jbm's 5.5g aio

[JBM]

5 minutes out of the bag

 

hour & a half out of the bag (and now a happy clam)

 

 

 

it's atleast 2" in length, amazing colors. LFS claims it's a ORA grade A clam, i highly doubt it, but either way i like it.

[wimby]

I like it too very pretty

[plantarms]

nice looking clam man

[Mr. Microscope]

Woohoo! Looks nice. Good luck!

[JBM]

i cant wait for the lights to turn on so i can see how it faired overnight.

 

Im sure it did fine tho, i'll be watching it like a hawk

 

 

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Been thinking long & hard about my upgrade (7.5g cube) Cant decide if i was to go all Zen like, build another aio, or just throw a eheim liberty filter on the back & call it a day.

 

Also cant decide what i want to do. A dwarf pipefish tank would be cool, but i cant find any solid info on them, Dwarf Seahorses are definately out, as i dont have the time or space to hatch bbs everyday.

 

GRRRR

[.Newman.]

aww its a clam lol. you should move that mushroom on the left, to face outward instead of into the tank....just a suggestion

[JBM]

aww its a clam lol. you should move that mushroom on the left, to face outward instead of into the tank....just a suggestion

 

80% of the day it does face outward. it's a weird mushroom

[jdl]

awesome tank man jealous of the clam!!

[.Newman.]

your tank makes me want a clam. but you probably have a larger growout system for it. I only got a 3 gallon and a 10 gallon

 

omg awesome auction on a clam, totally going to buy one

 

EDIT: nope, big fail. i knew a $10.00 clam was too good to be true. the reserve price on that auction was way more than 10.00

[JBM]

your tank makes me want a clam. but you probably have a larger growout system for it.

 

 

what grow out system?

 

 

quick tank update, i finally pulled the mj600 out & cleaned it up.

 

also switched out the twin outputs for a single wide one. Loads more flow in the tank

[.Newman.]

i meant a larger tank to put it in when it grows too big for this 5.5

or will you just sell it when it starts getting too big and buy a new small one?

[JBM]

i meant a larger tank to put it in when it grows too big for this 5.5

or will you just sell it when it starts getting too big and buy a new small one?

 

 

dont have a larger tank

 

probably sell it & just keep the cash. i'd make hand over fist even if i sold it tomorrow

[JBM]

so i think im starting to have an outbreak of Dinoflagellates. Lots of air bubbles & stringy brown algae starting to form in the tank

 

needless to say im not happy.

 

doing a 1 gallon water change tomorrow & buying some phosguard, even tho i already have macro in the tank i dont think it's enough.

 

 

F*ck me

[.Newman.]

lol

bubbles and brown algae is also possibly cyano.

[JBM]

lol

bubbles and brown algae is also possibly cyano.

 

 

it's more stringy than a mat, either way i dont like it.

[JBM]

selling my GLA cube, realized that it will never see what & probably break with the way my wife throws stuff in the closet.

 

see fs section for fs post

[Mr. Microscope]

Are you running chemipure? It might help/help to replace it.

[JBM]

Are you running chemipure? It might help/help to replace it.

 

1/2 unit of chemipure elite

[JBM]

been doing 2 quart w/c every 3 days

 

algae is not letting up.

 

So im bumping it up to 1 gallon (4 quart) every other day till i get this algae under control.

 

I agressivley siphoned out some of the algae, hope i dont do more harm than good. Tomorrow i will get some phosban.

[Spilo26]

If it's dinoflaggelate water changes could be adding more food for it. I had those in my biocube and only way I got rid of mine was a complete blackout for almost a month and raising my magnesium =(.

[.Newman.]

If it's dinoflaggelate water changes could be adding more food for it. I had those in my biocube and only way I got rid of mine was a complete blackout for almost a month and raising my magnesium =(.

this will kill even the hardier corals, so if thats to be attempted, its best to move livestock a bit...

[JBM]

this will kill even the hardier corals, so if thats to be attempted, its best to move livestock a bit...

 

i wouldnt atempt a 1 month lights out, far to risky. i wouldnt even go 1 day lights out. My clam would hate me.

 

only person i know thats close that still has a reef (that i'd even trust with a clam) is Kim, but i wouldnt want to impose. SO lights off is a big no no.

 

 

Other sugestions?

[.Newman.]

bigger water changes, Chaeto in a fuge, maybe get your coralline algae growing at fast rate, all to compete with and starve out the algae.

 

What type of algae are you dealing with here again?

[JBM]

looks most like dinoflagellates

 

picture from reefcleaners

 

looks like that but much longer in size.

 

i have many macros in the display, cheato, red lettuce, blue scroll, a form of calupra. Sot his is kinda odd to me

[wimby]

Impose. I guess you're not going to the swap or are you. Sorry about the algae prob you're having