tarunteam Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 So after a disastrous fail last time. I've decided to get back into the hobby. Figured this would the best way to keep a journal of all the happenings in my tank. The primary goal with this tank is to learn about water chemistry though observation instead of relying on test kits. Equipment Aquclear 70 HOB with media kit Petco Bookshelf 7.7 Gallon aquarium (May say screw it and buy a nice glass one ) Petco Freshwater T-5 (Replacing with Mars Aqua reef LED) Fuvel 50 watt heater 8 lb of Live rock Petco glass in-tank thermometer Livestock Pulsating Xenia (waiting for weed like growth ) Random long stock Xenia Pineapple Sponge Wishlist Nice bigger glass tank Aquarium controller (may turn raspberry pi into one) Full testkit some dosing chems (though will see how weekly water changes fair) Fish GSP Some Monti Zoa's Some shrimp Maybe a tiny fish Proposed Maintenance bi-weekly water changes of 1 gallon each (too much or too little) daily top-off daily feeding w/ flakes weekly cleaning of deterius once a week frozen mysis (3/24/16) Tank is still cycling. Waiting for LED light to come in. Xenia is actually pulsating and seems really happy under freshwater light. Did a quick test, still haven't detected ammonia, nitrate spikes. Maybe using cured rock from running tanks has essentially cycled the tank? Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Replacing light with Mars Aqua LED tomorrow. Also getting purple firefish tomorrow. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
ManGups Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 7.8 gallon is too small for a fire fish .. Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted March 27, 2016 Author Share Posted March 27, 2016 Point duly noted. If he seems happy I will sell him off to a bigger tank. Quote Link to comment
Cencalfishguy56 Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 7.8 gallon is too small for a fire fish ..how many times have you seen them in 5 gallon tanks lol it will do ok for a while Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 New photos! How bright should i keep the lights? Quote Link to comment
Rural Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 New photos! How bright should i keep the lights? google par values for your coral, then compare to your light charts. i prefer lower hung lights and high light corals... it helps my SAD. 1 Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 Few updates. Got my hand on a test kit...finally XD. Sal104 sent me a bunch of corals. Few zoas some gorgs and a bird next. The bird next didnt survive transport and was flesh-less the next morning. Big suprise coming next week! Can glass tanks suppport hob refugiums? Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 GOOD NEWS: So quite a few big updates. First got rid of the old tank and replaced it with a mr.aqua 12 gallon and started running GFO. I love not seeing algae anymore. I also got a nice frag pack consisting of a few zoa, one acro, some kind of encrusting arco and two purple gorg. They all seem to have settled down and seem happy. Also got a emerald crab to eat some of hair algae. He seems to be really going at it as i saw quite a bit of it disappear over the last few weeks. Feeding has also decreased from twice a day to twice a week with random flakes throughout the week. SAD NEWS: Looks like the crab got really hungry and ate one of the small snails. No wonder my params were all over the place. Bird of paradise didn't make it through shipping. Also #### algae. I cant seem to stop it from growing all over the glass. Driving me insaneeeee. NEW TANK PIC: Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted May 17, 2016 Author Share Posted May 17, 2016 THE FISH IS DEADDDD Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share Posted June 9, 2016 NEW ADDITION: - 2 Mated Clown Fish - 2 Blood red shrimp -1 Hermit Params: pH: Unknown (no reason to test) Ammonia : unknown ( probably zero, but no reason to test) Nitrite: Unknown (probably zero, no reason to test) Nitrate: Unknown (probably zero, no reason to test) Phosphate: Uknown (probably zero due to GFO) MG: 1300 Alk: 7.3 Ca: 540 Updates: -Large salinity swing while i was on vacation -Lost Favia due to large salinity swing -Lost two heads of hammer due to salinity swing and unknown reason. They hid away one day and two days later they were dead. -One head of hammer in bad shape. Trying to find new place as it hides away everywhere else in the tank. Not sure what to do. -Bleaching of LPS due to salinity swing Comments: -Might pick up 5 in one test strips to track general pH, Nitrate, Nitrite. -Picked up ATO and pellet food. Flakes require too much food to adequately feed tank. -Large shipment of Zoa's coming tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted June 29, 2016 Author Share Posted June 29, 2016 Update 6/29/16 Params: pH: 8.4 Ammonia : 0 Nitrite : 0 Nitrate : 60 Phosphate: 0 Mag: 1280 Ca: 550 Alk: 7.0 New addition: - Small clean up crew from Reefcleaners - new Macro (not sure what type) -picked up 5 in one test strips and phospate test kit -added large protein skimmer Comments: -Lost the hammer coral. Couldn't find a place where he was happy unfortunately. -Lost 3 LPS as I was on vacation. - Everyone else is ok. -Zoa's are in and growing well! New addition: - Small clean up crew from Reefcleaners - new Macro (not sure what type) Quote Link to comment
tarunteam Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 This tank was closed down when I moved. So this thread is dead. Starting a new one for the other tank! Quote Link to comment
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