Pics of 55 Gal
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Krish
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It's nice man...Are you planning on any new fish, corals etc in the future?Thanks for sharing the photos...We do love pics here
matts125
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Nice cabbage leathers!
Matt
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jc130b said:
Give us a clue as to what is goin on, and we'll go from there!
Great looking tank Dabears!!!
Okay here we go>> History Tank was started in Feb 2005 and cycled for about 8 weeks all water pararmeters were perfect!! Introduced all fish about 2 weeks later.
1- Coral angle
2- Neon gobies (one died in Oct 2005)
2- Clowns
1- Yellow wrasse
1- Yellow tang
I had a prizme skimmer and a canister filter (which I cleaned once a week) about August me nitrates started going to 80 with water changes I got nitrates down to 20. Late August I bought a used refuge and early Sept I added cheato and my nitrates went to 80 again. I removed the canister filter and prizem skimmer and added a seaclone skimmer. In Dec I vacuumed (blew off rocks) every inch of CC that I could get to without removing rocks and I did this for a week everyday with a 5-10 gal water change. I got my nitrates down to 20 and that is where they stayed. In the mean time I also started my canister filter back up with nitrate sponge in it. Late Dec I added
1- Kenya tree
2 different types- xania
1- purple mushroom
1- pylop
1-red seaweed to fuge.
2-cleaner shimp
misc snails and hermit crabs
To date I have all the live stock listed, I have about 4' DSB in fuge (lots of pods, use to have some brisstle worms but I don't see them anymore) and cheato. I have the canister filter running with nitrate sponge in it. I have charcol in fuge. I get very very little waste from skimmer.
Problem I have a little bit of red slim in fuge (for about 4 weeks now) and it is now starting to show up in main tank. My water parameters are all screwed up, and I vacuum CC about once a week with a 5 gallon water change. I use ro/di water and it has been tested and is good.
Water parameters are:
Saltily-1.025
Calcium-600+
Alkalinity-2.29
Phosphate-1.0
PH-7.4-7.8 (had a hard time reading stripe)
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-20-40 (varies)
I'm using Salifert test kits and Oceanic salt (which if I can make to a store today I'm going to buy IO salt). I feed about 5 times a week and they eat Mysis shrimp up in about 1.5 minutes. Once a week I give them brine shimp and formula 2 and seaweed selects ( I don't think I'm feeding to much the way they eat the food so fast, but I could be wrong).
Sorry so long any help would be appricated.
Thanks, Jayme
charlie said:Give us a clue as to what is goin on, and we'll go from there!
Okay here we go>> History Tank was started in Feb 2005 and cycled for about 8 weeks all water pararmeters were perfect!! Introduced all fish about 2 weeks later.
1- Coral angle
2- Neon gobies (one died in Oct 2005)
2- Clowns
1- Yellow wrasse
1- Yellow tang
I had a prizme skimmer and a canister filter (which I cleaned once a week) about August me nitrates started going to 80 with water changes I got nitrates down to 20. Late August I bought a used refuge and early Sept I added cheato and my nitrates went to 80 again. I removed the canister filter and prizem skimmer and added a seaclone skimmer. In Dec I vacuumed (blew off rocks) every inch of CC that I could get to without removing rocks and I did this for a week everyday with a 5-10 gal water change. I got my nitrates down to 20 and that is where they stayed. In the mean time I also started my canister filter back up with nitrate sponge in it. Late Dec I added
1- Kenya tree
2 different types- xania
1- purple mushroom
1- pylop
1-red seaweed to fuge.
2-cleaner shimp
misc snails and hermit crabs
To date I have all the live stock listed, I have about 4' DSB in fuge (lots of pods, use to have some brisstle worms but I don't see them anymore) and cheato. I have the canister filter running with nitrate sponge in it. I have charcol in fuge. I get very very little waste from skimmer.
Problem I have a little bit of red slim in fuge (for about 4 weeks now) and it is now starting to show up in main tank. My water parameters are all screwed up, and I vacuum CC about once a week with a 5 gallon water change. I use ro/di water and it has been tested and is good.
Water parameters are:
Saltily-1.025
Calcium-600+
Alkalinity-2.29
Phosphate-1.0
PH-7.4-7.8 (had a hard time reading stripe)
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-20-40 (varies)
I'm using Salifert test kits and Oceanic salt (which if I can make to a store today I'm going to buy IO salt). I feed about 5 times a week and they eat Mysis shrimp up in about 1.5 minutes. Once a week I give them brine shimp and formula 2 and seaweed selects ( I don't think I'm feeding to much the way they eat the food so fast, but I could be wrong).
Sorry so long any help would be appricated.
Thanks, Jayme
