29g Biocube help/advise/critiques always needed

[Copingwithpods]

How weird. The tank it came from is right next to my desk in my bedroom so I'm surprised. I either never noticed or it's new behavior?

Don't know lol could just be a goofball. During the day everything is normal and it eats well so that rules out lateral line problems or just about anything else I can think of that would cause it. I don't think it's physical as my clown sometimes adopts very unnatural sleeping positions as well. I'll try to get a picture of it tonight, usually by 11:30 it's out cold. I also thought it was odd as I remember reading another member thinking they never slept as it was active day and night.

 

[35ppt]

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[Copingwithpods]

Yeah the being active day and night has always been my experience with them. Hope she's okay!

I'm sure she is and just an oddball

Can't wait for her to find my long spin and hopefully host in it or atleast hang out around it.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Yeah the being active day and night has always been my experience with them. Hope she's okay!

After many nights of observation and trying to get a picture I finally did. It was not as easy as I thought it was going to be as she is a very jumpy fish, the flash from my phone kept waking her up every time I tried. The picture I got is horrible but you can see her sideways and face plastered on a rock.

She doesn't do it every night, atleast not that I have noticed but it could be she is going to sleep later than I am (after 1:30am). All in all I feel it's just an odd sleeping behavior and not health related as she seams uneffected by anything else throughout the day. Eats and swims normally and displays otherwise normal behavior for the species. Interesting.

 

[Rjmul]

Replacement Tube Nozzles for 2.1 Doser (8-Pack)

It is common over time for the small nozzles on dosing pump tubes to become clogged and restrict flow. Replacing the nozzles will help keep your motor running at full speed, with accurate dosing amounts. What's Included? 8x GHL Dosing Tube Nozzles

www.bulkreefsupply.com

you need this for your doser

 

[Copingwithpods]

Replacement Tube Nozzles for 2.1 Doser (8-Pack)

It is common over time for the small nozzles on dosing pump tubes to become clogged and restrict flow. Replacing the nozzles will help keep your motor running at full speed, with accurate dosing amounts. What's Included? 8x GHL Dosing Tube Nozzles

www.bulkreefsupply.com

you need this for your doser

Ahh I see, added to cart. I'm going to be picking up a third dosing pump to do mag so when I do I'll switch all my dosing lines to 5mm id and hopefully not tear my hair out inserting them into the dosing container. Might be a good time to do colored tubing.

 

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[Rjmul]

Is this to adapt the X1's to larger diameter hose that will work with 1/4" John Guest bulkheads? This hose has the correct ID for the connectors the X1's come with but also the correct OD to fit into the 1/4" JG bulkheads.

What I do is this. X1s tiny rubber tubing to adapter I posted above. Then regular airline tubing. Regular airline tubing then fits over 3/16th size rigid tubing.

 

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[Copingwithpods]

Little update, everything seams to be doing good, all the corals seam to be cruising and all the fish seam happy and healthy.

Also some good news it's been about 2 months since I almost nuked my tank with an alk overdose

And coralline algae is finally returning! And what's the first place it decides to set up shop? Off course my power head lol

Also spotted a really nice zakura rainbow morph

But not all is well, not everyone shows you their problems, but I will

First one is gsp, thought I killed it, thought I covered it completely.... I was wrong, gotta give it to gsp it's a tough sob

Second is xenia, everytime I frag it I find it in new places, I'll take aptasia over xenia at this point lol in all honesty I could have probably gotten rid of it already but I tend to forget to stay on top of it and also just plain being lazy about.

All in all they aren't problems that can't be easily fixed so over all I'm pretty happy where the tank is right now.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Thought I was going to lose this guy for sure but a few weeks after the territorial dispute with its neighbor its coming back strong.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Currently running a poly filter just as a test. It's going to be interesting what color emerges as I don't use rodi.

 

[jk_s124]

You don’t use RODI? Wow......what kind of water do you use? Looks like whatever you are using is working great!

 

[Copingwithpods]

You don’t use RODI? Wow......what kind of water do you use? Looks like whatever you are using is working great!

I use filtered water for mixing and top offs and have had great success so far, our fridge doesn't have a water dispenser so we usually have 20 gallons of drinking water on hand. An rodi unit is in the works, looking forward to not having to make water runs.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Disclaimer for anyone reading this, I am running the gauntlet, get an rodi! Do as I say not as I do.

 

[nornicle]

How much do you dose daily at the moment?

Wonderful looking tank, I have a 30 odd gallon and too.

 

[Copingwithpods]

How much do you dose daily at the moment?

Wonderful looking tank, I have a 30 odd gallon and too.

15ml daily of alk and cal and maybe 15-20ml of mag a week. I don't do many water changes so I manually dose mag and iron as needed.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Poly filter has been in 48hrs now and it has not changed color other than from detritus build up. Phew! Going to leave it in another 48 and see what happens. Also running a little experiment with a little square of it, one in tap water and one in distilled water (about 3 Oz) with 10 drops of ammonia in it.

 

[nornicle]

15ml daily of alk and cal and maybe 15-20ml of mag a week. I don't do many water changes so I manually dose mag and iron as needed.

OK thanks - interesting I’m doing 20ml alk and cal, 4ml mag a day. I am trying to lift my alk slowly, I’be been hanging around 8.0 dkh, however I also have a few montipora (plating and encrusting), existing sps and it is a mature reef with heaps of snails and coralline algae, I imagine they would need some more alk?

I’m trying Seachem Reefplus for trace + aminos.

 

[Copingwithpods]

OK thanks - interesting I’m doing 20ml alk and cal, 4ml mag a day. I am trying to lift my alk slowly, I’be been hanging around 8.0 dkh, however I also have a few montipora (plating and encrusting), existing sps and it is a mature reef with heaps of snails and coralline algae, I imagine they would need some more alk?

I’m trying Seachem Reefplus for trace + aminos.

Yup coralline algae uses up alk and cal, I nuked mine a few months back and it is slowly returning so I'm sure my dosing amounts will increase here in the near future. I've been pretty stable at 9.0-9.5 with my mag right around 1350.

My biggest jump in consumption was the clam, that thing is a monster.