My Red Sea Reefer Build thread

[NY_Caveman]

I did not quarantine my anthias, but you may need someone else to help you with that sorry, i can feel everyone judging me cause of that lol

Not at all. I have not QTed in 40 years of fishkeeping. You are not the only one. Not saying it is good or bad, just to each their own.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Not at all. I have not QTed in 40 years of fishkeeping. You are not the only one. Not saying it is good or bad, just to each their own.

Very true, sorry totally forgot to reply to this

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Picked up a komohara blenny today, pictures to come lol

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Ugh hes decided to live in a turned off powerhead whih is faulty lol

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

What a cutey lol

 

[pickupman66]

That's a really cute fish.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

I know right, very personable too and fun to watch, you should get one

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Hate slime algae, ruins the photos!

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Got 2 new additions, a multibar and coral beauty angelfish. A few new coral frags too including a 2 unknown montiporas, a birdsnest

and a hammer frag.

 

[Pbh-reef]

just wondering what size tank this is and what your fish list is? its a very cool group of fish

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

It is a red sea reefer 350 which is about 60 Uk gallons/ 70 Us gallons i believe.
An updated fish list would be a good idea lol
So currently we have;
-Multibar angelfish
-coral beauty
-komohara fang blenny
-3 lyretail anthias
-2 red saddle anthias
- aiptasia eating filefish
-mcCoskers flasher wrasse
-female blue star leopard wrasse
-black cap gramma
-spotted mandarin fish
-percula clownfish

Unfortunately lost the tamarin wrasse due to internal parasites recently

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Forgot my starcki damsel too

 

[jp_75]

that’s a lot of fish! nice stock btw

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

that’s a lot of fish! nice stock btw

It is quite a lot but there is very minimal aggression probably cause i feed 3 or 4 times a day lol which is probably too much, but the fish seem happy and they have enough space

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Id like to add in the future more wrasses, specifically a pintail fairy wrasse or a radiant wrasse or a potter leopard wrasse or another tamarin wrasse. More anthias probably and maybe a potters angel again. I think i need a bigger tank for my wish list lol

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

So phosphates seem to be high, my lfs suggests my rocks are leaching it, is that possible, also my rowaphos doesnt tumble well it just clumps, how can i fix this. I added phosguard as a back up. Any suggestions as to what to do, would a refugium by in anyway beneficial or effective to this size of tank. My corals arent doing just as good as they used to and i really want them to do well as im tired of looking at a tank full of coral skeletons from the brown jelly disease plague and i want them to grow a distract me from these lol. Fish on the otherhand seem to be doing fine and my mulitbar is putting on lots of weight

 

[NY_Caveman]

Phosphate in the rock is indeed likely and is one of the big reason many cure their rock. Once it is in a tank patience helps and in some cases an export method helps. I have never used a reactor, but it would seem there would be a flow level that would get it to tumble. I had the same question about a small refugium on my 45 and the consensus seemed to be yes, even a small refugium can be beneficial.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Thank you, i will try setting up a regugium. Is all i need a light and some algae(chaetomorpha) and a container for it within my sump?

 

[NY_Caveman]

That is what I did. In an ATO chamber. My system was too young to need it and I worried it would consume the nutrients. I ran it a few months. It never really grew, but did not die and grew Cyanobacteria like a champ.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

That is what I did. In an ATO chamber. My system was too young to need it and I worried it would consume the nutrients. I ran it a few months. It never really grew, but did not die and grew Cyanobacteria like a champ.

Did it help reduce nutrients?