My low budget nano tank

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replace the simlim blue led with a aquazonic 28cm T5 actinic blue

then realize how dim the led was

just hope the soft coral like it

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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

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getting crowded

where to put florida ricordea coming christmas

[sg993]

very creative... well done.

[darter]

So bro, is the diatom useful or harmful

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So bro, is the diatom useful or harmful

dont know how harmful to LS but definitely harmful to the look of a clean tank

[Rxcp14]

So bro, is the diatom useful or harmful

It grows everywhere and on corals like zoas....

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true clown kinda short of a few black stripe

[JeromeTanJunJie]

Wow that does look nice

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crowded mushroom gang

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[starfish123]

any full tank shot?

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pic in post#28 almost full tank liao .. is a tiny pico/nano tank

on top got nothing

gona add few more pieces of primo rock over this weekend so that can put some LPS on top

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so long as u do water change diligently and clean yr tank walls often...and dose bacteria after water change shd control these diatoms from overwhelming yr tank...and flow is more impt.

this piece of advice almost sum up the maintenance required

sounds simple but is the key to a clean tank with clear water

of course also need cleaning crews and chemical filtration before "scheduled maintenance"

my main + IOS is about 50L

with 2 return pump, one go through chiller, should have min. 1000L/hr

should have at least 20x

everything seems calm so far

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tubeworm at center-top came out of tube for 2 weeks

new tube in the making so far only ard 1 inch

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salvage the remaining few strand of chaeto from failed attempt

manage to grow a bit now ...

hope there is flow from under

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[starfish123]

wa how u get your zoas to open so big? mine just will not open...

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just normal open .. not really big

to me keeping zoa is more of hit or miss ... last time never succeed

almost wana throw it away cos it closed up some time back due to nudibranch

manage to kill 2 and the zoa starts to open again .. quite a relief

trying to find time to get coral rx .. just in case.

not good at keeping zoa... probably this time has sufficient light & good water. not sure how much flow is needed

[william_choo]

Zoas are quite tolerant to Any flow.They only need good light to sustain their distinguish colours.

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purple coral banded shrimp

most of the time hidden

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nassaurius snails ... cheapo type

shell becomes smoother and add a bit of pattern as compared to 3 months ago which is full dull grey

a bit of the fuji pink sand surfaced

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while it lasts