I'm happy to report the new 400g is under construction at last. One piece of glass was taking forever to come in, but arrived September 29th and the guys at Marineland sent over a couple of pictures for me to share. You are looking at the tank from the end that faces the kitchen. The external overflow that will hang behind the black acrylic panel with the teeth. ...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010. So it has been sometime since I last updated my thread due to work and other non reef related things but the aquarium has been filled with saltwater for about 2 1/2 months with no lights at all. The cycling process has come and gone and I finally got tired of looking at this void tank of water in my living. However, due to cost I am not able to entirely setup my Custom LED Lighting System. So I am not worried about lighting that are able to sustain SPS ...
I just recently aquired a seagrass filefish. He is pretty cool. But I did get him for one reason. I have a plague of aptasia in my tank that just has to go.. cant take it anymore. Was going to get maybe a burgia nudibranch, but went with the Monacanthidae instead. He seems to be doing pretty good but doesnt seem to be going after the aptasia. I'm sure that it's probly normal that you will get one that doesnt eat aptasia, just like you'll get some that are not reef safe... But perhaps its because ...
So with all that has been going on, I've been a tad lax on measuring all the water parameters in my system. I'll check this or that (alkalinity, temperature, salinity), but not everything... over time, I've been losing some SPS while others seem bulletproof. My numbers aren't horrible, but nitrate has skyrocketed somehow. I'll be doing a couple of big water changes over the next two weeks. Alkalinity has had some huge swings over the past 60 days, which is why I thought the SPS were reacting ...
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