joshthebox Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Just now, Jaren45 said: Hopefully we have enough flow now, I can't afford any more vortechs! Looks great! vortechs have always worked extremely well for me. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Haha that should be more than ebough flow. One on the back right panel kinda in the corner,and one front left panel about where its at should be PERFECT. Pretty much creates a gyre effect. Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 Can anyone tell me what I'm seeing on my stag? New growth or something worse? Might be paranoid, but I've never encountered any sps pests and want to make sure it's not something bad! Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 It almost looks like bute marks,but when I zoom in it gets blurry. Did you dip everything ? Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 8 minutes ago, Reefkid88 said: It almost looks like bute marks,but when I zoom in it gets blurry. Did you dip everything ? They're a little bit raised, and the same color as the rest of the flesh. I was thinking new polyps but would they grow right there? And yes everything gets dipped but I only have revive Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 Some corals like this setosa just look nearly as bright under daylight as they do blues! Can't wait to grow this out 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 and a fts 🙂 3 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted October 29, 2022 Author Share Posted October 29, 2022 The ever fabulous yellow leather has arrived! I blame @joshthebox for inspiring me to seek one out. I'll of course be posting regular updates but right now it just doesn't look all that yellow to me 4 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 22 hours ago, Jaren45 said: The ever fabulous yellow leather has arrived! I blame @joshthebox for inspiring me to seek one out. I'll of course be posting regular updates but right now it just doesn't look all that yellow to me Yay! It looks great. I'm sure it'll colour up nicely in your tank!!! Quote Link to comment
Bagabaga Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Hey man, I have similar clowns! Mine were labeled frostbite. great looking tank so far! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 6 hours ago, Bagabaga said: Hey man, I have similar clowns! Mine were labeled frostbite. great looking tank so far! Thanks! They're one of my favorite clowns now for sure. Got them for a great price too couldn't be happier Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 Leather looks happier today, also new growth on the cut ends of the slimer! The lower cut part is just 2 or 3 tiny green dots right now, but I'm shocked at how fast it recovered and started growing from a fresh cut frag in a new tank 3 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Very nice, can't wait to see your tank all grown in! Great to see your yellow leather has started to open up more. Treat it just like an SPS - lots of light and flow. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share Posted November 3, 2022 Despite their popularity and touted hardiness, I've never kept a royal gramma until now! Tank also has a bit of dinos going on, nitrates are almost undetectable while phosphates are quite high around .5. Hoping more natural waste will help more than continued coral food feeding, which is mostly just phosphates 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 This is a pink lemonade frag believe it or not, but it's starting to show signs of life! Polyps have been wide open and it's not 100% brown anymore 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 I decided to try out some liquid diatoms from sustainable aquatics this weekend to see if it would help at all with dinos. Our service team has had great success with it in customers tanks so I figured it couldn't hurt. After only 2 additions every other day the dinos are visibly less bad on the sandbed, and the patches on the rock are turning greyish and sloughing off 2 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 11, 2022 Author Share Posted November 11, 2022 New Cali tort, plus I finally fixed my bulkheads and installed the new flexy rfg's to try out. Hopefully these don't crack after 3 months like the old ones! 2 Quote Link to comment
joshthebox Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 8 hours ago, Jaren45 said: New Cali tort, plus I finally fixed my bulkheads and installed the new flexy rfg's to try out. Hopefully these don't crack after 3 months like the old ones! I've had a similar experience with rfg. The 3D printed material doesn't hold up well at all. The VCA nozzles are so overpriced for what they are. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 Dinos are still going strong, I've been dosing nitrate just to get them detectable with salifert for the last week or so. This is in combination with the diatoms, I'm thinking I'll just finish the bottle off and pray that's all I need. Some corals especially the small ones have taken a hit from the dinos, but the healthier pieces don't seem to mind it much 1 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 25, 2022 Author Share Posted November 25, 2022 Happy thanksgiving all. Tank is still hanging in there, trying my best not to let the dinos get me down but it's rough seeing most of the coral doing so poorly. Nitrates are holding steady around 10, po4 not so much. 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Great build. Sorry to see the dino. Surprised you dropped in acros so early before waiting out the ugly stages. Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted November 25, 2022 Author Share Posted November 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, ninjamyst said: Surprised you dropped in acros so early before waiting out the ugly stages. I was surprised too.. luckily they weren't expensive but it's still dumb of me. To be fair, it was going well until dinos showed up (or I like to think) Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share Posted December 1, 2022 Not looking too bad today! Finally got an itch to clean the back wall as well. Nitrate and phosphates have seem to levelled out a bit, I'm not having to dose phos at all anymore and down to 2ml of nitrate a day 3 Quote Link to comment
Jaren45 Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 Dinos be gone! I think we're in the clear now, rock is starting to look like real live rock now as well. Love to see all the coralline growth and the stop to a decline in coral health 3 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 I'm glad to see everything is starting to turn a new page and go your way. Nothing but positive progress from here,right ? 1 Quote Link to comment
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