New tank bio 29

[Phelps265]

Here’s our tank been up and running for a little over a year now. Seems to be going ok. Had sugar fine sand which was a major pain in the butt. This last weekend I tried to rectify it buy sucking out some of the sand and added some rinsed live bigger sand on top. Seems to be working. I keep getting this rust color on top of the sand. I do 5 gal water changes weekly. Not sure what it’s from. I don’t think from over feeding. Feed every other day. Every coral we’ve had has grown a lot. Most of our corals came from the 10$ bargin tank. Acans all started with one or two heads. Zoas the same. The blastos we acquired last month have new heads. Soooo I’m assuming all is going well minus the rust stuff on the sand.

 

[Phelps265]

Forgot to add livestock list. Fish: clown, orange spotted goby, mcCoskers wrasse, and fire fish goby. Cleanup crew fighting conch, 2 turbo snails, 2 narcissus snails, 2 astrius snail, 1 cleaner shrimp. Corals: I’m not even sure I should have wrote them down. Zoas, 2 acans, green star polyp leather, couple mushrooms, 2 blastos, 1 pachyseris, toadstool leather 3 others I can’t remember their name.

 

[reef lover]

Looks good! The rust u speak of is most likely diatoms using up the silicates in the new sand. Should run its course.

 

[Phelps265]

Looks good! The rust u speak of is most likely diatoms using up the silicates in the new sand. Should run its course.

Ok cool thanks. I assume it’s ok that I continue to vacuum it when I’m doing water changes

 

[MERKEY]

Looking good!!!

 

[BeejReef]

Congrats on a year of reefkeeping!
I feel like we should get coins like peeps in AA

 

[CasaReefer]

great Looking Tank.. Congrats on the 1 yr mark... Awesome

 

[reef lover]

Ok cool thanks. I assume it’s ok that I continue to vacuum it when I’m doing water changes

Yup.