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Water cloudy again today. This morning I had enough of this skimmer constantly over flowing and not doing its job. Everything has a job and it better do it, even if its job is to just look pretty like my wrasse... Anyway, we put the PVC coupling back under it this morning and it stopped over flowing. AWESOME! Now maybe we can pull some skimmate out of this thing. Get a shower and go to bed(last night shift, week off, woo hoo). Wake up and it's got a 1/4" of wet skimmate in the cup and the bubbles have collapsed to the bottom of the skimmer. We did it! It's broken in. Removed the cup, cleaned it out(smelled like rotting pumpkins, and for some reason I was/it made me hungry? lol), set the skimmer back on the bottom of the sump and replaced the cup. The bubbles break right at the bottom of the cup now. That's where it was running in the 75 and it pulled thick dark chocolate looking skimmate out. That's one thing fixed.
I haven't been happy with the front of the tank, by front I mean the front right corner. I wanted open sand bed but room to place acans down low. Well... we're going to put the acans on large frag disks and let them grow out that way. No rocks in the front of the tank. We've also reconsidered the blue clove polyps... they spread thru the water column so they literally will take over the whole tank. They are moved to the 14g and I'll be selling them.
And the pretty colors for today are.... yep, still purple. If the drops didn't look blue as soon as they hit the water I'd think my test was bad. I'm still not sure about it. Ammonia is still 0 with 2 clowns, a wrasse and an eel so we have plenty of bacteria. I guess it just needs some more time to build up stronger... we are still way low on micro fauna and benthic organisms. I'm trying to come up with ways to get them over here from the 14. That thing is FULL of life, from pods to bristle worms and spaghetti worms, to asterina stars... and stuff I haven't even seen yet. Live rock is wayyyyyyy better than any dry or reef saver rock. I think this will be the last tank set up with dry rock. The benefits outweigh the risks with hitchhikers. More are good than bad, and the bad ones can be removed. Problem is all that good stuff that lives in the sand can't go over to the 35, because we have black sand and I'd like to try and keep it black. Any ideas on that?
Water cloudy again today. This morning I had enough of this skimmer constantly over flowing and not doing its job. Everything has a job and it better do it, even if its job is to just look pretty like my wrasse... Anyway, we put the PVC coupling back under it this morning and it stopped over flowing. AWESOME! Now maybe we can pull some skimmate out of this thing. Get a shower and go to bed(last night shift, week off, woo hoo). Wake up and it's got a 1/4" of wet skimmate in the cup and the bubbles have collapsed to the bottom of the skimmer. We did it! It's broken in. Removed the cup, cleaned it out(smelled like rotting pumpkins, and for some reason I was/it made me hungry? lol), set the skimmer back on the bottom of the sump and replaced the cup. The bubbles break right at the bottom of the cup now. That's where it was running in the 75 and it pulled thick dark chocolate looking skimmate out. That's one thing fixed.
I haven't been happy with the front of the tank, by front I mean the front right corner. I wanted open sand bed but room to place acans down low. Well... we're going to put the acans on large frag disks and let them grow out that way. No rocks in the front of the tank. We've also reconsidered the blue clove polyps... they spread thru the water column so they literally will take over the whole tank. They are moved to the 14g and I'll be selling them.
And the pretty colors for today are.... yep, still purple. If the drops didn't look blue as soon as they hit the water I'd think my test was bad. I'm still not sure about it. Ammonia is still 0 with 2 clowns, a wrasse and an eel so we have plenty of bacteria. I guess it just needs some more time to build up stronger... we are still way low on micro fauna and benthic organisms. I'm trying to come up with ways to get them over here from the 14. That thing is FULL of life, from pods to bristle worms and spaghetti worms, to asterina stars... and stuff I haven't even seen yet. Live rock is wayyyyyyy better than any dry or reef saver rock. I think this will be the last tank set up with dry rock. The benefits outweigh the risks with hitchhikers. More are good than bad, and the bad ones can be removed. Problem is all that good stuff that lives in the sand can't go over to the 35, because we have black sand and I'd like to try and keep it black. Any ideas on that?
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@najer, does this bother you?
Oh that tiny whelk shell is another one I found sea shell hunting at the beach. I figured a really big hermit might make it home one day... I'm not sure if blue legs get that big...
Oh that tiny whelk shell is another one I found sea shell hunting at the beach. I figured a really big hermit might make it home one day... I'm not sure if blue legs get that big...
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Can you take some rock from your 14 and move it over for a little bit. Some micro will travel along and sees the new tank. Another idea is to take some sand and put in container and move over to new tank. That way the micro will spread. My 2 cents
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Looks like the nitrite dropped a bit, color doesn't look as purple. It's so hard trying to match the colors.
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I've thought of lining the bottom of the fuge with sand from the 14. I have one piece of rock in the fuge from the 14 already, and some of the stuff that was in the 10g I had up for a month, but that rock was wet for about 8 months. I think we might do a deep sand bed in the fuge, as deep as we can that is. The water inlet is pretty low.
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Sneak peak at the week ahead... this isn't everything happening either.
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Took a pic of the 3 SPS I don't have on the rack. There's a poccilopora(spelling) that I glued to a plug today too, but I don't have a picture of it... the bonsai is coloring back up after the black out and H2O2 a few weeks ago.
This is my birds nest. Mother colony is in the second pic. No, it doesn't get any thicker branches than that.
Blue stylo, one of my favorites and I've had it for a while.
Bonsai, is it original? Who cares it's pretty and we don't give a (insert your favorite 4 letter word) about names.
This is my birds nest. Mother colony is in the second pic. No, it doesn't get any thicker branches than that.
Blue stylo, one of my favorites and I've had it for a while.
Bonsai, is it original? Who cares it's pretty and we don't give a (insert your favorite 4 letter word) about names.
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We got a new fish today. There were supposed to be a trio of orange stripped cardinals, but divers den had to refund me for them as well.
He's super tiny. I think we'll name him Tim, Tiny Tim.
He's super tiny. I think we'll name him Tim, Tiny Tim.
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We were confident that Tim was a healthy fish, and being so little I was afraid of him not eating in QT since there is absolutely zero algae in there... he's in the display. Already claimed several tiny holes as his and is eating the brown algae on the rocks. He's still timid and I can't get a picture of him in the open, but here's a few close ups in one of his hidey holes.
Excuse the poor quality of the pictures, we're still powering thru a bacterial bloom.
Excuse the poor quality of the pictures, we're still powering thru a bacterial bloom.
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Oh yea for sure. I'm not worried about the bacteria. They will balance out here in another few days to a week. Ask @Katrina71 about bacteria... 
The skimmer is working like a champ, a little wetter skimmate than I like but it's doing its job. I'm having a hard time balancing my overflow. I was trying to get it silent inside the tank, and my ATO kept kicking on filling the tank higher and higher... it was about a 1/4" from overflowing onto the floor today. So noise it is. The Tunze is unplugged because it's now on the float, which sets a high pitched alarm. My dog hates it more than I do.
The skimmer is working like a champ, a little wetter skimmate than I like but it's doing its job. I'm having a hard time balancing my overflow. I was trying to get it silent inside the tank, and my ATO kept kicking on filling the tank higher and higher... it was about a 1/4" from overflowing onto the floor today. So noise it is. The Tunze is unplugged because it's now on the float, which sets a high pitched alarm. My dog hates it more than I do.
