120g tank/stand/bar build

[kbourque]

Think I found a spaghetti worm. It looks maybe a reddish brown with stripes. Really hard to get a pic of it, and when I zoom in it's hard to get the camera to focus.

 

[kbourque]

First time I see this lol that fairy eats anything.

 

[kbourque]

 

[kbourque]

Think I screwed up I now have 0 nitrates I cut down on vinegar dosing. I made it to 20 ml a day. Now I'm dosing 10 to see if it comes back up. My stony corals don't like 0 nitrate apparently they sucked all their polyps back in. Been a couple days like this been feeding heavier than normal to see if I can get it back up a little.

 

[kbourque]

Nitrates are back between 0-5 so I picked up a couple new additions

 

[kbourque]

Female Leapard wrasse petco 30$ couldn't pass it up took me a week to get her eating lrs I love that stuff my fish love it too that sailfin is so thick it's ridicules. Seems like he never stops eating.

 

[kbourque]

Got two new types of algae started growing but seems to be disappearing. I think it may be green cyano and dinos.

 

[kbourque]

Green cyano is almost completely gone and dinos are taking a hike. Second leopard wrasse started eating finally took a little over a week, but she's eating lrs reef frenzy. She should start to color up nicely now like the other one. Other leopard is bigger and has beautiful colors hoping that one turns male once they mature. Anyone know if adding another male wrasse like a male flasher or fairy would stop the female from turning male? @evolved I wanna do a mostly wrasse tank was gunna go tangs but I like the wrasse better.

 

[evolved]

Anyone know if adding another male wrasse like a male flasher or fairy would stop the female from turning male?

Highly unlikely; the hierarchy amongst genera tends to influence little within each genus.

 

[kbourque]

Cool thx evolved

 

[kbourque]

 

[kbourque]

Added two t5ho with two giesemann super purple has a nice look.

 

[kbourque]

Picked up a Mccosker's flasher wrasse what a beautiful fish.

 

[kbourque]

Few picks quit running gfo gunna try an algae scrubber.

Flowerpot is looking really nice today

Purple hammer

Purple torch with green tips

Hairy mushrooms

Fts 10/24/15

Frogspawn is starting to grow

Zoas are finally starting to grow on the rock

Blasto is growing

Algae scrubber

 

[ethridge78]

nice

 

[kbourque]

Doing a 3 day blackout get to unwrap the tank tomorrow morning nervous as hell. Had a Dino outbreak I really hope this works as it's very stressful to not know what's going on inside your tank for 3 days lol

 

[kbourque]

Everything looks fine fish are still fat lol. It put a huge dent in the Dino's I made a filter and siphoned what was left of them through it. I'm sure that they will still pop back up so I may start dosing 1ml per gallon of h202 everyday and if any pops up siphon it out immediately. I've read many posts about this stuff and how hard it can be to get rid of. This has got to be the bane of this hobby. And I know for sure what caused my outbreak. They didn't show up till I overdosed vinegar and my nitrates hit 0. So caution when dosing vinegar be careful not to increase more than the 5ml per week and test often.

 

[kbourque]

Well everything isn't doing fine anymore my frogspawn and torch look like they are on their way out now hoping they can recover. [emoji20]

 

[kbourque]

Did the first dose of Dino x last night and I gotta say already it doesn't look good for the dinos. Don't have a microscope to see which dinos I have but it looks like it's working.

 

[renato120]

Very nice buit! My advice to you is keep it simple. You dont need to dose anything else besides Alk, Ca, Mag. Easier to crash a tank dosing other things. Dont rush it. I added my first zoa (first coral) when my tank was running for 3 months. I added my sps's when my tank was 6 months. You keep your parameters stable and Im 100% sure you gonna have a very successful tank. Onother tip. Dont dose once or twice a day. Dose in a period of 24hrs a day. I dose every 3 hours makes my alk very stable thru the day. You will have lots of cyano, GHA, brown algae. Cut on feeding. Maybe feed everyother day. Dont wast your money on sps oe anemone now. You tank is to new for it. Turbo snails and sea urchins are great for algae eaters.