has pretty much died off. (small price to pay for the eradication of Aiptasia)
Just yesterday I caught a hardbodied crab that had been in the tank for over a year and I've been trying to get him out ever since. (big shot glass & bait worked finally) He might be the explaination behind a few mysterious fish deaths.
Ich was introduced to my tank awhile back with these new additions. (only my Atlantic Blue Tang showing signs, and I've been hard on controlling it) So don't sell your QT setup until you have went atleast 1 year without needing it.
I'm working now at reducing my Nitrate as it is high, I'm sure the big matt of Star Polyp that is decaying has something to do with it. (almost gone now)
I'm looking into running the Ultralith Zeo type system by Fauna Marin as people seem to be having very good success with it. Perhaps this will allow me to get my water back to where I want it. My fish are also increasing in size at an alarming rate, which isn't helping any, but I can't bring myself to get rid of any. Plus I see Reef setups with just as many fish, so I'm convinced I can make it all work.
So as you can see it's been a back and forth battle for me, but I think I'm slowly winning. I look at the tank right now and like what I see. Everything in there seems to be doing better and It's quite enjoyable once again.
I also got a beta Ethernet module for my Aquatronica and it is working well, but needs another firmware update before it can really show it's true colors. More information can by found on my review thread here: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=940263
I plan to take some more pictures soon, and I'll post them as soon as I do.
(sorry for the lack of updates but now with winter upon us, I'm sure I'll have a lot more time to keep this thread up to date)
Here's a quick one:
With the absence of my Anthias school (death due to jumping and a few mysteries) My bigger fish were very 'nerve' wracked. They were touchy and sketchy. I figured this was due to the fact that there were no smaller fish swimming around (or very few).
I decided to add some smaller fish to see what happened, and I was right. Since adding a few more smaller fish that openly swim in the upper part of the tank, my bigger fish have totally relaxed.
Current Fish List:
4x Yellow Stripe Cardinalfish
3x Blue/Green Chromis
1x Threadfin Angelfish
1x Ocel. Clownfish
1x Magnificent Foxface
1x Orange Spot Rabbitfish
1x Bluethroat Trigger
1x Purple Tang
1x Redsea Sailfin Tang
1x Atlantic Blue Tang
1x Lawnmower Blenny
1x Mandarin Dragonet (Female)
I just recently added a Female Mandarin Dragonet to replace the male that I had lost due to unknown reasons. So far she is doing great and getting fatter by the day. (a tad skinny in the store)
I'm still fighting the brown algae which I have concluded is due to my high nitrates (35) I am currently in the process of trying to bring these down. (more on this below)
I added the Threadfin Angelfish to try and do something about my huge outbreak of aiptasia. This worked wonders as she has ate every last one in a short amount of time. (also eats anything I put in the tank including Nori) She has left all my corals alone except my big matt of Green Star Polyps. These stopped coming out and now the entire matt has pretty much died off. (small price to pay for the eradication of Aiptasia)
Just yesterday I caught a hardbodied crab that had been in the tank for over a year and I've been trying to get him out ever since. (big shot glass & bait worked finally) He might be the explaination behind a few mysterious fish deaths.
Ich was introduced to my tank awhile back with these new additions. (only my Atlantic Blue Tang showing signs, and I've been hard on controlling it) So don't sell your QT setup until you have went atleast 1 year without needing it.
I'm working now at reducing my Nitrate as it is high, I'm sure the big matt of Star Polyp that is decaying has something to do with it. (almost gone now)
I'm looking into running the Ultralith Zeo type system by Fauna Marin as people seem to be having very good success with it. Perhaps this will allow me to get my water back to where I want it. My fish are also increasing in size at an alarming rate, which isn't helping any, but I can't bring myself to get rid of any. Plus I see Reef setups with just as many fish, so I'm convinced I can make it all work.
So as you can see it's been a back and forth battle for me, but I think I'm slowly winning. I look at the tank right now and like what I see. Everything in there seems to be doing better and It's quite enjoyable once again.
I also got a beta Ethernet module for my Aquatronica and it is working well, but needs another firmware update before it can really show it's true colors. More information can by found on my review thread here: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=940263
I plan to take some more pictures soon, and I'll post them as soon as I do.
(sorry for the lack of updates but now with winter upon us, I'm sure I'll have a lot more time to keep this thread up to date)
