Jaren45 Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 Fts for this week, still have dinos 😞 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share Posted November 28, 2021 Guess what's new this week? 🙂 5 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Jaren45 said: Guess what's new this week? 🙂 The new light in the Sky 😉 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 30, 2021 Author Share Posted November 30, 2021 My garf bonsai is still the largest piece in the tank. I'm pretty bummed I didn't place it further in front! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 Tank is happily ticking along! A few deaths here and there, but for the first time ever I can see growth on almost all my sps frags. Mission accomplished! Now we let it grow in 🙂 PS; this light is awesome! 3 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 Also grabbed myself a used Reef octopus 110int for $30. Despite being AC, this thing is 10x quieter than my "DC" bubble magus.. not to mention its been skimming so much more consistently this past week. Not bad! 4 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 13 hours ago, Jaren45 said: Tank is happily ticking along! A few deaths here and there, but for the first time ever I can see growth on almost all my sps frags. Mission accomplished! Now we let it grow in 🙂 PS; this light is awesome! the wall of coralline is awesome...😀 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 Just now, mitten_reef said: the wall of coralline is awesome...😀 Thanks! If you look at it from the side, there's 3 or 4 distinct layers of it now.. it gets heavy, falls off from a crab/flow then just grows back on top of the rest. There's flakes of it everywhere in my tank at this point 1 1 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Sweet looking tank!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 14, 2021 Author Share Posted December 14, 2021 So apparently hermit crabs will eat coralline algae. I have never kept them in my tank previously due to their tendency to piss of my lps, but last month I purchased ~30 red/blue legs to combat hair algae. They worked great but my coralline on the walls has started to dwindle.. no changes in water chemistry either 2 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 13 minutes ago, Jaren45 said: So apparently hermit crabs will eat coralline algae. I have never kept them in my tank previously due to their tendency to piss of my lps, but last month I purchased ~30 red/blue legs to combat hair algae. They worked great but my coralline on the walls has started to dwindle.. no changes in water chemistry either Wow interesting! Tank is looking good as well! 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 14, 2021 Author Share Posted December 14, 2021 Here is a piece I got for free at work in trade for helping frag a couple colonies. It was sitting in a bucket for 2 days unheated and almost didn't make it 3 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 25, 2021 Author Share Posted December 25, 2021 Merry Christmas all! Hope your tanks are doing better than mine is now LOL Due to my lack of attention when switching from 2 part to kalk slurry, I let my alk drop a little too fast (-2dkh over 48h) and most of my acros are dead/dying now. Other than that all lps/softies are growing great 3 4 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 Christmas gift came a little late 🙂 This thing is unbelievably cool 3 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 After the past 2 weeks seeing all my sps die, I’ve decided to rescape the tank and start fresh. Going to take it a bit slower this time.. not giving up on acropora just yet 3 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Here’s a cleaned up shot, and a pic of my all time favorite clean up crew 3 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 6 hours ago, Jaren45 said: Here’s a cleaned up shot, and a pic of my all time favorite clean up crew Money cowrie? Love those guys 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Just now, joshthebox said: Money cowrie? Love those guys Correct, they're so uncommon at the shop I work at that I buy one every time they come in.. I think i've got 4 2 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 minute ago, Jaren45 said: Correct, they're so uncommon at the shop I work at that I buy one every time they come in.. I think i've got 4 I have one but I rarely see it! Mine only seems to come out at night sadly lol. The LFS I work at also rarely brings them in unfortunately. Super cool creatures! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 Today is my lucky day. Grabbed a rs250 from a fellow reefer who’s moving at no cost to me, just had to move this giant hunk! Don’t think I have it in me to transfer my tank into this one, so stay tuned to see if it goes anywhere! 3 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 Starting to add a couple frags a week, been testing alk like mad this week to confirm things are stable - another pink lemonade - no name staghorn - ff digi - purple whip gorg 4 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 Still struggling to keep anything other than softies for whatever reason, but just been letting it ride. It’s no fun seeing an empty tank but I have 3 others to occupy me until it recovers… that’s all for now Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 iPhone images keep flipping on nano reef for me sorry y’all! 4 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 I could use some advice. My parameters: - Sg 1.025 (hanna) - Temp 77-78f - Alk- 6.9 (hanna) - Calc - 430 (salifert) - no3 - 25 (salifert) - po4 - .25 (salifert) I can't seem to keep sps or really any stony coral alive anymore. Not even easy lps. Lighting is still the neptune sky on a custom schedule at 25% intensity for 10hrs a day. I still do 5g water change weekly on a ~35g system Any advice? Do you think the gorgs and softies are producing toxins? I've never thought it could be an issue. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 recently lost all my SPS too, what salt do you use? Quote Link to comment
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