Waterbox 20 first reef build

[tinyfellows]

Good new when I was feeding today I saw my pistol shrimp maybe he had been not coming out if he just molted. Or maybe Toby and creed were having a lover’s quarrel

 

[tinyfellows]

Been struggling with getting my ph over 8 even after I installed a co2 scrubber. Not sure if it’s working properly because the media hasn’t change color at all. I adjusted my return nozzle to cut down in my surface agitation. I have a rfg nozzle before I had constant agitation and now I have it where the surface is only broken when the flow out of the nozzle is aimed up so I will monitor my ph over the next couple of days and see if that changes anything.

 

[Projects with Sam]

do you dose kalkwasser?

 

[tinyfellows]

No I don’t I’m just getting started in reefing and don’t want to overwhelm myself with a million things to master at once. I also have pretty limited space so I’m not sure how I could set it up in my current loft where the tank is

 

[Projects with Sam]

I use a 1Gallon empty vinegar bottle, a large-mouth funnel, and a bag of pickling lime from Menards. you can manually add it to raise Alkalinity and pH.
You may want to just do All For Reef as it seems to simplify a lot.

 

[tinyfellows]

I picked up two clownfish today so excited these are what got me into the aquarium hobby when I was a kid with hopes to one day to have a saltwater tank to have clowns. I also got a cleaner shrimp and another rfa I will get pictures of those tomorrow. I had forgotten I was running gfo and couldn’t figure out my my phosphate was almost bottoming out. So I took out the gfo and will continue to test daily to get an idea of what my tanks levels are doing naturally. I also set up my kamoer x1 for my all for reef. After dosing my high tech planted tank daily with macro and micros for a year I wanted to get a dosing pump quickly. I’m only dosing 1.5 ml of all for reef currently but couldn’t be happier with how things are going.

 

[tinyfellows]

Man these clowns are little piggy’s they will just eat and eat. I am feeding more than I normally would to try and get my nitrates up they are at 3 however it seems only my phosphates are going up they are .13. May need to put gfo back in to keep them in check and feed heavy to raise my nitrates. My acan is not liking the low nitrates as it’s not as puffy as it’s been in the past.

 

[AydenLincoln]

I picked up two clownfish today so excited these are what got me into the aquarium hobby when I was a kid with hopes to one day to have a saltwater tank to have clowns. I also got a cleaner shrimp and another rfa I will get pictures of those tomorrow. I had forgotten I was running gfo and couldn’t figure out my my phosphate was almost bottoming out. So I took out the gfo and will continue to test daily to get an idea of what my tanks levels are doing naturally. I also set up my kamoer x1 for my all for reef. After dosing my high tech planted tank daily with macro and micros for a year I wanted to get a dosing pump quickly. I’m only dosing 1.5 ml of all for reef currently but couldn’t be happier with how things are going.

What is the cute coral on the back glass?

 

[tinyfellows]

What is the cute coral on the back glass?

It’s a form of green star polyp I glued on

 

[tinyfellows]

Today when I was moving my mushroom around I noticed these on the underside of the frag. Are these tiny mushrooms. They are on the underside and receive zero light. If they are friend how can I get them into some light

 

[mojo8427]

Today when I was moving my mushroom around I noticed these on the underside of the frag. Are these tiny mushrooms. They are on the underside and receive zero light. If they are friend how can I get them into some light

My understanding is that when the shroom moves, it leaves a bit of tissue behind. Forming a baby; which should move into the light on its own.

 

[tinyfellows]

My understanding is that when the shroom moves, it leaves a bit of tissue behind. Forming a baby; which should move into the light on its own.

Oh that’s exciting so in theory they will get themselves out from under the big mushroom if I just leave them be?

 

[tinyfellows]

Here’s a fts with whites off and blues on for some night time psychedelic viewing

 

[tinyfellows]

Things are going good in the tank everything is happy and growing. Im seeing more spots of coralline algae popping up. I’m going to be out of town for over a week around the 4th of July so I’m trying to dial in my skimmer so it won’t overflow when I’m gone. I will probably just end up running it a couple hours a day. I also need to pick up an auto feeder and get they dialed in and mounted. But I won’t be adding anything or doing any big changes if I can help it.

 

[Projects with Sam]

I would just dial the skimmer all the way back and not try to collect anything. keep it running for the Ph.

 

[tinyfellows]

One of my turbo snails keeps knocking my bird nest over even though I super glued it down. Does anyone have any tips for getting a more solid attachment. I cut the frag plug down to the disc then put a glob of super glue in the bottom of the disk and hold it to the rock till it cures but obviously this isn’t working for me. Any tips would be greatly appreciated

 

[Projects with Sam]

epoxy!

 

[tinyfellows]

Haven’t posted much lately cause I’ve been keeping my hands out of the tank and just letting it do it’s thing cause I leave for a 10 day cross country road trip since it’s the holiday weekend anyone that would check on my tank for me has plans so it will be going solo the whole time. I just finished a 20% water change. I took out the filter floss as that would for sure clog up and flood my house. I picked up and auto feeder and got it set up and the fish have been eating when it dispenses so that good. I have my skimmer set high so it will just provide oxygenation and co2 scrubbing. I also got a Kasa camera to keep an eye on things. My biggest fear is my nutrients bottoming out and getting Dino’s so I’ve fed some extra reef roids to get it up a bit as my tank currently consumes .1 po4 a day. I need to retest after my water change and see if I need to raise it any more I’m looking to leave it at .18 to .2 just to be safe I’d rather tackle algae than Dino’s.

 

[tinyfellows]

Well I came home from my 10 day trip and all was well. Things are moving along nicely. The tanks coming up on 4 months. I still have the dark green algae in the rocks. There is anything to manually remove and scrubbing doesn’t remove it. Spots are getting replaced my coralline algae so that’s cool. I think I might add a orchid dotty back and a tail spot blenny this week if my lfs has them in. I’m probably also going to pick up a couple more frags

 

[Projects with Sam]

Awesome news about your tank stability when you were gone!
You may want to read up on Dottyback - they're not too reef safe - if you want a cleaner shrimp or emerald crab to be out and about. May harass your goby too.