Christy's 180 build

[Youngster Dan]

Christy this tank is looking good. Some really nice stuff you have in there.

[Lance]

Lookin' good Christy!

[Doug]

No problems from the exit Christy. Still my favourite treatment. To heck with the natural cures. Good ole Flatworm Exit always worked well for me, for various things.

I had a bad bubble algae problem awhile back, and when in Winnipeg, picked up a pair of red mythrix crabs, as he had none of the regular green ones.

Man they ate everything that looked like algae including all the bubble algae. But wholley cow did they grow. One molted and was twice the size. Never bothered anything that I could see. They both reside in different tanks now. Perhaps the big one is eating Mike,s fish.

Corals are looking good though.

Are you not into the beads scenario or tried and not helping?

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Doug

No problems from the exit Christy. Still my favourite treatment. To heck with the natural cures. Good ole Flatworm Exit always worked well for me, for various things.

yeah I was thinking yesterday that if only they could make a majano or aiptasia exit that worked as efficiently I'd buy stocks in salifert!

Originally Posted by Doug

Are you not into the beads scenario or tried and not helping?

yeah I'm running the beads, to be honest I don't think they're doing a bloody thing. I still have patches of cyano and the green slimy crap. I have a feeling that I don't have enough nitrate or phosphate to get them going. I ended up having to put phosban on the tank to lower the algae levels as the phosphate levels had started to rise and the beads weren't kicking in. When I finally got the cyano/green slime under control (its only in a few areas now) I thought the beads might have been working and fed the tank a bit more but I think that only created more problems with pests and algae growth.

Time to bring out the big guns I guess

[Greenmaster]

Nice tank... any tank that wins reef of the month shows the person knows what they are doing :-)

[christyf5]

Just got back from 10 days vacation and everything looks good for the most part, no corals lost but my royal gramma and one of my pyjama cardinals is missing. I'm hoping the gramma is just ****ed off and hiding somewhere, I've had him for almost 4 years I didn't have high hopes for the cardinals as I bought 3 of them and they were having difficulties with the current and hiding next to the wavebox in a low flow area. As a result they need target feeding and well, they're pretty stunned fish.

The tank will need some work, it hasn't had a waterchange in about 3.5 weeks and the coral coloration isn't as bright as it used to be. With the reactors all offline the algae growth has surged and I see bunches of caulerpa and some sort of other algae which I know the name of but I'll be damned if I can remember which book I saw it in.

No pictures, I just finished working on the tank for about 3 hours and my back is done.

[Greenmaster]

Glad to hear that you didn't come back to a disaster.
How was the vacation?