join us doug

Are you upgrading too? :biggrin:

I spy with my little eye...a very pretty clam...I drooled a little...

yeah, 1000gal inwall. haha

Hey fishytime!! I finally read your nem fiasco!! Up to page 21 anyway. Nice clams btw! My nem is still moving around...

Only a little:sad: Thanks Catherine...I guess where I put them was ok after all?

Nems is evil:twised::wink: How are your goodies doing?


I did another bulb swap....after reading recent threads about the the lack of par from actinic bulbs and algae growth from the red color spectrum, I figured I would see if I notice a difference with "pure actinic" and "fiji purps" out of the mix.

So I went from(starting at the front):

Giessmann Pure actinic
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Blue+
KZ Fiji Purp
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Actinic+

To:


Giessmann Actinic+
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Blue+
KZ New Gen
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Actinic+

FTS of the difference?

Fts
 

Come on Josh, we all know only you can truly catch the beauty of Doug's tank. It's a good thing you were there to take pictures of his tank before he became a farmer ( of algae! ).

Cheers!

Geoff

Probably tonight....need to clean the glass:redface:
Hey!.....was that some sort of crack about my photog skills? (or lack there of):mrgreen: Always had a green thumb:biggrin:

The past couple weeks I have been off work and spending lots of time in the tank. I spent two afternoons siphoning out algae and after 75 gallons of water I ended up with a small size filter sock near full of dictyota and brown wafer algae. Greg (snappy) was over and suggested a naso tang would eat both kinds of algae. So after some research and much debate (in my head) I added a small (2 1/2") Solomon Islands net caught blond naso. Probably dumb on my part to try and solve the algae problem caused by high nutrients with adding another fish, but the siphoning wasnt doing a dang thing and in my repeated attempts to siphon I have ended up snapping off several frags of sps....I was at the end of my rope of patience. The addition went really well. I was more worried about how a small tang would be received by my regal and yellow tangs than the added bioload. Both tangs hardly even noticed the little newcomer and the naso now has a nice round belly full of dictyota and wafer.

Another benefit of me being home is I have been able to test the tank lots to get a handle on how much Ca and Mg the tank is sucking up. I have been dosing 60ml of two part Ca to keep the levels above 400, 4 caps of T.A. Mg to keep Mg above 1300 and 6 caps of T.A dkh plus to try and raise my dkh above 6...its not working though.