Mikee's 90g tank

[Mikee]

New toy!

[tang daddy]

Hey man nice tanks and birds you're gonna love the new ca reactor I got the same one maybe bigger, also that dart frog is really a dime piece love the colours although I seriously though about keeping one feeding it live food was a huge issue. I guess you hatch your own flies?

Cheers Chris

[OCDP]

Beautiful tank.

[LeeR]

Hows the tank coming along? Any new pictures?

[Mikee]

tang daddy - thanks! i love the new calc reactor. I got my CO2 filled up and got it all setup and running. I have been getting it dialed in but i hope to get some more SPS soon from Snappy so i will most likely have to increase the bubble rate/drip rate again. The dart frogs are really easy to keep the tank is very low maintenance all i do it top up my bucket with RO/DI water for my mistking system and feed the frogs a couple times a week. My creeping fig is getting out of control but i love the jungle look in there and i bet the frogs do too! I make my own cultures usually 1 or 2 new ones a week. I have been having problems with them lately because i made too many FF's and couldnt feed them all so they crashed. Right now i have 2 going and i think i will stick with 2-3. It takes maybe 5 minutes to make the cultures so its prob the cheapest and lowest maintenance hobby i have . My birds are doing great i have lots of new babies (about 9-10 i think) that are ready to come out of the nest and some new ones that just hatched. I did however lose 1 female - not sure why.. i heard her sneezing so i treated my whole birds and all other ones are doing fine again but she didnt make it sadly. These birds are like SPS of SW lol.

OCDP - Thanks!

MacheteAvenue - The tank is doing pretty good. Most SPS are growing nicely some slower than others but i am quite happy right now with growth. I dont have any new pictures yet but ill try to get some..not much has changed..still waiting till i can get some new SPS from Snappy. Recently i just added a VorTech MP40W and took out 1 K4. So for flow right now i have 1 X VorTech MP40W, and 2 K4's. I think i will be replacing the other 2 K4's with another VorTech MP40W. These things have a very wide spread flow..i love the different modes and being able to control the flow. Gotta love the battery backup too .

[LeeR]

ohh i want a vortech. lucky. post your terrarium pics in my terrarium thread.

[Mikee]

Update!

so.. after winning the battle with Hair Algae and Bubble Algae..which meant taking all LR out twice cleaning and adding phosban/carbon reactor and doing regular waterchange i thought that was it. Well a long came this new algae that i think i got from a coral i had bought and just didnt notice it really. Well i let it go and let it go until lots of my rock was covered in this brown encrusting rubbery algae. It got so bad that when my paly and zoas began to grow onto the rocks that it actually suffocated them. Some of this stuff would come off just when doing regular water changes but it was very difficult in some spots especially where their were corals. I finally got tired and one night said thats enough.. and started taking out my LR and scrubbing this stuff off with a tooth brush and a knife. After going through 2 tooth brushes (one which i broke in half the other that looked like someone had used it for a year + i think i have got pretty much all of it. Lesson learned from now on im going to check any frag, rock or whatever it is for any algae before placing it into the tank. Let this be the 3rd time and hopefully the last time i have to take apart my LR and rescape. If there is a next time.. i will make sure to start early in the morning..instead of 10 or 11 at night for a job that took me about 5 hours+ lol. Here is what this algae looks likes http://www.wetwebmedia.com/Algae%20a...-3_8-21-07.jpg

and here is before and after

Before (notice the algae on the rocks and my large paly that has spread onto the rock that is getting suffocated)



After (water still a bit cloudy..everything a little stressed)




I kept the left side more open for a zoa garden and left more room in the front and sides which i have been wanting to do for a while anyways because before i couldnt get my magnet cleaner between the rock and glass. Still not sure on exact placement of frags but ill leave them the way they are for now.

Tomorrow i will double check any areas that i might of forgot, blow off rocks every day until the weekend, do a 5-10g WC, and put in new carbon, phos. Hopefully this is the last of it *fingers crossed*.

[Trigger Man]

I had a little of that algae in the past, my blonde Naso loved munching on it and have not seem any since. So knock on wood that it is now fully gone, but if not you could alway add a blonde.

[Red Deer Reptiles]

wow im inpressed tanks loooking great.It takes time the reason i replyed was dart frogs strawberries green /blacks mantellas send me a link maybe we could help each other. later

[Mikee]

Trigger Man - I may have to add a blonde naso in their for awhile if i do see it coming..because thats not the first time that ive heard that. My purple tang doesnt seem to interested in the stuff.

Red Deer Reptiles - Thanks, I am not sure what you mean "the reason i replyed was dart frogs strawberries green /blacks mantellas send me a link maybe we could help each other" ??