FunnierThanUThink
Community Member
Hello everyone, I’m Fred and this is my 18 gallon Colbalt Aquatics C-Vue.
I have had many tanks over the years since I entered the hobby in 2004. Normally I would start a tank and end up giving up due to my failure, ignorance, and mostly neglect of my tanks.
With this tank I plan not to let failure be an option and plan to keep this tank going for 5 years. I am testing constantly with this tank to make sure I’m on top of things.
I have had three hiccups. First was dosing vodka with adding addition of bacteria. Ph dropped to 7 and killed two of my soft corals and my cleanup crew. I was able to save the other three, thankfully. Secondly was a die off of my macro algae in my refugium. Third is the introduction of nuisance algae from snails and a frag plug. Unfortunately I introduced bubble algae and red wire algae. I have manually removed all the bubble algae, but have had a few patches that showed up. Luckily I have been able to manually remove it all so far. The red wire algae still needs to be manually removed.
I chose this aquarium mostly because it fit the space I had available. I was considering a waterbox 20, but chose the c-vue due to price, availability, space constraints, and mostly because I dislike cube aquariums. This tank realistically is a 10 gallon with a sump on the back. I hope to upgrade to a 60-70 gallon system when I am done with this tank.
My future plans for this tank are to stabilize the parameters with automatic dosing and more corals.
Tank: Cobalt Aquatics C-Vue 18
Tank Birth: 07/21/2019
I have had many tanks over the years since I entered the hobby in 2004. Normally I would start a tank and end up giving up due to my failure, ignorance, and mostly neglect of my tanks.
With this tank I plan not to let failure be an option and plan to keep this tank going for 5 years. I am testing constantly with this tank to make sure I’m on top of things.
I have had three hiccups. First was dosing vodka with adding addition of bacteria. Ph dropped to 7 and killed two of my soft corals and my cleanup crew. I was able to save the other three, thankfully. Secondly was a die off of my macro algae in my refugium. Third is the introduction of nuisance algae from snails and a frag plug. Unfortunately I introduced bubble algae and red wire algae. I have manually removed all the bubble algae, but have had a few patches that showed up. Luckily I have been able to manually remove it all so far. The red wire algae still needs to be manually removed.
I chose this aquarium mostly because it fit the space I had available. I was considering a waterbox 20, but chose the c-vue due to price, availability, space constraints, and mostly because I dislike cube aquariums. This tank realistically is a 10 gallon with a sump on the back. I hope to upgrade to a 60-70 gallon system when I am done with this tank.
My future plans for this tank are to stabilize the parameters with automatic dosing and more corals.
Tank: Cobalt Aquatics C-Vue 18
Tank Birth: 07/21/2019
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