|
|
|
|
|
#1
05-01-2009, 03:57 AM
|
||||
|
||||
Well found life on the rocks tonite, set up my light (thanks BahCan), got a good look at my rocks, and found a few feather duster worms.....Hey its better than nothing! Looks like a very teeny tiny 3 head orangy zoa colony on there too (?), have to see how that develops.....Still testing every couple days waiting for my ammonia spike, been hanging at 4ppm since day 1......CaribSea comes with that active bac packet that they claim you can add inverts when the water is clear.....I added a couple snails and a hermit to see what would happen.....Snails are happily trucking around, crab likes hiding but he's small....
Anyone have experience with the CaribSea packets? I don't plan on adding anything swimming until I see the 0's with Ammonia and Nitrite..... Filtering the water now with coarse foam, water polishing foam (just finer stuff), some ceramic bio loops and a little charcoal for clarity with that Fluval 204.....picking up a powerhead in the future for some oomph.... All other values (dKH, Ph, SG) within normal values..... 
|
|
#2
05-01-2009, 04:43 AM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
same Aleks as on Beyond?
__________________
180G Office Reef. Started Sept 2012 http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=88894 62G Starfire Reef. Started Jan 2013 http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89988
|
|
#4
05-01-2009, 02:38 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Beyond where???
__________________
Dan Pesonen Umm, a tank or 5
|
|
#5
05-02-2009, 05:06 AM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Quote:
same 2 from beyond and i am sure you are happy the exhaust is off the prelude now lol
|
|
#6
05-02-2009, 07:28 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#7
05-03-2009, 03:10 AM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
HA HA HA i had 23 complaints about that exhaust in a week after taking the silencer out. don't worry i hated it more than anyone on the street could which is why it came off. but the turbo accord is our other roomate.
but on another note, glad to see your in the hobby and your always welcome to come chat over here
|
|
#8
05-10-2009, 08:19 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Alright.....updating things, and why not.....Levels normalized well, swapped some water, and moved some more peeps in.....Have 4 hermits (3 zebras), 2 mexican turbo's, probably 7 or so stomatellas, some little hairy hitchhiker crab thats less than 1cm in size (I'll watch him for trouble), couple little bristle worms (again hitchhiker), a bicolor chromi, and a peppermint shrimp (from RC, despite their love of aptasia there, won't touch any of mine....hmmm).....then just the GSP and the Kenya tree frag.....
Need something to stir more sand, had to do it myself this last WC cause the CuC isn't doing a good enough job getting rid of the accumilate. Changed power head from a crappy topfin to a Koralia 1, and removed everything from my cannister as I had planned.....If my water stays clear I may eliminate it altogether because the K1 flows plenty for this tank.......Unless I pick up a surface skimmer, undecided on that, or park some rubble in it and some carbon....
|
|
#9
05-01-2009, 05:42 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Quote:
What kind of lights did you buy? Take a pic of the Zoas you found, and we can confirm they are Zoas. I'm just worried they might be some type of pest like hydroids, aiptasia or majanos. I'd also just like to see a pic of your new tank!!  You should not have added any invertebrates to your tank yet with the ammonia at 4ppm. That would be like bathing you for a week in bleach. I don't think you'd like that! Those bacteria packets or bottle bacterias are a well done advertising scam. You could have bought dry sand for half the price and you wouldn't be any further behind. Sorry to break it to you. You should do several large water changes (like 50-75%) to bring that ammonia down under 2ppm. With the ammonia so high it will be killing off some of the biodiversity that's on the live rock you just paid a pretty penny for. I would suggest you remove the Bio Loops from your filter because they are designed for freshwater tanks and will become a nitrate factory in your reef tank. Be sure to throw out and replace the rest of the media at least once a week but twice a week is better. You can keep costs down by using bulk sheets of filter media that will be about 1" thick or so, just cut to size. Take a read through some of the guides in my signature, which simplify a lot of things for you.  Last edited by Myka; 05-01-2009 at 06:11 PM.
|
|
#10
05-01-2009, 06:40 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
Filter media (the donuts) were always temporary, my intention with the whole filter is to just have foam and polisher, and occasionally run charcoal for clarity but not all the time. The foam is dirt cheap so no biggie, just keep the bigger stuff from hanging in the water, and let the biology do the rest (when established). On another note, up to 6 feather dusters found, all sitting up out of the rocks proudly this AM. Also saw what I assume is considered a "pod"....Looked like an opaque spider about 2mm in size making his way up the coral? Neat to see.....I tried getting a picture of the things I think are Zoa's, but even with my photography skills there is waayyy too much distortion to get a good shot, including with my 90mm f2.8 macro lens....Maybe when it gets bigger Thanks again for all the help, keep it coming!
|
Hybrid Mode
