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This is a picture of my female Mandarin.

What do you think about that fat belly?

 

Is this normal or can this be allot of eggs?

 

(I also have a male Mandarin)

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Everything runs very nice and the corals are starting to grow very fast.

The Mandarins still have eggs every week but the eggs look not fertilized.

So i don't collect them anymore.

I also bought 3 Azure Damselfish and one RBTA that split within 3 days :D

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I have replaced my T5 lights with the Maxsect G2-800-230W (Cree).

The light is so much brighter en the corals look much better and i have shimmer now....

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My foxface is so big that i had to bring it back to my LFS.

I also brought back my angel because from one day to an other the angel starts to eat all my sps.

It never did that before.

And he doesn't stop.

So out he goes.

 

I also installed a filter with biopellets.

To fight algea.

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I added a filter with Rowaphos and a korallin calcium reactor and a korallin biodenitrator.

For the first time in 4 years the phosphate is almost 0. From 1.0 to 0.03.

And nitrates are reduced from 20 to 2.5.

 

Finally my sps corals start to grow! Fast.....

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On april 30th one of my corals died when my tank was 3 years .

It killed all my other corals and almost all my fish.

So everything is dead.

 

The animals that survived are a few shrimps and 4 fish.

 

The corals that are attached to the glass of the tank died to but i could get them off.

 

I bought a new tank.

The Eheim MP Scubacube 270 Marine.

I will start over again.

And i will never ever buy palys again!!!

 

Pics will follow.

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My water was ok. 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates.

But On that day all the palys started to dump brown stuff into the water.

Why!?!? I don't know!

It smelled bad.

And in one day all my other corals died.

The water smelled very bad aswell as my room.

I pulled out all the dead corals and fish asap.

And did a few big wc's.

But it didn't help.

 

I have left:

3 cleaner shrimps

3 crabs

1 pistol shrimp

1 blue velvet damsel

1 azure damsel

2 dragonets

 

That's it.

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Yes, i used carbon and alot more after it happened.

But it didn't help.

The carbon sucked up some stuff because the carbon smelled bad.

 

What's left:

0 fish

0 shrimps

0 corals

3 crabs.....

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Time for a new update!

 

I started all over with a new tank.

 

The MP Eheim Scubacube 270

270 liter tank + 40 liter sump

65x65x65 cm

White glass

 

I used all the equipment of the last tank.

Maxspect G2 230W Cree

Korallin Calciumreactor + biodenitrator

GHL profilux 3 EX

 

New stuff:

Ecotech vortech MP40

Aqua medic turboflotor blue

 

It is running for about a month. It started with alot of algae but my new yellow tang knows how to deal with it.

The sneals already produced a lot of eggs and the corals are coloring up nicely.

Water quality is very good nitrates and phosphates are 0 and pH = 8,05 to 8,20

 

So it is a good start and hopefully this tank last longer than the other tank!

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