Fish Boss
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Been letting the tank mature, wanted to give it time to see when alk would drop, and how parameters would change, without touching it much.
Picked up a walling bubble coral last week, was a really good deal and I’ve always wanted one. Adjusted very well and looks great! Also picked up 2 hammers and a duncan today. I think both are branching, but one has a very thick skelton so maybe its a wall hammer? We’ll how it grows out. Wanted to get more LPS to see if my alk will start dropping.
Havent been keeping the door open at all for 2 months now since its been cold, definitely a lot more CO2 in the house. Hanna alk says 10.8, dropped a good amount for a month, API is always so hard to read, but PH is more than 8, less than 8.2, looks around 8.05-8.1. Nitrate, same deal, hard to read, more than 0, less than 10, the shade of yellow is different than 5, so I am leaning towards less than 5, could be anywhere from 3-8, and its probably not very accurate anyways, so who knows lol. Hanna nitrate will probably be my next pick up! @L/B Block was nice enough to ship me their hanna phosphate, I really appreciate that! Should be arriving any day now, and will start testing Phos. Big change of pace compared to my previous tanks, always had relatively basic test kits, and always had higher nutrient levels.
Still have the same fish, 2 clowns, royal gramma, and a scopas tang. Feed fairly heavily on pellets and mysis, plus nori for the scopas. Want to get some herbivore pellets, as well as more varied frozen foods.
Pods are down tremendously, probably more so hiding in the rocks now, still see some on the glass. Going to re-up with nathan soon! Cyano is 98% gone, most of it turned into a grey dust, with just a small amount of red here and there. Thin amounts of green algae on the rocks, good amount of algae grows on the glass.
Havent swapped out my basic LED fuge light for my kessil a160 yet, burning bush is growing, albeit slowly. Want to see where my nutrients are at after I clean out all of my nuisance algae, then I might swap out my fuge light, or I might just wait untill I add more livestock.
Water change time!
Edit: also, everything is growing very well! Nems look great, spicy favia is growing relatively fast, nepthea is having incredible growth, yellow toadstool hasnt grown much, the other 2 toadstools were fairly fresh frags directly on the plugs when I got them, both have very long and thick stems now, tequila sunrise mushroom is getting huge, the free acro growth has slowed, but the growth is coloring up now, DBTC scrambled egg zoa original colony doesnt even look like I fragged it now, and the frags are growing out. The pandora paly I fragged a couple weeks ago is opened back up (frags, colony wasnt even really bothered), original colony is sending out more runners, frags are making new heads.
Overall really satisfied with my aquarium!
Picked up a walling bubble coral last week, was a really good deal and I’ve always wanted one. Adjusted very well and looks great! Also picked up 2 hammers and a duncan today. I think both are branching, but one has a very thick skelton so maybe its a wall hammer? We’ll how it grows out. Wanted to get more LPS to see if my alk will start dropping.
Havent been keeping the door open at all for 2 months now since its been cold, definitely a lot more CO2 in the house. Hanna alk says 10.8, dropped a good amount for a month, API is always so hard to read, but PH is more than 8, less than 8.2, looks around 8.05-8.1. Nitrate, same deal, hard to read, more than 0, less than 10, the shade of yellow is different than 5, so I am leaning towards less than 5, could be anywhere from 3-8, and its probably not very accurate anyways, so who knows lol. Hanna nitrate will probably be my next pick up! @L/B Block was nice enough to ship me their hanna phosphate, I really appreciate that! Should be arriving any day now, and will start testing Phos. Big change of pace compared to my previous tanks, always had relatively basic test kits, and always had higher nutrient levels.
Still have the same fish, 2 clowns, royal gramma, and a scopas tang. Feed fairly heavily on pellets and mysis, plus nori for the scopas. Want to get some herbivore pellets, as well as more varied frozen foods.
Pods are down tremendously, probably more so hiding in the rocks now, still see some on the glass. Going to re-up with nathan soon! Cyano is 98% gone, most of it turned into a grey dust, with just a small amount of red here and there. Thin amounts of green algae on the rocks, good amount of algae grows on the glass.
Havent swapped out my basic LED fuge light for my kessil a160 yet, burning bush is growing, albeit slowly. Want to see where my nutrients are at after I clean out all of my nuisance algae, then I might swap out my fuge light, or I might just wait untill I add more livestock.
Water change time!
Edit: also, everything is growing very well! Nems look great, spicy favia is growing relatively fast, nepthea is having incredible growth, yellow toadstool hasnt grown much, the other 2 toadstools were fairly fresh frags directly on the plugs when I got them, both have very long and thick stems now, tequila sunrise mushroom is getting huge, the free acro growth has slowed, but the growth is coloring up now, DBTC scrambled egg zoa original colony doesnt even look like I fragged it now, and the frags are growing out. The pandora paly I fragged a couple weeks ago is opened back up (frags, colony wasnt even really bothered), original colony is sending out more runners, frags are making new heads.
Overall really satisfied with my aquarium!
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