Day in and day out, I watch the anemones open up wide and close down into a ball that resembles rolled up socks. They seem to be happy, and the clownfish swim through all of them, except for the new Sebae anemone. That particular anemone has been crawling around looking for a nice sunny spot, but wasn't successful. The bubble tip anemones dominate the rockwork and shade it far too much. I watched it closely to see how things were going to develop, but finally decided the best choice ...
I've been wanting to blog for a while now, but boy... is being a father of 3 like a hurricane, or what? Kids are great but they sure do drain a lot of energy from me & mrs. I took these FTS pictures on May 15th to show how the reef looked as it approaches 5 years of age, with little changes in the overall setup. Little did I know that shortly after it I would have a "vodka party" in the tank, with a few casualties: Right side: ...
so it been a roller coaster of a year, took down my 150 transferred all coral to a 105g rimless tank. tank crashed lost coral(jan) then battled bryopsis and won then hair algae almost won. A kitchen remodel claimed the 105(didn't want to move it so I sold it), didn't want to move it so I decided to just get a nano till I finish up school. So here I am. I purchased the nuvo used, as I didn't wanted to put money into different areas of the build. So equipment wise I traded for things I needed ...
Just to clarify heres the directions on the container, Six drops of Phosphate Control will lower your phosphate by 1 ppm (mg/L) for every 10 gallons (37.9 liters) of water. Does that mean 1.0 ppm or .01ppm? My phos is testing at .04 on Hanna and I was going to dose 72 drops. My tank volume minus rocks and sand is 120 gallons, so 6 drops X 12 = 72 drops to drop my phos by .01?
On 6/10, the tank turned seven months old. Which means fresh pictures, right? I've been doing some necessary maintenance to clean up the system because I prefer it that way, but also because Gary Parr is coming to visit and asked specifically to photograph my reef. All the Vortechs are clean, the viewing panels are spotless, the overflow scraped down to the glossy black acrylic once more. The reef is ready. I see blue polyps in this montipora, and some interesting rootlike veins. ...
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