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Thanks guys! Forgot again today about a full tank shot :-( It'll be up soon.

Also some exciting news...I won't be adding anything to my tank for the next week as there is a nice supply of really rare stuff coming in to my local coral guy soon and I have first dibs! Updates soon. (Fish adds coming!)

 

absolutely amazing!!

 

^Thanks!

Finally got a full tank shot after forgetting to take one every time I'm messing around for some reason! Filling in nicely thus far


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Ok so I have definitely been slacking on the updates, but I assure you lots going on!

So last Saturday was exciting, instead of the usual large coral update we decided to pick up some fish! Grabbed two benghai cardinals, another clownfish (larger then our other one to take the place of "female" they paired immediately), and two teal and blue little hyper active fish (I will get the name soon, or I'm sure someone will ID them on here!). Everyone is getting along great and it was a succesful add all together

Full tank shot....

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Super happy couple

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My two cardinals looking super bad ass ;-)

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Ok so I lied! Not alllllll fish....I can't walk out of Don's (Crazy4Coral) without picking up something from the frag bin!!!! This transluescent neon green acro is gorgeous under the AI units, and it a great addition to the colour in my tank and goes well next to my red monti!

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So my clam has not been doing great lately ever since my shrimp bugged the hell out of it for about two days straight. It's still reactive and opens in the day somewhat and closes at night but it's not looking like it improves at all....we'll see how it goes everything is leaving it alone now.

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The nano is just about cycled in these photos, and has now had a small cleaning crew added!

Also grabbed a gorgeous three headed dark blue/neon green alvepora tonight that I need to photograph tomorrow once it fully opens up, it's amazing!

If you guys are ever going through Kingston, I strongly suggest checking out Crazy4Coral and talk to Don. He's awesome and his stock is always A++ and prices are unbeatable.

More updates tomorrow!

 

Congrats on the adds!

The blue fish are Chromis

I hope your Clam gets better.

 

Awesome price for the setup man.

 

Okkkkk so another big chunky update today!
Let's start off with some new product I have introduced to the tank.

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Prodibio Reef Booster and BioClean. Both fairly new products on the market I believe but they have surely hit the market hard and many people are swearing by them. So the reef booster is basically just an additive filled with essential nutrients that are not always necessarily produced naturally in your tank environment to really boost coral growth. The one I am really excited about is the BioClean though and the reason being is that my main DT is over a year old and is considered a "mature" tank at this point. As there are many advantages of having a mature tank, some of the down sides include that essential bacteria that at the beginning of the tanks life was plentiful to help breakdown phosphate and nitrates have been consumed and are not repleneshiable in an ordinary un dosed tank environment. After about a year of a tanks life is when you will begin to see the loss of these essential bacteria. Basically the BioClean is a two part supplement including a capsule for reintroducing the bacteria, and a capsule that acts as "food" for bacteria that currently resides in the tank. This product was developed to be used effectively in conjuction with biopellets in helping seed them with the same essential bacteria mentioned before.
Without trying to sound like an informercial this product on paper looks really great, and either way effective or not I am excited to see the effects of the product as there have been rave reviews thus far.


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Ok so a couple more things that dont swim and sway is another run of tests I ran today! Results were as follows....(P.S. I grabbed an Elos Nitrate test kit....best kit ever, super accurate/API sucks for below 10ppm nitrate


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Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 2.5ppm (Weehoo almost 0! The Elos kit allows me to read down to 1ppm nitrate, I believe API kist only read to 5ppm.)
Ammonium 0ppm
Calcium 473ppm
Phosphate .09ppm
Alkalinity 130ppm
Magnesium 1350ppm
PH 8.1
Salinity 1.025

I am very happy with the stability of my tank readings at this point. I do a full run of tests once a week for the past two months and I haven't noticed much change the past three weeks or so other then reduction in phosphate and nitrate levels which is great!

Ok on to more fun stuff.....

Here's a mediocre shot of the 4 headed dark green/neon alvepora I picked up!

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.....so guess what!!!! My clowns are finally hosting my anemone! Like hosting the **** out of it in shifts haha. They love hosting it so much now that I grabbed another anemone for them both to have a spot at night to sleep as they kinda of silently argue over who gets the small retracted anemone at night.


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^The colours are weird on that shot because it's natural light as the tank lights were off at this point and I bounced a flash off the ceiling.

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So far it has not budged from the spot I got him to grab on too which is aesthetically right where I want him but we will see over night if he ventures around. Hopefully not!

As mentioned I officially capped off the tanks bioload from fish with three more green/blue chromis! That's five of these little guys schooling around, looks awesome!


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Ok so this shot of this nice chunk of Acan I grabbed does NOT do it justice as natural light sucks for aquatic photos. I will reshoot one tomorrow and you will see just how bright the orange and green is!

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Clam seems to be doing a bit better today but no drastic difference in mantel extension......oh well, keep an eye on it is all I can do unless someone has suggestion how to help "heal" it.

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Random shot of the cardinals hanging out....as per usual...

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This little guy didn't go into this tank, but into my nano! Always wanted a nice bright blood shrimp Again natural light, booooo.

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Well that's all for now guys, more soon I am sure!

Water change tomorrow


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Tank and images are awesome as always.

I especially like the images of the Cardinals and the Chromis and the Alevpora.

 

^ Thanks! More shots to come tomorrow once the sun rises on the reef

 

Great adds, you might want to move the Acan away from the Pocillopora. You may have quite a war with those two.