Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

SashimiTurtle · Jan 20, 2018

WAY better outcome than the first time we tried SPS in the Deep Blue Sea. Got home from work and other than forgetting to plug the ATO back in last night,(oops, micro bubbles everywhere) everything looks great. No RTN in less than 24 hours. Everything actually has polyps out and looks very happy. More of the zoas even decided to come out to play too.

We did our weekly 5g water change and tested the tank and fresh mix alk. Tank is 8.5dKH and fresh mix is 8.6dKH. I'm going to keep a close eye on alk in the next few days to see if its dropping, and see if I can see a trend that we can dose too.

We are noticing even more algae growth in the display... come on refugium, do your job! Gonna pull back on feeding the fish until we get this algae situation under control.

Zack K · Jan 20, 2018

What does your CUC consist of by any chance? Seems a little shorted by the amount of algae in their.
-Zack

SashimiTurtle · Jan 20, 2018

Uh, think there's 2 turbo snails that survived the great stray voltage disaster... Florida ceriths, dwarf ceriths, as many asterinas as I've plucked out of the nano... that's about it for the rocks. Oh and Tim! Can't forget Tim. Nassarius and that conch for the sand... which is spottless. Might need to get some more turbos next time I'm at the LFS.

SashimiTurtle · Jan 20, 2018

Three turbos out of about 30 survived...

Yes, that fuzzy piece of algae next to the BTA is a snail. They can clean algae off of anything but their shell, lol.

SashimiTurtle · Jan 20, 2018

Look what came in the mail today. Super excited!!!

;Joyful

;Woot;Happy;Turtle

Zack K · Jan 20, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
Look what came in the mail today. Super excited!!! ;Joyful;Woot;Happy;Turtle

I’m jelous!
You_may_need some more CUC. Maybe a few hermits. Or a Lawnmower blenny if you wanted another fish. But they can be difficult to get to eat prepared foods. But it may just be Tank uglies. Your. Nutrients don’t look bad so I’m guessing uglies.
-Zack

SashimiTurtle · Jan 20, 2018

I'll pick up a few more turbos next time I'm at that LFS I went to Friday. Gotta go back and get that pygmy angel when it gets in. I don't want to add another algae blenny, because Tim doesn't eat anything I feed the tank.

Fence13 · Jan 21, 2018

Maybe cut back your feeding just a hair.

SashimiTurtle · Jan 21, 2018

Fence13 said:
Maybe cut back your feeding just a hair.

I'm going to until this chaeto kicks up. Also going to get a few more turbo snails to beat this algae down before it gets out of hand. I have a few in the nano but I'm not ready to tear it down just yet. The evil banded coral shrimp can be king of the sump, but I need a place for the urchin. If I ever see that Pom Pom-less crab I'll move him to the Deep Blue Sea. He's too small to bother anything.

Slicktop · Jan 21, 2018

Hi Turtle, I just ran across your thread... Small world i am in Lugoff too, been reefing a long time.

SashimiTurtle · Jan 21, 2018

Slicktop said:
Hi Turtle, I just ran across your thread... Small world i am in Lugoff too, been reefing a long time.

Hey, it most deffinatly is a small world. Lugoff isn't exactly huge... we'll have to meet up some time.

sfin52 · Jan 21, 2018

I took your lead robin and started increasing cuc. Dino wiped out most of cuc.

Zack K · Jan 21, 2018

sfin52 said:
I took your lead robin and started increasing cuc. Dino wiped out most of cuc.

I added to mine to. Your turn Robin...

-Zack

SashimiTurtle · Jan 21, 2018

Yea yea, coral before CUC... right? Need to recoup some reef tank funds then I'm going to order CUC... we want to set up the nano again too... I can split CUC between the two tanks. We might be addicted to tank builds, and I'm tired of it sitting there with the rock in a pile. Easy to manage this time, and the evil shrimp is gonna live in my fuge.

SashimiTurtle · Jan 21, 2018

So fuzzy... I love the SPS with PE for days. Need some Stylophora! My pretty blue stylo didn't make it... it never recovered after everything else RTNed overnight.

Oh, our Alk is at 8.4, down from 8.5 Friday night. New coral comes in Tuesday, after we get it settled in we are going to find a trend that we can dose to. I also picked up a 3rd Voss water bottle and ordered the stuff to make a dosing container out of it. We're going to use the Red Sea A B C foundation elements liquids. I didnt like the way the powders mixed up and the alk powder isn't as strong as the liquid you buy in the bottle and instead of a 1:1:1 ratio like the liquids, you have to dose a 1:3:1 ratio with the powders(don't quite understand that). All of that should be in this week so we can get a dosing schedule set up to maintain our elements. Once we get a steady dose set up, we are going to get the Red Sea trace elements and use them(and the fuge) to hopefully, go no water change.

SashimiTurtle · Jan 21, 2018

Maui hasn't eaten in just over a week, or really shown an interest in eating like he used to in about three weeks. Also, McLeod is missing... as well as the pink tail basslet, the gold assessor basslet and Sushi's mate along with the pistol shrimp. I'm not saying it's Maui, but things are starting to get awfully suspicious. I might have to set up a species tank for him... hey, him and the evil fish chasing shrimp can live together. I can't be losing fish like that, the gold assessor was expensive. WAY too expensive and rare to be a "feeder fish."