Leonardo's Apogon Reef
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currymuetze
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Hi,
how many of the apagon leptacanthus do you have so far?
How often do you need to feed them?
I am thinking of a small group for my reef too, how many do you suggest as a minimum?
Thx
Thorsten
how many of the apagon leptacanthus do you have so far?
How often do you need to feed them?
I am thinking of a small group for my reef too, how many do you suggest as a minimum?
Thx
Thorsten
roninmagik1
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Sweet tank! Love the sandless appearance!
Decadence
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I always enjoyed looking at the pictures of your cardinals swimming through your acros. Years ago when you were first posting pictures of the formosa forest, I set a goal based on your tank to be able to enjoy something similar every day.
I snapped a couple pictures a couple nights ago of the first time I caught my cardinals out schooling. I'd like to share them with you and let you know that your tank was 100% my inspiration.
I snapped a couple pictures a couple nights ago of the first time I caught my cardinals out schooling. I'd like to share them with you and let you know that your tank was 100% my inspiration.
Wonton Soup
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Not bad. You have certainly achieved a minimalist look while maintaining healthy corals. When I look at the FTSs I don't ever get the feeling that what I'm seeing actually came from any part of the ocean or any ecosystem in the world at all. It looks much more like a man-made sculpture. I suppose that's exactly what it is. Good job never the less!
Thanks everyone!
Not anymore, when I just had a BB setup I experienced this problem, now I know you have to balance light/food/skimming for optimal coral colors. Just experiment with feeding more and reduce your lighting period when you having pale colors. make supre to check your parameters and check for AEFW.
Hello Greg, it has been a while indeed. Been distracted myself also, but it's good to be back from time to time.
I suggest to have four minimal. They are fed twice a day in my reef.
Regards, Leonardo
Not anymore, when I just had a BB setup I experienced this problem, now I know you have to balance light/food/skimming for optimal coral colors. Just experiment with feeding more and reduce your lighting period when you having pale colors. make supre to check your parameters and check for AEFW.
Hello Greg, it has been a while indeed. Been distracted myself also, but it's good to be back from time to time.
I suggest to have four minimal. They are fed twice a day in my reef.
Regards, Leonardo
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It has been a while since we had an update about Apogon Reef. And that's for a reason. After the summer holidays the reef suffered a major outbreak of Green hair algae (GHA), that was very hard to get rid of.
We found the solution for the problem, but it didn't disappear overnight. Steps we followed:
The rocks was taken out, soaked in Muriatic Acid two times, and then soaked in a solution of baking soda, to neutralize the rock. This effectively removed all the debris and green hair algae that was in and on the rock, but I also killed all the live on and in it.
That's why the rock was revived in a large bin of used aquarium water with some live rock, to seed the rock and bring life back into it.
During this several week process I cleaned all the glass, bottom and coral bases of GHA, and did several 50% water changes.
After two weeks, the rock was seeded enough and the tank clean and ready. I rearranged to rocks and glued all the corals back using super glue gel.
The GHA did come back a little, but 30% waterchanges every week, the use of 2 ml Vodka daily and the use of NP Biopellets XL got rid of it once and for all.
Some weeks ago I also added some more Apogon to the reef, it is "œApogon Reef" after all, and I can't call it this way with only 5 cardinals in it. The amount of Apogon will be expanded gradually, untill I reach the number of 30-40.
Please leave a comment or feedback, it is well appreciated!
We found the solution for the problem, but it didn't disappear overnight. Steps we followed:
The rocks was taken out, soaked in Muriatic Acid two times, and then soaked in a solution of baking soda, to neutralize the rock. This effectively removed all the debris and green hair algae that was in and on the rock, but I also killed all the live on and in it.
That's why the rock was revived in a large bin of used aquarium water with some live rock, to seed the rock and bring life back into it.
During this several week process I cleaned all the glass, bottom and coral bases of GHA, and did several 50% water changes.
After two weeks, the rock was seeded enough and the tank clean and ready. I rearranged to rocks and glued all the corals back using super glue gel.
The GHA did come back a little, but 30% waterchanges every week, the use of 2 ml Vodka daily and the use of NP Biopellets XL got rid of it once and for all.
Some weeks ago I also added some more Apogon to the reef, it is "œApogon Reef" after all, and I can't call it this way with only 5 cardinals in it. The amount of Apogon will be expanded gradually, untill I reach the number of 30-40.
Please leave a comment or feedback, it is well appreciated!
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