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tomato clown

tomato clown

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My 36gal. has been re-established now for almost a year and I just have that fear of taking a big loss again like I did once before. However as they say, when you fall off the horse...
Anyway I'm looking for some ideas here on easy beginner corals. I'm thinking some shrooms and pulsating zenia, but would like other ideas on easy corals.
I'm going to treat this as a nano tank with the setup I've got going now. I also don't plan on adding or removing any current livestock.
Here's what I'm working with...
36gal Bowfront
50lbs LR
2-3" CC live substrate
all basic water parm's are dead on with exception to a slightly high Salinity at 1.030sg (That's just Florida for ya though)
Livestock:
1 -Yellowtail Blue Damsel
2 -Green Chromis
1 -1.5in Queen Conch
3 -Snails (2 turbo, 1 Nass.)
An abundance of brittle stars, serpent stars, and very few Asterina stars
Running a Fluval 205 canister, homemade hang on refugium, nano skimmer, 1 Koralia 2 PH, 1 aquaclear 50 PH, 96watt T5 lighting and 1-2 hours of natural sunlight daily.
I believe my lighting schedule is totalled out at 9hours a day, but it could be a bit less. Easilly changed with the timer though.
Now I have been thinking about corals more lately because the coraline has been growing at a nice rate to the point I noticed a small spot on the rear wall starting up last week. In 4 months the LR went from white to assorted shades of Orange, red, purple, pink, etc... (I started testing for more than the basic parms..ha ha)
Anyway any other suggestions are appreciated and welcomed
 
metweezer

metweezer

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The way to lower your salinity is to test your change water before adding it to your tank. It is the easiest thing to do. You control the salinity by how much salt you add to your change water
I use a half cup of salt for every gallon of fresh RO/DI water. 5 gallons of water for a water change = 2 1/2 cups of salt. The way to bring it down is to use less salt per gallon of water. When you do topoffs always use freshwater, never saltwater. As water in your tank evaporates it is only the water evaporating. The salinity becomes stronger and has to be lowered by topping off with fresh water.
Mushrooms, green star polyps, xenia, zoas, kenya tree, rics.
 
tomato clown

tomato clown

Member
Originally Posted by metweezer
http:///forum/post/2731655
The way to lower your salinity is to test your change water before adding it to your tank. It is the easiest thing to do. You control the salinity by how much salt you add to your change water
I use a half cup of salt for every gallon of fresh RO/DI water. 5 gallons of water for a water change = 2 1/2 cups of salt. The way to bring it down is to use less salt per gallon of water. When you do topoffs always use freshwater, never saltwater. As water in your tank evaporates it is only the water evaporating. The salinity becomes stronger and has to be lowered by topping off with fresh water.
Mushrooms, green star polyps, xenia, zoas, kenya tree, rics.
I understand the salinity control you've pointed out, the only thing is I'm utilizing direct sunlight as a part of the lighting. So in retrospect the salinity issue is due to evaporation. The water I use for my TO is RO/DI. The reading I mentioned above is because last test I tested before the TO.
I appreciate the thought though

I'm going to look into some Zenia, Ric's and Zoo's. I'm not extremely keen on Kenya right now. Maybe it's the shape, I don't know..lol
 
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