First Marine Fish

Whats FTS?

 

full tank shot.

 

Tank is still very young. I'm starting to see coraline on the dry rock now so hopefully in a few months it will be spread all over.

 

hows that sps frag doing? looks like a digitata, what type of lights do you have and do you know your parameters?

 

Ya, It's an orange Digi. I was over picking up some Zoanthid frags from a fellow local reefer and he had the Digi frags for $5 each so I figured I'd give it a shot just to see if it would grow, if not for 5 bucks it's not a loss.

I have a dual 96W PC fixture 10,000K and Actinic. I know it's not a lot of light, a little over 4 watts per gallon and it's not a very deep tank, from waters surface to sand bed is only 16 inches. I put the Digi as high as I could in the tank.

As far as parameters are talking NH4, NO2, NO3 or CA, MG, and those kinds of things.

NH4-0
No2-0
NO3-5
pH-8.2

Not testing for the other stuff yet, I still need to get the reef master test kit I only have the saltwater test kit.

 

Forget about the other test kits. Just make sure you have test kits for Calcium (Ca), Alkalinity (dKH), and Magnesium (Mg). Preferably a good brand like Salifert, I use red sea for ca and mg and so far its ok, but will be switching to all Salifert soon.

 

1 of the clowns gave me a scare last night. I work 2nd shift so when I got home at 2am I looked in the dark tank (has 1 LED Moonlight) and saw 1 of the clowns swimming on it's side up at the waters surface next to one of the return nozzles from the sump. I was thinking something was wrong but it was swimming in the current and appeared to be fine just swimming on it's side. When I woke up this morning both of them were back swimming around the tank together.