120g tank/stand/bar build

[Revskid]

Looks great!

 

[kbourque]

Went to the lfs get a few things yesterday.

Green milli and something else

Blue maxima

Not sure what this one is either

Green milli is bleaching out all water params are good I may have put it too high in the tank too fast may be lighting. Will it survive?
Sg 1.024
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Calcium 450
D/kh 2.9/8.1
Mg 1455

 

[kbourque]

Made an order with live aquaria no high end stuff but have 10 corals on the way!! Just wanna make sure I can get things growing first.

 

[kbourque]

Acclimated and in the tank

 

[kbourque]

Got a couple more fish today yellow tang, fire fish, and a flasher wrasse

 

[kbourque]

I noticed last night that my yellow tang may have black ick? Little brown looking spots all over. He has been bugging the cleaner shrimp to clean him the last couple days constantly. So I started taking the fish out last night while catching the clowns I seen my fire fish float by as I grabbed one of the clowns. Now I could of swore I seen him swimming moments ago. Grabbed him and it wasn't breathing [emoji17]. He has been eating very well all water params are still very good. I checked it for any trauma thought maybe he darted off and hit a rock or somthing, but nothing. Guessing I gave the little guy a heart attack or somthing. Very sad. But I caught everything but the wrasse and started treatment. Not sure if I should put the wrasse through copper from what I read they don't take well to it. Any suggestions?

 

[cginter]

If there isn't anything wrong with the wrasse let him be. Just make sure he/she is eating.

What are your params?

 

[kbourque]

Temp 80
Sg 1.024
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10
Alk 9
Cal 425
Mag 1400

Wrasse doesn't refuse a meal lol. I haven't seen the yellow tang eat yet, but I'm at work all day. I leave him a little piece of seaweed on a clip I change daily incase he decides to nibble. I will do a water change this weekend to keep the nitrates down.

 

[cginter]

Yeah to me the most important thing to look for when buying a fish is if it's eating or not. Buying a fish off the web you really don't have any idea how the fish was doing before it was shipped. I never bought a fish offline for that reason... Assuming those fish came from live aquaria.

How are the corals doing?

 

[kbourque]

I got the fish from lfs he was nipping at stuff on the bottom of the tank so I figured he'd be fine I know that some fish will not eat right away in a new tank he looks a little thicker today than he did yesterday so he may have ate. Tricolor totally bleached out so I stuck it under a rock didn't realize when I bought it it was a deep water coral my butternut is almost completely bleached that one bleached over a week but the green birds nest and the two orange stylo seem to be doing great softies are doing good as well. Yesterday I noticed my zoas are starting to peak out again they closed up and started to get skinny and long and the blastomussa is perfect and opens all the way. I need to get me some c channel today so I can raise my lights up more and give them another chance. They seem to burn corals even turned all the way down my only guess as to why the butternut bleached from the top down.

 

[kbourque]

Oh and I didn't treat with copper this am was prazipro how I got that confused is beyond me lol

 

[kbourque]

Couple pics

Purple blastomussa

Neon pineapple tree

Lemon tree

Purple plyp green birds nest and rose stylophora

North winds tri color completely bleached

Orange gutatus birds nest

Butternut stylophora bleaching

Zoa frags any thoughts?

 

[trahelyk]

following...

Also, I'm a relative noob myself, but it looks to me like your zoas are stretching for light.

This is a really spectacular build. You do great work.

 

[kbourque]

following...

Also, I'm a relative noob myself, but it looks to me like your zoas are stretching for light.

This is a really spectacular build. You do great work.

Thanks I was kinda thinking the same thing on them stretching for more light, and I've done searches and can't seem to find zoas that are doing the same thing to find out what to do to fix it.

 

[trahelyk]

Thanks I was kinda thinking the same thing on them stretching for more light, and I've done searches and can't seem to find zoas that are doing the same thing to find out what to do to fix it.

In my case, the zoas flattened back out and opened back up when I upgraded my lights. But I know you were thinking your lights might be bleaching out some of your SPS--although I'm not convinced that's the case. You might just need more light or a different spectrum for your zoas, and maybe the bleaching is down to something else.

 

[kbourque]

I'm slowly turning my lights up every week just turned them up a little today since its been a week since I put them in the tank. It could be something else doing it the hard part is figuring it out cus I have other corals at the same level not bleaching at least not yet.

 

[kbourque]

Finally stopped by lowes and started making my brackets for the lights.

 

[butts182]

Let the tank mature longer before adding too many more acros. You might have better luck later on

 

[kbourque]

This might just work for me can't see the green and red from the LEDs on the sand anymore. Yeah I'm not trying anymore stony corals for now.

 

[kbourque]

Yellow tang ate a little today finally zoas are opening back up. Will prob dose the qt with another round of prazi pro after the water change this weekend prazipro then after that prob 4 weeks of copper I need to pick up a copper test kit this weekend.