Your current Fish tank Setups!
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Thanks. Coral eating pests are an absolute nightmare but a lesson to us all to ensure we thoroughly impact everything with a magnifying glass and have a good regime for dipping new additions.
Your tank still looks quite new so I would not worry too much about the GSP until it’s matured a little more.
Are you skimming?
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When I first started marines about 20 years ago now I ran skimmerless for a while and once I added a skimmer the response from my corals was pretty amazing so I’ve ran a skimmer ever since.
7 weeks is still new so I wouldn’t be overly worried about gsp. Just keep up with the water changes and plenty of flow
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We only went a few weeks without the skimmer, it’s been on ever since. It removes so much crap from the water.
Looked bigger than that, done a nice job on the aquascape to get a sense of scale
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I’ve not watched the auto feeds for a while, I didn’t realise the turtles now come out for it or how actively they munch it down!
No real change in the tank, ugly phase in full swing, dinos everywhere.
GSP are doing o.k, not really thriving.
But on the plus side, fish and shrimp are happy.
I did treat myself to a new toy though.
Great piece of kit!
I hated my old refractometer with a passion, had to calibrate it everytime I used it. Was always a good 3+ points off.
GSP are doing o.k, not really thriving.
But on the plus side, fish and shrimp are happy.
I did treat myself to a new toy though.
Great piece of kit!
I hated my old refractometer with a passion, had to calibrate it everytime I used it. Was always a good 3+ points off.
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Feed before our tank clean today
They are growing fast.
Filter, sucker fish and shrimp all keeping the water in check so far.
They are growing fast.
Filter, sucker fish and shrimp all keeping the water in check so far.
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Potentially yes, especially as they get bigger. However, if they are brought up with lots of fish around and are fed other things, apparently they aren’t meant to see them as food. So far they’ve shown no interest in eating them. We also have both fast breeding fish in there to bump up the numbers along with those that are also quick swimmers. Originally we also built in a baby fish refuge, but the turtles arrived smaller than expected and got stuck behind it, so had to take that out of the equation for now.
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Algae situation has got real bad. Nitrates and phosphates have hit 0. Algaes was already pretty ugly on the sand, but now it's starting to become more noticeable on the rocks.
Going to stop the 25% water changes to see if that helps get my nitrate and phosphate up.
Going to stop the 25% water changes to see if that helps get my nitrate and phosphate up.
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No idea, but we often do the same and there is some cool stuff to be seen!
We have a bit of an algae problem at the moment, not helped by all the snails getting killed off and for the next few cycles not managing to change the water more than every 3 weeks.
We have a bit of an algae problem at the moment, not helped by all the snails getting killed off and for the next few cycles not managing to change the water more than every 3 weeks.
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I just found the perfect combination for super clear water.
In my filter/heater combo canister, along with the usual filters, and a bag of matrix tubes for beneficial bacteria to grow, I've added one bag of seachem purigen, and another bag of sea chem matrix carbon, this, along with my usual sea chem clarity, has totally cleard up my water to being crystal clear it looks like the fish are floating in the air now, I'm well chuffed, all I wish is that I wish that I had not smelled the purigen in its bag, some of the dust got in my nose and it has stung since yesterday
In my filter/heater combo canister, along with the usual filters, and a bag of matrix tubes for beneficial bacteria to grow, I've added one bag of seachem purigen, and another bag of sea chem matrix carbon, this, along with my usual sea chem clarity, has totally cleard up my water to being crystal clear it looks like the fish are floating in the air now, I'm well chuffed, all I wish is that I wish that I had not smelled the purigen in its bag, some of the dust got in my nose and it has stung since yesterday
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Got some live rock rubble in a bit to help with my cyanobacteria problem, the "rubble" turned out to be bigger then I anticapated.
As you can see, it's real ugly in there at the moment. I've managed to raise my nitrates, but my phosphates aren't budging.
As you can see, it's real ugly in there at the moment. I've managed to raise my nitrates, but my phosphates aren't budging.
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Ours is also having a similar phase with brown and orange algae, annoying since it’s covering all the purple rock. We’ll add some snails soon, that always helps. The lights in the room are also off for a couple of weeks that always helps. Loads of our snails have either died or been killed.
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Got some live rock rubble in a bit to help with my cyanobacteria problem, the "rubble" turned out to be bigger then I anticapated.
As you can see, it's real ugly in there at the moment. I've managed to raise my nitrates, but my phosphates aren't budging.
More flow would help with that.
Mine went through a bad cyano stage and I had to regularly blow it off the rocks with a turkey baster.