my 1000000000th journal.. now with fewer zombies!!!!(pics of corals)
 

well its time i started yet another journal lol im starting to think they are bad luck but here we go anyways:)

so unlike all my other tanks this one is tiny....very tiny like 20g tiny and so far it looks like crap and has been through hell and back:)

i had to tear down the 60g cube as it was left at a friends for 2 mths and completely neglected and pretty much crashed corals were killed and fish barely made it or died during the move:(

i took the sad tank to my new house and decided not to set up the cube but its gettin good use as the stand for my 20g lol looks cool too hehe:)

i wish i could say it was a fresh start but it wasnt my rock was covered in algae all parameters were completely all over the place and alot of them off the chart:( i had some serious work to do

i started with water changes and carbon by the rip and lots of both i scraped and pulled what i could and i got to work on my parameters.nitrates and phosphates were my biggest problem both were completely off the chart.i built a reactor and started running rowa phos and the water changes and no feeding brought my nitrates down.

i added some snails and a lawnmower blenny to cut my algae down that i couldnt pull and they have been doing a great job.i got lucky with my blenny as he loves the tall stuff and can be found pulling it off like no tomorrow and they usually like the film algae so that worked out great:):)


once things got back to what ill call for now normal i added a small zoanthid colony for a tester coral and he is thriving just fine:)

getting my alk,calcium,mg to be in sync took a bit of work i had to dose for calcium and after a few weeks of constant monitoring im happy to say its where it should be.

i went out and got some more goodies for the tank i bought a purple lta and some feather dusters some crabs and a cleaner shrimp and added a hob refugium which houses some liverock rubble and some cheato.


my good friend fred(nlreefguy) gave me some frags and they are doing good with the exception of a pink birdsnest and its funny cause ive always had goodluck with birdnest and bad luck with acros and for this tank my acro is doing great while my birdsnest is not huh go figure right damn sticks lol

today i cut out the rowa phos and started on phosguard to keep my phosphates at zero the rowa phos is just to expensive and has done its job:)

i also picked up a nice rbta and a bunch more snails



annnndddddd for the millionth time i am trying yet another elegance its a small fella i got for a good price it looks healthy and so far so good and as you know my last one was killed by my eel and clown fighting where i lost my large cinn clown and a very nice aussie elegance:)




heres where i stand:)


20g
250w mh retrofit into canopy 20,000k bulb
gatorade reactor running phosguard
hob refugium with lr rubble and cheato
crushed coral sandbed
30lbs of lr i took home from edmonton:):)


livestock:


yellow tailed chromis
ocellaris clown
lawnmower blenny


neon green open brain
purple lta
rbta
feather duster x 2
orange monticap
zoanthids
aussie elegance
purple gorg
yellow gorg
green acro
pink birdsnest
cabbage coral
sinularia coral


numerous snails and hermits





tank is coming along but im not gonna post pics untill a) i get a camera lol and b) untill my algae completely clears off its dieing off very fast but i still have some turf algae im working on thats being a pest:)



cheers guys ill update here again sometime soon:):)

Thanks for sharing
 

I recently (2.5 months)started up my 29 gallon. I kinda had a leg up as a friend of mine was shutting his large tank down and blessed me with about forty pounds of really established LR, I will be keeping my eye out for more posts :biggrin:

i could have started from scratch but i love a challenge and i believe im winning and you want to know something cool after all the tanks and all the changes all the moves .....i still have my first coral i bought in alberta yrs ago a few heads of green button polyps that have somehow managed to survive it all they have seen a dozen tanks some crases and a trip across country lol man they are in destructable lol:)

Thats awesome!!!! Can't wait to see pics.

Somehow I just knew this thread was yours when I read the title before I even looked under Article By.

(Meant to sound funny not negative)

hahaha its true i come up with the weirdest titles for my journals lol im not all there at times hehe:):)

Heya Buddy, So glad to see you back on here!!! Can't wait to see pictures, always love you builds...

Jeff

thanks jeff buddy ill post some pics soon i just need to get a camera the tank isnt looking to healthy today though i must say the switch over from rowa phos to phosguard is taking its toll i lost one of my snails and one of my feather dusters refuses to come out, my rbta is moving around like crazy into dark places.things are looking better this evening when i got home the rbta is open now but the feather duster is still closed which is weird cause it open 24hrs a day.


story of my life clowns and elegances dont mix lol im glad its just a little guy and the elegance doesnt seem to mind but hes rubbing on it something feirce prob because his feather duster is hiding i kinda liked the fact it would just lie in the middle of the large duster and hide out from the other fish lol i hope he goes back when it comes out again:)

If you look on the Dell site, and see a camera you like, I can get you a steal of a deal, plus of course free shipping. Let me know, more than happy to help out, since all the help you have done for this community.

I hear you on not updating pics because of the nasty algae... stupid stuff....I also haven't post any pictures cause the stuff took over my tank, but now winning the battle against it!!!

I still have the RBTA I got from your tank, he is always on the move and still staying small...

and no pictures hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you are a talker arent ya byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

go oh with your silliness