Twin Desktop Pico's

[Ratvan]

3 hours ago, Grimes said:

Does that work for reef tanks then? How come no RODI?

It has done so far, no RODI as I'm on a water meter and don't have the pressure for one to work. I know about booster pumps but at the moment not worth it for me

[Snow_Phoenix]

14 hours ago, Ratvan said:

This is a good one. I use Nutrafin dechlorinator/water conditioner for all my tanks. 😊👍

[Ratvan]

4 minutes ago, Snow_Phoenix said:

This is a good one. I use Nutrafin dechlorinator/water conditioner for all my tanks. 😊👍

I've used that Nutrafin before too, interesting it's sold by Fluval over here 👍

 

Still searching for CuC, thinking that this weekend should rid me of the last of the diatoms as the GHA is starting to come in, so need to start scraping the rocks soon

[Murphs_Reef]

16 minutes ago, Ratvan said:

I've used that Nutrafin before too, interesting it's sold by Fluval over here 👍

 

Still searching for CuC, thinking that this weekend should rid me of the last of the diatoms as the GHA is starting to come in, so need to start scraping the rocks soon

Nice. I have lumping 25 litre drums of RODI from the LFS.. might switch to this....👍🏼

[Ratvan]

Just now, Grimes said:

Nice. I have lumping 25 litre drums of RODI from the LFS.. might switch to this....👍🏼

If you do pick up a TDS meter, I allow anything up to 15 into the tank

[Murphs_Reef]

I'm in Stoke will be about 1million parts per million. It's like drinking bricks 🤣

[Ratvan]

4 minutes ago, Grimes said:

I'm in Stoke will be about 1million parts per million. It's like drinking bricks 🤣

Severn Trent? https://www.stwater.co.uk/my-supply/water-quality/check-my-water-quality/

Not as good as Scotland but not too bad depending on where you are in Pottersville

[Ratvan]

Something tank related? OK Clownfish finger feeding

 

 

[Murphs_Reef]

4 hours ago, Ratvan said:

Severn Trent? https://www.stwater.co.uk/my-supply/water-quality/check-my-water-quality/

Not as good as Scotland but not too bad depending on where you are in Pottersville

I'll stick to lumping barrels lol... 

[Ratvan]

So it seems the diatoms have almost burned themselves out, the GHA is slowly starting to come in so have been pinching off clumps as and when I spot them 

 

The clowns now host the return 🙄

[Ratvan]

So have something going on with my Zoas, the majority of the colony is now closed and have gone translucent. I have a faint brown film over some of the heads which I have been gently basting away. Additionally I seem to have a lot of loose polyps floating around the tank..... 

 

 

Oh yeah found the diatoms

[debbeach13]

Sorry about the zoa.'s. Dirty floss makes it easy to remove that junk. I hope you are doing well.

[Ratvan]

1 minute ago, debbeach13 said:

Sorry about the zoa.'s. Dirty floss makes it easy to remove that junk. I hope you are doing well.

Thanks. Hopefully @Grimesor someone UK based can catch and post me an Asterina star or two. Pretty sure in the nano contest I had a similar problem and the Asterina ate the diseased polyps. The colony made its way back and I never saw the stars again. 

🤞

 

For now have moved the rock up into a higher flow area of the tank and have adjusted the light down accordingly. 

 

I think I actually prefer this placement in the tank, gives a better angle of the rock that the colony is on

 

Love good live rock, even if I lose the Zoas got plenty of goodies in here

[Murphs_Reef]

2 minutes ago, Ratvan said:

Thanks. Hopefully @Grimesor someone UK based can catch and post me an Asterina star or two. Pretty sure in the nano contest I had a similar problem and the Asterina ate the diseased polyps. The colony made its way back and I never saw the stars again. 

🤞

 

For now have moved the rock up into a higher flow area of the tank and have adjusted the light down accordingly. 

 

I think I actually prefer this placement in the tank, gives a better angle of the rock that the colony is on

 

Love good live rock, even if I lose the Zoas got plenty of goodies in here

Will collect them up and send as soon as mate. There is defo another star(so I expect more than that) in my tank but it's an elusive little bugger..  

I know a bunch of people don't mind them but years ago I had a white one I thought was ok which dined out on half a zoa colony before I realized what was going on..

[Ratvan]

11 minutes ago, Grimes said:

Will collect them up and send as soon as mate. There is defo another star(so I expect more than that) in my tank but it's an elusive little bugger..  

I know a bunch of people don't mind them but years ago I had a white one I thought was ok which dined out on half a zoa colony before I realized what was going on..

I thought similar in the contest, but looking back at the photos I'm now not 100% certain that the Zoas were that healthy to begin with. 

 

Nitrates 5ppm

Phosphates 0.1ppm

Ammonia 0ppm

 

Higher flow seems to be helping some already. 🤔

 

[Murphs_Reef]

To be honest mine are midway up the tank with a good bit of flow, like they away around in the flow and they seem fine a opened up. Before moving them up into moderate flow they struggled...

[Ratvan]

3 minutes ago, Grimes said:

To be honest mine are midway up the tank with a good bit of flow, like they away around in the flow and they seem fine a opened up. Before moving them up into moderate flow they struggled...

I wouldn't say they struggled, although the lack of flow probably did mean that the film algae covering them got more of a chance to establish itself. I mean the change from Wednesday 

 

To this morning

 

I try and take the photos at the same angle so I can measure stuff like this, was hoping to measure growth but hey ho

[Murphs_Reef]

That's a pretty dramatic change in a couple of days like 

[Snow_Phoenix]

57 minutes ago, Ratvan said:

I wouldn't say they struggled, although the lack of flow probably did mean that the film algae covering them got more of a chance to establish itself. I mean the change from Wednesday 

 

To this morning

 

I try and take the photos at the same angle so I can measure stuff like this, was hoping to measure growth but hey ho

So strange.

[Ratvan]

Anyways on a slightly reef related topic, have placed a holding deposit on a flat for myself after the new year. I have a lovely breakfast bar/room divider with power sockets 💪. Should take up to 250KG of weight 

[afcajax73]

awesome... looks nice 🙂

[Murphs_Reef]

Yeah very cool 👍🏼

[Ratvan]

So this morning I did a thing

[Snow_Phoenix]

1 hour ago, Ratvan said:

So this morning I did a thing

[Ratvan]

I do like my little work station now. 

 

Anyways, onto the main reef. 

 

Zoas still looking poorly, haven't shrunk in size but only open a limited amount. They don't seem to have that faint brown film on them, that seems to have been replaced by GHA. 

 

Hoping the Snail mailing experiment works, will find out tomorrow