Wow I haven't written here in almost a whole month! I feel bad cuz I have you guys following me to know about updates. Well anyways, I have been battling two different wars but one I just recently won (hopefully).
The first battle was my AIO and ATO being obnoxious in just over doing their jobs. The AIO was filtering correctly and no flow issues but the pump was either not keeping up or over working making the AIO levels fluctuate. This made my ATO misjudge what the level of water was and was filling the tank when it thought it was too low but in reality it was at the right levels. Anyways, the problem wasn't with either of them, it was a hole my father and I placed in the side of the AIO for a handle. My AIO is removable by design and unfortunately this hole was under the tanks water level so it was leaking into the last chamber. This made the water level get all weird, so I decided to give my tank it's first water change in 3 months and took aquarium silicone and fill up the hole. I had to wait at least 24-48 hours so I kept everything running cept for my gyre (I have 2 powerheads that I kept running) and just waited for the silicone to dry. Low and behold the AIO hasn't been acting up for a week now and everything is pretty much back to normal!
My other war that I'm currently battling is algae. When I started the tank, I did a no lights cycle because I had to build my tanks canopy. I had the lights and everything but nothing to hold the lights up. So while the tank was cycling with no lights, my father and I were building the canopy for the lights. Now that I have lights, algae has struck. I had diatoms which I was pretty stoked about but now I have a new type of algae that no one seems to know what it is. I mean there's guesses but nothing confirmed. The algae is brown-greenish and very flow-y but also have bubbles, which my first guess was Dino's. When I did a water test, I tested 0 for Nitrates but I don't have a Phosphates test so I can't tell what that is. The bubbles seem to release themselves from the algae and float up to the surface where they disappear. People have told me that if it was Dino's my inverts would be dead, which they aren't dead so there's that.
So that's what I have been up to but on the bright side, I have decided to just relax and just let the tank have it's algae issues for now. I can't be stressing out over every tiny thing or I would get ulcers. With that said, I went a head and bought 4 new corals for my tank. A Stripped Green Mushroom, Rainbow Pocilliopora, Toxic Green Trumpet Caulastrea, and Blue Trumpet Caulastrea. I've been mulling the idea of getting a few Panda Gobies and I was reading they needed Poci corals so I thought I would try it out. I have been reading about they are one of the easier SPS corals so why not!
I'll post pictures when I receive them later on this week.
Any of you guys have these corals? I would love to see them in other peoples tanks!
