My 40 gallon cube reef tank

[RapidReefer]

Questions for yall !!

should i be conserned if my hermits are walking over my zoas ? they seem to really like them have seen any nip them but they just are walking all over them should i be concerned ?

 

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I NEED MORE LIVE ROCK !

 

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Okay sooooo tested my tank today I still have a small algae problem been doin more water changes and not sure why my phosphates are soooo high ! That’s probaly the cause of my algae
Sp.g 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 20
Nitrite 0
Ph 8.4
Calcium 500
Phosphate 0.25

 

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Any input on how to lower the phosphate

 

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Will help

 

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Some updated shots of the tank

 

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AFTER A year of my torch coral being nursed back to health from bleaching it’s finally starting to gain color back !!!!!!! Out side to in o can see color coming back !!! Yaaaay

 

[Seabiscuit]

You have the perfect level of nitrates for macroalgae. Do you have chaeto or any other macroalgae in your tank? They eat up some phosphates, but I do not know how much. I got macroalgae because I love plants. I don't have any fish that eat my plants, so they are doing really well. Nitrates and phosphates help microalgae to grow, so my plants help me with those nuisance algae. It looks as if you may have some sea lettuce already growing (in one of your tank shots).

 

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I had some growing in there a long time ago I can’t seem to keep it any more it just diteriates and falls apart

 

[Seabiscuit]

If you think you'd like macroalgae as much as I do, then you might try some red gracilaria in your tank. It's grows pretty well for me. There's pretty much always some on Ebay.

 

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If you think you'd like macroalgae as much as I do, then you might try some red gracilaria in your tank. It's grows pretty well for me. There's pretty much always some on Ebay.

I’ll have to check it out on pay day lol

 

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Gonna give it a shot again hopefully it’ll grow

 

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Well my light controller for my kessile just fell into the tank !!! Now it’s in rice ugh .....
Light are on and off now straight to 60 -70 % intensity !!! I hope this doesn’t shock the corals since there more used to the sunrise sun set setting

 

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Some photos of the tank I think they’ll adjust to the on off routine until I buy a new controller
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Here some photos

 

[NY_Caveman]

Questions for yall !!

should i be conserned if my hermits are walking over my zoas ? they seem to really like them have seen any nip them but they just are walking all over them should i be concerned ?

My hermits scavenge over everything. The only thing they hurt are the snails, RIP. I once caught a Caulastrea eating a hermit that thought he could simply walk up and steal food bits out of its mouth. Tough lesson learned.

 

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And then there were 3

 

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Just added some gfo from Koehler labs .....

Hopefully it’ll Lower my phosphates a little I am also gonna run some carbon through my tank to just clear up some discoloring in the water in hopes to fix my algae issue

 

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So I decided to run polishing pads and the carbon and gfo in a external canister filter hopefully that’ll help a little with not only more water volume but more filtration I will be adding bio media to it and more filter Pads for mechanical filtration

 

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Let’s kick this hair algae

 

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My anemone has split over and over again I now have 6 Nems