55 Gallon Newbie Journal Since Everyone Has One

oceanlover

oceanlover

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Rosco rocks! What a cute, cute puppy! The good thing about dogs is you don't haver to test them for ammonia, nitrates, etc! Give Rosco a belly scratch for me.
 
fish1031

fish1031

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Originally Posted by DarthSimon
This is my 55 reef...

I like the reef backround... Personal taste....

I do too. most people don't
 
rebelprettyboy

rebelprettyboy

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I just checked my parameters today and everything is okay my specfic gravity is high for some reason so ill work on getting that lowered over time
PH 8.4
Ammonia 0
Phosphate 0
Nitrates 0
Nitrites 0
Calcium 420
Carbonate Hardness 196.9 pm - 11dKH
Specfic Gravity 1.027
But I do have one question can someone tell me why I can not get any coraline algea? All the purple that was on my rocks seem to be going away and I do not know why...
 
rebelprettyboy

rebelprettyboy

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Here a few pics from today and this dang Cynop is looking naty im working on gettin it under control....
Over the tank shots of Brain Coral


Sun Coral Not Opened

Cleaner Shrimp

Elegance Coral



Yellow Polyps
 
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nemo_66

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your coralline might be going away because your tank is not old enough. for example, my tank is about 7-8months now, and i moved one of my rocks into by bro. tank which is about 2-3m. and some of the coraline is dying off.
looks great btw
 
rebelprettyboy

rebelprettyboy

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yeah I plan on getting rid of him. I need2call my lfs to see if i can get a trade in or some store credit for him this weeekend.
 
rebelprettyboy

rebelprettyboy

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YAY my sun coral opened up ral nice today when I fed it!! It was beautiful. I wasnt thinking, but I should have snapped a few pics
 
rebelprettyboy

rebelprettyboy

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I would like to feed them Cyclopeeze (IDK how to spell it) but i dont want to have to order it over the net
So everynow now and then I dose the tank wih phyto plankton.
And I feed mine some formula 1 pellets and omega pellats and flake pellets. I crush them up real small pieces and miz them all together. You can cal it my fake cyclopeeze.
and them I mix those pellets with some frozen mysis shrinmp i thawed and sometime oncce a month mix it with some brine shrimp.
You can also buy a lot of other food from the seafoood section at a grocery store just make sure its all raw. Squirt it in front of them and let them eat. and everything else in the tank gets fed and is happy.
I also heard Marine Snow is good for corals too idk
Silverisdes,, oysters. oyster eggs, shrimp etc
 
darthsimon

darthsimon

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Yep, Copperband ButterFly... I lucked out. He has been eating from Day 1, and never touches corals... Great fish.... He is also has a great personality... When myself or wife walk in front of tank, he comes right to the front to say hello... Then follows you around.. Loves to be the center of attention.
 
rebelprettyboy

rebelprettyboy

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Well every since i have had this diatom and cyno problem
the tank has loked a mess... So the last 2 dyas I have only ran the lights from 2-8. just 6 hours and it seems like all the algea is already going away off the sand.
The corals still seem to be very happy as well.
I havent had to do a water change yet or anything, but I willl get one on Saturday (water change day)
. After those go off I run the actinic lights which is only 30 watts for about 2-3 hours. Hopefully all the algea will be gone soon and I NEED TO GET A CLEAN UP CREW.
 
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