Roidan's Reef (I)

[Hon]

No need lah. You will automatic wake up tonight having a nightmare that your clam is coughing ..h.ah.a.

[roidan]

No need lah. You will automatic wake up tonight having a nightmare that your clam is coughing ..h.ah.a.

hehe..wah liew...

no lah..will sleep soundly lah...tired

[flubberina13]

No need lah. You will automatic wake up tonight having a nightmare that your clam is coughing ..h.ah.a.

[roidan]

now orp at 280plus...dropping...i hooked back my ozoniser already...at first thought against it .....like wat barra said....let the gamettes meet by switching off the skimmer...

i dun think i can afford to do that..in fact...i have to use ozone already to increase oxygenation and break down the long protein DNA strands of the gamettes to be picked up easier by the skimmers...

[flubberina13]

sigh...quite kiam chai mia hor...

[roidan]

sigh...quite kiam chai mia hor...   

yeah...dunno why woke up at 4am plus..watch a bit of soccer and noticed the tank went to the milkiest stage....orp level was about 270 plus...lowest liao....

now i wake up....tank clearing up fast....lots of milkish semi-solid wasted collected in both skimmers...went to clean them up....and orp noted at 299 now

the anthias are out swimming for morning breakfast as usual...no break of routine for them....i will test water parameters later to see if all is well...

[roidan]

picture of the same clam this morning......

heng did not pinch

[Maxima]

yeah man....if water not clear still...i will change some water liao....

jia lat man......dun tell me must go put alarm clock to wake up later

Rodian, is your clam tank 6ft? else you better do a water change of at least 20%. In a smaller closed system lss than 6ft or so, this event will cause a bigger spike in your Ammonia, Nitrite & Nitrate cycle. Result in another Algae boom.

Big tanks should not be an issue, couple with over-skimming..........but water changes is still preferred.

Max

[roidan]

Rodian, is your clam tank 6ft? else you better do a water change of at least 20%. In a smaller closed system lss than 6ft or so, this event will cause a bigger spike in your Ammonia, Nitrite & Nitrate cycle. Result in another Algae boom.  

Big tanks should not be an issue, couple with over-skimming..........but water changes is still preferred.

Max

bro..my clam tank is plumbed together with my 6ft...both my clam tank and 6ft tank draw water from the same sump..in a way it's like a 8foot system already ....

will listen to your advice.....the first thing i remembered was how you told me water quality drops very fast when clam spawn...that's why i did not switch off the skimmer as bro barracuda suggested....

I think my whole system is about just a little around 200 gallons since its a 6x2x2 main tank and a 2x2x1 clam tank....

the aquaC ev240 rated up to 300 gallons and the H&S 150-F2001 rated up to 200odd gallons

together i have a skimming addup of 500 gallons...although we must reduce manufacturers claimed capacity..i think can just make it....

but i will test water for all parameters later....will post in here the results....

geeeee...bluddy h#ll.....make me so damn worried my fishes will not be out swimming and will be floating instead...

[Maxima]

REMINDER ->>DON'T MOVE YOUR CLAM AROUND AFTER THEY SPAWN.......THE WILL DIED EASILY

MAX

[roidan]

REMINDER ->>DON'T MOVE YOUR CLAM AROUND AFTER THEY SPAWN.......THE WILL DIED EASILY

MAX

ok bro...roger that.....

you are the man....really heng that day when i was at your place you told me about clam spawning in the clam pond....

actually wanted to call you last night..but as you can see from the time, not very convenient lah..dun wanna disturb you...

so i just told myself wait for morning when help (you) arrives with the calvary (advice)

[nutx]

Glad that everythign are well now......you can spare some time to go buy TOTO for today already....Clams spawn=> Heng mah....and also your new skimmer are just in-time for this event.

nice shots of clams spawning.

[roidan]

bro nutz..yeah....

heng got the new skimmer to handle...

just tested the water....results as below...phew..not as disastrous as i thought...

ok...here's the aftermath water quality

Sera Ammonia....din buy salifert one last time as i thought normally will not test for ammonia after cycling stage, so did not buy a high quality kit

[roidan]

Nitrite test...*phew, wipe perspiration off my head*

[roidan]

Nitrate.....

[roidan]

today i inspect every single corner of my tank and found the zoos not opened...guess wat? infested with the berghia nudibranch

jia lat...heng those are normal zoos

[roidan]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-01/ac/feature/index.htm

[spicyball]

Hey roidan, is there any fishes or inverts that would deciminate these nudis???....they caused alot of my zoos colonies to not open at all.

[roidan]

Hey roidan, is there any fishes or inverts that would deciminate these nudis???....they caused alot of my zoos colonies to not open at all.

i dun think so....

dun tell me have to buy zoos to feed them

[jc85]

i dun think so....

dun tell me have to buy zoos to feed them

I only know they feed on Aiptasia anemones but din know they like zoos also. Time for me to check my tank cause I saw a few of them previously.

[roidan]

dunno what anthias is this...but quite red...like it alot

[roidan]

[planetg]

correct me if i'm wrong.

that shd be a male lyretail.

[roidan]

[roidan]

correct me if i'm wrong.

that shd be a male lyretail.

thanks bro for it ID