kuuchekii23
New member
Hello everyone,
I used to be a member here about 5-6 years ago when i had my first 29G tank. I couldn't remember my log in info so created a new account. Needless to say, I learned a lot browsing this forum, gaining so much knowledge from our kind members. then I sold the small tank and set up my current 75G with a 20G sump and 3 X 96 W PCs, protein skimmer and about 80-100 lbs of LR and so on. through out this years my tank went through some major changes especially thru the past 3 years that I went back school and of course spend lot less time on it. I even decided to sell the tank and forget about it ...but i just could not. I am going to keep the tank. I have made some improvements.. more frequent water changes.. balancing the chemicals.. brought it back to life. fish are pretty healthy and the corals are mainly mushrooms, polyps as u can see in the pics. the protein skimmer stopped working 4 years ago and due to the pump failure. fortunately i have enough LR in there to do the filtration, but now i want to step it up and bring a little more colors and introduce new species of coral to the tank. the skimmer will be fixed in a few days. how ever im not planing to skim 24/7. as you can see mushrooms have no problem growing in the tank. infact, i have way too many and need to reduce the quantity...but not too sure how?...I really dont want to yank them off and trash them. I got some pulsing Xenia few weeks ago, which did fine in the beginning and stated to die out as you see in the pictures. I mix my salt using Instant O salt mix. my chemicals are :
B-ionic Calcium buffer
Magnesium
Kent Iodid
Marine snow
coral essentials
iron
stronium
that i dose twice a week one capful. I am not too sure what the levels are (student life style leaves little room to spend on important items such as test kits).
using the IO salt do i still need to dose the chemicals mentioned above?
what am I doin wrong with xenia ?
how do I trim down the mushrooms? I know my LFS does not give any credit and that sucks. since my budget is reak tight right now, I will be happy to trade some of the carpet and red mushrooms with fellow members living near by (LA area)
I am looking forward to add some zoas, acan, (nice vibrant colors) and anything that u guys may suggest which can survive my tank and give nice coloration...
I have been out of the loop for so long...so please let me know what I should do to improve the quality of my tank. glad to be back and looking forward to learn and contribute as much as i can.
here are the pics
two years ago
NOW
thank you in advance...
regards,
Art
I used to be a member here about 5-6 years ago when i had my first 29G tank. I couldn't remember my log in info so created a new account. Needless to say, I learned a lot browsing this forum, gaining so much knowledge from our kind members. then I sold the small tank and set up my current 75G with a 20G sump and 3 X 96 W PCs, protein skimmer and about 80-100 lbs of LR and so on. through out this years my tank went through some major changes especially thru the past 3 years that I went back school and of course spend lot less time on it. I even decided to sell the tank and forget about it ...but i just could not. I am going to keep the tank. I have made some improvements.. more frequent water changes.. balancing the chemicals.. brought it back to life. fish are pretty healthy and the corals are mainly mushrooms, polyps as u can see in the pics. the protein skimmer stopped working 4 years ago and due to the pump failure. fortunately i have enough LR in there to do the filtration, but now i want to step it up and bring a little more colors and introduce new species of coral to the tank. the skimmer will be fixed in a few days. how ever im not planing to skim 24/7. as you can see mushrooms have no problem growing in the tank. infact, i have way too many and need to reduce the quantity...but not too sure how?...I really dont want to yank them off and trash them. I got some pulsing Xenia few weeks ago, which did fine in the beginning and stated to die out as you see in the pictures. I mix my salt using Instant O salt mix. my chemicals are :
B-ionic Calcium buffer
Magnesium
Kent Iodid
Marine snow
coral essentials
iron
stronium
that i dose twice a week one capful. I am not too sure what the levels are (student life style leaves little room to spend on important items such as test kits).
using the IO salt do i still need to dose the chemicals mentioned above?
what am I doin wrong with xenia ?
how do I trim down the mushrooms? I know my LFS does not give any credit and that sucks. since my budget is reak tight right now, I will be happy to trade some of the carpet and red mushrooms with fellow members living near by (LA area)
I am looking forward to add some zoas, acan, (nice vibrant colors) and anything that u guys may suggest which can survive my tank and give nice coloration...
I have been out of the loop for so long...so please let me know what I should do to improve the quality of my tank. glad to be back and looking forward to learn and contribute as much as i can.
here are the pics
two years ago
NOW
thank you in advance...
regards,
Art
