Ska's 28 Macro Algae Display

[skabooya]

Oh yea I will be posting pics.
As soon as I can get some LR from the lfs I will count the cycle as started and start testing. I will be taking pics then. right now its a box of water, sand and dead rock. Nothing interesting to look at yet.
The LR at the lfs comes from Hati and you know the issues they are having there. So they are trying to get some in from Jakarta but the dealer is not responding to them. I may have to buy some online from JLA. Ive not had issues with them except for the last shipment. Someone stole my Credit card ID via their secure website and tried to use it at Amazon.ca.
Amazon called and asked if I made a purchase which was a few hundred dollers. Umm no. Ive never been to amazon.ca. So they cancelled the order I cancelled my card and waited a month for my new one.
So now im wondering if i should wait for however long it takes for my LFS to get something in or do the JLA thing again.

As for the tank today: I was lowering the salinity very slowly. I took out about 2gals of saltwater and put in freshwater. Its still slightly above where I want it but Im gonna let it mix some more and then test. If its still the same Im going to remove another 2gals of water and add fresh water. Hopefully that will decrease the salinity enough to get to 1.025.

I cant wait to start getting some macro in the tank. Aparently with macro algae you dont need to wait for the cycle to be over. It wants to feed on nitrates. However no CUC until there is a complete cycle.
Still trying to figure out how much of what to put in there for a CUC.

[Chase31]

the ammonia might not do great on your plants, as for slowly lowering the salinity i wouldn't worry about that as theres nothing in the tank.
Try to find some live rock someone has to much of, or that someone is shutting there tank down, im getting some tonight for $5 a lbs

[skabooya]

Well, once again much time has passed with no updates. Still waiting to get some LR to seed the system. I will not considered the cycle started until I get LR. Looking at JLA LR. Im hoping they have some because the lfs from here to PG dont have any. They aparently get their supplies from Haiti and we all know what happened there.

Currently I am topping off every 3 days (1gal). The salinity changes from .025 to .029 or .030 within that time. Is that too much of a swing for livestock every 3 days??

I did however neglect the tank for a whole week (no topoffs) because my grandfather had passed away due to kidney failure from diabetes. Its been tough but Im sure my mom is having it harder. Her husband and her dad both gone within just under 7 months and now I have an uncle who is really sick and is being tested for pancreatic cancer. My husbands grandpa is also sick. Hes been in the hospital since christmas and has had 4 surgeries thus far. Hes got colon cancer and they found lumps in his lungs. The docs keep going back and forth whether it is cancer or not. Its like they dont know what they are doing in that hospital. (different from ours).

I am also now 32 weeks pregnant (about 8 weeks left to go) and Im scared as hell of "THE DAY". My hips are killing me, cant sleep, BH contractions, nausea, hot flashes, etc etc etc. Its not fun. But feeling my little man move is amazing and I wouldnt change that for the world.

I want to get the cycle started and a few macros in the tank before the birth so I dont have my hands in that tank much if at all.

[skabooya]

Got in contact with a few suppliers of LR and they said they dont supply rock with macroaglae or their supply lately has had none, etc. Contacted my lfs and they are expecting LR from Indonesia in the next month but need to wait for the cites paperwork to go through. So i guess im waiting a while longer.

[skabooya]

just want people to know im still here and still waiting for LR. I told my hubby that it will probably come in while im in the hospital giving birth lol.
Just so people know, Im expecting any day now

[skabooya]

Update: I had my beautiful baby boy on May 5 at 7:09pm after 8 hours of Labour and delivery. So as you can imagine ive been pretty busy

The day before yesterday we went on our first family trip to the town over to pick up a few things and to check out the lfs. They did have LR but only a bit left. I picked up the nicest piece they had. The LR is covered in green and red coraline, sponges, some red fuzzy fat tree looking thing (looks pretty cool), covered in pods and shrimp and I counted 3 worms. It does have some nuisance algae but it has started to go away in the short time its been in my tank. All other life is doing very well and hopping around on their rock and surrounding sand.
I also recieved some dragons tongue macro algae for free from the manager of the lfs. It was pale pink and it is now colouring up nicely. The edges are getting orangie dots that fluoress (sp?) under my lighting. Tried taking a pic but my camera doesnt get it.

I am now looking for more macro algaes so, keep an eye out for my begging in the classifides section

[muck]

Hey Congrats on your son!!

We need a name and pitchurs of course!!

[skabooya]

PICTURES!!!

My Son Logan




and my tank





what the heck is that in the last pic? apaistia??

[skabooya]

looks like i didnt post my cycling results with the piece of LR. Here we go

June 10 at 12:30
PH 7.8
ammonia 0.0
nitrite 0.0
nitrate 0.0
Alk 2.65

June 11 at 6:15
everything is the same but PH is 8.0


I will not be doing more tests for a few days.

[whatcaneyedo]

That liverock looks pretty established. I dont think you're going to get much of a cycle until you start adding fish for some waste production.

Yes that is aptasia in the last picture.