Paddy's Ocean - 70 Gallon Mixed Reef **Phoenix Rebuild**

[paddyob]

Well I finished my canopy last night. It actually looks pretty good for someone who does not work well with wood.

I will post pics at another time.

[paddyob]

well today I added (or shall I say I am in the process of acclimating) Purple Hornets.

My buddy bought some from Red Coral on the weekend and said they were Blue Hornets, but Red Coral has Purple Hornets on the tank... so let's assume they are

Once they are in the tank I will try get a shot when they open and hope for genuine purple hornets. We all know they are hard to find... and these were priced much, MUCH lower than you would expect to find Hornets for.

Either way... they look like Purple Hornets... so crossing fingers they are... and that they grow!

[azulikit]

Nice job on the build, looks fantastic!

[lastlight]

How do you find the Maldives in a 70g? Beauty of a fish I'd love to have one.

[Lampshade]

Very nice tank, good build thred too. If you ever find out what that "unknown SPS" is from a few posts back let me know, i have the same one i think, BRIGHT green polyps and a dark green/brown base, i assume it's a pocci... but?

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by azulikit

Nice job on the build, looks fantastic!

Thank you!

Originally Posted by lastlight

How do you find the Maldives in a 70g? Beauty of a fish I'd love to have one.

I have only had them about 3 weeks or so. I feed them plankton twice a day and they gobble it up. They seem ok. No aggression. I might add an auto feeder as they also take flake. Would give me an extra feeding or two/day.

Originally Posted by Lampshade

Very nice tank, good build thred too. If you ever find out what that "unknown SPS" is from a few posts back let me know, i have the same one i think, BRIGHT green polyps and a dark green/brown base, i assume it's a pocci... but?

thank you. I still don't know the name. I just got into SPS with my 70... so I do not know anything about them to be honest. My buddy has been hooking me up with frags when he comes by so I am trying to learn. It is growing like a weed in my tank though!

[paddyob]

NH3 - 0
NO3 - 0
NO2 - 0
Ca - 460
Kh - 90** Low


I am going to have to start dosing for Kh a little more frequently. I have never once dosed Calcium in this tank since its beginning in August last year. So that's not a bad thing. H2Ocean salt seems to be holding its own.

Corals are doing well... asides from a couple zoa colonies that seem to be struggling... Heart of Atlantis zoas and Hornet Morph. The Heart of Atlantis is from ages ago.. and never really grew in my 20. It started to grow when I moved it to the 70 last year... but then recedes again. Baffling me. Tough little Zoa.

[paddyob]

So yesterday I switched from powdered SeaChem Reef Builder to liquid Seachem Carbonate. I got tired of constantly mixing the powder before dosing. Now I just measure into a sump chamber and let my pump mix it up. So much easier.

I have been, and always have, fought with my Kh level. Usually sits around 90. I dosed the liquid yesterday and early this morning. Tested, and now, for the first time in who knows how long, Kh has risen to 120. Good start.

Today I only tested:

Kh - 120
Ca - 460


On another, more sad note... one of my female Maldives Anthias passed on. It was doing very well until the male of the trio settled into the tank. He became an Alpha fish very, very quickly in the tank and started to chase the females. I moved her to my refugium last night as she was still alive... but today... no sign of her. The male is VERY fat and eating well.. and again being Alpha male... eats before all others but tang

[paddyob]

Ca - 400
Kh - 90
NO2 - 0
NO3 - 0
NH3 - 0
Ph - 8.4

[BlueTang<3]

The alk is low you can get away with it for a bit but too long you can have major tissue losses. Its not good to have large swings dosing and then checking a few hrs later and it was 120 so it was probably higher and fell. I see you are using h2 ocean salt i had the same problem with that salt. It was actually some of the worst salt i had ever used.