time for a change!!! update on page 4

alright I managed to fix my cheep odyssea skimmer with a ton of silicone and a few bits of red neck ingunity ;D, and it really helped with my water clarity and the corals really seem to enjoy the beter looking water and the clowns are looking more active.

but the cleaner shrimo looks sad and just hides under his cleaning rock all day, him and the watchman goby were always sticking togther and hanging togther.

so here is my main question should I get a diffrent kind of goby or a yellow watchman?

 

Nice tank, sorry about the problems your having. I love the boostLED's. One thing though, that looks like a 20 high? Not a 20 long?

 

yea its a 20 high LOL I didnt have the knowlage to get a 20 long when I first started and ended up with it ;D

 

just a quck question for nano fans but I want a bottom dwelling fish that can help clean the sand and that looks fairly colorful but I dont want to get another watchman untile I can cet into teh 75 gallon so what fish should I get?

 

well I got some good growth pictures of the corals I got a few months ago

Before







After









the frog spawn went from 2 to 4.5 heads ;D

now for the problem... Ill just let the pictures speak the truth









if you know what these critters are then how inm the world do I start the process of getting rid of them. this tank will be a revival of sorts so im going to change the sand to oolite arga max and move it to a part of the house where there is not so much sunlight on the tank.

but the real question the aspista how do I get rid of them???

 

Go to grocery store buy small thing of lemon juice. Go to the pharmacy ask for a small syring from a local pharmacy yes they will question you but tell them what it is for and they should sell it to you for about a buck. Now put lemon juice in syringe and inject the lemon juice right in the middle of it and should die off in 2-3 days with out killing anything else

 

freekin sweet that I will definatly try it

 

Time for change!!!!

well I will keep it short in Jan of this year I got the honor to go to the #1 rated police acadmey here in GA happy to say that I passed and did really well. however the tank was seriously neglected. if you look you can see the aspista LOL

plus the algea was terriable I was cleaning it out by the handful every day... I testes the water constantly and thought it had to be the nitrates and phospahtes both were zero I just couldnt figure it out.

well I decided I would just move everything inot a ten gallon that was set up right and just cut my loses. well while I was waighting for it to cycle I had a thought to the sand that was in the tank is was almost CC but a little finer so i took out about a half a cup and let it settle and tested the water.... nitrates and phosphates maxed out. I know that thats what the sand bed is for and more that when you stil it up it more than likely will release the bad crap but the more I looked and thought the algea kept spawning from the sand bed and moving up plus I wanted a better looking sand anyways so I replaced it with oolight arga-max dry sand.

so I washed it. there was a little debate on weather to or not but I have livestock and coral that needed to be put back into the tank so I washed the sand with ro water about 4 times then made some saltwater and stored it in a bucket untile I eas ready for it.

dry no flash


dry with flash


getting washed


first wash


second wash


after third wash


copletly washed


washed up really well

we also moved the tank from the kitchen to the living room while it was empty looks better and now I can watch t.v and the tank LOL

this was done in one post but took every bit of 24 hours I had to match water tempature, salt levels, add the sand watch the critters let the water settle and set up everything up.....

any ways I will also be putting up a 5 gallon sump under the tank but that will yake some time. here are more pics :



















and the sump to be LOL



these pics are from today but I switched the sand over a week ago and everything lived. fish are doing great and the shrimp has done really well corals are fine and doing good to

 

well I went to the LFS yesterday and got two pepermint shrimp to try and help with the aspista and this....

he called it: Acropora valida



looks great under the light and am really happy that I got it the LFS is not really a good one but from time to time they get somthing cool

 

Lookin good! Sorry about your kenya! I still have a TON!! Im trying to get it out of my tank! If u wanna take a look i made a thread on the for sale forum. Cool lookin tank! It looks like its comin' along nicely!