My Battle - Reef ;) Pics of course :wave:
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jjmoneyman
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Woo Hoo, upgrade!
Blue Space
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Hooray for boo... ahem, babies!!! 
The clowns are gold striped Maroons and it's time consuming but well worth it in the end ( I am only beginning have 65 in total ) feels like that many has taken years
Cleaner shrimp spawned last night so I am going to give the babies a go can't find much information what I have says it's next to impossible
Cleaner shrimp spawned last night so I am going to give the babies a go can't find much information what I have says it's next to impossible
Update: I have had nitrate issues and this is due to trying to
Use the nitrate reactor the system came with
Have removed it added a brighter light on my chaeto and nitrates are lowering
Also added some Mexican snails to remove the growing algae which they are doing a great job
Will add some more pictures later
Use the nitrate reactor the system came with
Have removed it added a brighter light on my chaeto and nitrates are lowering
Also added some Mexican snails to remove the growing algae which they are doing a great job
Will add some more pictures later
So what's new!? Well quite a bit quite a bit of nitrate is NeW 100ppm on salifert test kit!
So started to run h20 bio pearls in a bubble magnus reactor and that's been up and running for 8 days - so still waiting for it to kick in
Managed to over clean my Deltec skimmer which resulted in my playing and tweaking the skimmer settings- wont overly clean it next time that's for sure!
3 new peacock wrasses and 1 silver belly
Also re added a 125w 6400k cfl to the sump area to help encourage chaeto growth currently on 24/7
Now I just got to wait
All advice welcomed
So started to run h20 bio pearls in a bubble magnus reactor and that's been up and running for 8 days - so still waiting for it to kick in
Managed to over clean my Deltec skimmer which resulted in my playing and tweaking the skimmer settings- wont overly clean it next time that's for sure!
3 new peacock wrasses and 1 silver belly
Also re added a 125w 6400k cfl to the sump area to help encourage chaeto growth currently on 24/7
Now I just got to wait
All advice welcomed
Beautiful fish!
theplantman
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BEAUTIFUL TANK, OUTSTANDING. I saw the note that you have your fuge light on 24/7 to encourage growth of the chaeto. All plants need a dark cycle for optimum growth and proper photosynthesis to occur. You should allow at least a 4 hour period of no light IMO. Others chime in.
yungreefer2410
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Noted and now running 18/6
Had some changes since last update to help combat nitrate issues
Will add pictures but here it is in writing:
Sand in main display reduced ABD larger grain added to reduce particles in water column ( for aesthetics
Rescaped the chunkier areas to allow/increase flow and also removed a heavily covered algae rock
Removed sand and live rock from sump
Added pearls D&D 5 weeks ago
All done over a slow period and been positive so far nitrates down Fromm 100 to 50
Pearl producers says 6 weeks so one more week to see if these pearls kick in
Bad news as well lost my flasher as I haven't had time to sort out a cove and her jumped
Also my chalk goby popped his clogs for a unknown reason so quite gutted
Hope everyone else had a super new year!!
Had some changes since last update to help combat nitrate issues
Will add pictures but here it is in writing:
Sand in main display reduced ABD larger grain added to reduce particles in water column ( for aesthetics
Rescaped the chunkier areas to allow/increase flow and also removed a heavily covered algae rock
Removed sand and live rock from sump
Added pearls D&D 5 weeks ago
All done over a slow period and been positive so far nitrates down Fromm 100 to 50
Pearl producers says 6 weeks so one more week to see if these pearls kick in
Bad news as well lost my flasher as I haven't had time to sort out a cove and her jumped
Also my chalk goby popped his clogs for a unknown reason so quite gutted
Hope everyone else had a super new year!!