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I have have heard of people doing this, does it work?
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Bump on that last question
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what using no fish to cycle
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Yes, using prodibio (Biostart 1st, Bioclean 2nd, ReefBooster last) is a good way to start a tank cycle, especially when using dry rock. (I'm not sure if you are or not).
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What I'm wondering is once I have no ammonia and everything is in check adding maybe one fish and a coral or two and add my livestock very slowly to bring up the bioload
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Here are some pics for all of you that are interested my ammonia has dropped to 0 and I have 2 damsels in there that have been there for around a week now, levels are still holding at 0 there is so much rock in there I'm never going to be able to find my fish, also have an mp 10 hiding in the rock wall by my overflow hoping to add a mp30 on the other side to get a wave effect going.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/aryne6a5.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/pyvyhy9e.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/y5y3ezam.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/u6anyme4.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/asetasa7.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/ujudyvy5.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/hy4ateha.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/02/ajy6ebaq.jpg
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So with all my levels holding nicely I have added two false perc clownfish (ocullaris) and a royalgramma, because my girlfriend wouldn't let me leave the store without her hehe
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So everything is going great, starting to develop some red slime alge (had this problem in my 30g it's not noticeable at all yet but hoping it will give my rocks some sort of colour for now at least! Had a clown die but I think this is due to a swim bladder infection he had when I got him, but everyone else is doing great, so going to give it some time to see what happens with my slime
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so starting to develop cyano i believe, like a red slime, is this due to my low bacteria base? should i wait for this to subside or try to do something about it?
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Got myself a new clown to replace the one I lost a flower pot and a shrimp, everything's looking good!http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/14/a9ejapah.jpg very happy in its new home :)
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So been away from my tank a week now and have another 5 days to go. First time extended period away but I was told all my fish are eating and everyone in the tank looks good. I guess my female clown is bullying one of my chromis not sure but that's what I'm told ATO is working good and their all eating!
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Was told today that my clowns have been bullying one of my chromis and not it's no ware to be found would my clown kill a chromis??
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I had two chromis and two clowns along with a royalgramma my mom feeds the tank while I'm working. My royalgramma is still shy and doesn't go to the top during feeding but he still gets some and comes out, my chromis never ever miss a feeding. Now my mom called me the other day to say my female clown was chasing around the chromis till he hid in his little corner (his house). Now today my mom says she hasn't seen him all day or night and even when feeding he normally hides in between the rock wall and the glass. It's not like him to hide in the rocks or stray far from his buddy chromis. Would my clown have killed him? I feel like clowns couldn't be this territorial in a 55 g tank but her experience says otherwise. What do you guys think
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That brass fitting is pure trouble! Any corrosive, metal fitting will 1) corrode, putting brass into the water. 2) alter ph, metals will mess with it. It's y an apple goes brown wen u cut with a stainless knife, it alters the ph of the apple.
Return the skimmer. Don't pm, don't leave a MSG on canreef. Hop in ur car, drive there today, the same way u went to pick it up. It's common sense to return wit is borrowed! A quick shake of the head is needed! Hope u solve ur tank prob. |
Changed the brass fitting, i pmed him as I don't remember where he lives. Tank is going well
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So havent posted on here in a while mostly just reading and keeping quiet. My tank is doing good. no algea or anything. having trouble with my anenome. not sure if its dying or just not healthy. Just ordered a Vertex omega 130 and just insatalled a Reef octopus DC pump for my return. so quiet i cant even tell if its running! out at work right now but when i get home ill be posting some pics!!
Hoping that cod father will pipe up and pm me his address so i can return this skimmer that is taking up space in my garage. |
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New rule is no superglue for me I have it all over my hands and everything. How do you guys glue corals? Is epoxy Easyer? |
Chase31's 50 starfire aquascape reef
Well today ups brought me a little present (3 days late I'll add)
So here it is all put together http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/11/nu3ehyhu.jpg Due to my father managing facility's at a school board lots of chunks of egg crate they can't use so made a stand to raise it to around 7 inches http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/11/vaqapa4u.jpg Letting it overflow flow over night! http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/11/5y3y4esa.jpg How do you recommend breaking this skimmer in? |
Well didn't get a chance to post in a little bit but 2 weeks away for work and now 3-4 days with the girlfriends family, my tank didn't do to good, skimmer has been draining back into the tank and tried to get it running bit my schedule didn't allow it and when I get home for. Work my Sps was rtning and looked to be gone. So assuming my levels got bad with no skimmer and no one to do weekly water changes :( pretty disappointed
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So now that I have no Sps and got a nutrafin test kit for chritmas I tested all my levels
Phosphate undetectable Nitrate undetectable Nitrite undetectable Ammonia undetectable And my skimmers producing head finally! Is it possible that I have no phosphate or no4 as that amount I algea in my tank is crazy. Or is it just gobbling it up? |
Safe to say if you have algae you have phosphates. You may be reading 0, that just means the algae is holding it.
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So keep dosing my Prodibio to see if brings it down
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So update. Carpet anemone is looking good. And algea is slowing down cuz of my sea hare. Problem is I got a new refractomiter and my salt gravity was 1.20 and I have been bumping it up to 1.26. Hoping this is why some of the Sps rtned and the anemone was unhappy
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Does anyone think that my Sps failed because of the low salinity? I believe my anemone wasn't happy due to that aswell cuz now the mouth is almost closed
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The first anemone died because the tank is to young, I would never recommend adding a anemone to a tank that hasn't been running for at least 8 months. The spa might have died because you lights are to powerful, you have to slowly acclimate new corals to the power of leds.
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The first anemone used up all it's photosynthetic food. Sold it so it wouldn't die. So I have to acclimate any new corals to the lights?? Like every time? The salinity had nothing to do with it?
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Yes every time, what % are you running the lights at, they seem very low... If the lights are to powerful they will bleach the coral and the coral will die.
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At the time of the pics I had egg crate ontop at about 65 on the whites 100% on the blues. Raised them about 14 inches or so off the water now with no egg crate and there at 85 whites. How would I acclimate my new corals without having my anemone losing a ton of light? And how do I know how low % to drop them
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What I would do is put your whites at 40 and blues at 60 with them at 14 inches above water level, then slowly increase the intensity as needed. I can tell you right now that's why your sps died, it got burned by the LEDs.
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