45g Renaissance tank

[Patx]

~LAST FTS~
24x24x18

September

Historic
FIRST TANK
IN
2014-2016

System crash
2016 to 2022
《Dino/cyano/whatever》
this is the only pictures i have from "the crash"
(and this was a good day in 2020)

2 years "fight" and 4 years "let it go"
All coral slowly died.
Put royal gramma in refugium.
No more water change
Or
peroxyde Dosing
Or
Over dosing Vibrant !
(Before knowing the truth)
Etc...

...Anyway...
I just turn around and walk away...

¤Come back¤

~March 2023~
-Discard the sand.
-clean/brush/peroxyde rock/tank.
-New sand (1inch)
-6 months black out.
+
dosing VSV/MB7/KH2PO4/KNO3.

~September~
Slowly start adding light/fish and coral.
○

~october 2023~

~January~

~February 2024~

~April 2024~
new rock from the sump
And anemone out.

~End May 2024~

~October~

:update to date:
19 May 2024

Tank : 24x24x18
Fuge : biocube14 link to system

Fish & friends
1x clown
1x Royal gramma♥︎ (10yrs)
1x Diamond goby★★
1x Silver bellly wrass★★
1x Tail spoted blenny★
1x Tuxedo ★★
6x mexicain Cerith Snail.
1x scarlet hermit (10yrs)
6x Nerite
2x Trochus
3x bumble bee

○May 2024○
Salt & dosing:
Aquaforest sea salt.
All for reef : (10ml/day)
Np bacto balance : 1.2ml/day
Microbacter7 : 1ml/day
KH2PO4 : for +0.05ppm/day
Food: 0.18gram.

Parameters
S.G.: 1.026
pH : 8,2
(outside air/Co² scrubber)
ALK: 8.2-8.6dKh
No³: 10 - 20 ppm
Po⁴: 0.1 - 0.05 ppm

SPS
○
Pink cadillac
Applejack
Myagi
Ponape
-Forest fire-
Red digi
Sunset montipora
24k Leptoseris
○
ZOA / PALY
PurpleMonster
SunnyD
Rasta
Bambam
Scrambled eggs
Rainbow incinerator
FireCraker/red oxyde
Emmerald on fire
-Gatorade-
Blue hornet
Radioactive Dragon eyes
-Fire&ice-
Alpha-omega (melt)
Armor of god (T.accl.)
Goblin's fire
Nirvana
Seduction (dead)
Super saiyan (dead)
BlondBlueeyesB. (dead)
○
OTHERS
clove polyp
gsp
Ricordea (10yrs)
Pulsing Xenia (fuge only)
Rusty Gorgonia
Purple gorgonia
Anenomenee (fuge, since 24 March)
2x RFA

Light
○
A8's

April 2024

MAY 2024

Have to step back on %light due to dino etc...


October 2024
Working my way up to 80%ish blue...
Observing "thing" on sand and coral color

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[Peace River]

It looks like there is a lot of potential there and you are off to a good (re)start! Good luck on your adventure!!!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

In 2014

crashing ~ 2019

Come back 2023

24x24x18

Great comeback from the crash!

 

[Patx]

The room behind the wall !
Was the kingdom of a 60x36x20 planted tank in the past.

 

[Patx]

-october 2023

________________________________________________________________________
-January 2024
...The tank is surfing... let it grow !...

10 years old Royal "pirate" Gramma.

 

[Patx]

 

[Patx]

I see some (probably) dino trace on the sand...
New coral shipment arriving tomorrow morning...

In the rabbit hole again...
I swear if it's goes out of hand.... i dump gazoline and ignite the tank....

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Tank is looking great!

 

[Patx]

I see some (probably) dino trace on the sand...
New coral shipment arriving tomorrow morning...

In the rabbit hole again...
I swear if it's goes out of hand.... i dump gazoline and ignite the tank....

parameters:
No3: between 20 and 30ppm
Po4: 0.03-0.06ppm

dosing:
0.7ml bacto balance
1ml mb7 (don't know why)
3ml AFR (ALK steady 7.8-8.0dkh)
3ml: kh2po4 (+0.03 in tank)
pH: 8.1-8.2

so, I only kept the blue LEDs, reduced them in % for a few days and completely siphoned the sand on the surface where there were traces of dino/whatever. there really weren't many, probably it could have seemed unnoticed to non-experienced eyes but I've been paranoid since these 6 years spent with the invaded aquarium.

since start of dino/etc...
dosing: vodka/vinegar/sugar at night.
anyway my No3 are a little high for my taste.
first week 1ml/55gallons
second week 2ml/55gallons
I slightly increased the white and cyan yesterday...
I'm waiting sand reaction.

Light :



FIGHT !

