Fudsey's 135.4 Box of Water

[Fudsey]

Got some pics today

Clowns

Favia

Hammer

Torch

And of course, one of my Trachy

 

[Fudsey]

A few more of things I don't usually photograph...

Rainbow Monti??

Mushroom

Goniopora

Gorgonian

Frogspawn

And some cool looking Zoas

 

[Fudsey]

Also tested Nitrates today and they were basically back to 0. Dosed another 95ml of the NeoNitro and will test again tomorrow

 

[NY_Caveman]

Got some pics today

Clowns

Favia

Hammer

Torch

And of course, one of my Trachy

Nice images! You still only have two clowns right? Reflection?

 

[Fudsey]

Nice images! You still only have two clowns right? Reflection?

Ya just the reflection of them in the side glass

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Sorry, I've been away for a little while. The tank is looking wonderful and those clowns are cute. Oh yea, something about a trachy... ;Turtle

Got a question for you experts that may show up

Does or will coraline grow on sand? The Ocean's Direct has some fairly large pieces in it and is some places it has turned green, as seen a few pics above. It is not detritus or regular algae as it does not come off easily, like from new rock.

Could there be coraline starting up in these places??

I have the same thing going on with my ocean direct sand. The smaller particles are still as white as they were in the bag, the larger particles are green. The exact same color green as yours. I do have some of the dark burgundy coralline that was in my 35g growing on my branch rocks. Pretty sure the rocks down in the sump transferred it. It isn't starting green tho, it's already dark burgundy, and I may have seen a few spots of the bright orange growth edge I was seeing in the 35g.

I also have the same issue as you as not being able to get any nitrates to show up, and I have a phosphate problem from those two rocks that were in the 40b holding tank with no filtration but Chemipure in a HOB. I doubt my nitrate reduction is from anything anaerobic, but most likely from the chaeto fuge that's growing like crazy. I gave half away and I'm already back up to a basketball size in a few weeks. I can feed all the frozen, pellets and nori I want,(but don't) and all I'll see is a spike in PO4 and NO3 still bottomed out. I've got KNO3 I need to start dosing and GFO is already in a bag in the filter sock area.

 

[Fudsey]

@Robin Haselden Something has to be eating our NO3. I'm wondering if the sand has anaerobic bacteria in it. I see lots of bubbles in it around the glass. I dosed NeoNitro and within a few days the nitrates were gone again.

 

[Brew12]

Nice looking pictures!

Some times the best way to raise nitrates is to let the chaeto in your fuge grow in. Once it stars packing in the growth slows and NO3 gets a chance to climb.

 

[Fudsey]

No fuge here

 

[Brew12]

No fuge here

And no algae growing in the tank?

 

[Fudsey]

Not that I have seen except for coralline

 

[Brew12]

Not that I have seen except for coralline

Hmm... very odd that you can't keep nitrates up then.

You may just feed light for the number of corals you have. LPS and softies will both eat up nitrates efficiently.

 

[Fudsey]

Hmm... very odd that you can't keep nitrates up then.

You may just feed light for the number of corals you have. LPS and softies will both eat up nitrates efficiently.

I do have Xenia and I have heard they use it like crazy too.

 

[SPR1968]

Got some pics today

Clowns

Favia

Hammer

Torch

And of course, one of my Trachy

Great pictures of the clowns and corals. I had my head on one side for 10 minutes thinking are there 4 or is that a reflection! Lol.

 

[Fudsey]

Great pictures of the clowns and corals. I had my head on one side for 10 minutes thinking are there 4 or is that a reflection! Lol.

Thanks ! ! When I looked at the pic I was amazed at how clear the reflections really were

Today's parameters:

Sal - 1.0245
pH - 8.2
NO3 - 5 (after dosing 100ml NeoNitro yesterday)
PO4 - .040
dkH - 7.84
Ca - 420
Mg - 1480

Everything looks like it is where it should be although Mg is a little high.

 

[GoVols]

Fudsey,
Great shots!!!

Your spot on about Xenia.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

@Robin Haselden Something has to be eating our NO3. I'm wondering if the sand has anaerobic bacteria in it. I see lots of bubbles in it around the glass. I dosed NeoNitro and within a few days the nitrates were gone again.

You mean like this? (Dark spot = air pocket)

 

[GoVols]

You mean like this? (Dark spot = air pocket)

If it's bubbling up real slow, then your gassing off nitrates.
Deep sand beds used to look like that.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

If it's bubbling up real slow, then your gassing off nitrates.
Deep sand beds used to look like that.

That's probably what it is. It's not really that deep tho. 2" at its deepest. In some spots it's shallow enough for this to happen. Yes, that's an almost burried leopard wrasse.

 

[Fudsey]

You mean like this? (Dark spot = air pocket)

That's exactly how my sand looks and is about the same depth.