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Ori · Sep 15, 2018

Joshua2598 said:
Honestly I'm jealous. Beautiful tank!

Aww, thank you!

Algaewarrior said:
What is your light schedule? I would suggest more CUC. Snails and/or hermits.it also looks like you have a bunch of substrate. Maybe the pump is making dunes but I would take a little out every waterchange until you have an inch or two. Great start though. I like all of your choices so far.

Yeah, I really need more snails haha. I’m gonna get a couple next time I go to the LFS. I turn on the light around 9 ish in the morning and off at around 5 at night. There’s actually only 1-1.5 inches of sand at most places, it just looks like there’s a ton because of the angle of the picture. The dunes are from my pistol shrimp upgrading his ultimate burrow

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I’m glad you like it! I’m really enjoying saltwater so far, even with all the algae haha.

Algaewarrior · Sep 15, 2018

Ori said:
Aww, thank you!

Yeah, I really need more snails haha. I’m gonna get a couple next time I go to the LFS. I turn on the light around 9 ish in the morning and off at around 5 at night. There’s actually only 1-1.5 inches of sand at most places, it just looks like there’s a ton because of the angle of the picture. The dunes are from my pistol shrimp upgrading his ultimate burrow .

I’m glad you like it! I’m really enjoying saltwater so far, even with all the algae haha.

Gotcha. After you get more snails I would do a 2-3 day blackout. Block the algae food. Your corals will be fine.

Ori · Sep 21, 2018

Finally got 2 more snails! They only had 1 astraea so I got it and one trochus. Hopefully they’ll help get the algae down. I also got a big green and purple hammer! It looks like a brain lol. It’s a wall hammer.

On a not so good note, my heater isn’t working too well. I’ve been bad about checking the temperature lately and I checked it today and it’s at 73 when it’s supposed to be at 78. I cranked up the heater to see if it will warm up but I might need a new one.

Joshua2598 · Sep 21, 2018

Ori said:
Finally got 2 more snails! They only had 1 astraea so I got it and one trochus. Hopefully they’ll help get the algae down. I also got a big green and purple hammer! It looks like a brain lol. It’s a wall hammer.

On a not so good note, my heater isn’t working too well. I’ve been bad about checking the temperature lately and I checked it today and it’s at 73 when it’s supposed to be at 78. I cranked up the heater to see if it will warm up but I might need a new one.

Just buy a new one asap

Ori · Sep 23, 2018

I guess I assumed for some reason that I didn’t need to clean the return pump? Then I noticed how low the flow has been lately, so I figured I should probably clean it out. Good thing I did because omg that thing was nasty ;Yuck. Full of brown sludge. But now the flow is so much better.

As for the heater, I think lack of flow might have contributed to it not working well, but I replaced it just to be safe.

Ori · Sep 23, 2018

Here’s a video I took.. the hammer at the front is the new one!

Ori · Sep 28, 2018

There’s way less algae now!!

Algaewarrior · Sep 28, 2018

Looking good. I really like that hammer. It's always good if you can afford the space to have a backup heater for redundancy. Have one set a little lower than the other one just in case the first one fails. IMO it's better to be a little low in temperature than too high and fry your fish.

Ori · Oct 3, 2018

I’ve successfully got everyone on flakes

. Actually, they seem to prefer them to mysis.

Joshua2598 · Oct 3, 2018

Ori said:
I’ve successfully got everyone on flakes . Actually, they seem to prefer them to mysis.

It only took my firefish 3 days to go from frozen to pellets. Congrats

Ori · Oct 6, 2018

Joshua2598 said:
It only took my firefish 3 days to go from frozen to pellets. Congrats

My blenny still won’t eat pellets lol, he sure loves flakes though.

Got new coral! Zoas, palys, blue sympodium and acans

. Which one is your favourite?

Joshua2598 · Oct 6, 2018

3rd or first from the top! cant decide!

Evan28395950 · Oct 6, 2018

Nice tank!

Ori · Oct 6, 2018

Joshua2598 said:
3rd or first from the top! cant decide!

I know right! It’s so hard to decide!!

Evan28395950 said:
Nice tank!

Thanks!

Ori · Oct 8, 2018

I fragged coral for the first time! Off my big Zoa colony. Now I just need to find someone to trade them with haha.

Ori · Oct 10, 2018

Well looks like the tank’s had its first casualty

. You know those zoas on the tiny piece of rock? Well I’m pretty sure the pistol shrimp grabbed it and dragged it into their burrow. I searched all through the sand in case it got buried somehow but it’s looking like I’m not going to see it again

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Joshua2598 · Oct 10, 2018

Ori said:
Well looks like the tank’s had its first casualty . You know those zoas on the tiny piece of rock? Well I’m pretty sure the pistol shrimp grabbed it and dragged it into their burrow. I searched all through the sand in case it got buried somehow but it’s looking like I’m not going to see it again .

That sucks

any new pics on the frags?