So- Whats new with your tank today??

[MizTanks]

I got diatoms and red slime algae-the diatoms are on the sand bed only-red slime on tanks back wall and on some zoas-WTH? Ever since I got my tail spot blenny my yellow rose prawn goby and pistol shrimp won't come out of their cave-especially the prawn he used to come out all the time-I hope they don't starve-I spot feed them but the bristle worms seem to get there first

[cg5071]

Hopefully it will be ok^ My friends yellow watchman wasnt seen for 4 months so it wasnt getting fed but it and his shrimp showed up after we simplified the rockwork and his hiding spot is near the front of the tank now.

Quite alot going on here actually. I took my current satelite apart yesterday and just used the guts to make a new light and mount it on my old canopy. I was getting shocks and the thing weighed a ton, making it hard to do anything in the tank.

I have layered a bunch of rock on the bottom of that tank to create a 5 in sand bed for my future jawfish pair. I have had sand bubbleing away in a 5g bucket for this and started filling in the spaces between the rock for them to dig in.

The same tank had my 3 baby bangaai in it that I am trying to pair up. I removed the bigger bully to his own tank to give the others, who were always hiding , some space to grow and hopefully pair.

Placed alot of new rock from tommy b in my main tank and cut back on feeding to help with my algae prob. Will be getting a bunch of columbellid snails in the next few days, to breed and hopefully knock out some algae. I need to hang my 70w hps light over my sump to also help with nutrients and grow chaeto.

Have also been setting the neighbors 65g tank up to spill over from her first 20g and make room for her cowfish. Not sure yet what she will do when he outgrows that one.

I suppose that is it, other than I need to change 10g of water today and hang the light. Been using my new used ro/di for the last 2 weeks but havnt seen the benefits from it yet.

[bigbill]

new tourch coral

[Sir Patrick]

Started 3 days lights out myself....again.....

[ReeferRob]

First day I've been happy with how the tank looks in weeks. Been running the EcoBaks for.....2 weeks now.
Dodged a bullet with the BRS Alk doser the other day. I left it on for like half hour. Alk was 12 for 24 hours with a 10 gallon water change. Steadily dropping down to 9 today, no ill side effects witnessed at all!!! Thank goodness.
Algae still a major pain but corals are coloring back up!

[Sir Patrick]

^ Close call!!! Glad ya pulled through!

[EMUreef]

hm got a new magfloat? lol
added a foxfac lo to the tank as well.
Noticed a new polyp on my blue hornets today.

[Sir Patrick]

Glued some corals down, and did a tiny bit of tweaking on the aqua-scape.

Did a water change.

Re-installed the Par-38 on the frag rack.

[Sir Patrick]

Whats new with my tank???I have been dosing MB& since the start of my tank. I started dosing vitamarin C (by brightwells) along side the biofuel, at a reduced amount, a while back. I no longer need to scrape my glass every other day! I can see clearly in the tank for a few days before i need to clean the glass!

[Sir Patrick]

A gallon a day evaporation??? Are you kidding me???