Powder Blue is taking nori now but not eating any frozen. Flame angel is eating well and actively searching out the food that the tangs aren't eating. The convict is not eating as far as I can see. When I observe from the doorway it swims around and looks alert, just not eating.
North Ridgeville Reef 72x36x24 eurobraced
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willj313: Thank you.
Polyp extension was better today so I think the yellow clown goby was doing something to bother the corals. Whether it was just sitting on the corals or nipping them, I don't know. All I know is that corals look better when polyps are extended fully.
Fish in QT are all still alive. Flame angel and Powder blue are eating well. I still have not seen the convict eat but is it is swimming around more and color looks good. The convict is the Powder blues puppy dog now. The convict follows the PB all over. No aggression between anybody either.
Polyp extension was better today so I think the yellow clown goby was doing something to bother the corals. Whether it was just sitting on the corals or nipping them, I don't know. All I know is that corals look better when polyps are extended fully.
Fish in QT are all still alive. Flame angel and Powder blue are eating well. I still have not seen the convict eat but is it is swimming around more and color looks good. The convict is the Powder blues puppy dog now. The convict follows the PB all over. No aggression between anybody either.
The convict is eating:thumbsup:. All the fish in QT are doing well. The convict and the powder blue are only eating nori, a lot of nori.
Acro's in the DT are looking better today. Two things changed: I removed the yellow clown goby and the pH has bumped up from a low of 7.8 to a low of 7.9-8.0. I stablized my pH by making more room for my macro algae to grow. I had been running the lights on my fuge 24 hrs and still am. Don't know which one did it.
Acro's in the DT are looking better today. Two things changed: I removed the yellow clown goby and the pH has bumped up from a low of 7.8 to a low of 7.9-8.0. I stablized my pH by making more room for my macro algae to grow. I had been running the lights on my fuge 24 hrs and still am. Don't know which one did it.
Update time. Everything id doing well. Corals are all growing, slow, but growing. Fish are all healthy including my newbies in QT. PE is good and my pH has been stable. My pH has been extremely stable fluctuating from 8.02 at night to 8.2 during the day. I think this has to do with my refugium. I have allowed the chaeto to grow without harvesting so I have a good amount now. I leave the lights on 24 hours. Here are some pic's my neighbor took.. HE has a good camera and knows what he is doing but my little frags still are ho humm. These pic's will be something I can look back on and say "Wow, those are so small"
FTS
Nem, Bubble, Monti
Pink Monti Cap: coloring back up
Monti Plating/encrusting/dig
Green Acro
Bought this as pink mille
Blue mille
Red Planet
Red monti digi
Cool pic
FTS
Nem, Bubble, Monti
Pink Monti Cap: coloring back up
Monti Plating/encrusting/dig
Green Acro
Bought this as pink mille
Blue mille
Red Planet
Red monti digi
Cool pic
Thanks Nata.
I bought a used doser for my two part today. It is the one off of BRS that needs a timer. Very low tech but IMO very effective. Thanks to Duane from CSEA for the good deal. Right now I am dosing 100ml of calc and alk every night. Hopefully I can get the dosers dialed in soon.
The tank is doing well still. The tangs are out of QT and assimilating to hierarchy of the tank. Corals are doing well and I hope to get some pictures up this weekend. The only coral not doing well is my red planet. It seems to be in pause mode. I hope it starts to take off soon.
I bought a used doser for my two part today. It is the one off of BRS that needs a timer. Very low tech but IMO very effective. Thanks to Duane from CSEA for the good deal. Right now I am dosing 100ml of calc and alk every night. Hopefully I can get the dosers dialed in soon.
The tank is doing well still. The tangs are out of QT and assimilating to hierarchy of the tank. Corals are doing well and I hope to get some pictures up this weekend. The only coral not doing well is my red planet. It seems to be in pause mode. I hope it starts to take off soon.
MarineGirl411
New member
Really pretty tank. I would love an AGE tank. Looking forward to some more pictures.
I have a yellow clown goby that bites my polyps on SPS as well. I did not know they did that. It makes me a little upset. They should post that kind of information on LA. =(
I have a yellow clown goby that bites my polyps on SPS as well. I did not know they did that. It makes me a little upset. They should post that kind of information on LA. =(
Rickyrooz1
Acropora Nut
What are your nutrient levels at that you have this covering your rocks?
That was my initial minicycle. Nitrates went up to 10PPM salifert at that time. In this picture, things are better then what first happened over the first week of the tank. All the rock was dry rock from BRS and this stuff started growing around day 5 of the tank. A lot of that stuff is gone now. What I am battling now is a little hair on the bottom. I have a bunch of hungry snails working their way through the algae now. Also, my nitrates and phosphates are not measurable and my refugium is up to par now.
Rickyrooz1
Acropora Nut
Does the BRS rock have a lot of phosphates in it? I've seen other tank have the same problem with this rock.
I guess its possible. My phosphates are 0 now but I didn't test phosphates at the begining. I did soak my rocks in RO/DI water for a week before putting them in the tank. It would have been a good idea to test that water to see what diffused out of the rock. The algae is going away now. It was pretty bad. The algae was making its own air bubbles at first like slime algae but that has stopped.
kalebsaker
New member
Nice tank, i had the same size tank in acrylic but gf thought it was overkill so it only lasted a couple months. Nice to see one going.
