Tony B (UK)
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28 Sep 2012
Small update.
I'm slowly moving over more sps and securely fixing colonies with putty.
I managed to find a powder blue tang, I was reluctant to add one without quarantining first, but my self discipline collapsed. The tang promised me he was spot free, he assured me. So I hope he was not telling fibs!
I turned off my phosphate reactor for a few days, as the tank looked a little too starved of nutrients, the rock still looks like virgin reef bones. Sure enough I've now got a very mild dusting of algae, but only the brown stuff, hardly any green. I guess it's better to be in this position rather than having huge algae outbreaks, as it's far easier to add nutrients than remove them. It's fair to say that the curing process on the reef bones worked a treat.
There has been a huge explosion in microfauna, loads of little pods and shrimps.
The corals are not settled yet - I think it will take a few months, every time I add new corals the water goes cloudy with putty and it upsets the system for a couple of days; I usually use 2-3 packs of milliput per large colony.
Colours are, as expected, slightly down but overall the majority of corals and the system as a whole is doing very well indeed.
Enough pointless waffle, here's some pIcKtUoRs:
Small update.
I'm slowly moving over more sps and securely fixing colonies with putty.
I managed to find a powder blue tang, I was reluctant to add one without quarantining first, but my self discipline collapsed. The tang promised me he was spot free, he assured me. So I hope he was not telling fibs!
I turned off my phosphate reactor for a few days, as the tank looked a little too starved of nutrients, the rock still looks like virgin reef bones. Sure enough I've now got a very mild dusting of algae, but only the brown stuff, hardly any green. I guess it's better to be in this position rather than having huge algae outbreaks, as it's far easier to add nutrients than remove them. It's fair to say that the curing process on the reef bones worked a treat.
There has been a huge explosion in microfauna, loads of little pods and shrimps.
The corals are not settled yet - I think it will take a few months, every time I add new corals the water goes cloudy with putty and it upsets the system for a couple of days; I usually use 2-3 packs of milliput per large colony.
Colours are, as expected, slightly down but overall the majority of corals and the system as a whole is doing very well indeed.
Enough pointless waffle, here's some pIcKtUoRs:
