I'm Batman Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Here’s a full tank shot from today after a water change. Nothing to write home about but I know Nano-reef loves pictures!! 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 Well almost a week to the day... Dino’s are making a return. I need to link my other threads in there but after the Brightwell Neo Pho’s and NeoNitro along with heavy feeding - 3 days into the regiment I’m at 0.012ppm phosphates! Finallly!!! Don’t know why this is sideways... Here’s the Dino’s creeping in...Notice how fluffy the trumpets are. Monti is gaining serious structure! Light pigment tho.. pretty pale.. Here’s the trumpets after adding NeoPhos and NeoNitro.. they weren’t happy about something... Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 One of the projects today is to get rid of some of this black sand and replace with Fiji pink.. Before photo 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 And after 2 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 Things have calmed down and the water has cleared up. Looks a lot better. I pushed one of the rocks on the left to give the frogspawn a more calm are of flow. 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 Ok... so I have a giant worm inside one of my rocks. He grabbed a favia frag and drug it about 3 inches in the sand to the rock. I’ve been looking at the tank Later at night and tonight scared the crap out of me... I’m may have to take his rock out. I really don’t want to, this is where my clown fish sleeps at night in a crevice in this rock. Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 Vague picture... it’s pretty long but has like a translucent green... this is a capture from the video I took. It yawned and looked like this.. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 Another one Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Looks like it could be a medusa or eunicid, probably best to make a trap and try to get it out if you can. 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 So after dosing Brightwell No3 & po4 along with more phyto, which are the only changes I’ve made to the tank (other than sand swap Sunday) - I’m having some serious tissue recession over the last two weeks on my once beautiful trumpet corals... Montipora seems to be growing just the same and my year old GSP that hasn’t budged Is starting to grow more polyps - go figure. 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 Couple update pics... Dino’s are taking over but aside from the trumpets everything else seems to love the nutrients... Only time will tell if the monti’s stop growing... 1 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I am following so many tanks I lost track of your plan. Are you going to replace all of the black sand? I don't test so not judging but did you test before and after replacing the sand? 1 Quote Link to comment
farkwar Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Black sand is bad It's magnetic Sticks to your glass cleaner, scratches the glass And when its only a little dirty, it looks a lot dirty 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 9 hours ago, debbeach13 said: Are you going to replace all of the black sand? I’m going to replace as much as I can. Something is up with this sand... also the magnetic black chunks are not sand sifting fish friendly. The large size of the chunks don’t allow for much surface area compared to regular sand. 9 hours ago, debbeach13 said: did you test before and after replacing the sand? Yup. 9 hours ago, farkwar said: Black sand is bad It's magnetic I’m convinced there’s more bad than just the magnetism. Can’t believe it took my 3 years to get around to changing some out. Aesthetically it’s amazing how vibrant the aquarium looks on the side with the aragonite vs the Hawaiian black. 3 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 Here’s some pics from last November then today. Other than the return of Dino’s and dosing No3 and Po4, the tank has looked better than ever - November 2019 Trumpets half dead November Trumpets not looking as good as a few months ago, but massive growth over the past 12mo. Acan last November Acan today - Sunset Monti half dead Sunset Monti today building mass from those roids! 2 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 Also the FTS November 2019 - Dinotopia Today - let’ hope we can beat the Dino’s again and keep everything thriving... 3 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Those growth pictures are great. 1 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 I take quite a few photos actually. It was kind of coincidence I just happened to be flipping through 380GB of pics and came across those. It’s definitely cool to see the progression. Was thinking about uploading some of the video I have to YouTube. Need a good name tho.. 1 Quote Link to comment
farkwar Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 2 hours ago, I'm Batman said: Need a good name tho. Kent Clark 3 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 @debbeach13 look at how the Dino’s are just on the Hawaiian black sand... Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 yeah get rid of it. 3 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 2 hours ago, debbeach13 said: yeah get rid of it. Small bits at a time... trying to avoid the plague of water changes with the Dino’s... also don’t want to lose bio-diversity. 1 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Slow and steady wins the race. I had black sand first in a pico then a 40B. It was pretty easy to keep clean in the pico but hard in the 40B. Very attractive when new but I am using white sand now in my 20L and Evo V. Good luck with the dino's seems that a lot of people are battling them. 2 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 Crabs are having a standoff over this crab in his shell... clown came to see what all the yelling is about lol. 2 Quote Link to comment
I'm Batman Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 And the Dino’s are taking hold like bad word... 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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