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03-02-2015, 10:26 PM
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Well update, the worst of the diatoms have been taken care of by the ceriths, just a bit left on the glass.
Ceriths have been laying eggs so I'm assuming between the baby ceriths and the copepods my glass should be clean in a week-they seem to be eating roughly 2 square inches a day. Added a red grape macro algae and a Coral Banded shrimp ( not the easiest to get a pic of as he hides during the day ) Just moulted last night as well. Also have a few blue leg hermits, hard to keep track of them-they seem to change shells everyday ( must be females  )Got my first batch of fish in QT, 5 vanderbuilt chromis, although depressingly lost 4 overnight the first night-not sure why as all my parameters are perfect, did a proper acclimatisation and they were all fine just before lights out. So I have no idea what happened. Last one is fat, eats like a pig and swims about just fine. My theory is either there was something already troubling those 4 and the change to a new place was enough to kill them or the big one chased the others till they died during the night.  ( Probably the most fish I've ever lost overnight in all my years of fish keeping)
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03-03-2015, 04:32 PM
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Hey tank is looking good. I'm a local Maple Ridger too and I'm running a 125 full reef. I don't know if you're planning on doing coral but I just had a bunch of branching green montipora break off and would be happy to give you a few frags to try out. It's the green coral in the middle of my tank up high. If you ever need an hand with anything tank related just let me know, I'd be happy to help...
Last edited by Animal-Chin; 04-23-2018 at 06:59 PM.
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03-03-2015, 07:29 PM
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Wow, nice setup-mine is still a long way from looking like that lol.
I appreciate the offer, I am planning on doing coral, want to have a mixed reef setup. I'm not sure if my lighting is enough for the montipora at this time as I'm currently running coralife T8's (they came with the tank) Planning to upgrade to leds later in the year. You don't have any algae you want to get rid of by chance? Lol, between my ceriths and copepods I'll be algae free by friday at the rate they are going. My tank seems to be running counter to most people as I have a lack of algae issue vs an Algae problem. I felt like being different  lol
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03-03-2015, 07:38 PM
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03-03-2015, 08:04 PM
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Well thats a first, not wanting free coral and asking for algae...lol Don't worry, you start adding fish and your tank will figure a way of growing algae. With an empty tank there is no nutrients for algae to eat, once you start adding fish, food and poop you'll be on your way...
Ya your lights wouldn't support the monti at all. Just thought I'd offer since we're neighbours (well close enough, maple ridge isn't that big). Once you get your LEDs going and if I still have frags around you should be ok.
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03-03-2015, 08:42 PM
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Well its not the case of not wanting the free coral, but rather I don't want to kill said free coral lol.
And there is food going in the tank-CB ( my coral banded shrimp ) gets a small piece of clam once a week, and a few mysis 3 x a week. Hermits clean up what he leaves. I think my lack of algae is probably because of the phosphate and nitrate removing stuff in the sump, I thought I would be proactive-maybe too much so. Its okay wardog-I touched wood before I typed that so no jinx ;p
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03-03-2015, 08:55 PM
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Trust me, you don't want algae. Enjoy the algea free life you're living right now. lol
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