el_ote Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 Dendro and a sun coral coming in this week. think ill look for a couple favia frags and an acan or two next! (darn black tube coral wont extend when I feed it...) Link to comment
el_ote Posted April 22, 2014 Author Share Posted April 22, 2014 The Kraken! new serpent starfish New Favias and a Blasto Sun & Dendro Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 How is the skimmer working out for you? I was looking at getting it for my 20L as well. Link to comment
el_ote Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 halo- I just posted in the skimmer thread as well. long story short, I love it. I use the drain to fill a jar since the cup is tiny. I get nice dark skimmate and they give multiple brackets to hang on different tank thickness at different heights! Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Thanks, your tank is looking great. I love the star fish, do you see it much during the day? Or only at night? Link to comment
el_ote Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 thanks for the kind words... I need to get my fuge working again to battle the hair alage thats popped up. I see the star when I feed and since my tank is so small, theres always a leg sticking out. kinda freaks me out tho. i hate spiders and its been reminding me of one lately. Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 thanks for the kind words... I need to get my fuge working again to battle the hair alage thats popped up. I see the star when I feed and since my tank is so small, theres always a leg sticking out. kinda freaks me out tho. i hate spiders and its been reminding me of one lately. Hmm maybe I should hold off on one then... That's the reason I'm getting rid of my emerald crab. Not scared of spiders, I just don't like them, and the likeness is too much for me. Link to comment
el_ote Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 fts with Jestersix's lucky 13 just added to the right side: closeup of the lucky13 im really liking the look and may go for another larger one in the future. Link to comment
patrickbruno91 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Jester always has nice rock work. He is supposed to be at the cvr swap in June. Are you going to attend that one? Link to comment
el_ote Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Patrick - yeah, i love the piece. Im thinking of (down the line) nixing my left side rocks for two more of jesters in a similar style so i can have a trio of columns. I think ill have to drop my bio load though since i'd be losing a lot of my biofilter. i think Fresno is a bit out of my reach. (plus my frags have been stunted by my bioload i believe). But frag swaps are so much fun so i dont know... Link to comment
el_ote Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 5 day vacation and I come home to a dry floor and a correct water level, no visibly missing fish (its dark so 3 of them hide) & my tube corals are opened so I dump some oyster feast in for them. not too bad!!! vacation mode : success Link to comment
el_ote Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 urchin proofed my ato switch ala autotopoff.com style Link to comment
el_ote Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 So i left my test kits at the office to check trates and ammonia, but i think my problem is the lights. Some of my recent LPS are receding. Im pretty religious about my weekly 5 gal water changes and keeping my salinity at 1.024. I have my blue+ (2 bulbs) come on for 8 hrs. ending round 11and the coral+ (2Bulbs) for about 4. All my other pieces seem fine. I tihnk ill drop my lighting a few hours but my main concern is that the fixture is sitting on the tank. does anyone else here have their 4-bulb on the glass? -perplexed Link to comment
markalot Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Oh man, that's a lot of light for a shallow tank and ATI bulbs. How about trying 2 actinic, blue+, and coral+ for a while to see if things improve? Link to comment
el_ote Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 yeah... im just running my 2 blue+ bulbs for now. I never thought any of it since most all my corals did well in the tank. Link to comment
el_ote Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 water change: GFO Carbon change: sponges cleaned: Skimmer started back up (turned it off when it mysteriously flooded my little container)sun corals were being fed, please excuse the bottles!need some more tlc to bring it back up to par! FTS: 6-13-14 Link to comment
el_ote Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Did a water change yesterday and tested parameters today: No3 - 0 -5 ppm kH/Alk - 7.0 dkH Ca - 350 ppm Mg - 1035 ppm Going to try and figure my consumption so i can get the kalk BRS package. DANG that shipping! Link to comment
el_ote Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 Ca 480 ppm Mg 1290 ppm alk 8.9 dkh No3 <5 feeling a lot more comfortable with the chemistry. lets hope I can stop losing my lps and start growing them!!! edit: also raised my lights so im not cooking everyone Link to comment
el_ote Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 going to start dosing using this DIY http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/187889-easy-inexpensive-diy-dosing-pump/ once I calculate my useage. I calculated my Ca but the dang numbers went up so im going to have to try again edit 7-29-14 Ca 460ppmMg 1380ppmalk 8.75 dkh Link to comment
el_ote Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 just took out my mandy, flasher, and gramma (7-30-14 according to my Aquarium Logger app) try and get my ammonia in check. hope I can keep my clowns since they've been with me since the beginning. they have grown to 3+ inches tho... Link to comment
el_ote Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 ok. ammonia 0 nirite 0 nitrate 5-10 leaning towards 5 Ca 425 Mg 1410 Alk 8.0 about 2 weeks since I lowered my ammonia from 2ppm to 0 by rehoming 3 fish and cutting feedings. and about 20 days since ive started maintaining the recommended Ca, Mg, Alk levels. I really hope my tank comes back. kinda bummed I lost a bunch of corals. totally my fault I know, but still sux. Link to comment
el_ote Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 ok. cleaned up the tank. removed a mid sized rock with a huge aptaisia. added kalk to my ato on tuesday. checked my alk before and it was at 9.1 dkh. today, Thursday, 2 days later im at 9.3 dkh. Link to comment
el_ote Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 sumped and got my Reef Octopus nwb110 working overtime to get my setup back into shape Link to comment
el_ote Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 now that the GHA is mostly gone, I realized I have two different coraline algae covering my rock with some plating coraline on a frag from WronGenotype that I hope takes hold. just imagine nothing but GHA choking the Z's & P's and covering the rock. Link to comment
el_ote Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 new light bulbs. blue+ actinic blue+ purple+ btw now that I have my chemistry my lights and my skimmer going, I finally see some polyp extension on my sun coral. its one of the few that survived my continued noobness edit: Mg:1335ppm. Ca:445ppm. kH/Alk:10.1dkh ammonia: 0ppm. nitrate: 5-10ppm (added a dose of brs mag to up my Mg) Link to comment
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