Blacknifes 50g Battle of SPS learning - Page 3

blacknife · #1 03-22-2012, 01:12 PM

The mostly orange? Some kind of acan, the nicest ones I have.

blacknife · #2 03-24-2012, 04:18 PM

I remembered what else happened, the night before the problems started I was pulling the weeds(xenia) and a big chunk got away and met the food prosessor which was left stuipidly on full speed. half of the piece was minced and I have no idea where I tossed the remains. Most of my unidentified algae was also feathered at the edges and has since disintegrated. And to add to the insult my skimmer is barely pulling anything out at a setting that was doing good aweek ago.

some lps have bits of skeleton showing through but the affected sps still look bleached. At least they do not look dead

blacknife · #3 04-10-2012, 06:53 PM

Colors and growth seeping back into my sps. The girlfriend says the tank is full and I am not allowed to buy more fish or corals or a bigger tank. I guess its time to upgrade some hardware heh.

blacknife · #4 04-17-2012, 01:37 AM

My Skimmer is not working worth anything, so upgrade time, hopefully this new one works a little better.

I am on day four of a lighting experiment. My six bulb t5 fixture only covers twelve of eighteen inches width of my tank. I had a 250 w hqi de fixture I was going to put on the frag tank wasting closet space. It now sits behind the t5. I swear a couple drags that have barely grown since frag fest are showing little nubs of growth already. If that keeps up its totally time for a lighting upgrade

fishytime · #5 04-17-2012, 02:49 AM

what kind of skimmer is the new one?

blacknife · #6 04-17-2012, 02:26 PM

Skims sk 181. I wanted a little more airflow but the price was right so I will give it a go.

I am rarely home when the lights come on in the am, but damn my Bali sliver had long feeders this morning in the dark.

The last few months I have been dosing mostly all and barely any ca but tasting last night ca was low 330 or 340, I guess I will have to start dosing more.

blacknife · #7 06-15-2012, 05:04 PM

Silly starfish is at it again.. this time I don't mind.

I cut all my GSP off the glass a few weeks ago in hopes of selling the large chunks for cheap. they ended up in the.. anything I don't want in the DT tank also known as a refugeium.

Seems my starfish loves GSP may have been munching it for quite some time in the other tank but I never noticed. Unfortunately it appears It only eats the polyps and leaves the purple base intact, Perhaps one would have a taste for these clove polyps everyone is complaining about.

blacknife · #8 06-17-2012, 06:58 PM

Yeah i was rather shocked, considering it was at most a half hour I was upstairs. Corals were just starting to be out of the water.:what:

blacknife · #9 06-17-2012, 10:30 PM

overpacked DT: currently running 2xmp10 2xac300 with no media. mj900 with prop and a k2 i think. should be enough flow around all that rock.

I think it could survive like this untill i have a bigger tank if need be. as long as i get those frags/colonys on the frag rack thats just wedged between the rock and the glass somewhere.

Jail

all coral packed into the dt now, except for the starfish food that is in the fuge.

My son wanted his fishy out of the sump so I tried without a plan to get it out of the baffles. It quickly jumped in along the heaters then when trying to catch him out of there squeezed under the cryptic rubble/rock area. I've had enough playing with the tank he can stay there if i fish him out i have to shut down the pumps and do a water change as I think it needs a quick cleaning.

blacknife · #10 07-08-2012, 04:24 AM

Just curious when SPS, particularly montis start warfare on eachother will it affect all corals in the tank? a few of mine are fighting, and this week i was a little lazy dosing, and some of them have some damage. First i thoguht it was high alk, or one of the powerheads shifted and was blowing to hard, but now I am a little stumped.

ALK was HIGH at the start of the week. 151 or so on the hanna and is now back down to 135. calcium was down to 320-340 today, way down. kids kept me from testing anything else earlier but perhaps now that they are in bed I will catch up on my reef work.

Oh well time to pull out the chisel, though I am guessing I should go get one just for the tank and not use one that has been collecting who knows what in the garage.

Possibly related but doubtful. I am due for a zeo change ran out of bak this week. I am happy with the zeo results but might just call it quits as its almost time to go work on the road again as the local job hunt is not going well. though this will require acquisition of some kind of replacement for the 40b, perhaps just to run as a fuge section or fuge/frag tank.

right now i have all my extra rock. the mkoskers that the dottyback keeps beating up, and the coral muncher starfish the gf does not want me to get rid of squished in the 20 gallon that should just be the fuge. and I am Pretty sure the starfish is eating every sponge he can get to on the rocks. so much for cryptic LRR fuge.

Ohh one more gripe.. my skimmer that ran quietly for almost a month after getting used decided to start being really loud last week too. nothing looks wrong to the impeller or motor to my eyes but something must be out of whack in it. Cleaned it once last week I will try again. its in the basement so it does not drive me too nuts. but if it was in the living room.. it would be out the window by now.