First time with salt, 90g
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Oh my, its been a while since I've updated this page. Things have been happening lol.
My Porcelain Crab molted and has its pincer claws back again. That freaked me out a bit when its old self hadn't moved in a few days. Only when I took a good look at it did I realise that it was just the molt. It has been hiding in the rocks since then, hardening up its new shell.
I met up with a local, garage based, reef business here in town. Fantastic guy, and amazing prices. Through him I've became the new owner or my first corals. If you are in the southern Ontario area, I highly recommend Joe's Piece of The Reef.
joespieceofthereef.squarespace.com
From Joe I have the following corals in the tank:
GSP about the size of bistro hamburger when it's all closed up. Its just starting to pop out its polyps these past few days.
Green Toadstool leather that is currently slowly moving from the frag plug to where it is deciding it wants to call home.
Zoa Blow Pops that are just filling out the frag plug nicely.
Golden Cloves that have nearly tripled their size in two weeks.
Red leather that have doubled in size. The plug that it is on has something else on it that I can't identify yet as it's about the size of a pea right now.
.... and a green leather nephthia or however it is spelled lol... that one is standing tall and branching out after more than doubling in size in the two weeks.
All the fish are doing well. The diamond gobi is still being a little **** and tossing the substrate willy nilly in the rocks. Lost one nassarius snail for unknown reasons.
I discovered a bristle starfish in the GSP the other day. Free hitchhiker.
There's a few bristle worms in there as well, but I'm still deciding if I should unalive them.
On a local buy and sell page, a fellow reefer was giving up after having her 40 aio crash badly. She have me a big bag of instant ocean salt, that she only had taken one scoop out of, and the rocks from her tank.
I'm going to nuke the crap out of the rocks at work. I don't want any trace of what wiped her tank out left on those rocks. My plan is to power wash them at work. There's some dried black algae on them. Once I have blown off the algae that I can see, they will go in the bleach bath for a few days. Once done, they will be cleaned again, then baked in the oven. Does this sound like a reasonable way to basically sterilise them?
My Porcelain Crab molted and has its pincer claws back again. That freaked me out a bit when its old self hadn't moved in a few days. Only when I took a good look at it did I realise that it was just the molt. It has been hiding in the rocks since then, hardening up its new shell.
I met up with a local, garage based, reef business here in town. Fantastic guy, and amazing prices. Through him I've became the new owner or my first corals. If you are in the southern Ontario area, I highly recommend Joe's Piece of The Reef.
Joe's Piece of the Reef
joespieceofthereef.squarespace.com
GSP about the size of bistro hamburger when it's all closed up. Its just starting to pop out its polyps these past few days.
Green Toadstool leather that is currently slowly moving from the frag plug to where it is deciding it wants to call home.
Zoa Blow Pops that are just filling out the frag plug nicely.
Golden Cloves that have nearly tripled their size in two weeks.
Red leather that have doubled in size. The plug that it is on has something else on it that I can't identify yet as it's about the size of a pea right now.
.... and a green leather nephthia or however it is spelled lol... that one is standing tall and branching out after more than doubling in size in the two weeks.
All the fish are doing well. The diamond gobi is still being a little **** and tossing the substrate willy nilly in the rocks. Lost one nassarius snail for unknown reasons.
I discovered a bristle starfish in the GSP the other day. Free hitchhiker.
There's a few bristle worms in there as well, but I'm still deciding if I should unalive them.
On a local buy and sell page, a fellow reefer was giving up after having her 40 aio crash badly. She have me a big bag of instant ocean salt, that she only had taken one scoop out of, and the rocks from her tank.
I'm going to nuke the crap out of the rocks at work. I don't want any trace of what wiped her tank out left on those rocks. My plan is to power wash them at work. There's some dried black algae on them. Once I have blown off the algae that I can see, they will go in the bleach bath for a few days. Once done, they will be cleaned again, then baked in the oven. Does this sound like a reasonable way to basically sterilise them?
exnisstech
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No need to bake the rocks and it can actually be dangerous. Bleach will sterilize them, no need for heat.
Bristle worms are great cuc crew members and are welcome in all of my tanks. I only start with live rock and they are usually some of the first critters that come out.
The goby is doing what sand sifting gobies do, make a mess lol. I stopped keeping them for that reason because I usually have coral on the bottom.
Bristle worms are great cuc crew members and are welcome in all of my tanks. I only start with live rock and they are usually some of the first critters that come out.
The goby is doing what sand sifting gobies do, make a mess lol. I stopped keeping them for that reason because I usually have coral on the bottom.
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Awesome tank! I know I struggled a ton when I first started, so if you need any help feel free to reach out!
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I’d also love to see an updated picture of the tank :)
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