Teddy's embarkment on the 55gal reef boat. Lets sail away!

[teddyzaper]

New arrivals

Lawnmower blenny
Carpenter wrasse
Sand sifting star
Porcelain crab
Blue leg hermits x5
Astrea snails x5
Orange acan Lord (getting dipped)
Orange ricordia (getting dipped)

I'll get a better picture when I can

All fish were eating, and all inverts look healthy. I know, but I simply do not have the space to quarantine. I will have to be very careful as I get more fish.

Did my second water change. Im continuing to follow the red Sea reef mature pro kit. Parameters looking good. 0 nitrites/ammonia, and 8-10 nitrate.

 

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Here is the wrasse. Absolutely stunning. I love these fish. On a side not, can't get the ricordia to stick onto the rock...

 

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Got a new fish and a new coral. Flame hawkfish and a very cool frogspawn. I'll get another pic when it opens up

 

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Picked up some new corals and a new fish. My carpenter looks like he may have some kind of fungus or something. Noticed after I brought home the new fish. I'll just keep feeding well and keep the tank clean. I'll be adding pictures soon

 

[teddyzaper]

As promised.

New fish. Red fin fairy wrasse. New one and the carpenter are good friends. Always swimming together.

Rock flower NEM. I love these and will certainly be adding a bunch more.

Season's greetings monti. Amazing coral, had to have. Hope it does well.

Misc acro frag. Anyone know how to get it to extend polyps? (Parameters at end of post)

A green echinata I believe. Fully puffed up and really pretty.

Orange echinata. Another pretty frag.

This crazy colored acan Lord. Another must get. As you can tell, I like my acans. (Gotta get better at photography. Maybe I'll buy a camera.)

Some kind of scroll coral I believe. Turbinaria? Or is it something else. Please correct me.

A pretty war coral (again not 100% on that)

2 zoa frags that I placed on zoa island. Hope to get the whole rock encrusted with different types of zoa's.

I just cleaned and tipped them over, so they are angry.

Parameters:
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 3
Phosphate 0-0.02
pH 8.2
KH 7 (dosing to raise, will measure again tonight)
Mg 1320 (minor dose as well)
CA 3755 (same)
Salinity 1.026
Temp 76


I've also added chemipure in my reactor. I'll see how I like it. They didn't have carbon at my LFS (well, no good carbon anyhow)

 

[teddyzaper]

Fts

Sump

Dosing chems. Just manually for now

 

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https://vimeo.com/198519849

 

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Just measured my alk/mg/calc and looks like alk is doing well, getting up to 8.4 soon, need to dose more calc per day, and more magnesium as well.

 

[Bratyboy2]

tagging along like the rock work

 

[teddyzaper]

tagging along like the rock work

Thanks! I think i'll never be 100% happy with my rock work, no matter what i do, but i think i got close.

 

[teddyzaper]

Got a kamoer 3 head dosing pump. Doing calc/alk/mag testing to see how much my corals are consuming then i'll be setting it up! Exciting.

On a more sad note, one of the frogspawn heads died off, i hope the other one makes it, its looking ok. The 2 wrasses are getting bullied by the flame hawk. Hopefully once i add more fish it wont pick on them as much. I do plan on adding other aggressive fish, so i may end up removing the wrasses, which is too bad since they are very pretty!

 

[Anthony357]

im with you, i always seem to want to 'rearrange' the rock work lol, its like a never ending battle!

I have the kamouer x4 pump and love it! How you liking the lights so far?

 

[teddyzaper]

im with you, i always seem to want to 'rearrange' the rock work lol, its like a never ending battle!

I have the kamouer x4 pump and love it! How you liking the lights so far?

Yep, I read great things about kamoer. Haven't set it up yet, I got my VOSS water bottles and just finished drinking them (I ain't gonna waste $4 water!) So I need to make them into my dosing containers now.

It's to soon to tell how I like the light for growth, but I certainly like the light they put out and the features. My corals look stunning under them. I also played with the settings to make for a nice sunrise/set.

Going to the LFS today, want to pick up some fish and hopefully some LPS that isn't just acans. Love to get a lobo or scoly!

 

[marleesan]

I think you need to slow down. You've already added quite a few fish this week, and need to let your tank adjust. I also recommend getting a quarantine setup to prevent parasites

 

[Anthony357]

acans are nice, i have a few frags of those too. One of my favorite frags is my orange bam bam zoa's. They look amazing and have been multiplying faster than anything else in the tank lol.

 

[teddyzaper]

I think you need to slow down. You've already added quite a few fish this week, and need to let your tank adjust. I also recommend getting a quarantine setup to prevent parasites

I simply cannot quarantine. It's not an option for me. Also I added the fish a while ago, I just update this post every once in a while. Most of the time I'll type half a post then come back in a few days and finish it.

Last fish I added was the red fin wrasse and that was last Wednesday, over a week ago. All parameters are stable as well which allows me to add another fish, or maybe 2 smaller fish.

As for corals, it was my understanding that adding corals can be done as often as I like, was I incorrect? Can adding a bunch of corals cause any spikes? I'll look into this

 

[teddyzaper]

acans are nice, i have a few frags of those too. One of my favorite frags is my orange bam bam zoa's. They look amazing and have been multiplying faster than anything else in the tank lol.

I have 2 zoa frags, while they are pretty, they are so tiny it's hard for me to really appreciate them as much as the acans. I'm sure once the zoa's cover the rock it will be amazing.

 

[Anthony357]

They multiply like crazy atleast lol