nano tank

[starfish123]

Pond tank = skip school??? Lol

[Admiraltian]

Naughty naughty.

[starfish123]

Naughty naughty.

[starfish123]

found a sweet spot for my wp25... now running else mode

[starfish123]

anyone can tell me how to eradicate these brown strands of bacteria/algae and whar are they? growing over my corals and rocks when lights are on

[starfish123]

another pic

[starfish123]

true perc clown jumped today...:'(

[Admiraltian]

Looks like red slime, how's ur po4 reading?

[starfish123]

Looks like red slime, how's ur po4 reading?

nope it is brown. grows every day have to manually remove. could it be too much carbon source?

po4 nvr test wc bi weekly 6litres each. dosing prodibio and continuum bacter gen m and micro fuel. using rowa too so i dont think there is problem with po4

[starfish123]

anyone? these brown strings are growing over my rocks/corals like no tomorrow and preventing pe. dosing bacteria every day changing water bi-weekly/weekly. should i do a major wc ard 25%?

[starfish123]

hungry coral. result of wc and prodibio bioptim and biodigest. brown strings also lessened after this

[starfish123]

in memory of the clown who jumped...heavily edited pic

[starfish123]

finally solved the algae/cyno issues...lost an entire colony of german blue digi to it:-(

anyway for me i just everyday suck out the algae and add more rowaphos. did not even change water or add bacteria. disappeared after 2weeks from the time i started. oh and of course controlled feeding too. funny how the algae/cyno disappear right after my exams... disrupted my revision:-(

anyway growth updates... jade green digi from uncle mike... finally encrusting after 4 mths...

before

after

purple digi from bro kajuworld also started to encrust

rescaped again... must restrain myself rescaping every 2mths...

zoas corner again... no time to source for nice and cheap zoos...

thanks for viewing

[starfish123]

another attempt on milli...

[Clement Chen]

nice tank. do u know the name of e bright green zoa u have. i also have that. but no idea what that is

[Clement Chen]

near the center of the photo

[Admiraltian]

near the center of the photo

Radioactive dragoneyes.

[starfish123]

Radioactive dragoneyes.

don't think it is. radioactive dragoneye should be smaller.

[starfish123]

milie under white light. any id?

[starfish123]

purple valida turned green...possibly due to my less than perfect water conditions

[nickykoo]

nice tank..... upz

[starfish123]

Finally stopped assuming my water paras...

No3:1-2.5

Po4:0.00?(why is diatoms still growing?)

Measured by salifert test kit

(Anything i can do to up the phosphate levels? Suspect i have been controlling my feeding abit too tightly)

Now time for me to start guessing why 2 colonies of my wild spses died while most(if not all) of my frags from other reefers tanks have survived and is growing. Hmm...

[stevenchia]

Finally stopped assuming my water paras...

No3:1-2.5

Po4:0.00?(why is diatoms still growing?)

Measured by salifert test kit

(Anything i can do to up the phosphate levels? Suspect i have been controlling my feeding abit too tightly)

Now time for me to start guessing why 2 colonies of my wild spses died while most(if not all) of my frags from other reefers tanks have survived and is growing. Hmm...

Wild sps are harder to adapt in tank compare to tank raised frags. As for big colony sps, ur lighting must be good if not ur light will not able to reach the colony. Innerside of sps will slowly weaken n dies off. And of course having good aclimatization.

[iskay]

It's possible that whatever phosphate and nitrate your tank generates all goes to fueling the diatoms. So nothing is left to reach the test kit...

[starfish123]

Wild sps are harder to adapt in tank compare to tank raised frags. As for big colony sps, ur lighting must be good if not ur light will not able to reach the colony. Innerside of sps will slowly weaken n dies off. And of course having good aclimatization.

Normally tips of sps will bleach first b4 pe stops and the centre of colony dies, so not sure what is happening. Can enlighten?

It's possible that whatever phosphate and nitrate your tank generates all goes to fueling the diatoms. So nothing is left to reach the test kit...

Any accurate way to test po4 and no3? I usually need to scrape of diatoms from tank glass abt once a week.