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I want to track the progression of my new tank here. It's in a pretty crude state at the moment and I'm hoping I can see some steady development by logging photos. I had a dirty nano with no skimmer which I loved and decided to upgrade to a red sea 250. I'd still describe myself as a new reefer and would appreciate advice. I left my rock (a mix of live and dead) to brew for a few months. At the moment the tank is in a fairly ugly stage since a couple weeks ago when a big melanarus wrasse died somewhere in the sand and I haven't been able to find him anywhere. Nitrates are at 2mg/L (is that 2ppm?). I'm doing a 20% water change now.
The tank looks greener than it really is because of the light (A Hong Kong brand, Zetlight's QMaven II, I really like it). It certainly has algae problems, but the algae does not seem to be growing/spreading and it has not moved from the areas it has colonised. Advice appreciated.
Coral is cheap here in Hong Kong so I have quite a bit. There's some cyphastrea here which I love. The bigger one is a favia, right...? My zoas look stunning under blues but are brown under whites. Would the high nitrates be affecting this?
In terms of livestock I have two clowns, a flasher wrasse, lawnmower blenny and a baby tomini tang (I'll give him away when he gets too big). I've got about 5 snails, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp who I've not seen since I added them but they ate the baby aiptasia I was noticing.
I have about 30 corals in the tank at the moment. Many of them about $5-$10.
I have an oversized Bubble Magus skimmer, a 'fuge with cheato and a load of biobrick stuff in the sump. There are a couple of small mangroves on top of the rock on the right side.
I need to remove some live rock in the display, or at least fashion it into a tower for the simple SPS I plan to keep.
Original post:
I want to track the progression of my new tank here. It's in a pretty crude state at the moment and I'm hoping I can see some steady development by logging photos. I had a dirty nano with no skimmer which I loved and decided to upgrade to a red sea 250. I'd still describe myself as a new reefer and would appreciate advice. I left my rock (a mix of live and dead) to brew for a few months. At the moment the tank is in a fairly ugly stage since a couple weeks ago when a big melanarus wrasse died somewhere in the sand and I haven't been able to find him anywhere. Nitrates are at 2mg/L (is that 2ppm?). I'm doing a 20% water change now.
The tank looks greener than it really is because of the light (A Hong Kong brand, Zetlight's QMaven II, I really like it). It certainly has algae problems, but the algae does not seem to be growing/spreading and it has not moved from the areas it has colonised. Advice appreciated.
Coral is cheap here in Hong Kong so I have quite a bit. There's some cyphastrea here which I love. The bigger one is a favia, right...? My zoas look stunning under blues but are brown under whites. Would the high nitrates be affecting this?
In terms of livestock I have two clowns, a flasher wrasse, lawnmower blenny and a baby tomini tang (I'll give him away when he gets too big). I've got about 5 snails, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp who I've not seen since I added them but they ate the baby aiptasia I was noticing.
I have about 30 corals in the tank at the moment. Many of them about $5-$10.
I have an oversized Bubble Magus skimmer, a 'fuge with cheato and a load of biobrick stuff in the sump. There are a couple of small mangroves on top of the rock on the right side.
I need to remove some live rock in the display, or at least fashion it into a tower for the simple SPS I plan to keep.
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