Heidi, I just admire your tank. It looks great. I was looking through your thread yesterday of all the amazing corals you have. I am a huge fan of mushrooms, especially yumas! They are awesome. Great job and awesome job picking out such great looking pieces!
Awe thanks Arial!! Mind if I call you that teehee always my favorite of the Disney princesses!!
Heidi
Tank Update (I know its been a while but really it has been uneventful this last month up till the last week or so)
I keep having problems with my calcium being all high in relation to my alkalinity. Another problem I seemed to be having was some kind of diatom bloom all of a sudden. Lastly my purple monopora Digi has almost completely bleached and since it is spread and covering one of the ends of an attached rock on the top of the tank, there is no way to really move it anywhere if it is bleaching because of the lights. It might be getting mad at my alk swings I can't seem to control lately. ??? Not 100% sure... Oh my husband came home it "a surprise" It is another fish, like we need it.... Exquisite fairy wrasse. I'm not real happy about it. I have been feeding a ton, dosing MB7 and keeping my n and p pretty low/zero I am sick of my sand, every time a fish or something stirs it up I get a diatom bloom, its ugly and dingy so I started removing it last water change. I plan to suck out the rest at the next 2 water changes as to not off set the bacteria balance in the tank. Meanwhile, I am starting bio pellets. So thats whats up with the tank. Here are some pictures. I got a new camera (last week) so they are not the best but I am amazed at how clear my fish pictures are. It's a Canon T2i rebel and so far I LOVE it. Thanks for reading and enjoy the pictures!
full tank from front Dec.10 2011
(those of the sump I took with my iPhone)
what my skimmer did for almost 3 days after I removed about half of the sand from the DT, I ran carbon and the skimmer really didn't get back to normal until I hooked up the bio-pellets last night
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New anemone I got last month
stuff that blows into the corner
Excuse the mess, I had to take everything that was on the sand and put it up while I vacuumed the sand out. I will take another picture of the tank full on once the sand is all gone and I rearrange the "ground coral"
Tank looks FANTASTIC,luv them AI's. If you want more rock LMK,got about 100 # laying around.You and your husband can come and get it-- it's free Just laying around takeing up space anyway and since Mrs Binford has banned me from doing anymore tank builds we'll never use it LOL
Thanks guys!! Nope no more rock unless it fits directly in with the design. I have happily formed a very minimalist scape here that I don't plan on changing much. There is one space on the left side that I plan on building another tower and tunnel when I see the right pieces of rock. The bio pellets will provide plenty of "places" for the bacteria to make happiness. I view my rock as a "cool play ground for my fish" and also a beautiful shape to look at. The Heidi reef will never be a wall o rock kinda place.
Heidi
Originally Posted by TheLittleMermaid
Heidi, I just admire your tank. It looks great. I was looking through your thread yesterday of all the amazing corals you have. I am a huge fan of mushrooms, especially yumas! They are awesome. Great job and awesome job picking out such great looking pieces!always my favorite of the Disney princesses!!
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more places for that beneficial bacteria to live the merrier!!
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