Rebirth

[Alex Costa]

I did some changes / corrections to my sump.
Finally I turned on the second return pump that was stopped.
Now I have a Water Blaster 7000 sending water to the display / frag tank/ chiller / reactors, connected to the nobreak and a Water Blaster 5000, sending water to the display. This is connected to the Apex.
Thus the turn over more than doubled.
I also made some corrections to the plumbing.

I took the whole siporax to wash and I don't know if I will return it to the tank.

I removed the rocks that were in a compartment under the skimmer and brought to the sump where the return pump is, but these rocks must also come out.

I siphoned the bottom of the sump and removed a lot of "dust".

I took the zeolites out of the phosban reactors and put active carbon in one.

I must go back to using biopellets in one and GFO in the other to reduce my Nitrate / Phosphate ....

Tomorrow I'll fix some more things and when it's all right I'll take some updated photos of the fish room.

 

[Alex Costa]

The other one is a cirrhilabrus rubeus (red longfin wrasse)

Or.....................a rubriventralis..............
If tou know.....let me know....

 

[dragon99]

C. Rubeus seems to be correct

(PDF) Two new species in the spike-fin fairy-wrasse species complex (Teleostei: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from the Indian Ocean

PDF | The western and central Indian Ocean population of the fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis, is here split into three allopatric species: the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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That sounds like a lot of sump work. Not a lot of fun, but the sump always looks so much better when it's done.

 

[Alex Costa]

Well..........job done.

 

[Alex Costa]

In the left an Octopus Water Blaster 7000 and in the right an Octopus Water Blaster 5000

 

[Alex Costa]

C. Rubeus seems to be correct

I agree.....but I can only rely on color pattern.....

 

[Alex Costa]

My Carx before cleaning

And after

In the next cleaning I'll refill the second chamber.

 

[Alex Costa]

I clean my sump and removed all the rocks/siporax that I kept in.
I'll keep it cleaner now on.

 

[Wrangy]

Talk about a tidy fish room!! I wouldn't be that organised in my wildest dreams hahaha love the new additions too Alex!!

 

[Alex Costa]

Talk about a tidy fish room!! I wouldn't be that organised in my wildest dreams hahaha love the new additions too Alex!!

Dom,
I'm still seeing some things that are.....out of place......

 

[Alex Costa]

I photograph my fish a little because it is the most "irritating" type of photo to take in the reef, for the simple fact that they don't stop ...... lol
Last week I left laziness aside and decided to try to photograph all my fish in one session and, of course, I couldn't do it. But some cool pictures came out anyway.

This is my current clownfish couple, a pair of Black Ices from Ecoreef, a local fish breeder. The female ended up with more black than I imagined, which makes me wonder if she is not a Black Snowflake, instead of Black Ice. They have not yet "found themselves" in the tank and spend most of their time together, near the rear panel. I believe (and hope) that a year from now, when they are more mature, they will end up looking for a coral colony to do symbiosis.

 

[Alex Costa]

My female Naso has given the male more .....space.
As a result, the lires of the tail grew a lot and he gained weight and grew well in the last month.

 

[Alex Costa]

My Cooperband remains cool about the corals (knocking on wood)

 

[Alex Costa]

3 of the 4 big wrasses .... Yellow Coris was not feeling photogenic on the day .....
It is difficult to say which one I like the most, but Solorensis came in a not very good condition, small, without color, and watching it grow and get the current color is very exciting.
Leopard is one of my fish with the coolest personality. And one of the easiest fish to photograph .....

Solorensis

Melanurus

Bipartitus

 

[Alex Costa]

And the 4 small wrasses .....
Only the rubeus showed up on the day ..... the others opened but always in situations where I couldn't photograph.
The rubeus, the last to arrive, is one of the most beautiful colored fish I have ever seen.
In the photos, the red and the orange mix and lose part of the effect. Live he is more beautiful.
Luckily, the other 3 received him indifferently and he soon joined the group ...

Red longfin - C. rubeus

Lubocki

filamentosus

Carpenter

 

[Alex Costa]

The bangai female, who was left alone.
I ended up donating the male, who was in the frag tank, to a friend.
So I solved the problem of fights.

 

[Alex Costa]

A fish I photographed for the FIRST TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really like the pseudochromis group...... I currently have a sankei and a springeri ..... and the springeri, being black and being more shy, I had never been able to make a photo where it didn't become a blur. .... this time I did 3 and this is the "best" of them.

 

[Alex Costa]

The point that contrasts with the springeri in the tank: my smithii.
It is one of my favorite fish. Super active and with a very interesting personality.
It's really cool to see Meiacanthus hunting .... the gramistes has the same stance ...

 

[Alex Costa]

To finish the list, the gramma.
I bought this fish thinking it was a loreto and after it arrived I went to research the differences between the species and realized that it was a brasiliensis.

 

[Janci]

Hi Alex, some time ago you mentioned to maybe switch to Ecotech Marine Radion lighting. Did you do that in the end?