leigh
Active Member
Hey all,
Just wanted to give the general update...it's been up and running for a couple weeks now having been started with some live cc, a couple pieces of live rock from my reef and water from my reef. Never did measure any change in ammonia, nitrate or nitrite...I'm hoping that the use of all live items mostly from the reef eliminated (or minimized) the cycle. I've put 2 snails in it and 3 mushrooms (that are doing great) and a wee bit of caulerpa that is now a heck of a lot of caulerpa. I've harvested twice (once a week--my tang is THRILLED) so the tank is turning almost more into a caulerpa tank than anything. Ever since upping the lighting from the 6 watt eclipse light to the 13 watt pc retrofit I've had a bit of a cyano issue...but i've cut back the light cycle now for a day and i have a feeling that after 2 days of it things will be much better (they're already a bit improved)...so I think the direction for the tank is going to be caulerpa, mushrooms, and snails. i'd still be psyched if i could find a couple sexy shrimp, or i'm still toying with the idea of neon gobies, but for now it's really nice to have a tank that requires no care other than periodic top offs and weekly water change/caulerpa harvesting. i literally spend 5 minutes on it a day, pretty sweet if you ask me
that, and i'm having a hard time minimizing temp fluctuations between the wacky 40's era ac/heating in the building at work and the excess heat put out by the lights so that has me a lil ancy about adding much livestock. So, that's the update...as always, any input is certainly appreciated. I'll get posting pictures of it one of these days (once the cyano is gone )
-leigh
Just wanted to give the general update...it's been up and running for a couple weeks now having been started with some live cc, a couple pieces of live rock from my reef and water from my reef. Never did measure any change in ammonia, nitrate or nitrite...I'm hoping that the use of all live items mostly from the reef eliminated (or minimized) the cycle. I've put 2 snails in it and 3 mushrooms (that are doing great) and a wee bit of caulerpa that is now a heck of a lot of caulerpa. I've harvested twice (once a week--my tang is THRILLED) so the tank is turning almost more into a caulerpa tank than anything. Ever since upping the lighting from the 6 watt eclipse light to the 13 watt pc retrofit I've had a bit of a cyano issue...but i've cut back the light cycle now for a day and i have a feeling that after 2 days of it things will be much better (they're already a bit improved)...so I think the direction for the tank is going to be caulerpa, mushrooms, and snails. i'd still be psyched if i could find a couple sexy shrimp, or i'm still toying with the idea of neon gobies, but for now it's really nice to have a tank that requires no care other than periodic top offs and weekly water change/caulerpa harvesting. i literally spend 5 minutes on it a day, pretty sweet if you ask me
that, and i'm having a hard time minimizing temp fluctuations between the wacky 40's era ac/heating in the building at work and the excess heat put out by the lights so that has me a lil ancy about adding much livestock. So, that's the update...as always, any input is certainly appreciated. I'll get posting pictures of it one of these days (once the cyano is gone )-leigh
