The Coral Kid
New member
ive been maintaining the blank space of a 160 l / 39 us gal tank
for three years now
iv recently finished yet not hooked up my sump
and i have just bought a overflow box and about to purchase a new set of mh to replace the set that does not light the entire tank my tanks a metre long and my lighting covers only half of that adequetly :/
in the mean time i have some fairly un healthy looking corals that probably need some love care time and money spent on them
one fairly sad looking torch coral who has...greatly reduced his size from four nice big clusters to 1 midget midget cluster and one tiny cluster
and one leathery sort of thing that i dont even know the name of that is having a very hard time
one fox coral who is reasonably happy but not extending to her *full potential*
and a brown mushroom and neon green mushroom farm which breeds.... and breeds... photosyntesizes.. and breeds a little more
my clean up crew consists of...:
alot of limpits
i previously had two shrimp
they died under mysterious causes
very slowly probably over feeding
my ampipods are vicious and eat anything that wont eat them first
i have to try really hard to keep my system in balance because i cant run to my lfs and get a chemical say to bump up ph or lower litrates etc etc
im also considering purchasing over time a
bubble coral (cats eye)
plate coral (long tentacles)
a pair of clowns
and im thinking about an anemone but i think ill wait on that one
ill also post a pic of my skimmer and set up sort of thing so you can get the general gist of how crap a tank can be when you live a couple hundred miles away from any sort of reef shop
i run a eheim canister filter to give some water circ and cleaning
and i add calcium strontium iodide
my water is distilled so pretty much nothing but h2o and whatever they put in the red sea seasalt
Tank set up in basic form
berlin type
160l / 39 gallons main tank
39l / 10 gallons un hooked sump (ordered the overflow box)
un identified skimmer
eheim canister filter
fairly slow but well spread water flow
{metal halide of unknown wattage / kelvin} 5-6 hours
{two atinics of unknown wattage or type in general} 6-7 hours/overnight
these are being replaced with
36 inch sunpod 250 watt 14 k (x2) with moon leds
inhabitants include
hundreds of limpits
unhealty torch coral and unhealthy leather
content fox coral
Breeding like they have the place to them selves mushrooms neon green/brown
distilled water
redsea salt
calcium strontium iodide trace elements added
unfed growing brine shrimp as you read
so basically my two questions are
how can i improve my chances of growing the torch back to full health
and
is there something im doing wrong with my fox
and if you can give me any useful advice that would be great
remember everything i need to buy takes 2 weeks to get here :eek2:
sorry about the lack or pictures of the torch crappy camera :/
for three years now
iv recently finished yet not hooked up my sump
and i have just bought a overflow box and about to purchase a new set of mh to replace the set that does not light the entire tank my tanks a metre long and my lighting covers only half of that adequetly :/
in the mean time i have some fairly un healthy looking corals that probably need some love care time and money spent on them
one fairly sad looking torch coral who has...greatly reduced his size from four nice big clusters to 1 midget midget cluster and one tiny cluster
and one leathery sort of thing that i dont even know the name of that is having a very hard time
one fox coral who is reasonably happy but not extending to her *full potential*
and a brown mushroom and neon green mushroom farm which breeds.... and breeds... photosyntesizes.. and breeds a little more
my clean up crew consists of...:
alot of limpits
i previously had two shrimp
they died under mysterious causes
very slowly probably over feeding
my ampipods are vicious and eat anything that wont eat them first
i have to try really hard to keep my system in balance because i cant run to my lfs and get a chemical say to bump up ph or lower litrates etc etc
im also considering purchasing over time a
bubble coral (cats eye)
plate coral (long tentacles)
a pair of clowns
and im thinking about an anemone but i think ill wait on that one
ill also post a pic of my skimmer and set up sort of thing so you can get the general gist of how crap a tank can be when you live a couple hundred miles away from any sort of reef shop
i run a eheim canister filter to give some water circ and cleaning
and i add calcium strontium iodide
my water is distilled so pretty much nothing but h2o and whatever they put in the red sea seasalt
Tank set up in basic form
berlin type
160l / 39 gallons main tank
39l / 10 gallons un hooked sump (ordered the overflow box)
un identified skimmer
eheim canister filter
fairly slow but well spread water flow
{metal halide of unknown wattage / kelvin} 5-6 hours
{two atinics of unknown wattage or type in general} 6-7 hours/overnight
these are being replaced with
36 inch sunpod 250 watt 14 k (x2) with moon leds
inhabitants include
hundreds of limpits
unhealty torch coral and unhealthy leather
content fox coral
Breeding like they have the place to them selves mushrooms neon green/brown
distilled water
redsea salt
calcium strontium iodide trace elements added
unfed growing brine shrimp as you read
so basically my two questions are
how can i improve my chances of growing the torch back to full health
and
is there something im doing wrong with my fox
and if you can give me any useful advice that would be great
remember everything i need to buy takes 2 weeks to get here :eek2:
sorry about the lack or pictures of the torch crappy camera :/
