Been surfing on this site a while now, guess i have to give a little presentation of my reef. Currently it is not much to see, but what a heck here we go.
It has been running for about a year and a half, my wife kept yelling at me that it is in the way, so this wednesday i moved it to another location in the house. So have patience with the looks of it.
The display is about 100 gallons.
Lighting is a DIY with 8x55w PC bulbs 4 blue, 2 white and 2 pink/purple. There is some work left to do on the lighting.
For cirkulation there are two koralia stream pumps, plus the return from the sump.
The sump is about 25 gallons, that holds a skimmer (dymax LS 30) and a DIY ZEOvit filter and the returnpump (AM OceanRunner 3500).
To maintan the Ca, Mg and Alk i am using balling dosed with a IKS vario3 pump.
The animals are the must have stuff when having kids.
A couple of Clwnfish (nemo)
Blue tang (doris)
Yellow tang (bubbles)
Cleaner shrimp (jacqes)
A lawnmower blenny
sandshifting goby
bluespotted goby
some green chromis
C. rostratus (angelfish?)
Couple of hermitcrabs and a bunch of snails.
The corals are mostly SPS, but also some softies and LPS.
What happened to the majority of your corals after your move? The new tank looks drastically reduced in population!
Also...how come to decided to go bare-bottom? Any reasons in particular? In my experience, the sand-sifting gobies don't do too well without a sand bottom. A pair of mine ended up starving...not enough to eat...in my old system.
What happened to the majority of your corals after your move? The new tank looks drastically reduced in population!
Also...how come to decided to go bare-bottom? Any reasons in particular? In my experience, the sand-sifting gobies don't do too well without a sand bottom. A pair of mine ended up starving...not enough to eat...in my old system.
Thank you!
Actually they are all still there, fragged a couple of them, had to pay the guy who helped me out with the moving. And the new aquascaping kinda made them disappear, looks a lot less. And some of them had STN going so i cut those parts off. From now I'll do more frequent and larger waterchanges, used to change 5% every three weeks. I will try to change 10% every two weeks in the future.
BB is only temporary, wanted to change the sand to a sugarfine instead. Couldn't make the time to go to BioTed before the move, hopfully i can make the time this saturday.
That is a maybe... There is this baby/children expo downtown this wekend also, as we are going to have our second kid in august my wife will drag me over there too.
I got a bit lucky with my sandshifter it eats anything that goes in the tank even formula one/two pellets, so it should not be a prob.
Actually they are all still there, fragged a couple of them, had to pay the guy who helped me out with the moving. And the new aquascaping kinda made them disappear, looks a lot less. And some of them had STN going so i cut those parts off. From now I'll do more frequent and larger waterchanges, used to change 5% every three weeks. I will try to change 10% every two weeks in the future.
BB is only temporary, wanted to change the sand to a sugarfine instead. Couldn't make the time to go to BioTed before the move, hopfully i can make the time this saturday.
That is a maybe... There is this baby/children expo downtown this wekend also, as we are going to have our second kid in august my wife will drag me over there too.
I got a bit lucky with my sandshifter it eats anything that goes in the tank even formula one/two pellets, so it should not be a prob.
so ur going to the expo. Me to, but not the baby one, going for the fishing expo =).
and grats to the next coming family member
Sorry for the misleading info about the corals that are left in the tank. They are NOT all there. I had montieating nudies a while back, so all montis are gone. I just could not get rid of them, all montis died. And a couple of days ago the styloporas and pocilloporas were white, guess they couldn't handle the stress from the move, they were a bit weakened from the earlier STN prob i had a couple of months ago . All parameters are prfect as they should in a ZEOvit aquarium, slightly high nitrates (~10).
However all acros and everything else is doing just fine.
Yesterday i got some sand, Carib Sea Ocean Direct live sand. Waaaay better than BB.
The water is still a bit cloudy, but gets clearer.
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. And a couple of days ago the styloporas and pocilloporas were white, guess they couldn't handle the stress from the move, they were a bit weakened from the earlier STN prob i had a couple of months ago 
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