Ska's 28 Macro Algae Display

[whatcaneyedo]

Apart from commercial clam farms I've never heard of someone needing to supplement nitrate before.

[skabooya]

my livestock is still too minimal and overfeeding doesnt produce enough trates. when my macro algae go white/pale they are starving. i dose and within 1 day they are back to red. hopefully when the tank matures some more i wont need to dose as much, if any.
Oh! and i use tap as my top off because i want algae. the macro algae are more efficient at absorbtion than micro or pest/nuisance algae therefore they outcompete the micro algae. thus leaving me with a near algae free tank.

[skabooya]

the macro algae looks pale here because it was right before i dosed.



Still looking for:
red with blue dots (superman) dioscema mushroom, rics and rics with blue in them, yumas, bicolour frogspawn or green with pink or purple tip frogspawn, cloves (not gsp), featherdusters, sargasseum macro algae and other macros that are not red or green. A softie or some coral that loves being in direct light and is not a calcium sucker.

[whatcaneyedo]

How do you feel about the film on the surface of the water in your tank?

[skabooya]

The film doesnt bother me in the least. Its mostly bubbles anyway. If i dont dose and my macro go pale/white the film nearly goes away. Id rather have a healthy livestock than worry about looks on the top of my water. Im not interested in buying a surface skimmer. Meh.
My tunze hob skimmer does a pretty good job as is. I have it on the lowest setting so it leaves more "junk" in the water for the macros to thrive.
The fish and shrimp are doing amazing. Ive been very lucky to get such good stock. They have huge personalities too.
Now i want to get a coral beauty.. but im hoping it wont eat my nice macro algae or munch on the softies im going to get. Yikes. Makes me think about another fish but not much else interests me.
6 lines are nice but ive read too many controversial things about them.
Yasha goby i LOVE but geez are they expensive.
Yellow tail blue damsels i LOVE but i would want a group and my tank is too small for them.
I just dont know hmmmm

[skabooya]

Got some corals in yesterday from hockey nut. THANK YOU.
1 multi coloured ric
3 rhodactus shrooms
1 green spot shroom
1 ice blue clove frag
1 pink zoas
1 purple gorg
red macro
Im in love.
I will take pics when everything is happy and has coloured up. But so far it looks pretty good
Thanks again.

Im seariously considering this to be a mushroom tank now with lots of macro of course. No LPS.
Im still looking for blue shrooms and rics (im in love with rics so pretty much any colour is fine by me), Yuma, cloves, different kinds of macro, feather dusters, zoas but not many.
specifically looking for red with blue dots (superman) dioscema mushroom

for livestock im thinking of either a group of gobies or a coral beauty (afraid it will eat my macro) or maybe both. hmmmm

[skabooya]

Alright im putting pics in early. Some items like the ric are still closed up but it still shows its colour