Heidi's 150g cube

Looking great Heidi!

Thanks Sam, Adam and AJ for the encouragement.

So here is my "tank update" for the week. I have cyano. I thought at first it was dinos again coming back to haunt me but it is purple and more of a mat on the sand that only really covers sand and rocks. So I have been literally vacuuming everyday the sand to remove what I can but soon as the lights ramp up its back full force. Cyano doesn't grow on my corals so all of them are very happy and it is sucking all the phosphates up so colors are great everything is great...just sick of the nasty slimy crap I have to suck up every day from the sand bed. This is the plan of attack, it is modified a bit from when I got rid of my dinos cause cyano is a bit different: (and I am pretty sure I got rid of the dinos completely cause they have not returned even a little, what I thought was dinos has been the purple cyano).

1.@ 11:30am today I vacuumed my sand and even blew off all my rock work where the cyano was collecting.

2. I dosed my MB7 (which I will keep dosing this whole time no matter what. (I haven't been dosing a carbon source for a while trying to get rid of the cyano.)

3. I turned off my beautiful lights and covered my tank with a big down blanket. Sump light is off too and I am going to starve my tank and let no light in for 3 days. EEK! I hate doing this cause my poor fish! But they are all fat and happy enough that I am sure they will be fine.

4. I have refined my light cycle for when it comes back on it will be only at 100% power for 5 hours of the day instead of 8.

5. I will be feeding only 2 times a day and they will be "smaller" meals only doing my coral frenzy/ reef chili 2 times a week instead of every other day. I will only be giving frozen food and nori 2 times a week too instead of like when ever I feel like it, I think this is leaving my phosphates up (keeping me wanting to dose which isn't helping the negative bacteria growth).

6. I am going to add a five gallon bucket of "rock rubble" to my refugium to make more places for the good bacteria to hang out. I love my minimal rock work and don't want to change that but I only have around 60 pounds of live rock in my system so this might be contributing to my problem.

7. When I turn the lights on on Wednesday I will be doing a 25% water change and we will go from there.

Wish me luck people :) My tank is beautiful and brings me so much joy, there is no reason why I should look at nasty slim clovered sand ANYMORE! :shake-head: I am taking back my white sand bed :roll_eyes:

Heidi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWHwx9ocAAA

Sweet video Heidi :)

Looks like he survived the initiation process. Looks like it was a bit rougher before the video? Hope he becomes a great addition to your tank.

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Originally Posted by Sir Patrick

Looks like he survived the initiation process. Looks like it was a bit rougher before the video? Hope he becomes a great addition to your tank.

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You know they really didn't chance him more then they were in the video. He found a couple different places to hide in the rocks where they (being too big) couldn't get to. I put him in when it was dark and really my freckle is the only one who has even really paying attention to him. I think the back of his fin got kinda messed up on my rock work where he was hiding cause their really has been no violence to him.

Thanks Miz, sorry it is so blue, I don't know how to adjust the blue out like I can in a picture, and I took it under all actinic lighting.

thats very nice

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Originally Posted by fidelcamilo

thats very nice

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Thank you :) I try

Heidi

video update :) (playing with my new iPhone video camera)

[ame=http://youtu.be/SLxsHn6BcOg]YouTube - ‪Tank July 2 2011‬‏[/ame]

Awesome!!! Hope you had an umbrella wit ya :) tank looks wonderful Heidi ((hugs))