UPs and DOWN
first was green and red alage... though just a bit but is definitely a threat
luckily blue-legged hermit come to the rescue and clean it up.
Then discovered fin-rot on true perc ... followed by the 2 fire & flame gobies
Dosed melafix for 4 days and cured them. 25% Water change
Now the true clown rot fin is back to normal
and fire goby has longer fins
Then true clown gana ich... wah problematic felle.
Luckily it starts to feed again ... eating pellet with garlic
soon after ich is gone. Of course water change after water change.
Diatoms quietly built up after 2 months.
Blue-legged hermit manage to clear or maybe push away those on the rock but not a clean job
bought 3 astrea snails and they cleaned up the rock but diatoms appear on sand bed
this time the hermit does a better job and the sandbed is more or less ok
found out that seems like seachem phosguard is good at removing silicate so just add in the sump and hope for the best. Anyway silicate measurement is zero. Also manual removing it using cotton to clean the glass.
Also found aiptasia spreading in the sump. Not really sure if it is aiptasia cos they are not fully grown yet... white color .. starts off like thick spiderweb then slowly grow into a mini aiptasia shape... anyway drain the sump and wipe off all using tissue...
with phosphate very much under control... the green stuff inside the glue at the edges of the tank also starts to fade off.... nice to see that
Hope tank starts to stabilize after all these hoo-ha
if there is already coralline alage on the rock then it should spread with the proper calcium level?
already starting to spread in my new nano
Using D-D H2Ocean salt.
green alage extinguished but now busy fighting diatoms
I also find it wasteful to buy prawn but to use 1 for cycling
or you can get forzen mysis shrimp cubes
I did that and i think my cycling should be ok ba...
and the mysis can be kept frozen and use to feed fishes later
especially mushroom / yuma .. quite common to see green alage on the rock
quite a risk to put in main tank though likely my blue-legged hermit will remove it
for the meanwell power supply / driver
need some advices ...
one end is the wire for AC plug and the other end black/red is the DC to connect first LED (+) and last LED (-) ?