The Goose Tank

[coolhandgoose]

Mag alk and ca all at normal levels again. I'll be testing my saltwater mix when I do my next water change to make sure it starts off right as well.

Booooo, phosphates!!


I'm probably picking up some carbon from Eli today so might look into fozdown as well. Gfo in a bag ain't cutting it. I'll be doing some research into fozdown.

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Busy day today!

Stopped at Eli's first and grabbed some new carbon and fozdown.
Went to concept but their fish stock was very low so didn't get anything. That store has some serious potential. I really hope they get it up and running soon.

Went to Wai's and got a yellow eye kole tang and a red flower coral. Both look awesome. And grabbed a bottle of coral snow. That stuff makes your tank soooooo cloudy. But it does disappear. And of course stopped at peters drive in.

Also got 10 more pounds of live rock.

Hope everything stays nice and stable, planning a water change in 5 days.

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4 drops of fozdown and my PO4 went from .07 to .01 in 2 days.
Since the big water change my cynarina (I think that's what it's called) is starting to bubble up and expand. The torch is really starting to extend out.

My new fish is a really scaredy cat, hides as soon as you come near the tank. At least it's eating off the rocks and glass. Hopefully he starts eating when I actually add food to the tank.

The red flower coral looks a little limp but all the polyps are extended.

Going to change the carbon today to the new stuff from Eli.

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Recovering nicely




Can you see him?

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Weird, so I'm getting ready for a water change and decided to test my new water. Here are the params
Salinity 1.025
Alk 10.4
Mag 1100
Ca 350

I couldn't believe how low the mag was, tested it twice. So raised it up a bit as well as the calcium.

I'm getting to the bottom of my h2ocean bucket so maybe that could affect things.

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Let there be a refugium!!!!



Got some cheato from a fellow reefer, threw some rock in and got a 100w equivalent LED par 38 bulb (5000k) for some light.

I really want a mandarin goby so hoping for a healthy pod population. I went to Pisces and got their three pack of copepods rotifers and phyto. They say you're supposed to replenish it every 2-3 weeks. The bags they give you are about 2 cups big and you can see the little buggers swimming around.

Also picked up some clean up crew since I really don't have any. So to start I got 5 bumblebees, 5 astrea, 5 cerith and 1 emerald crab. I might get two more emeralds since they are really cool to watch.



Already making tracks

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How cool is this?!



Emerald crab cleaning up my Duncan.