Rêverie Reef - Video thread

Ardeus · May 28, 2019

I didn't know that Banggai cardinals were so active at night and that they could find something to eat, because they don't care about tiny stuff.

Ardeus · Jun 2, 2019

SkiCatTX · Jun 3, 2019

Wow, awesome video! Glad you finally got the tank, looking good!

Ardeus · Jun 4, 2019

SkiCatTX said:
Wow, awesome video! Glad you finally got the tank, looking good!

Thanks! It was a long wait.

The tank is closed in what concerns corals and I am trying to find the last few fish species and then it will complete.

I had a problem with magnesium because of a bad bucket of Aquaforest salt. It killed the snails and I think it also possibly killed the female flame angel on the day of the move.

Ardeus · Jun 11, 2019

Who said that breeding saltwater fish was difficult?

NY_Caveman · Jun 12, 2019

You tell a great story. They are super cute.

Ardeus · Jun 12, 2019

The thing is, as cute as they are, if I manage to find more in the tank (they will be either near the top of the tank or in the BTA's) and put them in there, they will kill them.

Daniel@R2R · Jul 11, 2019

Ardeus said:

Great-looking reef! Beautiful!

Ardeus · Jul 13, 2019

Thanks!

I had some problems getting some fish through quarentine, but now I have these guys in the fuge.

The female is so small that I don't dare to put her in the tank.

Ardeus · Jul 18, 2019

sam.veilleux30 · Jul 18, 2019

Wow! Stunning reef and great videos.
Thanks for sharing

Ardeus · Jul 18, 2019

sam.veilleux30 said:
Wow! Stunning reef and great videos.
Thanks for sharing

Thanks for watching

Ardeus · Jul 21, 2019

Here's a rambling about the corals in the tank.

Ardeus · Jul 23, 2019

Yesterday I added 5 fish:

- 1 small flame angel
- 2 adult heraldi angels
- 1 yellow assessor
- 1 wheeleri goby

Right now the tank is surprisingly peaceful and the tank is now closed both for corals and fish.

- 3 Ocellaris clownfish
- 2 Banggai cardinals (+ 4 babies in the sump)
- 3 Threadfin cardinals (1 female and 2 males)
- 2 Marine bettas (1 argus male and 1 altivelis female)
- 2 Heraldi dward angels
- 2 Flame dwarf angels
- 2 Flame hawkfish
- 2 Diamond gobies
- 2 Wheeleri gobies
- 2 Red bandtail waspfish (still gaining some size in the refugium)
- 1 Matted filefish

Ardeus · Jul 24, 2019

I knew that adult angels were a bad idea...

NY_Caveman · Jul 24, 2019

It is sad, but it is also kind of cute with the music playing.

Ardeus · Jul 24, 2019

I already moved the trachy to the refugium with the anemones and the waspfish. I am scared of putting my hand in now because they are already swimming to the feeding pipette.

It's a good thing that I have reef lighting in the refugium instead of grow lights.

I pick music from stuff I recorded 30 years ago to avoid copyright problems.

Tomorrow I will leave the camera filming the clams. I really need to watch these angels. It was only one of them nipping the trachy.

Ardeus · Jul 28, 2019

I was scrapping the algae off the glass and I accidently knocked the magnifica pillar, but I managed to catch it.

I tried to put it back where it was but I couldn't balance it.

30 minutes later and the tank had suffered a minor rescape.

The angels had beed bickering over places to sleep and I took the opportunity to create a couple of small caves. It solved the problem.

Ardeus · Jul 31, 2019

My tank is based around kalk dosing and it takes almost 5 litres of saturated kalk per day. It isn't enough so I was complementing with soda bicarbonate dosing (100ml/day).

I stopped the soda bicarbonate and kept the kalk and I got a calcium reactor a couple of weeks ago and I have been trying to regulate it. I have no pH control.

I started with 1 bubble/minute and 40 ml/minute of effluent and it was too much.

The first problem I had was gas accumulation, I had to purge the reactor 2 or 3 times per day.

The 2nd problem was maintaining a steady effluent because it's gravity fed and the valve at the end of effluent is not very reliable.

So I removed the valve and let the effluent run free at a whopping 225ml/minute. CO2 is set to 30 bubbles per minute.

The alk has been balanced for a few days like this.

Question is: is the CO2 even doing anything?

Ardeus · Aug 1, 2019

It is.

I turned the CO2 back on today because alk has fallen 1 dKH in 24 hours. Even with 225ml/min of effluent and just 30 bubbles/min of CO2, the media is dissolving and supplying the tank 1 dKH per day.