paintballer768
Active Member
Life got hectic and the tank got really neglected. All of my corals are dead except my duncans (I think they are not receeding yet), and my fish, cleaner shrimp, and clam are still alive. Ive been battling ammonia/nitrite/nitrate throughout this whole process and have not been able to get a grip on the downward spiral of the tank. Ive had horrible algae (not normal hair algae, some weird grassy kind and classic cyano) to fight and it comes back daily. So what do I do now? Ive still got my large purple acan colony in the tank and the blue candy canes, which I thought were the only living corals left, but I noticed receeding so those have to go (source of ammonia).
What now? I wanted to quit entirely for a few months, but my parents suggested draining the tank and rock, scrubbing it all down, and resetting it up downstairs (since the MH lights cook my room during the day). This sounds good to me, a nice chance to redo the tank and improve on what Ive learned.
Whats going to be different:
The intake on the left side of the AQ24 has been open all this time and I hardly notice suction. Using the blockers that came with it, Im going to seal half of it up and hopefully create some flow back in the chambers. The pump in the back is so weak too, Im putting my MJ900 on it (it might be a 1200, I forget).
I found my sixline wrasse a few months ago living in the back chambers, off of excess food. Im switching to pellets and really monitoring the mysis I put in. The loose parts like small heads and excess from the cubes dont get eaten at all and rot. Lovely
Hopefully this will happen this weekend, and I can start up my log again.
-Jeff
What now? I wanted to quit entirely for a few months, but my parents suggested draining the tank and rock, scrubbing it all down, and resetting it up downstairs (since the MH lights cook my room during the day). This sounds good to me, a nice chance to redo the tank and improve on what Ive learned.
Whats going to be different:
The intake on the left side of the AQ24 has been open all this time and I hardly notice suction. Using the blockers that came with it, Im going to seal half of it up and hopefully create some flow back in the chambers. The pump in the back is so weak too, Im putting my MJ900 on it (it might be a 1200, I forget).
I found my sixline wrasse a few months ago living in the back chambers, off of excess food. Im switching to pellets and really monitoring the mysis I put in. The loose parts like small heads and excess from the cubes dont get eaten at all and rot. Lovely
Hopefully this will happen this weekend, and I can start up my log again.
-Jeff