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My tank hasn't seen much action lately, I have't been very good on the maintenance, but there is one thing I take pleasure in it: observing the balance between algae and mithrax crabs. I have two distinct areas with green hair algae, and a few areas now sparsely populated by with red bubble algae. The hair algae grows, then the crabs eat it and you see less of it, the reb bubble sometimes makes gains on a rock, a few weeks later thet are gone, the mithrax ate it. I'm going ...
Well, it's time to get back to my reef. Over the last two years, my tanks has neglected to say the least. I changed jobs, had a kid, and just life which caused my tank to go downhill slowly. During this time, I did perform the basics but not much more than that. To make matters even worse, I had a water change go bad which wiped out most of my fish and coral. So time has went by and I am know more determined than ever to get this piece of ocean back into shape. So I will recap some changes to my ...
I took a few pictures today to share. Acropora sp - one of the only acros to make it to the 215g The blue tort has nice new growth, but the main body doesn't look as nice as it should. I need to take a powerhead to it to see if any pests come off. Birdsnest coral - the valonia in there is tough to pull out. ...
Despite all efforts to deal with the hair algae I had in tank from previous owner i was fighting a losing battle so took the huge step of closing down the tank. The live rock is cleaned and in a container with a powerhead and heater and so is the sand, the coral and fish went to a fellow reefer. I have since stripped the red sea max down thoroughly cleaning the power heads and skimmer (not a nice job as was filthy and covered in scale - which meant the previous owner had ...
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