Johnny Reefer's FOWLR

[Johnny Reefer]

Well it's been two months since my last post so I thought it's time for an update.

Sarah: Thanx for the good words. I think you'll be happy with a Pinktail. I know I am. It's my fave. The Clown and the Humuhumu are the toughest in the tank and they exhibit some interesting behaviour toward each other at times, particularly at feeding time. A little agressive, competitive rough housing, but nothing serious.

Goby1: Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to the website know as CanReef, my friend. Ah yes....nitrates. A problem, yes, but I think I have that at acceptable levels in my tank. More below.

So....the Green Brittle Stars....uh, not a good idea with Triggerfish. At least not Clown and/or Humuhumu Triggers. The legs on both were pretty much devoured. I put them in the sump of my Reeftank, but as they had no legs they couldn't move around to get food. Lesson learned.

Nitrates. To help with this problem I bought and hooked up a Rena XP3 solely for the purpose of using Kent Nitrate Sponge and filled this filter with said product. It worked. Got the nitrates down from 50mg/l (and climbing) to 20mg/l. Stiil high, I know, but better than 50.

Cyano: That got real bad in late May so I did a Chemi-Clean routine on the tank. It worked, .....but it looks like it's coming back.

Anyhoo, maybe I'll pull the camera out again in a day or two and post another pic. (Although it kinda looks the same, really).

(Typing like mad right now to beat the time-out!)

Cheers,

[reeferaddict]

Heya Mark...

50 mg/l Nitrate = Cyano...

I gotta get down and see it someday!

[goby1]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the tip (re: nitrate sponge in the filter). I was just running it with the foam pads that came with the filter. If my nitrates go up and I decide to run the filter again, I'll have the option of running something different in it. I just hated cleaning that thing and as long as I keep up with the water changes, things seem to be going okay without it. I just have to watch I don't overfeed the tank.

[Johnny Reefer]

Just wondering why there are no longer any pictures in this thread.
Were they removed for some reason?

Thanx much,

[muck]

Check your links... maybe Photobucket changed something..?!?

or did you delete them from your Photobucket account..?!?

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by muck

.....or did you delete them from your Photobucket account..?!?

Well, by Jiminy, yes I did. What I don't get, though, is that I deleted a whack of photos out of Photobucket and yet other threads, such as my "Upgrades Done" thread, are not affected. .

Oh well. No biggie. I guess I can reload them. This FOWLR is in for big changes soon anyways, so maybe I'll just start a new thread.

EDIT: AW, CRAP!!! I just checked a few of my other threads. Pics gone. What a downer! I was not aware that this would happen. Now I know. Sheesh. That's what I get for trying to be too meticulous.

Thanx much and cheers,

[Johnny Reefer]

Well getting the pictures back in wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. Just had to re-upload them into Photobucket. Did not have to copy/paste them into the thread here.
Phew. Don't do that again.

Cheers,