Pancho’s Reef S-500 Roller Coaster

[Pancho75]

We're so glad to see you back here I'm raising a glass of tequila in you honor right now!



Glad you finally got that fish killing monster out of your tank! Very cool specimen though! Show me a picture of your trap, please.

Thank you amigo, I’ll be drinking tequila in a few minutes.

We did not used a trap, we took the rocks out to uncover his tunnels and catch it with nets, old fashion way! We knew it was a pistol shrimp and not a mantis.

 

[Pancho75]

After many weeks I finally managed to reduce alk from 11 down to 7.5 - 8.0 without losing more coral. The tank is looking good and colors are raising.

 

[Pancho75]

Well, it took only 4 years to for my clownfish to host one of my anemones…. these guys are weird.

 

[Pancho75]

This week I am on vacations with the family kn Puerto Vallarta and took some sunset pics.

 

[SPR]

This week I am on vacations with the family kn Puerto Vallarta and took some sunset pics.
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Beautiful Pancho!

 

[Pancho75]

Beautiful Pancho!

Thanks my friend, I did need the break.

 

[Pancho75]

It is been a while since I posted anything, my reef was quite okish, for a while until a had a combo of my messing with the DOS dosing system, totally screwing it up and a little health hiccup, I had vertigo, so the reef went unattended for a couple of months.

As you can imagine, I had a bleaching episode, a lost a lot of coral growth, lost my hammers and even a melanarus who decided to find a small gap in the net a jump to his death.

Now the reef is slowly coming back, corals are regaining growth and I added a very small puffer and a couple of sebae clownfish. As a side effect of my little messed up I am battling hair algae that I believe will take me a couple of months to win, I added 25 hermit crabs to help. The nitrates went up to 80ppm and the phosphates are crazy in 0.50ppm.

I believe everything is part of the reefer life, ups and downs, we just keep pounding!

 

[StirCrayzy]

everything is part of the reefer life, ups and downs,

+100!

 

[Lipman]

Keep us updated, and welcome back.

 

[Pancho75]

Keep us updated, and welcome back.

Thank you pal.

 

[Pancho75]

Pulling hair algae is a pain in the butt, but it has been worthy, 1 month into the algae battle and it has receded by 60%. Nitrates dropped from 100 ppm to 50 ppm, also by doing an additional water change. Doing maintenance to the skimmer has helped as well.

And the main thing, I added a Morish Idol and a Yellow Eye White Tail Tang. I tried also a Longnose Buttefly but it was too shy and didn’t make it. I have kept the mirrors in the tank for 5 days now since the tangs are showing still some aggression.