Mi-Mini-Me

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Yo!

Currently fighting with new tank syndrome.....diatoms/brown algae

Put in a dozen of snails and employed 2 algae blennies to help.

Next week, will try the "vibrant" product.

 

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Meanwhile, new toy came 

Tunze doc skimmer 9012 DC.

Solidly built.

Working hard immediately.

 

 

 

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And earlier put in my upgraded MP40 for more water movement.

[swimswimteo]

How much is the tunze skimmer???

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42 minutes ago, swimswimteo said:

How much is the tunze skimmer???

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Pmed you.

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Lots of goo.....

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Yo! Am glad that brown algae/diatoms getting lesser now...

Hands itchy, so I did a rescape 

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Newly added blackbar hogfish juvenile.

[Harlequinmania]

How's the performance of the tunze skimmer you feel?

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23 minutes ago, he said:

How's the performance of the tunze skimmer you feel?

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So far so good, bro.

Pros:

• Square shape fits in my IOS corner nicely.
• Skimmed out lots of nutrients daily.
• DC pump, so I can just press a button to stop it for 10 mins, while I take the cup for cleaning.
• DC pump, so I can tune the skimming power easily.
• Quiet too.
• Surface skimming; those layer of dirt or oil on the water.
• Skimmer cup easy to clean, since it is not big 

Cons:

• Sometimes, if cup not fit properly, micro bubbles might escape out from the side.

 

So far, I like it much.

 

[Mahesh]

Hi bro..which snail did u put for brown algae/ diatom? My tank have now, need to introduce cleaning crew..

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13 hours ago, Mahesh said:

Hi bro..which snail did u put for brown algae/ diatom? My tank have now, need to introduce cleaning crew..

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Yo!

I got a mixture of snails including turbo; nassarius, cornutus, caught a few by the beach too.

But I think, snails are too slow, they only help abit.

Algae blenny helps a lot on the rocks.

Diatom/brown algae will pass once your system stabilized and hopefully don't come back 

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I read reviews that snails r slow..blenny is quite good in eating algae though it looks not nice!!

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Year end updates:-

• Some brown algae came back; could be due to overfeeding.
• Blackbar hogfish behaves like a pig .... keeps asking for food.
• Can't resists a mini goldflake angelfish; so bought it; though I would still like to keep some zoas and lps 
• Added in a couple of xenia frags.

 

[Harlequinmania]

Smaller Angel fish usually will ignore zoas or just nips at it. But you can try lol..

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Updates on 05-Jan-2017....

Bought a mini kole tang with torn fins .... they healed up quite fast and nicely; hope it won't get too aggressive in the future.
Timid fish from the start; now it swims around asking for food.

Here is supper time pics!

 

Cheers TGIF!!

[kenyee]

Nice n cute kole tang..mine is pecking ard everywhere non-stop..haha..can control algae growth yea  

Btw bro, can share more pics of ur ios compartment? Need some ideas from u..heez

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On 1/8/2017 at 0:41 AM, kenyee said:

Nice n cute kole tang..mine is pecking ard everywhere non-stop..haha..can control algae growth yea  

Btw bro, can share more pics of ur ios compartment? Need some ideas from u..heez

Sure, will try to take pics tonight; but abit dark down there .... 

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Here is my IOS side; simple 2 compartments IOS.

1 side for chiller coil, rocks, marine pure.

1 side for return pump and my skimmer; some marine pure balls mix with continuum media.

 

Added another mini goldflake angel to friend friend my current one 

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By the way, my two long term residence flame hawks decided to jump out yesterday early morning ... 

I suspect while they were playing catching.

RIP.

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IOS 2nd compartment got the Tunze ATO too.

[kenyee]

Rip to ur 2 flame hawks yea..

 

Thks alot for the pics n explanation..

Bro, may I ask why u choose 2 compartments over more compartments like usual 3 in ur IOS? Issit becoz of ur cooling coil?

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15 hours ago, kenyee said:

Rip to ur 2 flame hawks yea..

 

Thks alot for the pics n explanation..

Bro, may I ask why u choose 2 compartments over more compartments like usual 3 in ur IOS? Issit becoz of ur cooling coil?

My tank width only about 2 feet plus a bit; so not much space for more compartment.
Also, I prefer bigger compartment than smaller one; and I want to keep things as simple as possible.

My chiller coil takes up half of the one compartment only; it is a smaller coil; but it works the same;
Water temperature currently maintained at about 25 degrees.

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Forgot about these guys; since they are often stationary on the sand floor.

Randall gobies:-

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Weekend shopping....

Got myself the Dracula goby, and a pair of shrimps goby which turn my sand upside down, topsy turvy!!

A couple of yumas....and my blackbar wrasse still looking good.