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Pyramids are tricky to keep, I have found. They can get what I'll call a 'skin condition' of translucent patches, and some scale flaking off. I wish you the nest with your remaining two. You have a nicely colored collection of fish :)
 
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Pyramids are tricky to keep, I have found. They can get what I'll call a 'skin condition' of translucent patches, and some scale flaking off. I wish you the nest with your remaining two. You have a nicely colored collection of fish :)
Thank you. I didn't notice the translucent patches or scales flaking off. They all have lympocytes on them though.
 
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My new Tsunami lid from clearview arrived today. Looks alot better that my jumpguard self built lid.

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Hi there. Very nice looking tank. I also plan to someday move to a larger tank. My nano doesn’t allow as many fish options as I’d like. I feel that fish supplements the beauty of the corals and it makes it look more natural.
 
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Hi there. Very nice looking tank. I also plan to someday move to a larger tank. My nano doesn’t allow as many fish options as I’d like. I feel that fish supplements the beauty of the corals and it makes it look more natural.
I would agree. I have a 37gallon upstairs and it is really limiting on fish selection. Clown pair, yellow watchman/pistol shrimp, lawnmower blenny, and a pair of skunk cleaner shrimp.
 
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Just did a water change and a little more sand rinsing. Cyano was greatly reduced from previous week. Put some corals in their "forever" homes. My yellow coris wrasse passed today. He was not to healthy when I recieved him (eye injury). Long story short he stopped eating and got super skinny. Will be getting more wrasses in the future. Took some night photos with heavy blues.
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It was nice reading through your posts. Good job and thanks for documenting your struggles.
 
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WC friday. No issues to report. I believe I have my dose dialed in at 23ml a day for ESV b-ionic. Next week might add qt snails at 45days. Might wait a full 72.
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Decided not to add the snails yet. Usual WC. Added 1/8cup of gfo to my carbon dropped my PO4 from 0.14 to 0.04ppm. Also cleaned my test cuvette with vinegar so not sure which caused the change. Moved a few corals around.
Todays Water Test
Salinty 1.025
Alk 7.9dkh
Calc 430ppm
PO4 0.04ppm
Nitrate 13.7ppm
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Nothing too crazy to report. Weekly wc and normal upkeep. Parameters are looking good. Having some trouble with my small acan colony. Moved a few corals around.
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Again not much new to report. Rainbow incenerator zoa was closed up for a week so I moved it to a different tank to see if it will recover. I adjusted my pump positions to tweak my flow a bit and did my normal waterchange. Used my bucket vac to clean the sump.
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Looks like tank is making progress. Our tanks are same age. Filled my 900XXL last November. Do you clean all coralline algae off? I have quite a bit on my back glass but I prefer to just let it go.
 
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Looks like tank is making progress. Our tanks are same age. Filled my 900XXL last November. Do you clean all coralline algae off? I have quite a bit on my back glass but I prefer to just let it go.
For the moment I scrape the back glass once a week. Once the corals start growing and it gets to difficult I will probably let it go. I've still got a good amount of coral to buy.
 

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