bje's 75gal reef (finally)

did the first water change today. params after:

NO2: 0
NO3: 5/ppm
PO4: .25/ppm (need to get a reactor soon)
NH3: 0
ALK: 9/dkh
MG: unknown
Calc: unknown

I need to get more tests.

diatom bloom ceased. im on what looks like the start of my first bryopsis outbreak. might place my order for my CuC soon too.

 

got a new piece of live rock today from rubystar. she had a piece she originally got for her nano tank and it was just too big for her tank to really do anything with as far as scaping and was ridden with GHA. so i traded her two small chunks of my marco base rock for it.

has a nice portion of a coral that had grown in her tank spanning from the originally rock onto this one. so i got a coral frag out of it! woot.

pics soon once i figure out how to get the coral off of it, nuke the GHA, and place it back in the tank.

 

Alright, sounds like a good deal!! Can't wait to see a pic.

 

lol turned the lights on... guess my diatom outbreak is not over yet. my glass is filthy!

anyways, i moved around the scape again. added the new piece of rock after taking a knife to the GHA

 

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I'm having the same problem.. after 4 weeks of cycling, the Diatom is all over my rock but it should go away ... so I am going to wait another 3 weeks before adding livestock.
Love your rock arrangement though!!!!

 

yeah diatoms are a <insert bad word here>....

thank you for the compliment on the scape. it never quite looks right to me no matter what i do, but then again its not full of life/corals. i think im going to leave it as is now and get my clean-up crew. leave it for a few more weeks and see where its at.

 

What type of fish/corals do you have?

 

Current Inhabitants and when I added them:

1x blue damsel (12/18/09)
1x unknown damsel (12/18/09)
4x hermit crabs (12/18/09)
2x astrea snails (12/18/09)
12x misc tiny baby snails (1/3/10)
1x blue yellow tail damsel (1/3/10)
1x large emerald crab (1/3/10)
1x large turbo snail (1/3/10)
1x peppermint shrimp (1/7/10)
2x large turbo snail (1/7/10)
1x percula clown (1/13/10)
1x electric blue-leg hermit (1/17/10)

1x Condylactus Anemone (12/18/09) -- Dont ask why its in there so soon but it lived through the first cycle...

 

also have a mushroom coral frag and now two frags of the same type of green/orange star polyp colony