torombolo
Active Member
Hi Reefers, so I had been away from salt water for a few years, last tank was a 75 mix, anyways I bought/rescued this cyano madness 170 that will hopefully end as a mixed reef. Neglect falls short on what this tank had. Pic dont show had bad it was It has 5 fishes that you could hardly see. 3 black clowns & 2 chromis. Since I had a JBJ28 already running the plan was the major clean up and move everything to the 170, was not able to find homes for the clowns since I already had 2 in the 28 so chanced it and had something to split the tank in half in case of aggression but they all behaved like model citizens for 2 weeks.
Process: 1- scrub, clean and ran everything with vinegar for a while. 2- Bleached the cyano covered rocks and left to aerate for a week, I did rinse thoroughly and tested for chlorine multiple times.
3- dropped my MP40 dry side in the process and broke the outer casing to crap
Had a plumbing issue when setting up, the emergency down pipe went to the reef mat but the corrugated has a pinhole puncture and was leaking to much soI had to jerry rig with a pressure connection for now.
-I have a small air pump in the sum for aeration that runs a few hours a day with the apex until I get a power head for the display.
I did loose 1 of the black clowns not sure what happened since still no signs of aggression, woke up one day with an eye fully swollen breathing heavy and did not made it trough the day.
Parameters seem fine, Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 20 I know kinda high, calcium 580, PH 7.9 cant seem to raise it and have it steady, sg 1.028 lowering to 1.026 little by little.
No skimmer at this time nor the reef mat installed. Im leaning more for a skimmer since is what I know more than the reef mat (what u think?)
Any suggestions are welcomed!!!
Sorry for the long post and pics
Process: 1- scrub, clean and ran everything with vinegar for a while. 2- Bleached the cyano covered rocks and left to aerate for a week, I did rinse thoroughly and tested for chlorine multiple times.
3- dropped my MP40 dry side in the process and broke the outer casing to crap
Had a plumbing issue when setting up, the emergency down pipe went to the reef mat but the corrugated has a pinhole puncture and was leaking to much soI had to jerry rig with a pressure connection for now.
-I have a small air pump in the sum for aeration that runs a few hours a day with the apex until I get a power head for the display.
I did loose 1 of the black clowns not sure what happened since still no signs of aggression, woke up one day with an eye fully swollen breathing heavy and did not made it trough the day.
Parameters seem fine, Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 20 I know kinda high, calcium 580, PH 7.9 cant seem to raise it and have it steady, sg 1.028 lowering to 1.026 little by little.
No skimmer at this time nor the reef mat installed. Im leaning more for a skimmer since is what I know more than the reef mat (what u think?)
Any suggestions are welcomed!!!
Sorry for the long post and pics
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so tested with the redsea care alk kit and at 10ml 21 drops should be around 7.5 correct? Should I start dosing this alk suplement? Everything in the tank is happy, hammer is nice and plump, polyp has growth, fishes are fine without stress, nem is fine.