 

[fishnchip]

you need to teach me how to take pictures like yours loll

mind me asking why you think your tank crashed early on?

 

[Patx]

you need to teach me how to take pictures like yours loll

mind me asking why you think your tank crashed early on?

Old Canon rebel xti and a "somewhat basic good lens"

For the crash... long story !

 

[Patx]

Crash: tank doing good for 2 years... refugium full of cheato/algae/cyano/dino...

Need to move tank... almost emptying the tank... move refugium full of water
Since then...
tank develop algae/cyano/dino and refugium was clean...
I reduce light in tank and blast refugium whit light...
Transfering cyano and all the scrap from the tank to refugium.
The scrap died in refugium... what the heck ?
After 2 years i give up...
Stop water change... coral slowly dying after 2 years...

6 years later... here we are...
Clean tank, change sand, peroxide on rock...
4 months total blackout and dosing vodka/vinegar/sugar/mb7.

 

[fishnchip]

Crash: tank doing good for 2 years... refugium full of cheato/algae/cyano/dino...

Need to move tank... almost emptying the tank... move refugium full of water
Since then...
tank develop algae/cyano/dino and refugium was clean...
I reduce light in tank and blast refugium whit light...
Transfering cyano and all the scrap from the tank to refugium.
The scrap died in refugium... what the heck ?
After 2 years i give up...
Stop water change... coral slowly dying after 2 years...

6 years later... here we are...
Clean tank, change sand, peroxide on rock...
4 months total blackout and dosing vodka/vinegar/sugar/mb7.

summed it up pretty well hahaha

 

[Patx]

parameters:
No3: between 20 and 30ppm
Po4: 0.03-0.06ppm

dosing:
0.7ml bacto balance
1ml mb7 (don't know why)
3ml AFR (ALK steady 7.8-8.0dkh)
3ml: kh2po4 (+0.03 in tank)
pH: 8.1-8.2

so, I only kept the blue LEDs, reduced them in % for a few days and completely siphoned the sand on the surface where there were traces of dino/whatever. there really weren't many, probably it could have seemed unnoticed to non-experienced eyes but I've been paranoid since these 6 years spent with the invaded aquarium.

since start of dino/etc...
dosing: vodka/vinegar/sugar at night.
anyway my No3 are a little high for my taste.
first week 1ml/55gallons
second week 2ml/55gallons
I slightly increased the white and cyan yesterday...
I'm waiting sand reaction.



FIGHT !

No more trace of dino, so i :
Vacuum the sand yesterday and finish by a storm + 5micron socks
Dosing 4ml VSV at night about to slow down when NO3 hit the 15 ppm.

I'm going to wait a few days before turning the lights up "slowly". anyway no coral has complained so far.

Start:
10,24,03,03,33,24%
3 day:
00,00,00,00,10,00%
1week:
00,00,00,00,24,24%
week2:
05,12,00,00,18,12.%
Week3:
05,13,00,00,20,13%
week4:
05,17,00,00,27,17%
week5:
07,18,00,00,27,18%
week6:
07,20,00,00,29,20%

Week8:
08,28,02,02,40,28... sand still good

 

[Patx]

Today I added some zoanthid and sps which had been in observations for ~ 20 days. so far so good.

 

[Patx]

 

[Patx]

I'm starting to find this extra tank more and more practical. it is connected to the system and I used it initially for the cheato.
then to put the new frag in observation.
then why not a freshly arrived fish.
then a forest fire waiting to emerge from its ashes.

then recently I saw some aptasia appear.
so I added 3 Peppermint shrimp inside. 1 week later it was done.

I rarely see aptasia in the DT, I rely on the filter sock to prevent the worst from getting through... but hey, if it happens I use epoxy or crazy glue.... it's not a emergency but you have to react now, no procrastination allowed!

Today seeing a young aptasia emerge in the DT on my "problematiques rock"...
well...
this extra tank has won another additional role...
★aptasia cleaning station★

I just took the rock out and put it in...
We can see the traces of old combat in the photo.

I also took the opportunity to mistreat some vermetid snails.

at least all my rocks from the DT can be taken out without disturbing the hard scape. this "fuge" is like a Swiss army knife...

 

[Patx]

Blue agave/zombie/seduction... who's knows !?
Let's say... seduction.
Anyway these are the most beautiful "People eater" I have in my tank !

Ok now I have to put the camera aside and wait a few months!

Hurry!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Today I added some zoanthid and sps which had been in observations for ~ 20 days. so far so good.

Nice looking frags!

 

[Patx]

New Frags ! (Classic) waiting in refugium.

Fire and Ice
Alpha and Omega
Armour of God
Radioactive Dragon eye

Forest Fire...
Red Monti Digi
Sunset Montipora
24K Leptoseris

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