Mitten_reef’s IM30L

[mitten_reef]

28 minutes ago, Thrassian Atoll said:

Tank is looking great!  Let me get a head of that torch when it splits!  😂

At the rate that it’s going, It’d be another 6 months from now before I have another update on the split. A branching hammer would have been 8 heads by now. 😂

[mitten_reef]

One more video, probably should have done YouTube or other video hosting sites instead of Instagram. But I guess if there is enough interests, I can try to do better shots. 

 

 

[mitten_reef]

Dirty-glass pic of the sunnyD mound. The colony had spread over the edge of a 2” round tile. can’t decide if the spillover needs intervention/removal.  
 

Thanks @pokerdobe for figuring out why my sunnyD turned brown (answer: not enough phosphate). 

[mitten_reef]

 

[pokerdobe]

1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

Dirty-glass pic of the sunnyD mound. The colony had spread over the edge of a 2” round tile. can’t decide if the spillover needs intervention/removal.  
 

Thanks @pokerdobe for figuring out why my sunnyD turned brown (answer: not enough phosphate). 

Way more credit than I deserve. 

 

As for the zoas overgrowing the disk, I'd trim back. You are sandless? I'd hate to be scraping zoas off the bottom of my tank. 

[ninjamyst]

ooo tell me why my sunny d are loosing skirts and closing up.  shouldn't be phosphate so i have plenty of algae....

[pokerdobe]

9 minutes ago, ninjamyst said:

ooo tell me why my sunny d are loosing skirts and closing up.  shouldn't be phosphate so i have plenty of algae....

Who are you again? 😈

 

What's your parameters looking like? Admittedly, I've never had my zoas lose their skirts before, but it's always a good start. 😄 

[ninjamyst]

8 minutes ago, pokerdobe said:

Who are you again? 😈

 

What's your parameters looking like? Admittedly, I've never had my zoas lose their skirts before, but it's always a good start. 😄 

parameters? i dont even do water changes...hahah.  

[pokerdobe]

3 minutes ago, ninjamyst said:

parameters? i dont even do water changes...hahah.  

You monster...

[second_decimal]

8 minutes ago, ninjamyst said:

parameters? i dont even do water changes...hahah.  

And that’s why your palys are loosing their skirts. See? Problem solved.. so easy sheesh 

 

edit: ok fine.. sunny D’s are not palys 

[mitten_reef]

8 hours ago, ninjamyst said:

parameters? i dont even do water changes...hahah.  

I know dino got you bugged out on water changes. But a little bit may help. 
 

another thought, if the skirts look damaged, you may have a rogue amphipod. I had a few big ones at one point that like to nibble on the zoa skirts. 
 

 

[mitten_reef]

Been about 3 weeks, since the last timer/alk check-in. 

 

just added another minute to the timer for the alk dosing pump, at the midnight point. 
 

new alk schedule. 
8.00-8.01 pm

12:00-12:02 am

4:00-4:02 am

8:00-8:01 am

2:00-2:01 pm

 

here’s a token pic to go along with the post, terrible reflection.  

 

 

[mitten_reef]

This little bugger is why I ended up with no sand bed. I had dozens across the sand at one point.

But today I just found a new one 😱.  I must have enough detritus pile built up in one spot in the corner for this one to pop up again.  hopefully, he doesn’t have many friends left in the tank  

[pokerdobe]

1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

This little bugger is why I ended up with no sand bed. I had dozens across the sand at one point.

But today I just found a new one 😱.  I must have enough detritus pile built up in one spot in the corner for this one to pop up again.  hopefully, he doesn’t have many friends left in the tank  

I thought these were good?

[Matteo]

2 hours ago, mitten_reef said:

This little bugger is why I ended up with no sand bed. I had dozens across the sand at one point.

But today I just found a new one 😱.  I must have enough detritus pile built up in one spot in the corner for this one to pop up again.  hopefully, he doesn’t have many friends left in the tank  

What is it? 

[mitten_reef]

56 minutes ago, pokerdobe said:

I thought these were good?

Idk, even a bta wouldn’t touch it, it actually made the BTA retracted the tentacle.  They were everywhere, it just became a bit unsightly. 

39 minutes ago, Matteo said:

What is it? 

a type of spaghetti worm? I dunno. 

[spectra]

43 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

Idk, even a bta wouldn’t touch it, it actually made the BTA retracted the tentacle.  They were everywhere, it just became a bit unsightly. 

a type of spaghetti worm? I dunno. 

I hated spaghetti worms in my sand.........so far nothing in the 750 with all the sand critters I have roaming........need about 25 more nassarius and not the little guys either...........

[mitten_reef]

🤬 One of the pieces I got during holiday sale. I guess it still falls under wild/mariculture finicky-ness?  I think I let the alk dipped too low. It’s sitting at 8 dKh today after the 8 pm dose. 


 

there are 3 more chunky pieces of it around the tank that seem to be doing ok for now. Not sure what the deal is with this one. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Story of an sps owner, pulling the whole chunk out tonight. 

 

[DreC80]

Well that sucks.  What do you normally run alk at?  Mine has been pretty steady at 7.7 over the last couple of months.  I shoot for 8ish.  Never tried to go higher...afraid of the outcome.

[pokerdobe]

1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

🤬 One of the pieces I got during holiday sale. I guess it still falls under wild/mariculture finicky-ness?  I think I let the alk dipped too low. It’s sitting at 8 dKh today after the 8 pm dose. 


 

there are 3 more chunky pieces of it around the tank that seem to be doing ok for now. Not sure what the deal is with this one. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Story of an sps owner, pulling the whole chunk out tonight. 

 

That acro life. 

 

Sucks - sometimes you just have no idea what causes these necrosis events. Even when everything looks right...

[mitten_reef]

1 minute ago, DreC80 said:

Well that sucks.  What do you normally run alk at?  Mine has been pretty steady at 7.7 over the last couple of months.  I shoot for 8ish.  Never tried to go higher...afraid of the outcome.

Somewhere in 7.5-8 range. 
 

also just realized that maybe my timer is off by one hour due to daylight savings time. 😅 and I may have just increase the alk dose due to wrong testing time results. Oops. Put the doser back one minute. 
 

here’s something for @Matteo. No more front frag rack! Side one is necessary, can’t help it. 

 

 

[Matteo]

1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

Somewhere in 7.5-8 range. 
 

also just realized that maybe my timer is off by one hour due to daylight savings time. 😅 and I may have just increase the alk dose due to wrong testing time results. Oops. Put the doser back one minute. 
 

here’s something for @Matteo. No more front frag rack! Side one is necessary, can’t help it. 

 

 

All I see is a frag rack 🤷‍♂️

[mitten_reef]

Hopefully the first of many to come, was channeling a photographer mood and shot over 500, already got rid of 150 blurry ones 😅. 
 

 

[mitten_reef]

This is home of the clowns. The coral is now used to all the rubbing and loving (🤔😂🤷🏻‍♂️). 

 

 

[mitten_reef]

4/5/2020.