Recent content by xCry0x

Ah forgot this update. So my Alk has been interesting. Apparently even a tank without massive SPS growing all over can put a drain on alk that almost 1 gal/day of saturated kalk cannot overcome. Been testing alk daily for past few weeks after testing and finding my alk all the way down at 3.8...

Leopard wrasse adjusting well. Started eating frozen mysis out of the blue which is great, should help fatten it up. Trying to move all my fish onto a diet consisting mostly of dry food in order to ensure they are getting a better nutrient balance compared to eating mysis all day every day...

Leopard wrasse out and pecking away at pods :celebrate: - All my other fish are starting to finally adjust to their normal feeding routine. Took almost a month for my orchid dottyback to come around. Now whenever I get near the tank they all start getting excited. Was making it hard to get a...

Hm - will see about the stocking. I finally got a new nitrate test kit and was able to test for it -- salifert test and the result was essentially clear. I hate color changing tests because they are so hard to read -- I think I am somewhere between 0.1-0.02 -- eg undetectable. Phosphates also...

Couple of updates. Got a carpenter's wrasse last week - doing super well. Really seems to enjoy swimming in the current from my cross flow. Ah - don't think I updated for that either. Got a cp-40 Cross flow off ebay - works great. Carpenter's wrasse was perfect addition, nice active fish that...

Tried to take a picture of starburst favia and touch up the colors to make it look a bit more accurate -- total color adjusting noob so might have overdone it. But fairly close to how it pops under actinic lights. Have had the coral for a little while as you can tell by the encrusting. However...

Thanks! The alk in the tank has been giving me issues - honestly confused how it is getting sucked up so fast. I guess its a good thing and means corals are growing, but I was under the impression that you shouldn't really need to dose until you have a more grown out tank. I measured Alk at...

Short update. Busy weekend, put new baseboards in throughout house. Anyhow, with all the SPS frags I added I decided to test my calcium/alk/mag so I could start monitoring levels. Assumed everything would be fine, if not a bit high since the tank was fairly low stock. Uhh --- my Alk measured...

Yea I have my Aquamaxx sitting here and if the stock skimmer wasn't working I would switch it in -- the perk to the HoB is it would free up all that space in the rear chamber -- you could run a giant fuge in there or fill the thing space with marinepure blocks etc. Out of curiosity, why did you...

Just want to re-iterate the actinic strip. I didn't realize how much I missed the pure actinic blue until now. My nano used to have a generic LED fixture with 2 channel control where I ran all blue for a few hours in the AM and PM. I switched to a much nicer fixture in a nanobox duo and set the...

Coral explosion :woohoo: 13 SPS frags from a local reefer. Always love buying coral from other hobbyist, especially fun to see their setups. Kes - my wife would kill me if I tried to create a frag setup like yours;). Bunch of great frags including a rainbow stylo, blue stag, purple stylo...

36" Truelumen actinic strip added Full tank shot -- The strip is on an ecoxotic one touch controller. Have to say, the controller isn't as functional as I thought it was. My fault for not reading correctly. However, $50 used on ebay for the controller + 150w power supply + splitter...

I believe an aquamaxx ws-1 may fit in the back. An Aquamaxx Hob-1 would be a HOB option that I believe could be modded for in tank. Although they are borderline for the size -- $500 for the deltec is a lot to swallow. I am a fan of the two aquamaxx skimmers, have had a hob-1 on my nano...

The YWG mugging the world from under a rock. He's starting to get more comfortable and back to his normal ornery self. The green, I think leptastrea, on that rock is in bad shape. The rock has a blueberry field zoa and fairy dust zoa colony on it, had to do fw/iodine dips to kill of nudibranchs...

Now for the fun part -- upgrades & stuff. The water cooling fan was burned out - replaced that. Two of the t5 fans were burnt out, so I replaced all 4 with scythe fans. Those run near silent. That was a bit of an adventure since the fans come with female adapters and the RSM hood also has a...