Tank Story: 38 Gallon

marchingbandjs

marchingbandjs

Member
Day1: of actual start
Its been up for a couple weeks now and im letting the cycle finish.
Ammonium down, Nitrite on its way.
currently have:
RENA smart filter
Aqueon pro filter
Eheim Compact Power head(mixing)
some other power head
Took the heater out today as it was off and just taking up space. Tank at 76 right where i want it.
Went to LFS Just Fish.... Amazing... the owner knows her stuff and is so helpful. Although pricey, the quality and friendlyness make the extra money worth it.
Bought a Koralia 3 today. put in tank and wowwowowowo it moves this water. Might replace other powerheads with another one of those.
Decided ima switch to RO water instead of my well water. So i bought some Reef buffer, and going to buy some trace additives next time i go to store.
went to buy biozyme, but she turned me onto something different and better called TLC for SW aquariums. Same thing but liquid and supposidly better. We shall see.
with nitrites lowering i thought it would be time for first stages of cleanup crew. With the diatoms all over i thought hmmmm. she set me up with 10 Margarita snails and 2 mexican turbos. See how they hold out.
Well i will update when something interesting happens... till next time
JS
 
flower

flower

Well-Known Member

Unless you plan on keeping critters that like the cool water, like sea horses your tank is too cold. Most keep temps at 78 just to keep things slowed down enough to be able to fix an algae bloom or somerthing else going wrong.
Most saltwater critters prefer warmer temps...my hippo tang does best in 82-84 all my other critters are quite happy in those temps as well.
Koralia is te best. That's all I have in my tank.
 
meowzer

meowzer

Moderator
Good start...you may want to get some nassarius and cerith snails....They are better for cleaning sand...or sifting it..
 
marchingbandjs

marchingbandjs

Member
I want to get some more snails i just dont know what yet. But the snails keep falling off the glass or the LR. do i pick them up and stick them back on or what... Both Mexican turbos were on the sand this morning. This power head is really blowing holes in my sand. Anyone know of a good way to combat this problem.
Till next time, Thursday,
JS
 
marchingbandjs

marchingbandjs

Member
Hmmm.... Today was a special day.
Won 14 gold fish last night. Put them in a bowl and they were all dead this morning. anyways on my tank. The 2 Turbos died, dont know why. Maby nitrates. They are a lil high, and i need to do a water change, so i prepped and now we are 24 hours from water change.
Other snails are doing fine. Cant wait for lights and Protein skimmer on thursday ... a little upset because 14 bucks of my snails died... hmmmf... maby the water was too cold i dunno. ill figure it out.
Till next time,
JS
 
marchingbandjs

marchingbandjs

Member
SOOOOO.... Pics soon promise
Went to store again today... Dropped 603 bucks... Yikes... Heres the update
Coralife Lunar Aqualight
Coralife Super Skimmer 65 gal
Bubble Anemone
Mated pair of clown fish
10 hermit crab thingies
Coralife stuff was EXPENSIVE... but good. Light i got up and running in minutes, i love it and you can see the difference almost instantly. Protein skimmer was a different mess. Water everywhere, and i couldnt get it to work... But after a few calls to LFS i think i have it where it needs to be for next 72 hours. I will update on the skimmer in a few days.
After turbos died i decided i need more clean-up crew, so i picked up these hermit crab things... This way i don't have to flip. They are mowing through the algae like lawnmowers so im happy i bought.
Then a funny story with the fish. Walking around tanks my father fell in love with this pair of fish. When they were born the breeder didn't realize that they have only one eye. So they grew up and when they were realized to have only one eye, he couldn't get rid of them. So we got the mated pair for half price. They have a good eye on oposite sides. The funny thing is they came from different batches from different fish and they came togther.. Weird. But ya, then of course had to get anemone.
Ill get pictures up in a few days...
Till next time
J.S
Good news all snails are alive after turbos died, my guess was magnesium.
Tanks cycled, levels all 0... now for real bye
 
marchingbandjs

marchingbandjs

Member
Not the case anymore... Constantly under 20 mostly under 10... sometimes dosent register... so ya... i have it under control.. and he looks great
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top