time for a change!!! update on page 4

yea they are the first real corals I ever got and they started out as 2 heads and now LOL there are 15+ and the kenyas came from a 3reefer and are doing better than expected. SEE:

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LOL it started out as 3 big pices and decided to show me what wrath of growth it had ;D

 

alright so I ordered some more zoas that will be here on wednesday but had a question for all, I have two clown's and a yellow watchman goby but want maby one more fish what might work and be original and have lots of color, any ideas?

 

tank looks awesome!

 

thank you sir ;D

 

well went to the beach in jacksonvile yesterday and got some more corals and a few critters.

total count 3 nassarius snails

and a frag of GSP

also I had some corals come in the mail off of e-bay still waiting for them to open up though.... any way here are some pics of the GSP the snails have dove and not surfaced yet LOL



and here are the closed zoas

 

Im so happy ;D I did a few tests and these are my paramters as of 0800 GMT
salinity: 1.026
nitrate: 0
nitrite: 0
phosphate: 0
ammonia: 0
DHK: 11
calcium 500 ppm

just over 3 months ago my nitrates were over 180 calcium was 200 and my tank looked like crap now its great

 

Excellent.

Just watch the Ca so it does not sneak up much more.

Congrats, it always nice when things fall into line.

 

Yea im exited when all that hard work finally pays off ;D

 

updated on 10/23/2011

well I have not updated in awhile so I figured I would since I might take it down in the next few weeks.

skimmer broke and started leaking and I think thats where most of my problems began. I cant seem to find parts for it so I just left it off.

all the kenya tree's just melted away, dont know why but they did.

all the other corals are doing ok but have stoped growing all togther and open up every so often vs all the time.

I have GHA everywhere and it just wont go away even with less feedings and API algea fix but that is algea.

the cleaner shrimp and the mis-bar clowns are doing great and have grown to about an inch and the shrimp is well into 3 inches.

Yellow watchman goby died last night, come home and there was a skeleton picked clean by the cleaner shrimp so I did my best to remove as much as I could but that was hard since I have had him for over a year and when I got him he was only 1 inch and grew to about 3 inches

didnt test the water in a few days so I will when I get home and post results to make sure I dont have anything funky going on.

I am going to the police academy in january and really wont have the time for the tank so I was thinking of moving all the current ocupants to a correctly set up ten gallon and starting fresh. I would have a ATO, fresh sand, clean rock, and a really small bio-load with a skimmer made for the tank size. I would only be able to check it on the weekends so my wife would be left in charge for most of the time untile I got home in march. I know small dosent always equal better but this tank as a whole is just realy bumming me out and a huge pain my butt. I also have been thinking about just buying a CUC from reef cleaners and trying to see if that helps and going from there.

any who that s a quick update

 

tested the water after a long bad day at work abd was fairly happy with the outcome
cal- 480
phk-8
phosphate- 0
nitrate- 0
ammonia- .25 noy happy with it and I do have water in reserve for an emergency
ph- 8.0
nitrite- 0