kinetic
Supporting Member
Update:
Somehow my VarioS 2 pump wasn't pumping (head pressure or air bubbles maybe) for at least 3 months, and I just noticed it yesterday haha. I got it going by turning the flow all the way max, and it finally started pumping. So ridiculous, I'm dumb. This pump powers my chiller and carbon reactor (also hooked up to the same line is a UV and algae reactor, which are off and empty right now). Whew, it smelled really bad in my room for a few hours. I'll need to do a 20% water change today, but nothing in the tank looks amiss.
My Magnifica walked all over my tank last week. I decided to just let it wander and not try to place it back on the pedestal. It's now hanging out on the lower side of my rockwork near the BTAs. I guess I'll just leave it there if it's happy. The rock it's connected to is not flat and very porous. It's also the lowest point in the tank. Not sure why it likes it there. Maybe the flow?
Dinos have still not returned, which is good. Everything has been stable for at least 3 months now (without dinos). I'm still dosing 3ml of NoPox daily, which seems to be perfect. The downside is, there's very little algae in the tank at all. The only thing that grows is a very thin layer on the glass, but it's totally white. Snails go at it, and so does my sailfin blenny, but it's so weird that it grows white. I wonder if there's still dinoX in the system that's doing it. I noticed my algae turning white when I dosed the tank with DinoX. Another thing is, my carbon reactor hasn't been absorbing anything for 3 months (due to the pump not pushing water), so it really could be the dinox still running in my system. Anyone else ever see white algae growth?
Since the tank seems to be running on pretty low nutrients, I've lost a couple scarlet hermits and my turbo snails. They probably starved. (I check my other levels, small amounts of phos/nitrates, no ammonia/nitrites). Trochus snails are all accounted for, and so are my nassarius and cerith. Pretty impressed with the trochus/nass/cerith still all 100% alive since I got them (other than one trochus that beached itself behind my tank by accident).
I'm getting bored of the tank (not in a bad way, just comfortable). Nothing new other than the mag walking around. It's almost fully automated, so I don't need to do much with it at all. I just need to clean the glass every week and do a small water change. My ATO reservoir tops off automatically, dosing is automatic, feeding is automatic.
I'm wondering if I should get some coral soon to replace all my dead ones from the dinos. I have all my dosers sitting on standby. But a part of me is thinking I should just wait another month to give my tank a full year (started in August of last year). I'll try dosing some amino acids once they come in, since the tank seems to be at a stable state of ULNS mostly. Just hope that the dinos don't come back...
Somehow my VarioS 2 pump wasn't pumping (head pressure or air bubbles maybe) for at least 3 months, and I just noticed it yesterday haha. I got it going by turning the flow all the way max, and it finally started pumping. So ridiculous, I'm dumb. This pump powers my chiller and carbon reactor (also hooked up to the same line is a UV and algae reactor, which are off and empty right now). Whew, it smelled really bad in my room for a few hours. I'll need to do a 20% water change today, but nothing in the tank looks amiss.
My Magnifica walked all over my tank last week. I decided to just let it wander and not try to place it back on the pedestal. It's now hanging out on the lower side of my rockwork near the BTAs. I guess I'll just leave it there if it's happy. The rock it's connected to is not flat and very porous. It's also the lowest point in the tank. Not sure why it likes it there. Maybe the flow?
Dinos have still not returned, which is good. Everything has been stable for at least 3 months now (without dinos). I'm still dosing 3ml of NoPox daily, which seems to be perfect. The downside is, there's very little algae in the tank at all. The only thing that grows is a very thin layer on the glass, but it's totally white. Snails go at it, and so does my sailfin blenny, but it's so weird that it grows white. I wonder if there's still dinoX in the system that's doing it. I noticed my algae turning white when I dosed the tank with DinoX. Another thing is, my carbon reactor hasn't been absorbing anything for 3 months (due to the pump not pushing water), so it really could be the dinox still running in my system. Anyone else ever see white algae growth?
Since the tank seems to be running on pretty low nutrients, I've lost a couple scarlet hermits and my turbo snails. They probably starved. (I check my other levels, small amounts of phos/nitrates, no ammonia/nitrites). Trochus snails are all accounted for, and so are my nassarius and cerith. Pretty impressed with the trochus/nass/cerith still all 100% alive since I got them (other than one trochus that beached itself behind my tank by accident).
I'm getting bored of the tank (not in a bad way, just comfortable). Nothing new other than the mag walking around. It's almost fully automated, so I don't need to do much with it at all. I just need to clean the glass every week and do a small water change. My ATO reservoir tops off automatically, dosing is automatic, feeding is automatic.
I'm wondering if I should get some coral soon to replace all my dead ones from the dinos. I have all my dosers sitting on standby. But a part of me is thinking I should just wait another month to give my tank a full year (started in August of last year). I'll try dosing some amino acids once they come in, since the tank seems to be at a stable state of ULNS mostly. Just hope that the dinos don't come back...
