Jakes 29g

[JakeNova]

This is my experimental display. Its going through a cure all cycle right now because of the new wrasse addition. Its been very healthy and from the same system as my dartfish. The corals have all just gotten moved around and glued down except a couple of them so they are pretty irritated.

Equipment:
Aqueon 29g tank
Tidal 75
Ac110
Shark skimmer 300
Sicce preset 100w
2 AI nero 3
AI coral grow 21"
(RY85% B 70% CW 35%)
(peak 12:30- 6:30 daily)
(Ramp up 10:30-12:30)
(ramp down CW 6:30- 8:00)
(Ramp down 9:30-11:30)

Livestock:
Melanarus wrasse
Scissortail dartfish
Hi fin goby
Monster goby
Pistol shrimp
Pithos crab

Clean up crew:
Red tuxedo urchin
3 trochus
2 turbos
2 ceriths
1 nassarius
3-5 carribean ceriths
1 nerite
1 bumble bee

 

[JakeNova]

Ill try to list all of my corals from left to right, Im not sure about the names of them all and I might be wrong about some of them

• Waving hand anthelia
• euphilia (unknown)
• blueberry kenya tree
• zoanthid - maybe rasta
• zoanthid getting covered by coraline (Unknown)
• neon toadstool leather
• neon finger leather
• green finger leather
• Mini blasto mussa?
• neon green brain coral (unknown)
• deep red/pink brain coral (Unknown)
• Acid Rain Blastomussa (My favorite)
• Yellow/green red/brown mouth Favia (unknown) This one has huge sweeper tentacles
• Angel eye favia purchase from TSA (faced physical trauma but has been looky as fluffy as ever recently)
• Acan (Unknown)
• Green mouth black trim leptoseris
• orange mouth black trim leptoseris
• pink goniopora (best its done in months)
• neon kenya tree
• neon clove polyps (Need to be moved but their presence makes the kenya tree more erect )

I could be wrong about identifying some of these, I just collect things that are cool to me or might be struggling at the store, so I feel less guilt if they die. Most have not anyways

 

[JakeNova]

My live stock has gone without any signs or symptoms. I'm convinced the pistol shrimp ate any parasites. One of my first fish was a royale gramma and my rockscape was so bad with my fish it couldn't fit in and got severe ich. I tried kick ich but its temperament got the best of it. I never took the body out and just dosed a half dose of kick ich after and went on with life. Later on maybe 1 month I did a cure all treatment because I just felt paranoid but fish were all normal with no symptoms. I then added fish from a lfs with often sick fish, they had white stringy poop and did not do well at all. they disappeared in the night and ive never seen them. I'm not sure if my fish are just hardy or im lucky or what the deal is. I think time will tell. My precautionary cure all with this wrasse addition I think is the best thing because they are all handling it great.

 

[JakeNova]

parameters today
Salinity: 35ppt
PH: 8
Nitrate: 0-5 (api test kit not true 0 not 5)
Phosphates: 0.25
Calcium: 480
KH: 11

48 hours after dosing cure all. Im not sure how that effects things. I need to lower my phosphates. Once I complete my water change after another 48 hours ill run activated carbon and skim again. Last time i tested i had the same 0-5 nitrates and .07 phosphates. Out of all parameters phosphates swings the heaviest. I think i need a hanna nitrate checker too.

 

[JakeNova]

This is the first coral i have seen with so many feeders. I observed it a long time ago before it was in my possesion with tons of feeders but it was totally brown. I have kept an eye on it and since i got it, Its colored up alot. I wanted to buy this coral 4 months ago but i was afraid to kill it but now its my most proud coral. It was brown and full of algae when I got it. The same with my pink goniopora, it was already melting and looked terrible. So i picked it up. Lets see what the future holds

 

[JakeNova]

This is my experimental display. Its going through a cure all cycle right now because of the new wrasse addition. Its been very healthy and from the same system as my dartfish. The corals have all just gotten moved around and glued down except a couple of them so they are pretty irritated.

Equipment:
Aqueon 29g tank
Tidal 75
Ac110
Shark skimmer 300
Sicce preset 100w
2 AI nero 3
AI coral grow 21"
(RY85% B 70% CW 35%)
(peak 12:30- 6:30 daily)
(Ramp up 10:30-12:30)
(ramp down CW 6:30- 8:00)
(Ramp down 9:30-11:30)

Livestock:
Melanarus wrasse
Scissortail dartfish
Hi fin goby
Monster goby
Pistol shrimp
Pithos crab

Clean up crew:
Red tuxedo urchin
3 trochus
2 turbos
2 ceriths
1 nassarius
3-5 carribean ceriths
1 nerite
1 bumble bee

 

[JakeNova]

Experimentation.

 

[JakeNova]

have a huge algae bloom but I also see my 15 gallon tank automatically skims the surface so I need to move my skimmer into there. There's lots of film and my skimmer must have been doing minimal. Since I combined the tanks I've had diatone show up in the 15 gallon and an algae bloom in my 29 gallon. I did also take my skimmer down for maybe 3 or 4 days while plumbing the tanks together