Mike's 200g
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Myka
Reefing since '93
Hmm, none of those are heavy metal absorbers.
MichaelW
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I feed 5 cubes of frozen food a day. Usually 4 hikari mysis cubes and 1 spirulina brine. Sometimes i switch out one mysis for another spirulina brine or a bloodworm every now and then. Nori sheet about 2 times per week and a pinch of seaweed extreme pellets everyday.
Feeding is spread out over multiple times a day.
The 2 fish i lost i have had for multiple years.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Hmm, that is a pretty good mix of foods and quantity, if they are eating that is good. When I get new fish/stress signs I have fed up to 5 or six times a day, with enough that the whole tank is guaranteed to get food. I'm not familiar with medications, hopefully the situation will sort itself out soon.
MichaelW
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Hey bud. Thanks for checking in.
So update of where we are.
Introduced a powder blue... Didnt qt.. Big mistake. He attacked everyone, infected the tank with velvet died and took almost everyone with him. Remaining living fish (hippo, damsel, chromis and yellow tang) are in quarentine been treated with copper and are fine now. Display and connected frag system is fallow.
Have what i think is dinos breaking out.. So as no corals or fish in dt i had lights off for a while anyway. Nutrients shot way up higher than theyhave ever been.. But as there is no fish in the system now i havnt woried trying to lower them as im sure they will lower with general maintenecr and no feeding as no fish.
The few corals i do have in the frag tank are doing "ok" not great. The dino or cyano stuffis clearly borhering them as it sometimes "hangs on" to their branches.
The dino stuff however doesnt seem to be toxic as snails are not dieing.
Lights are back on in main tank now...maybe try yo promote some green algea growth... But all that seems to be growing is the cyano or dino and bubble algea as i now have no foxface or naso to eat it.
I have been dosing a fair amount of good bacteria each day for a few days now to see if i can out compete the crap. Dont care if i get a bacteria bloom either as no fish to wory about. Part of me is thinking to add a bunch of bleach to the tank to kill it all and then start over.
Interestingly i had some remnants of my monti setosa left on my rockwork that had encrusted. Fully expected it to die with no lighting for probably like 5 weeks... Nope still alive actually!
Oh yeah i also found montipora eating nudis on a couple my monti frags in frag tank 2.... So thats fun.
Zacktosterone
Active member
i hate dino
MichaelW
New member
Damn Mike, sorry to see the troubles buddy
These times really kick you in the guts mate, i'm glad you're sticking it out as you had such beautiful acros under LED's so i hope to see it all again down the track
Thanks mate. Yeah im not going anywhere. Havnt been doing much with the tank lately though (kids taking up all my time) have not tested anything in weeks. Or even been dosing alk etc (doubt there is much demand) the corals i have in the frag tank seem to be holding on ok.
I did get a chance to do a complete clean out of the frag tank with a waterchange yesterday though. So we will see how long before its covered in brown junk again.
Just a quick cell phone shot.
Usernam Invalid
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Really like that frag tank what are the dimensions?
