Tank Entry

Fts from today. Changed out my lights to 2 Orphek Atlantik units a while back. Super happy with them and the changes in the tank.

Hey guys,


I thought I would ask for a hand on my battles with cyano. First some background. I have had my 90 AGA tank for 4 years and recently restarted the tank in Feb 2013 due to Bryopsis.

Total water volume is around 130 gallons, basement sump, Octopus NWB 150, BRS reactor with carbon, TLF Phosban 550 with BRS biopellets. I dose 3 vials each of Prodbio Biodigest and Bioptim every 2 weeks. I have around 100 lbs of marco rock. As for sand I have Tropic Eden Reefflakes. ...

When you look at your tank, do you look closely enough to see what's newly grown in?

My birdsnest colony that died left me some twigs. This particular piece broke off weeks ago and has sat on the rock in this exact spot untouched. I've checked on it from time to time because it isn't in an exposed easy-to-spot area. And what I saw were little white tips which are the beginnings of future branches. Took this macro shot with a top down box today. This was shot under a 10,000K 400w ...

As I mentioned previously, I didn't want to treat my tank for cyano because it makes my skimmer overflow like crazy thereafter. I treated the tank on Saturday the 14th, and while the reef was simmering quietly I pulled out the protein skimmer and gave it a good cleaning.

Before I get into that, I have to share this picture. After treating the tank, all the algae that was on this dead coral was gone, and the skeleton was bone white. The cleaned up coral made it much easier to see ...

Don't worry, I won't be doing daily updates like this, I promise. (Frankly, I tend to worry if people will unsubscribe if they get too many notifications, so I try to keep my blogs interesting and share when I have something of value to discuss.)

As mentioned yesterday, the biopellet reactor's flow was minimal at best. Even after cleaning the top plate, the pellets weren't moving much at all. That meant that the jets at the base of the reactor were obstructed, so I took it ...