Coopers Red Sea Reefer 450

ReefersDirect · Dec 12, 2016

DrCooper said:
When your tailspot blenny who perches in all your corals decides to perch and hangout on the seaweed you have on a clip

LOL!

MCooper · Dec 13, 2016

Branespikin said:
Good luck catching him. I removed all my rock work to catch him. Put him in one of those breeder tanks you hang on side of tank for the night waiting for some guy to pick up woke up in the morning he jumped out of the breeder thing which had a cover on it and back into tank. Had to remove all my rockwork again next day

My wife is strongly against getting rid of him. She loves him. I am going have to try and convince her otherwise. If she had any clue the $ he is costing me she would first kill me, then who knows about the poor goby!

Branespikin · Dec 13, 2016

DrCooper said:
My wife is strongly against getting rid of him. She loves him. I am going have to try and convince her otherwise. If she had any clue the $ he is costing me she would first kill me, then who knows about the poor goby!

I hear ya! Great personality for fish but what a pain with his spitting sand all over the place. Never in my tank again.

MCooper · Feb 5, 2017

Chaeto doesn't grow and I have hair algae all over rock work. Water tests perfect so I am clueless.

MCooper · Feb 5, 2017

And my skimmer pulling too much water???

Zero Nitrates · Feb 6, 2017

Maybe an urchin, snails, or hermits to eat the algae?

MCooper · Feb 7, 2017

Zero Nitrates said:
Maybe an urchin, snails, or hermits to eat the algae?

Haven't tried the urchin but have tried tons of snails and crabs!

Woolleson · Feb 7, 2017

DrCooper said:
Haven't tried the urchin but have tried tons of snails and crabs!

Maybe try vibrant. It's pretty effective with algea.

ksfulk · Feb 7, 2017

Skimmate looks really light and watery in that picture... is that your normal skim? Might want to take a look at it.

As for the hair algae, most snails and crabs arent going to touch it. I had a really nasty outbreak (to where all of my rocks looked like shag carpet!) a few months ago, and aside from a rigorous maintenence schedule (water changes, socks changes, etc) I picked up three pencil urchins (I dont know if they really did a whole lot, but they are said to eat hair algae) which I still have in the tank - but what pushed it over the edge was a sea hare.

Sea hares are basically rental lawn mowers. I picked one up, and within two weeks there was no more hair algae. These guys are no joke, but when you are outta algae, you have to be ready to pass him along to someone else or they'll die. Like cucumbers, if they kick the bucket in your tank it could be bad news. I came home to find my sea hare being eaten by an anemone before I was able to find him a new home. But definately take a look into one of them if all else fails. Black trochus snails will eat some of the hair alage when its really small, but as it grows, they leave it alone.

MCooper · Feb 8, 2017

ksfulk said:
Skimmate looks really light and watery in that picture... is that your normal skim? Might want to take a look at it.

As for the hair algae, most snails and crabs arent going to touch it. I had a really nasty outbreak (to where all of my rocks looked like shag carpet!) a few months ago, and aside from a rigorous maintenence schedule (water changes, socks changes, etc) I picked up three pencil urchins (I dont know if they really did a whole lot, but they are said to eat hair algae) which I still have in the tank - but what pushed it over the edge was a sea hare.

Sea hares are basically rental lawn mowers. I picked one up, and within two weeks there was no more hair algae. These guys are no joke, but when you are outta algae, you have to be ready to pass him along to someone else or they'll die. Like cucumbers, if they kick the bucket in your tank it could be bad news. I came home to find my sea hare being eaten by an anemone before I was able to find him a new home. But definately take a look into one of them if all else fails. Black trochus snails will eat some of the hair alage when its really small, but as it grows, they leave it alone.

Thank you. I picked up a seahare and put him in last week. Haven't seen him since.
The skimmmer will pull that light liquid and then other times thick mud, not sure how to fix/adjust or test it. It is a NYOS skimmer

ksfulk · Feb 8, 2017

Hmmm - mine was as big as my palm, so he was easy to find - hopefully its just hiding on you right now.

As for the skimmer - seems weird that its cycling like that. I dont have the Nysos skimmer or experience with them, but I would guess that its set too wet maybe? or you have something in the room that the skimmer is drawing in causing the skimmer to go nuts. Might be worth checking or asking in another thread. Mine only skims like that when I go nuts with epoxy or if someone uses a bunch of air freshener in the surrounding rooms - otherwise its all thick green chunky mud/slime.

MCooper · Jun 2, 2017

Okay, I wanna start updating more as lots of changes. I got 3 female leopard wrasses a while back. 1 was larger then the other 2. It seems the larger one is changing colors????? Maybe turning into a male?
Lost some fish over the past 2 months, no idea why.
Stay tuned for photos (if interested hahah)