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[Lost in the Sauce]

Doing well , all still bubbled, they all chose weird places to be lol besides the two in the front , one is near the top of the water by wave maker /filter and another is behind my rocks - probly the biggest one to

I may try to sneak one into my pocket. Fair warning

 

[dvgyfresh]

do you have a guard on the wavemaker ?

No guard , I do have one that’s like a mesh , but if I use it I need to turn gyre up to max and don’t get that much flow , right now I’m letting caulerpa grow inside it and it kinda prevents the sucking in

 

[dvgyfresh]

I may try to sneak one into my pocket. Fair warning

Fair lol

 

[fishguy242]

he is on the glass ,move him...

 

[dvgyfresh]

he is on the glass ,move him...

I kno I need to , it’s been there for a week lol haven’t had time probly tomorrow

 

[dvgyfresh]

Fts from today, need to test Params sometime this week lol

a lot of people hate Xenia but I like it, it fills the tank and provides movement / nitrate export

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Fts from today, need to test Params sometime this week lol

a lot of people hate Xenia but I like it, it fills the tank and provides movement / nitrate export

I can't wait to see what this tank looks like after a year of all those nems splitting! Going to be awesome.

 

[dvgyfresh]

I can't wait to see what this tank looks like after a year of all those nems splitting! Going to be awesome.

Thanks that’s the look I’m going for

 

[dvgyfresh]

Little video of the reef , I have a power head on the right side of the tank that is off. Do you think the flow is good? I can always increase the gyre or turn on power head. And yes I just put a bunch of bubbles in the tank lol

 

[dvgyfresh]

Another video , abit longer to seee flow

 

[dvgyfresh]

Tested parameters
Alk 9.0 dkh
Phosphate .39 ppm
Nitrate 0-5 ppm
Dosed 6 drops of lanthium chloride into skimmer cup to help balance ratio

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Just keep an eye on the nitrates. Don't want to be hitting double zeros.

 

[dvgyfresh]

Just keep an eye on the nitrates. Don't want to be hitting double zeros.

I kno I definitely don’t want Dino’s , it’s strange I feel like I overfeed and I stopped all water changes a couple weeks back , yesterday fed two mysis cubes / 10 ml AB + and a half sheet of nori yet only my phosphates increased. I also dumped in a bunch of coral heaven from IPSF the other day which I suspect was phosphate rise

 

[dvgyfresh]

Not too many updates , another reefer gave me his used overflow box so I got rid of the HOB filter and I’m back to using a sump/ refugium. Sadly two anemones got sucked in by the HOB filter while it was in operation- I do not know if they are still alive they looked like they could recover but I have not seen them. Otherwise parameters still the same , phosphate is a little high at .3 ppm but I’m letting it ride, alk 9.8 , nitrate 30ppm

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Have you gotten the nems out yet?

 

[dvgyfresh]

Have you gotten the nems out yet?

I got them out of the filter and it looked like only tentacle damage , they still attached to rocks and started moving ..but I have not seen them since, also two green anemones are hiding behinds rocks not in pic

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I got them out of the filter and it looked like only tentacle damage , they still attached to rocks and started moving ..but I have not seen them since, also two green anemones are hiding behinds rocks not in pic

That's good news. Gotta keep those intakes and pumps nem proofed.

 

[James_O]

Looking good! Your snakes are beautiful.

 

[dvgyfresh]

That's good news. Gotta keep those intakes and pumps nem proofed.

You right about that

 

[dvgyfresh]

Looking good! Your snakes are beautiful.

Thanks , one day I’ll own my favorite which is the Texas indigo snake