Tank Journal Archive

[Peligro]

It's been a minute since I've been on. So a short description of what's been going on. So I battled dinoflagellate for like a month. And finally won by shutting my lights off for 3 days, taking my rock out And brushing it off, scrubbing and cleaning out the back sump, adding an extra power head in the main display, I took out one of the return pumps to give my skimmer more time to pull out nastys from the water. And replaced the de Halid with a 14k phoenix. I also mod the oceanic protein skimmer. I enlarged the reaction chamber, to give the bubbles more contact time with the water, lifted my hood So I my temp doesn't jump so badly. Although I'm having to top off more regulary. And I added a Duncan

Clove polyps

And a red mushroom

I still have these guys no idea what they are

And my hitch hiker polyps no offical name for them either

Full tank

Here is the lifted hood

Is there anything else I can do, maybe some one can suggest a coral to purchase, that's a good touch to the tank

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[daveH]

Blastos are good, really hardy and you can get some good colours in them. Also pulsing Xenias look good.

 

[MTG]

by the looks of it you have cyano bacteria correct?

 

[Peligro]

Not really sure, I thought my tank was clear, where do you see cyano

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[daveH]

The lighter looking red patch in the top of pic 4 looks like cyano. Try scrapping it just a little bit, if it comes away easily it's cyano.
If it's hard and doesn't scrape off easily it's probably dark red coralline algae, from which I've read is OK. (I hope it is - I've had it in my tank from the start and it doesn't seem to be a problem, I also had some cyano a while back but I cleared that up).

 

[Peligro]

Oh Lol no that's red coralline, I have red, purple, pink, green, and like a green blue mix. All coralline algae

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[daveH]

Good to hear

 

[Peligro]

Yeah you had me worried. Starring at my tank for like two hours

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