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10-18-2013, 03:25 PM
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Getting a couple kinds of coralline algae growing in my tank now. One is a deep red, pretty much a burgandy color. The other is the lighter purple that covers most of the live rock I purchased. Funny how it is adhering to the plastic items in my tank first though. My protein skimmer, a power head, probes, temperature sensor etc. All are turning purple but the dry rock has only recently started to get purple.
No sign of my black knobbly cucumber for a couple weeks now. He's either buried in the deep sand and loving life or has completely been consumed/decayed. I haven't lost any fish or anything so it seems unlikely that he has died... Going to refresh my blue legged hermit crab population this weekend if I get the chance. They've been dying as they fight over shells but I'm pretty certain I have a predator eating them. Bits of broken shells etc. and an obvious decline in their numbers. I'm about 75% sure that it is my green brittle star that's doing it but I do hear the occasional snapping sound from the aquarium. I always thought it was my skunk shrimp but I'm beginning to suspect a mantis shrimp of some sort... All corals are alive and doing very well as are all my anemones, fish, inverts. Baby snails on the rock last night, not sure what species yet though they are all too small to make out yet. Phosphates are still through the roof according to my colorimeter but still not showing any signs that I can see of high phosphates. Ordered the phosphorus colorimeter from reefsupplies.ca so I'll see if I can get that to agree with the phosphate test. From what I've read it's more reliable than their phosphate model. 
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10-20-2013, 08:04 PM
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Full Tank Shot
OK, try not to be too brutal. It's my first marine tank...
 Not pictured is a small hippo tang, and you have to try to find my pink skunk clowns playing silly in the RBTA. Last edited by Magickiwi; 10-20-2013 at 08:13 PM.
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10-20-2013, 08:25 PM
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What is there to be brutal about?... that looks AMAZING!!
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10-22-2013, 08:35 PM
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10-22-2013, 08:39 PM
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Tank looks good! All it needs now is time :-)
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10-22-2013, 08:43 PM
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Check your mg if your worried bout coraline algae.
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