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Thanks man, yup its on self driven mode. I got 2 new fishes too. One flame angel and a small baby copperband butterfly.:)
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I also made my yearly fish food. I generally buy a lot of frozen and dry food and mix them. I also add different coral foods and vitamins in it. Then make small packets of it and freeze. Warning: feeding this twice a day to your tank can cause high nutrient flux in the system and you need to have a super efficient nutrient transport method.
Take a look at this yummy food..
Take a look at this yummy food..
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That looks scrumptious! :D :D How's the reef, brotha!?I also made my yearly fish food. I generally buy a lot of frozen and dry food and mix them. I also add different coral foods and vitamins in it. Then make small packets of it and freeze. Warning: feeding this twice a day to your tank can cause high nutrient flux in the system and you need to have a super efficient nutrient transport method.
Take a look at this yummy food..
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Thanks man,
Yeah that food drives my tank and keep everyone happy in the tank including my corals. I changed my job recently so was bit busy shifting offices and settling down in the new place. But I was on schedule with my weekly water changes and my AF dosing took care of the rest. I just love this automode of AF dosing and maintenance....but only issue is that the tank is drinking AF components like anything (120ml per day in a 55G system but that possibly due to my galore of growing sticks) :p
The tank is doing great and I can say my sticks are growing fast. With this speed I may need to find a bigger home for them very soon.
I will take a FTS and individual shots tomorrow and post them tomorrow evening...so stay tuned.
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Update time...
Finally took some picture. Not that good but you people can see how the system is doing.
Lets start with the FTS
I love the depth you have created. It looks like your tank almost wants to reach out and give you a hug. Corals look very nice too of course.
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Thank you, its a almost square tank so it creates that depth. My dream is to get a 500 G system with square peninsula type with less height so that I can see everything from top down view.
But my fishes give me hug every time I feed them. They eat from my hand directly.
I've tried Aquaforest several times with what I consider no luck - not knocking the product but I seem to have a brownish slime on the back of the tank and under the rim all the way around the tank and my power heads as well. It goes away when I stop using the AF products. I used products 1-2-3 and could not get to the point of the other coral foods, etc. No clue why.
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Sorry... ;Sorry
I took your post the wrong way and having mine withdrawn.
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Whats up? I am there and actually we are there. Somehow I stopped getting notice of my own thread. The brown thing comes with imbalaced nutrients not from components. I will need to know what goes in the tank and how you export nutrients.
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I don't know what happened here. But looks like you are bit offended by Freddie. Hope you find the forum more helpful and being local to me you can always get i touch with me.:)
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What did you say Freddie dear?:confused::D
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It was not good... ;Sorry
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Lol...no problem you said sorry.:)
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Long time no updates.... so update time today.
Few things happened in between. The tank is doing good. I have an interesting new fish.
Couple of weeks back one of my anthias suddenly showed red bacterial skin infection. I dont have an quarantine and by chance my Kanaplex and Furan 2 was out of date. So, I ordered them immediately and started treating the tank with melafix and primafix. I used these earlier too. After 72 hours I received the antibiotics. But interestingly by that time the red inflammation was almost gone but I still added kanaplex, Furan 2 and metroplex with Focus in the food for next 7 days. The guy is fit as a squirrel now and back in the gang. The tank is currently seeing a blast in coralline algae the whole bottom is purple now.
Current tank parameters:
Alk: 8.1 dkH
Ca:430pp
Mg- 1340ppm
NO3-3ppm
PO4- 0.02ppm
K-420
Few things happened in between. The tank is doing good. I have an interesting new fish.
Couple of weeks back one of my anthias suddenly showed red bacterial skin infection. I dont have an quarantine and by chance my Kanaplex and Furan 2 was out of date. So, I ordered them immediately and started treating the tank with melafix and primafix. I used these earlier too. After 72 hours I received the antibiotics. But interestingly by that time the red inflammation was almost gone but I still added kanaplex, Furan 2 and metroplex with Focus in the food for next 7 days. The guy is fit as a squirrel now and back in the gang. The tank is currently seeing a blast in coralline algae the whole bottom is purple now.
Current tank parameters:
Alk: 8.1 dkH
Ca:430pp
Mg- 1340ppm
NO3-3ppm
PO4- 0.02ppm
K-420
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