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As expected the ammonia level was 0 this morning, not sure why the random .25 last night. I did remove the protein skimmer as well and will just keep...
There are actually 3 all of them on the back wall but none of them pointed at the front. I have 1 in each corner pointed front inwards about 45...
Quick update, since adding the protein skimmer I have been a little slack on my normal routine maintenance, part in because I wanted to test how well...
I started dosing my tank with pyhtopheast a couple weeks ago, not much just a few small squirts every 2-3 days, and I immediately saw a pod...
Good luck with everything. I am newer myself to this reefing thing but can tell you to jsut look around on the threads and stickies to find some...
Welcome, Those powerheads are a little small how is your surface agitation and what are you plans for corals with the tank? Putting a nice black...
Yea thats the other great thing about dry rock, you can take as long as you want to scape and build your scape in the tank before you add water and...
this point is somewhere in the cycle. Patience my friend you have ammonia nitrite and nitrate and changes in ammonia levels, at least you are in the...
Nitrates test high with the presence of nitrITEs and are therefore inaccurate. test ammonia and nitrite until they are both 0 then you can test...
Dryrock all the way! I bought a 1 lb chunk of coralline covered liverock to seed 40+ lbs of dry rock and I can not even tell you how many little...
To hard to go without a picture there are millions of little shrimps and craps that can be hitchhikers both good and bad. Any other descripters you...
Well the tank actually looks pretty neat. Couple things though I see you use a swing arm hydrometer, many will say never use one but I do myself....
I am pretty sure frogspawns and hammers do not sting and hurt/kill each other like they do to other unrelated corals but if the half that is dyeing...
A lovely CUC package from ReefCleaners every know and then is a fine delicacy for your mantis shrimp :)
Doesnt styofoam take thousands of years to decompose hence the landfill messes we have? Pretty sure such a slow decomp rate would have minimal impact...
Yea it has to be something that survived in spore form on our dry rock sicne we both have it from BRS pukani
you sure all the corals are 25? I checked it out and jsut the blue snowflake was 25
Some sort of bubble algae??
Looking good, Not sure what the lime green algae is but am curious as I have it growing on my pukani as well. I thought maybe some sort of green...
Not sure but I can tell you it happens in FW planted tanks and is referred to as pearling, a sign of excellent health and conditions
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