New 265g from Portugal
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sahin
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That was a pretty nasty AEFW infestation. Glad you are on the road to recovery. Coral show good colours despite the recent issues.
I see you you are getting into zoas too LOL. I got some too. Do another 2 WHOLE coral dipping sessions. Not just random...its a lot of hard work but you will appreciate it when you know for certain they are gone.
And please sort out the white balance on the camera :headwally: You've got a top class camera and you arent using it to its full potential. :beer:
I see you you are getting into zoas too LOL. I got some too. Do another 2 WHOLE coral dipping sessions. Not just random...its a lot of hard work but you will appreciate it when you know for certain they are gone.
And please sort out the white balance on the camera :headwally: You've got a top class camera and you arent using it to its full potential. :beer:
Hello everyone,
I have been thru lot lately in my aquarium ...
Aptaisa outbreak, AEFW (solved finally), dictyota algae, pale corals and I lost lots of fishes to Crypto and Brookynela you name it.
I lost a lot of fishes:
1x Naso elegans
1x tennenti
1x pyroferus
2x oceallaris
10x anthias
1x leucosternon
1x stigmatura
2x filefish
I cannot even count anymore the amount of times I talked and thought to quit.
A friend of mine looking at the corals and the algae outbreak told me to increase the water changes with NSW and stop dosing any products for a couple of weeks.
I did that leveraging the WC to vacuum the algae with a air tube (10mm). Imagine what is to change 200 litres of water with 10mm tubing??? :mad2::mad2::mad2:
So with a heavy 3 month fight I got rid of aptaisa (the bulk of them at least)
With two and a half months of NSW WC I changed 5.400 litres of water, 200 litres every 3/4 days and I am in the process of dealing with the dictyota. I am trying to find the fish that eats it and meanwhile doing the WC and removing as much as I can.
I also bought 10 Kg of live rock to enhance the biodiversity of my system as it was too sterile. That led to an aditional layout change.
The results are to be seen:
The new rock:
When I started to vacuum!
And lately. This is what I remove every 3 days.
It get's into return pump, tunzes, skimmer, etc.
3 days after vacuum ... here she is all back!
Continues:
I have been thru lot lately in my aquarium ...
Aptaisa outbreak, AEFW (solved finally), dictyota algae, pale corals and I lost lots of fishes to Crypto and Brookynela you name it.
I lost a lot of fishes:
1x Naso elegans
1x tennenti
1x pyroferus
2x oceallaris
10x anthias
1x leucosternon
1x stigmatura
2x filefish
I cannot even count anymore the amount of times I talked and thought to quit.
A friend of mine looking at the corals and the algae outbreak told me to increase the water changes with NSW and stop dosing any products for a couple of weeks.
I did that leveraging the WC to vacuum the algae with a air tube (10mm). Imagine what is to change 200 litres of water with 10mm tubing??? :mad2::mad2::mad2:
So with a heavy 3 month fight I got rid of aptaisa (the bulk of them at least)
With two and a half months of NSW WC I changed 5.400 litres of water, 200 litres every 3/4 days and I am in the process of dealing with the dictyota. I am trying to find the fish that eats it and meanwhile doing the WC and removing as much as I can.
I also bought 10 Kg of live rock to enhance the biodiversity of my system as it was too sterile. That led to an aditional layout change.
The results are to be seen:
The new rock:
When I started to vacuum!
And lately. This is what I remove every 3 days.
It get's into return pump, tunzes, skimmer, etc.
3 days after vacuum ... here she is all back!
Continues:
Hello Sahin
You know I can't ... I don't know how.
Next time I am in London (hopefully next January 1st week) I will take my Canon 400D and you can give some quick pointers.
Here are some updates. A lot has changed ... from construction, to cable management ...
Changed some gear ...
removed the Tunze 9v from ATO and replaced it with the PMUP
Also replace two of my Tunze 6095 for two WAVs. Very happy so far with these pumps and eager to replace the other two Tunze (that I will keep as a backup)
Nov.18th ... sorry for the crappy picture but this was the state of the nation
And also bought a new viewer that allows me to hold the phone inside
Some of the pictures in the next post (crappy ones since I own a iPhone)
I am waiting for Samsung S8 to come out next Feb ... :hmm3:
Hello Rui. Good to see the progress on your tank. Please post some nice DSLR photos of your corals.
You know I can't ... I don't know how.
Next time I am in London (hopefully next January 1st week) I will take my Canon 400D and you can give some quick pointers.
Here are some updates. A lot has changed ... from construction, to cable management ...
Changed some gear ...
removed the Tunze 9v from ATO and replaced it with the PMUP
Also replace two of my Tunze 6095 for two WAVs. Very happy so far with these pumps and eager to replace the other two Tunze (that I will keep as a backup)
Nov.18th ... sorry for the crappy picture but this was the state of the nation
And also bought a new viewer that allows me to hold the phone inside
Some of the pictures in the next post (crappy ones since I own a iPhone)
I am waiting for Samsung S8 to come out next Feb ... :hmm3:
orange digitata
Bought also the Jebao harness from FishStreetStore that allows me to plug my Jebao 12.000l/h return pump to a VDM port from APEX and free one outlet.
Another good purchase was a Kindle Fire 7" in London airport black friday for 30€ that allows me to have an APEX Fusion console
Polip extension at night
and the chaeto in the fuge growing like mad
on 25.Nov.2017
Garf bonsai
Bought also the Jebao harness from FishStreetStore that allows me to plug my Jebao 12.000l/h return pump to a VDM port from APEX and free one outlet.
Another good purchase was a Kindle Fire 7" in London airport black friday for 30€ that allows me to have an APEX Fusion console
Polip extension at night
and the chaeto in the fuge growing like mad
on 25.Nov.2017
Garf bonsai
nana
Sahin's tort (finally i took the first frag out of it for backup)
tenuis (really hoping for this to be the walt disney - already started to get red and yellow tips)
shortcake (microclados)
and the final work for cable mangement
Lastly the refugium (former frag system) without the massive ball of chaeto
Hope you like it.
Still a lot to be done. I want to redo my sump, implement the automatic water changes and some other stuff that I will keep posting as time allows it.
All the best,
Rui
Sahin's tort (finally i took the first frag out of it for backup)
tenuis (really hoping for this to be the walt disney - already started to get red and yellow tips)
shortcake (microclados)
and the final work for cable mangement
Lastly the refugium (former frag system) without the massive ball of chaeto
Hope you like it.
Still a lot to be done. I want to redo my sump, implement the automatic water changes and some other stuff that I will keep posting as time allows it.
All the best,
Rui
Hello again ...
Keeping my monologue. :reading:
Due to Sahin suggestion I decided to take the dust out of my old DSLR ...
It's a 12y old Canon 400D with 17-55 lens that comes with it. I also used a 50mm 1.8 that I have specially for fish photos.
It's just the first pictures but not so bad for first attempt!
31.12.2016
Keeping my monologue. :reading:
Due to Sahin suggestion I decided to take the dust out of my old DSLR ...
It's a 12y old Canon 400D with 17-55 lens that comes with it. I also used a 50mm 1.8 that I have specially for fish photos.
It's just the first pictures but not so bad for first attempt!
31.12.2016
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