Heidi's 150g "Cube" Mixed Reef

Thanks so much e.obp Bill and Nana for the compliments. It's so nice to have a forum community to share my progress with that appreciates the results!! Thank you all so mug for your kindness!!
Heidi

 

Very nice. I'm sure the clowns will love it! ;D

 

Lol I'm thinking I got some defective clowns cause if I were a clown I would be all snuggled down in that bad boy wth defective clownfish, I want my money back!
Heidi

 

Love the cube and your shots look great.

 

LOL!

The down side is that they have a mind of their own. I had 3 nems and a selection of polyps, soft and LPS corals and my clowns still preferred the heater. :-/

Most others have better luck, though. It just might take some time.

 

Lol, that is to funny ;D

 

Tank Update (I know its been a while but really it has been uneventful this last month up till the last week or so)

I keep having problems with my calcium being all high in relation to my alkalinity. Another problem I seemed to be having was some kind of diatom bloom all of a sudden. Lastly my purple monopora Digi has almost completely bleached and since it is spread and covering one of the ends of an attached rock on the top of the tank, there is no way to really move it anywhere if it is bleaching because of the lights. It might be getting mad at my alk swings I can't seem to control lately. ??? Not 100% sure... Oh my husband came home it "a surprise" It is another fish, like we need it.... Exquisite fairy wrasse. I'm not real happy about it. I have been feeding a ton, dosing MB7 and keeping my n and p pretty low/zero I am sick of my sand, every time a fish or something stirs it up I get a diatom bloom, its ugly and dingy so I started removing it last water change. I plan to suck out the rest at the next 2 water changes as to not off set the bacteria balance in the tank. Meanwhile, I am starting bio pellets. So thats whats up with the tank. Here are some pictures. I got a new camera (last week) so they are not the best but I am amazed at how clear my fish pictures are. It's a Canon T2i rebel and so far I LOVE it. Thanks for reading and enjoy the pictures!

full tank from front Dec.10 2011


(those of the sump I took with my iPhone)

what my skimmer did for almost 3 days after I removed about half of the sand from the DT, I ran carbon and the skimmer really didn't get back to normal until I hooked up the bio-pellets last night
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New anemone I got last month (thanks happycoral.com!!)

stuff that blows into the corner

Excuse the mess, I had to take everything that was on the sand and put it up while I vacuumed the sand out. I will take another picture of the tank full on once the sand is all gone and I rearrange the "ground coral"

Enjoy!
Heidi

 

Really nice work, tank looks great

 

Oh yea I have the same camera, what setting are you using to take your fish pics?

 

Hi Heidi

Humor me ok and post your currant Ca/Alk/Mag and Ph levels please. I need a.m and p.m. Ph readings. Are you dosing Kalkwasser or anything?