Virtual tank tour anyone?

[Apon]

cool nano...what light are you using?

[Grant W]

Wow, really nice tank. Love the Acans and Rics. Everything looks so healthy and happy. Nicely done.

[Lucas M]

Danny, that Acro looks like Humilis to me. It looks a lot like the colony I got from Caesars that was harvested by QM out of Indonesia. For a while I thought it was Postrata, and I'm still not sure what mine is. Same coloration though. Yours looks a lot more like Humilis than mine does.

[Grant W]

Lucas I just realised we missed your tank in the Petaluma stop. Come on bud, lets see em

[Lucas M]

Grant, I just moved, the tank is ugllllyyyyy right now. After moving it into the garage I've had crazy temp fluctuation issues, something got screwed up on my moonlight timer and it caused a crazy algae bloom, and I've got wayyyy too much coral in there right now.

After I get the corals into the frag system and get everything cleaned up I'll get some pics of the little 14 gal.

[lokii_37]

Here are some pictures of my algae farm. It is getting better I can actually see most of the rock work now.
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I picked this guy up at diablo several months ago with the gift card I won in the raffle at my first meet
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This was 3 heads when I got it at the Dec meet ImageUploadedByTapatalk1340388846.204174.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1340388866.860268.jpg
My Hollywood stunner it has almost doubled in size since I got it at the club frag swap ImageUploadedByTapatalk1340388884.955722.jpg

[lokii_37]

Miami hurricane from the swap ImageUploadedByTapatalk1340389241.363536.jpg
Grant gave me this Idaho grape monti cap and it grows like a weed
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[northbay-reefer]

You got a tang or something in there to clean up the algea? The corals are doing good though.

You can actually drill holes through that Idaho and use it as a frag rack ... lol j/k

[Grant W]

Looks good, nice to see things coming along. Troncas and turbos will plow the algae down. Like Tom said a Tang would also tear it up. Nice to see the growth Bud.

[lokii_37]

I have a yellow eye kole tang but he doesn't seem to do much. With the recent fish suicides I have some room for another fish but I think another tang in a 75 would be asking for trouble. I'll have to look into some more snails.

Nick

[northbay-reefer]

Actually hermits will do a better job on those hair algea than snails. Adding another tang in a 75 will be fine. I have 4 tangs in my 210 and thinking about adding another one

[lokii_37]

Good to know about the hermits an I'm stoked about looking for another tang

[Reef Bass]

I think Grant means Trochus sp. snails.

Also, keep iin mind Tom and Grant are refugees from the Tang Police. I had smaller Kole and Chocolate tangs in my 100g and they literally started eating my acros. Bit the flesh right off the skeleton. And it wasn't because there was no algae to eat.

[Grant W]

Ken, I think, in hindsight, the tangs in your tank were looking for some attention or wanted you to feed them. God knows they had plenty of algae to hack thru.

[kodiak23]

I have 2 tangs in my 65 gallon, but still had a hair algae outbreak a while back and bought a reefcleaner pack and the hair algae was all but gone within 48 hours. Now I am stuck with tons of small cerith snails that I am slowly taking out.

[gonzalez78]

guess I'll go next.

29 gallon biocube
algae turf scrubber 2nd chamber
chemipure elite between chamber 2 and 3
stock lights
stock pump
100 watt heater in chamber 1
koralia nano powerhead

Fish:
1 yellow tang about 2" size
1 maroon clown 1"
1 damsel of unknown variety 1.25"
1 cleaner wrasse 2"
1 tiger goby under 1"
1 pink spot goby about 2.5"

Corals and inverts:

sebae anemone
green hammer
duncan
xenia
various mushrooms
various zoos (yellow and gold, elephant, grandis, some greens, gsp, yellow polyps, sunrise)
green toadstool (from Tom)
regular pinkish toadstool
crocia clam
bright green Formosa Stag (from Grant)
about 4 turbo snails
1 coral banded shrimp.
Colt leather
feather duster

[Grant W]

Lookin good Luis, Looks like the cyano is just about gone man. Well done! Keep up the water changes and it will start to settle down. Tanks filling up nicely too. Love the nem and clown. Grant

[gonzalez78]

Yeah it is just need to change the filters on my RO/DI so for now i am going to buy water at Oliver's market they have also an RO/DI system. The cyano comes and goes sometimes there is little sometimes there is a lot. I also really love the nem and clown i think when i set up the 20L i got from Oly i will transfer the yellow tang and the damsel to it and try to get another clown.

[lokii_37]

I would check if what they have at Oliver's is DI. DI is not good for drinking so I would think it is just RO.

[gonzalez78]

Originally Posted by lokii_37

I would check if what they have at Oliver's is DI. DI is not good for drinking so I would think it is just RO.

Thanks, do you think DI water would cause cyano also?

[lokii_37]

if its not DI there is a good chance there is something in it. I dont know if what is left over after RO will cause the cyano or not. i have headr people say when the TDS after DI reads nore than 1 or 2 they change out the DI resin filter. i would bet the RO from Olivers has more than 1 or 2 TDS. all that being said RO is still better than tap.

Nick.

[northbay-reefer]

Increase water flow and when you do water changes make sure to vacuum or stir up half of your sand each time. That stack of rock aganst the wall is a nitrate generating structure, stack your rocks in a way that has a small foot print on the sand and allows water to flows through and around it. This will help minimize cyano.

[gonzalez78]

Originally Posted by northbay-reefer

Increase water flow and when you do water changes make sure to vacuum or stir up half of your sand each time. That stack of rock aganst the wall is a nitrate generating structure, stack your rocks in a way that has a small foot print on the sand and allows water to flows through and around it. This will help minimize cyano.

Guess i do really need to take the class in rockscaping 101 and fast I'm waiting to set up my lights on the 20L so i can move everything over and redo the scaping in this tank just have to wait for then to arrive from China.

[Reef Bass]

DI would not cause cyano. A lack of use of it could contribute though. Plus in the case of tap water containing chloramines (as with Petaluma tap water), ammonia from chloramine breakdown is absorbed by the DI.

[gonzalez78]

Originally Posted by Reef Bass

DI would not cause cyano. A lack of use of it could contribute though. Plus in the case of tap water containing chloramines (as with Petaluma tap water), ammonia from chloramine breakdown is absorbed by the DI.

I have to admit i did do maybe 2 water changes with tap water maybe that helped it grow again that is when my RO/DI stopped working