My 29 reef

[TriGa22]

 

[TriGa22]

Here are some more updates, please feel welcome to add/comment on whatever! Thanks Happy New years!

 

[TriGa22]

 

[Apachie]

sweet supplies. lots of corraline growth on your rocks:rollface:

http://www.aquatraders.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=337 would be a nice light for your tank and at a good price.
btw i have never known what a refractometer does.

 

[bangaii man]

Very nice tank, the rock looks great also. you might want to consider adding a tang and algae (lawnmower) blenny to help eat your algae, and they are both reef safe.

 

[breutus]

I have to say after looking through this thread that I'm very impressed your tank has come along way and looks very good! I love the rockscape alot, and the DIY rock looks really good. you have done alot of things right but the biggest thing is you've taken it slow which a lot of people in this hobby don't do.

The biggest thing I have learned in this hobby is that "only bad things happen overnight!"


Apachie, refractometers are a more accurate way to tell your salinity level in the tank. plastic hydrometers fail easily

Lucas

 

[Reefer07]

That looks really good man. I'm 18 and I'm just upgrading my 10 gallon nano to a 29 so don't feel bad.

 

[IHOP]

Looks Great good job!

 

[weereef]

Looks Great! Your tank has come so far! I have a 29g that I am moving to my apartment from home in about a week. You have a lot of coraline algae growth. Do you dose calcium? How much light do you have on your tank? Do you have a refugium? When you switched from your hydrometer to your refractometer was there a drastic difference in the readings?

-Chad

 

[TriGa22]

Thanks everyone for the kind and generous comments. My tank right now is going through some hard times. To update, one of my clowns got brook and I treated it but he died. The other clown that is now lonley was getting beatin up, so I put him in a 5 gallon qt. Me being a nice guy lol I got him a new buddy and bumped him up into 10 gallon. Today I am adding both back to the 29.
The tank is going through a bad algea crisis right now and I have fuzzy yellow algea, hair algea, and some hair algea in the sand which is causing the sand to "build up". I dont know how to treat the algea becuase some of it I have never seen before.
Weerreef, I dont dose for calcium or really anything. On every water change (1 every sunday) I add a capfull of kent marine essential elements.I have 130 watt pc and a refugium with just live rock. when I switched there was a huge change the hydrometer read 1.026 and the refractometer read 1.030.I will post up some pictures today.
-Note I also got a six-line at the December reef club meeting.

 

[TriGa22]

Some updates

 

[TriGa22]

 

[kar93]

Looks good, Those Flame Angels are beautiful fish.

 

[breutus]

Algae blooms are a normal part of a tanks life at times, the best thing you can do is reduce nitrates and phosphates, any access nutrition for that matter even possibly cutting your lights down some. and pulling alot of it out by hand, andhopefully it wont come back if you keep it like that for a couple of weeks.

you may also want to change your lights if you havent in a while. as they get old they can shift to a spectrum that promotes algae growth.


Keep it up though it looks great

 

[PiXieCath]

Nice looking tank! I'm also impressed by the quality of your DIY rock!;-)

 

[TriGa22]

Thanks everyone. Yes the angels are amazingly beautiful.
I just recently changed the lights. The algea is slowly dissapating.
Thanks, the rock looks alot better than I expected.

 

[dzb912]

lookin good lookin good

 

[TriGa22]

Thank you, On tuesday Im getting some more corals.

 

[joyfnp]

Hi,Do you think the clay pot in the tank could be contributing to either phosphate or silica levels or something and thus to the algea problem?_

 

[TriGa22]

Joy, I dont believe so, I took it out because it was meant for my clowns to lay eggs on it. Here are some updated pictures.