Wieloch’s nano peninsula build

[Wieloch89]

Some pics with the blues

 

[Wieloch89]

Did pretty good this weekend at the Pittsburgh Reef Aquarium Expo, I’ll be finding places for the new acquisitions soon.

 

[Wieloch89]

Just a couple of full tank shots with different lighting. Overall I’ve been extremely happy with progress so far since adding coral back in January/February.

I was starting to see a really unhappy red digi and some fading and almost translucent euphyllia so I figured I had some nutrient issues. I’m targeting a small bio load since I don’t plan to add filtration outside of filter floss, carbon, and nitrifying bacteria. Nitrates we’re only at 2ppm which is low and still around what I’ve been reading consistently, so phosphate had to be the issue. Embarrassingly enough I haven’t been monitoring for that and didn’t even have the test kit, so I went and bought and checker. To my surprise I was at .05, quite a bit higher than I expected.

I want to raise nitrates and phosphates might be ok at .05 but definitely not with nitrates so low. I started dosing NeoNitro a few days ago trying to raise my nitrates about .5ppm every 24-48 hours. To my surprise the first dose completely wiped out my phosphates and nitrates. The next dose put me back to the original 2ppm for nitrates and phosphates still holding at 0.

The euphyllia are starting to color back up and the red digi that was struggling is already showing signs of new growth and vibrant polyps again with full extension. I’m shooting for around 10ppm for nitrates and phosphates around .03-.04

 

[Wieloch89]

Oh! Also, I added a Tunze Turbelle and I couldn’t be happier with it. It’s a pretty unique power head that is extremely versatile. I bought it because I couldn’t find a Nero3 but doing it all over again, I would have bought this Turbelle as my preference anyway.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Looking great!!!