Your current Fish tank Setups!

DEL 707 · Sunday at 18:32

Jump net on the tank and a taser to "train" the cat.

ben1987 · Monday at 09:17

DEL 707 said:
Love how neat your setup is.
That sounds like such a complete pain about the flat worms, I've heard horror stories about them. Glad your sticking with it though.

Nothing much exciting myself, really upped the flow in my tank and it seems to be having an effect on my GSP.
The left colony is really starting to come out now, the right, my 1st coral, has made a small improvement, but still quite disappointing.

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?

DEL 707 · Monday at 12:52

Yeah, think tank finished cycle about 7 weeks ago.

No skimmer. I have a canister filter. Took most of the sponges out and filled it with seachem bio and carbon media.

ben1987 · Monday at 19:38

DEL 707 said:
Yeah, think tank finished cycle about 7 weeks ago.

No skimmer. I have a canister filter. Took most of the sponges out and filled it with seachem bio and carbon media.

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

CaptainRAVE · Monday at 19:40

We only went a few weeks without the skimmer, it’s been on ever since. It removes so much crap from the water.

DEL 707 · Monday at 20:08

Yeah, a skimmer would be nice, but the tanks only 12g, so at the moment I do weekly 25% water changes.

ben1987 · Monday at 21:19

DEL 707 said:
Yeah, a skimmer would be nice, but the tanks only 12g, so at the moment I do weekly 25% water changes.

Looked bigger than that, done a nice job on the aquascape to get a sense of scale

CaptainRAVE · Tuesday at 15:18

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!