New to hobby!! HELP ME

[dbsalinas89]

How long does it take a hammer coral to split?

 

[dbsalinas89]

My condy anemone has doubled in size. Is there a way to contain their growth? Like i dont want him to take up more than 12 inches wide in the tank but obviously i dont wanna just snip at his tentacles lol

 

[dbsalinas89]

Cant express enough how all these vibrant colors my rocks are turning makes me excited! This rock was white when the tank finished its cycle a couple weeks ago.

 

[jgalen0025]

welcome to the hobby

 

[dbsalinas89]

Thanks!

 

[dbsalinas89]

Pics of my corals and tank update! Everything doing great! The first mushroom pic is one i cut to make 2. The star polyp is not fully open the t5 had not come on at this point and the hammer has both heads splitting thats why there is the bubble in the middle. Almost forgot pic of the condy. The fish are sailfin tang, regal tang, firefish, domino damsel, snowflake eel. Inverts cleaner shrimp, 10 nassarius, 20 turbo snails, 20 blue leg hermits, 10 red hermits, 2 bumble bee snails, and pencil urchin. Coral list: hammer coral, frogspawn, nepthea, ricordia, rhodactis mushrooms, condy anemone, starburst star polyp, red graciliara, green shaving bush, green fern.
Age of tank 2 months
Water parameters

Salinity: 1.024

Calcium: 420

Phosp: 0

Ammonia: 0

Nitrite: 0

Nitrate: 5

Dkh: 12

Ph: 8.2


Live rock / sand
45 lbs of purple rock
90 lbs of Fiji live rock
90 lbs of live carribean fine sand

Lighting:

48' T5 HO
1 aqua blue plus
1 white

48' Reef brite all blue led

Filtration:
Penguin 350 filter
Aqua-c remora-s hob skimmer with mj-1200 pump

Flow:
2x 1600 gph powerheads on 5 minute intervals with jbj wave maker kit

Dosing: magnesium, strontium, calcium, dts, iodine

Feeding:

homemade garlic shrimp mixture for fish

Silversides for anemone

3 cubes brine shrimp a week

 

[dbsalinas89]

 

[dbsalinas89]

Made a homemaid canopy tonight with 2x4 and plywood lol 14 inches tall worked out well to put lights well above water and increase the spread of the reefbrite

 

[ReneeF]

Pics of my corals and tank update! Everything doing great! The first mushroom pic is one i cut to make 2. The star polyp is not fully open the t5 had not come on at this point and the hammer has both heads splitting thats why there is the bubble in the middle. Almost forgot pic of the condy. The fish are sailfin tang, regal tang, firefish, domino damsel, snowflake eel. Inverts cleaner shrimp, 10 nassarius, 20 turbo snails, 20 blue leg hermits, 10 red hermits, 2 bumble bee snails, and pencil urchin. Coral list: hammer coral, frogspawn, nepthea, ricordia, rhodactis mushrooms, condy anemone, starburst star polyp, red graciliara, green shaving bush, green fern.
Age of tank 2 months
Water parameters

Salinity: 1.024

Calcium: 420

Phosp: 0

Ammonia: 0

Nitrite: 0

Nitrate: 5

Dkh: 12

Ph: 8.2


Live rock / sand
45 lbs of purple rock
90 lbs of Fiji live rock
90 lbs of live carribean fine sand

Lighting:

48' T5 HO
1 aqua blue plus
1 white

48' Reef brite all blue led

Filtration:
Penguin 350 filter
Aqua-c remora-s hob skimmer with mj-1200 pump

Flow:
2x 1600 gph powerheads on 5 minute intervals with jbj wave maker kit

Dosing: magnesium, strontium, calcium, dts, iodine

Feeding:

homemade garlic shrimp mixture for fish

Silversides for anemone

3 cubes brine shrimp a week

 

[ReneeF]

 

[ReneeF]

Sorry, couldn't see your photos.

 

[Reef Frog]

You should get rid if the HOB filters if you can. You should really run a skimmer and if you're dead set against a sump, a purpose built in tank or HOB skimmer is your only option. You're also going to eventually need internal power heads to provide the flow needed to keep corals. Good luck.

 

[dbsalinas89]

Reef frog i posted in the updated post above my protein skimmer (hob) and my powerheads. I have 4600 gph of flow

 

[dbsalinas89]

I dont really have a place for a carbon bag so really im using the hob filter for the bacteria on bio wheels and i change the carbon inside filter as needed. I have heard a lot of people say trash it but i dont see what it could be hurting so i havent removed it yet.

 

[enzo0000]

Noticed you said that you have a snowflake eel, don't know if anyone else commented on it. It is a carnivore, your CUC and small fish will disappear when the eel gets bigger. Thats not saying it will or wont eat your livestock...just something to think about.

Good luck and welcome to the hobby

 

[dbsalinas89]

Worst mistake ever this morning... Go in to take my filter out and what happens? I pull the filter out and there are these things the size of pencil erasers flicking around like crazy so i run to the sink freaking out ( first thought was somehow a waterbug laid eggs in my filter ) i start washing it off and these things are flipping everywhere while my girlfriend snaps this pic..... Soon to find out i just washed amphipods down the drain.

 

[dbsalinas89]

Update on tank!

 

[dbsalinas89]

 

[dbsalinas89]

Question!!!


This green on the rocks. Is that a good algae? Its a shiny glittery green?

Tank out of cycle now almost 2 months for a age of tank

 

[reef r madness]

Do you have a sump?you should check into an algae scrubber.............crickets chirping