Tank moved, new journal

[danny zubot]

Well, due to the tank going down hill I had to overhaul it before it was too late.

I was experiencing extreme hair algae and detritus, probably do to the overwhelming bio load the tank was under. and my corals were starting to die. I had a regal tang, bi-color angel, gold striped maroon clown, YWG with pistol shrimp, 4 green chromis, a dragon goby, a red cheek anthias and recently a lawnmower blennie. For cleaners I only had like 6 hermits, 3 snails and a cleaner shrimp. that was most likely because of my bully pistol shrimp.

So this past week I tore it down, took out all of the corals, LR and fish. Scrubbed the live rock of all hair algae and took a few fish to the LFS. The only fish I kept were the tang, angel, clown, YWG and the lawn mower blennie. In trade for the fish the LFS gave me a whole lot of hermits and snails. Now with no pistol shrimp preying on my cleaners, I imagine that they'll stick around for a while longer than before. I think by the end of the overhaul I had changed out about 50% of the water.

So some of my SPS are a bit faded because of the ordeal, but I think they will bounce back. My LPS on the other hand will take a bit longer.

Before: You can see hair algae, and the water looks green.


After: The rock scaping leaves a bit more to be desired than before IMO, but its only for a few months until I get the 110 set up.