My first nano tank [ytpmzy]

[ytpmzy]

Realised i have been posting it on the wrong section of the forum haha

Continuing here

Tank stand came XD bought from a reefer in this forum > (Lots of thanks to that guy )....

While shifting the tank , lost my shrimp and my only coral .... Perhaps due to shock , not so sure

The bioreactor back washed too , now I have to restart it -.- nitrates climbing again ...

Enough of problems haha.

Planning to stock the tank with :

Hammar corals (hopefully clowns like it? and to add flow to the stale rock work)

Gonio (same as hammer )

Green star polyps (again )

Mandarin fish (after I see that the pod population is booming again > )

Any advice will be much appreciated

[Admiraltian]

Try not to stock first. Wait for ur tank to stabilize first.

[ytpmzy]

Try not to stock first. Wait for ur tank to stabilize first.

Will be testing water for the period Stocking mid April or so haha

[ahchris]

Will be testing water for the period Stocking mid April or so haha

I wanna try a black molly too :-)

[Saturnz17]

Looking forward to seeing more pix bro!

[ericmz]

can the black mollies breed? any babies yet?

[ytpmzy]

I wanna try a black molly too :-)

Haha, take a few days to change them to brackish conditions then to full marine.

can the black mollies breed? any babies yet?

Yes, but they stopped when I changed the male sail fin because the previous one died -.-. Do mollies practice monogamy? Hahaha.

Lost most of my babies as I found out too late -.- and there used to be a puffer.

[ericmz]

start a colony bro, so no misses. anyway do you have to acclimatise them when first introduce?

[ytpmzy]

start a colony bro, so no misses. anyway do you have to acclimatise them when first introduce?

A colony ?

Acclimate them slowly , increasing salinity by 0,005 per day (Ideally , haha , mollies are very tolerant to salt so you can over do it like 0.01per day)

[ericmz]

great!

[ytpmzy]

Wee hehehehe . Had some time today to go get some stuff

Got some hermit crab o.o not electric blue , looks like Dwarf yellow tip hermit crabs.

Yellow colony polyp (Still not sure what is it haha ) [Polyps closed because I just shifted it in]

Green mandarin.

Boxer shrimp

[ytpmzy]

Polyps opened up haha ... Walked by and saw it .

Update on what I have still alive in my tank.

Clown Fishes x2

Banggai cardinal x 2

Fire fish x1

Chromis x4

Mollies x2

Bicolour Blenny x1

Boxer shrimp x1

Hermit crab x9

Green mandarin

Copepods uncountable (joke joke)

yellow polyp colony

p.s just giving a run down because i couldn't edit the old post to add the photo in >

[Daniel Poh Yang Zheng]

Nice.. What is the water specs for ur tank... I buy mine but it didn't open up..

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[ytpmzy]

Nice.. What is the water specs for ur tank... I buy mine but it didn't open up..

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Salinity 1.025

No3 5ppm

NH3/NH4+ <0.02ppm

dKH 10

Others never really test. Haha.

[ytpmzy]

Got a new hammer coral and goniopora coral hehe.

Found a crab within the rocks. Requesting for ID in the ID forum

Will take photo of the whole tank next time haha

[ytpmzy]

Huehuehue. Back with some updates

Lost both lps corals to brown jelly disease, didn't have iodine ...

Got a xenia coral and a feather duster worm today.

Hear are some photos. Last one of my mandarin showing off his dorsal fin.

[ytpmzy]

Getting too hot for me to reef. Need a chiller.

Got a refractometer and realized my salinity is above 1.030 ... Wondering if that got to do with the death of my corals or is it the heat.

Will post photos next time haha

[Daniel Poh Yang Zheng]

Haha that was the shock I got when I get a refractometer too....

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[Guest]

Bro update your nitrate again haha . Hammer won't die from heat or salinity de

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[ytpmzy]

Haha that was the shock I got when I get a refractometer too....

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IKR LOL

Bro update your nitrate again haha . Hammer won't die from heat or salinity de

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I matched my log to when the coral died ... Seem like the NO3 was at 25ppm when it starting to show signs of distress ... 25ppm NO3 too high?

[Guest]

That Did you observe algae growing at the hammer skeleton ? A lot of reason . To me my hammer die was cause of nitrate spike . And it was open fully when there's no chiller or fan.

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[ytpmzy]

There was brown jelly on it

[Guest]

There was brown jelly on it

Two common elements in all coral disease causes / factors are: stress from any environment factors, and/or water parameter changes. These environmental factors can include: stress/injury from opportunistic organisms such as nematodes or flatworms, and bites/nips from fish or invertebrates combined with the presence of certain types of bacteria and/or fungus. The most common elements of water parameters that can lead to coral diseases are higher than normal temperatures and higher than normal nutrients in the water (typically Nitrate levels 5 ppm or higher and Phosphate levels 0.5 ppm or higher). SPS (stony polyp corals) are more prone to coral diseases as compared to other corals due to fact that SPS are less tolerant to changes in water parameters and not very tolerant of less than ideal water parameters.

http://www.reefaquarium.com/2012/coral-diseases/

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[ytpmzy]

Two common elements in all coral disease causes / factors are: stress from any environment factors, and/or water parameter changes. These environmental factors can include: stress/injury from opportunistic organisms such as nematodes or flatworms, and bites/nips from fish or invertebrates combined with the presence of certain types of bacteria and/or fungus. The most common elements of water parameters that can lead to coral diseases are higher than normal temperatures and higher than normal nutrients in the water (typically Nitrate levels 5 ppm or higher and Phosphate levels 0.5 ppm or higher). SPS (stony polyp corals) are more prone to coral diseases as compared to other corals due to fact that SPS are less tolerant to changes in water parameters and not very tolerant of less than ideal water parameters.

http://www.reefaquarium.com/2012/coral-diseases/

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Thanks for the link

I suspect my huge hermits, they cling onto the coral a lot last time . Gave them away due to their huge size ...

Just to be sure, what is the max temp your hammer survived?

[Guest]

Thanks for the link

I suspect my huge hermits, they cling onto the coral a lot last time . Gave them away due to their huge size ...

Just to be sure, what is the max temp your hammer survived?

Don't learn from me HAHA. I've many tank. Max was 31 degree

But die cause is a extra tank and I didn't even wc after 3 month

Oh one of my hammer die cause clownfish keep disturb it and don't let it open fully

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