Rebirth

Alex Costa · Feb 26, 2020

After 2 days they both lost interest in each other and started to live well, without any sign of stress ....
The amount of food in the tank has increased considerably and I will, from now on, monitor the effect of this on the corals and the level of nutrients.
Here is a video of lituratus, the new owner of the house .......

Alex Costa · Feb 26, 2020

A little video from my gorgonian colony....a very slow grower.....

samnaz · Mar 8, 2020

Get in on this months potm! I know you have lots of goodies to choose from.

Alex Costa · Mar 8, 2020

samnaz said:
Get in on this months potm! I know you have lots of goodies to choose from.

I'll Sam !!!!

Alex Costa · Mar 12, 2020

After a few years I finally did the renovation on my RO DI that I intended.
I added another stage and replaced the wooden support with 3 metal supports.
The drilling of the supports did not coincide with the drilling of the cartridges........
The cartridges were purchased over the course of a few years .... but I thought drilling was standard.
In the end, I ended up having to redo the drilling.
I still need to make some adjustments, but overall it was fine.
The next step is to replace some of the filter elements.

It's this way:
- Sediment filter 5 microns
- Sediment filter 1 microns
- carbon block 5 microns
- 100GPD membrane
- Anionic resin 20" cartridge
- Anionic resin 20" cartridge
- Mixed resin 40/60 10" cartridge
- Mixed resin 40/60 10" cartridge

Wrangy · Mar 12, 2020

Oh wow that's a serious RO unit!!

Alex Costa · Mar 12, 2020

The tap water here is basically a ton of silicate with a pinch of H2O to moisturize it....:confused:

Wrangy · Mar 12, 2020

Alex Costa said:
The tap water here is basically a ton of silicate with a pinch of H2O to mosturize it....:confused:

That's a bit unfortunate!

Alex Costa · Mar 20, 2020

Hello.
It's me..................

Alex Costa · Mar 20, 2020

My Tyree pink lemonade, getting some color and some growth............finally!

Alex Costa · Mar 20, 2020

Efflo purple/blue

12/19

02/20

03/20

Alex Costa · Apr 20, 2020

My "mushs" at a good stage ....
My blue ricordea "melted" without apparent cause a few months ago .... and I left with the other little ricordea and my rodhactis .
I added another red/green rodhactis a few months ago and won a mush gold from a friend, which I placed next to the rock where the blue ones already were.

Alex Costa · Apr 20, 2020

My clams.
I still want to increase this collection with a maxima and another derasa, with a more "traditional" pattern.

Alex Costa · Apr 20, 2020

My lituratus

Alex Costa · Apr 20, 2020

My wrasses .....
Right now I keep these, which came in this order:

Yellow coris
Melanurus
Leopard (female bipartitus)
Lubock
Filamented
Carpenter
Solorensis

I recently bought a very beautiful Exquisite, but it lasted 3 days in the tank .... I think it came with some internal problem.

I also intend to add another exquisite, a tamarin and an eight line or a naoko ......
Currently this group of fish is my favorite, as they are extremely active in the tank

Some of them.....

Alex Costa · Apr 20, 2020

My Space Invader pectinia....growing in his own pace.....

Alex Costa · Apr 21, 2020

My gonis .....
growing really slowly ..... which is much better than languishing ..... rssrsrssrsr
I haven't been feeding them directly, but I have been feeding the tank with reef roids, rico food and phyto mix once a week.
I still intend to add a green one and form a trio.