My First Tank in Ottawa

[MJChang]

the tank looks now



the brown nana starts colorin up. it tells well in this hobby its a must 2 b patient. it was dyin then i threw it away then it now gets colored up. doin nothin sometimes helps in tank

[kole18]

I think you need some cleaner crew your tank is mess up dude, threw some snails & hermits

[MJChang]

I think you need some cleaner crew your tank is mess up dude, threw some snails & hermits

i do have snails--20 somethin. they seem to work far behind cyano does

to get a sand starfish tomorrow

[kole18]

What do you dose to your tank man? Bud, Heineken , labatt just kidding man:). No I mean what do you dose in your tank got you so much cyano there & lots of fish as well there too. Oh that's really hard to balance for those bioload. I've got 7 fish atleast in my tank, & I feed my fish atleast 2x a day. I only dose bio-cal so far now I cut down the coral-vite since I'm doing water change every 2nd week.

[MJChang]

What do you dose to your tank man? Bud, Heineken , labatt just kidding man:). No I mean what do you dose in your tank got you so much cyano there & lots of fish as well there too. Oh that's really hard to balance for those bioload. I've got 7 fish atleast in my tank, & I feed my fish atleast 2x a day. I only dose bio-cal so far now I cut down the coral-vite since I'm doing water change every 2nd week.

zeo amino acid--usual side effect of zeo products

do u guys think plastic planter could release anything harmful into circulation? i put one in the refugium

[MJChang]

ritteri has really become my foe

i moved the ritteri back to dt and it hugged a powerhead and then sliced itself up

i'm so mad now, again changing tons of water

now everythin seems fine including the awesome sebae

[Cheebs]

I think you need some cleaner crew your tank is mess up dude, threw some snails & hermits

I'm actually really loving the look of the back wall, looks really neat and natural

[leemay]

nice tank!
what type of anthias? how much you feeding them?

thanks

[MJChang]

thanks guys

i almost reaquascaped due to the ritteri mess

1 is sunburst

3 resplendent 1 missin 1 loss from ritteri mess. tryin to get 2 replacements

i feed'em twice a day: 1 mysis and 1 cyclopeeze

[kole18]

Is that the second retteri right? It sucks dude, I've got rbta & gbta which is not doing well due to my alk went down hill & bio cal isn't enough to keep up alk at right level. Alaways something isn't right, but plta is doing well & stupid thing is wont host my clown insted it's rather to host my brain coral.

[MJChang]

yup, exactly man

the first disappeared

the second sliced up

man, i feel desperate

bta isn't natural host for ocelaris or percula, so you probably need tons of patience. I used to have four bta's, very gorgeous but my ocelaris hosted whole lot of things, like the water outlet, piece of live rock while ignorin the very existence of bta

mag and gig are the natural host. actually my sis and i have maintained all sorts of anemone happy--sebae, gig, bta and condy and mag. we just failed on mag--twice. the sebae i'm now havin seems good so far. to my surprise, my ocelaris or percula hosted it. it seems to be heteractis malu, which naturally only hosts young clowns and clarkii. probably the clowns are still young far from maturity

the previous one was that close to survival before it terminated itself by huggin the darn powerhead

i took 2 powerheads out and rearranged the rockwork. hopefully it'll help.

[MJChang]

after lots of mess--beer dosin, rtn and ritteri suicide

the tank seems to be back on track



the nana was brown for a while and decides to color up recently



checkin those greenin up coraline, i guess this acro is potential to develop as a strawberry shortcake, greenish coraline, purple tip and pink polyp



the purple rim monti



the green humilis



bein frequently moved ass around, the penope or p-what birdnest has yet to show its full beauty



the dinosaur's egg monti



the watermelon monti



a gorgeous malu and a divorced clown

[kole18]

hey dude you've got a major algaes outbreak there, run some gfo & carbon to clean up those mess. yikes that happens to my tank at the beggining of 1st month green & red cyano. I did a lot water change & reduced my light as well minimize feeding my fish would help. Nice selection of acro there man, goodluck man

[MJChang]

i'm runnin'em. and i guess the situation is improvin, sigh, compared with the pix in last month

i'm a little bit desperate for ive got nothin to reduce

nitrate 0--salifert and tropic marin

phosphate 0--hanna

dont know where cyano comes from

[bt]

Your levels could be 0 because it's being all used up by the algae.  You may still need to deal with the nitrate and phosphate source reduction, though.

Have you tried a lights out period?

[MJChang]

yup for 2 days

then my diamond goby jumped out to kiss the carpet

[MJChang]

however i'm going to reaquacae the tank next year to mimic a barrier reef scenario

[Cheebs]

In any case it's looking great, I don't se emuch of an algae outbreak myself compared to the other pics Good job!

[kole18]

I think those green slimy algae it comes from dry foods, I'd noticed on my tank every time I feed pellets it always ended up not been eating all my fish & shrimp in a few days I see green slim on dead beaches of my acropora of what I do try to point my power heads direct to those algae just get rid off it or I even grab the snails place it to that spot I stop a bit feeding dry foods now these causes a lot nitrates that's what I find

[MJChang]

usually i do reaquascape and scrub both glass and live rocks and then algae disappear

but since i live in ottawa alone without help from my family to complete such a big job, id better say let it be

yet ive planned a summer trip to australia. so i'd very possibly reaquascape it from pix