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Just dosed the back bedroom 30-gallon with ChemiClean. Those couple red spots on the sand (and that was new sand after the burn-down and recycle!) exploded.

The black combtooth blenny back there went dead pale (before the dosing) and was hyperventilating. I don't know if he ate some some bad algae or what. He's in a temp holding tank- a five gallon bucket of new salt water with a heater and an airstone. Color's back- he's still not very energetic.

I'm really having one of those "**** this, I am getting out of the hobby" moments. I got dragged into this in an effort to make the to-be-ex-wife happy (she wanted seahorses!), it has sucked up way too much of my disposable income, and I found out this last week I'm laid off effective the 25th.

Yeah, I'm whining.
 
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WiseguyThreeOne said:
Oh, the Fluval crapped out on me. Plug it in, nothing happens. I guess 70 gallons was more than it wanted to handle. Guess I need a new filter mechanism.
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If you have a decent skimmer and you're not cleaning that canister a few times a week it's probably better not running it anyways.

Sorry about the bad breaks bro.
 
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Well, 48 hours after firing up the new protein skimmer, the 60 gallon tank is noticeably clearer. I still think I need some more chemical/mechanical filtration in the system though.

Regarding the bedroom 30, Kate is despondent after the death of Lenny the Blenny. The three clowns and the yellow watchman goby appear fine, along with both nemes. The ChemiClean is in there, and we'l see what that does to the cyano that's trying to bloom.
 
Hair algae is picking up in the bedroom tank. I'd reused a rock from Bart's old setup- one that had been sat out and dried and everything. Looks like I'm getting another lawnmower blenny on Friday to get the bedroom tank cleaned up.
 
ChemiClean worked on the bedroom tank's cyano. Caught it early. Did a 30 percent water change (10 gallons), added a lawnmower blenny from the LFS to the tank in there to deal with the hair algae problem. Hope he brought an appetite.

Been running the metal halide light on the 60 gallon to make the two frags happy. It's also making a thin layer of green algae on the tank walls happy. Also need to figure out what the heck's on this "$10 Coral Rock" I got at the Pet Palace closeout.
 
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WiseguyThreeOne said:
Well, 48 hours after firing up the new protein skimmer, the 60 gallon tank is noticeably clearer. I still think I need some more chemical/mechanical filtration in the system though.
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Get a nice media reactor and run a combo of GFO and carbon and with a good skimmer and husbandry you would be fine.
 
Thanks, Brandon. Going to need another sump chamber to make that happen. And with a really uncertain career future at the moment, I'm reluctant to make a lot of capital investment in the tank right now. If I can keep the fish alive with what I've got for a month, great.

Now if someone can look at this:

Unidentified Rock Of Crap Probably With Cyano.jpg


and tell me whether or not that tan thing is aiptasia or not. The other thread is ignoring my question, and I now have another tan thing just like it.

I thought the red stuff might end up being cyano rather than coral (why the hell I trusted a closing pet store, I dunno!), but it's not bubbling or spreading.
 
Everything seems OK on the 60 for the moment. Did some work on the 30 gallon nano. Will post a pic of the revised filter grid I made to spread the waterfall effect so it sounds less like Niagra Falls when I'm trying to sleep.
 
Sitting here watching the engineer goby keep sticking his head out from between two pieces of rock, puking up more and more "gravel" on every trip. I was wondering how that SOB was moving so much material.

Also, one of the snails grazed all the "foliage" off my coral frag. Not the first time this has happened- last time it was one of the hermit crabs who are now all in the back bedroom tank.

If I'm going to keep putting cheap frags in here, I need to figure out a cleanup crew that won't eat them.
 
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All right, back from a few days in California. Have the place to myself now- as planned, Kate (Maidofdishonor) moved back to San Diego.

Anyway, hair algae and a bit of cyano is perking up in the back bedroom tank. Will deal with that. The lawnmower blenny back here just isn't eating fast enough.

The engineer goby's been busy as hell in the 60 gallon- that black sand has been moved all over the place. I think I need to scoop out a bunch more of it.

Biggest issue is the red bubble-tip neme in the back bedroom tank. He hardly ever bubbles out- spends most of his time pulled in and closed up. Probably dying- I keep catching one of the clowns stealing his food and giving it to the sebae neme it loves. This sucks- at one point we had that neme looking AMAZING- better than it did when Bart sold it to us as part of the package.

Anyone want the RBTA? Free to good home in Clarksville? Might die on you, but if it stays here it's definitely gonna.
 

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