New in the forum from Spain

Erpiki · Oct 30, 2018

Hi, sorry if my English is not good enough, as I am from Spain sometimes is difficult for me to express myself properly.

I had a 200 liters tank 3 years ago and I upgraded to a Red sea Penninsula 650 last year, this are the charachteristics of my tank:
- 4 Hydra 26 lights
- Skimmer Buble Magus 850D
- Chiller Teko TK 100
- 2 x Tunze Turbelle Stream 6105
- Aquamedic runner 9.1
- Profilux 4
- UV lamp 18W Sunsun
- Barebutton

Living things:
- Blue Linckia
- Mespilla globulus
- Echinothrix Calamaris
- 2 x amphiprion clarkii
- Siganus Doliatus
- 4 x Pseudanthias Kashiwae
- 5 x Sphaeramia Nematoptera
- blue tang
- Ctenochaetus Strigosus
- 2 x lysmathas
- Siganus Vulpinus
- a big heteractis magnifica
- some zoanthus and soft corals

Sorry i do not know the name in English for them, this is the why I use the latin name.

Actual chimichal status is: (Aquaforest products)

Alkalinity: 9,8
Calcium: 430
Magnesium: 1380 - 1400
Phosphates: 0 ( hanna checker)
Nitrates: 22
Salinity: 1.025

As you can imagine, nitrates are driving me crazy, as I have some algae, I imagine they are keeping phosphates and my bacteria can not reduce nitrates because I do not have phosphates, as I do not want to increase phosphates, I am triyng to kill algae with Vibrant and them, I will see what I do when i do the phosphate test.

I am fighting against green algae, Aiptasia and buble algae now.

This are some photos of my tank I am also cultivating phitoolankton and copepods...

Thank you for reading all this, as it is a long thread.

dbl · Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R and thanks for signing up. Your English is just fine and your tank is beautiful...thanks for sharing it with us.

NY_Caveman · Oct 30, 2018

Very nice! Welcome to R2R!

Ruben's Reef · Oct 30, 2018

!!! Welcome to R2R !!! Beautiful tank and setup.

Erpiki · Oct 30, 2018

Thank you.

4FordFamily · Oct 30, 2018

Welcome home, you will love it here!

Beautiful tank, thanks for sharing!

reacclimating 2 the hobby · Oct 30, 2018

Gorgeous tank and Welcome to R2R!! You'll find all the help you need here

Antics · Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R!!

Billldg · Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R!!! Great looking tank!!!

BestMomEver · Oct 30, 2018

Wow! Your tank is gorgeous and your English is just fine. Welcome to the reef!

coral-boss · Oct 30, 2018

nice setup. welcome. your nitrates aren't even that terrible. I've seen a lot worse. maybe try some Dr. Tims bacteria to help.

mike werner · Oct 30, 2018

welcome!

Reefer Deez · Oct 30, 2018

Hello and welcome to R2R

It's a pleasure to have you here with us

Js.Aqua.Project · Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R!

Don't worry about apologizing for your English as we have plenty of native speakers who don't quite understand how to speak/write the language.

That's a nice set up, make sure to start a build thread so we can see the tank as it gets new additions and evolves.

Wilsonfeliz · Oct 30, 2018

Bienvenido a R2r!
Saludos desde República Dominicana.

nautical_nathaniel · Oct 30, 2018

Welcome to R2R!

Erpiki · Oct 30, 2018

Thank you guys, nice to hear from you. Itried to add bacteria or carbonate food for the bacteria, but it did not work, I think the ptoblem I have is the phosphates are not balance with my nitrates, so I will try to exterminate algae first and them if phosphates are still so low and I can not reduce nitrates I will see if I can add some phosphates, I want to star adding sps corals in the tank, but I rather reduce nitrates first, hahaha my plan against algae, we will see if it works..

Dr. Dendrostein · Oct 30, 2018

Erpiki said:
Hi, sorry if my English is not good enough, as I am from Spain sometimes is difficult for me to express myself properly.

I had a 200 liters tank 3 years ago and I upgraded to a Red sea Penninsula 650 last year, this are the charachteristics of my tank:
- 4 Hydra 26 lights
- Skimmer Buble Magus 850D
- Chiller Teko TK 100
- 2 x Tunze Turbelle Stream 6105
- Aquamedic runner 9.1
- Profilux 4
- UV lamp 18W Sunsun
- Barebutton

Living things:
- Blue Linckia
- Mespilla globulus
- Echinothrix Calamaris
- 2 x amphiprion clarkii
- Siganus Doliatus
- 4 x Pseudanthias Kashiwae
- 5 x Sphaeramia Nematoptera
- blue tang
- Ctenochaetus Strigosus
- 2 x lysmathas
- Siganus Vulpinus
- a big heteractis magnifica
- some zoanthus and soft corals

Sorry i do not know the name in English for them, this is the why I use the latin name.

Actual chimichal status is: (Aquaforest products)

Alkalinity: 9,8
Calcium: 430
Magnesium: 1380 - 1400
Phosphates: 0 ( hanna checker)
Nitrates: 22
Salinity: 1.025

As you can imagine, nitrates are driving me crazy, as I have some algae, I imagine they are keeping phosphates and my bacteria can not reduce nitrates because I do not have phosphates, as I do not want to increase phosphates, I am triyng to kill algae with Vibrant and them, I will see what I do when i do the phosphate test.

I am fighting against green algae, Aiptasia and buble algae now.

This are some photos of my tank I am also cultivating phitoolankton and copepods...

Thank you for reading all this, as it is a long thread.

Wish mine was that clean, (organized ), welcome, thanks for sharing