ElevenEleven
Reefing newb
So here are some pics of my tank. It's a 40 gallon and has been running for 1 month and 11 days.
Currently in the tank I have
1 Firefish
1 Blue Cleaner Wrasse
1Royal Gramma
2 Chromis
1 Sally Lightfoot Crab
2 Large Hermit Crabs
1 Arrow Crab
3 Turbo Snails
1 Feather Duster
1 Chocolate chip Starfish
I no longer have the condylactus anemone as I took it back to the pet shop.
12-08-2010
1-09-2011
As you can see it went through some changes in a months time. Rock formation changes due to removing a damsel and later a purple pseudochromis, as well as sandscape changing due to large hermit crabs plowing it constantly.
I've been having a lot of cloudy water, and from accumulative research it seems that its been an ongoing bacterial bloom. I also noticed that my marine land filter has filter cartridges that don't really come with a lot of carbon in them. It's quite skimpy on carbon actually has anyone else noticed this about power filter cartridges. I decided to go with custom cartridges and added today a bio-chem zorb pad which removes odors and pollutants from water. Now not only 2 hours later the water is clearing up. I think I'm gonna go with some of the cascade filter pad in my marine-land filter instead of their signature cartridges they seem to not make good enough use of the actual filter and I have to change them out more.
I see a pink spot on my dead rock which looks like the beginning of the spread of corraline algae from my live rock, could this be?
Also, the fish I plan to add to the list of what I already have are a flame angel and a clown, any opinions?
Currently in the tank I have
1 Firefish
1 Blue Cleaner Wrasse
1Royal Gramma
2 Chromis
1 Sally Lightfoot Crab
2 Large Hermit Crabs
1 Arrow Crab
3 Turbo Snails
1 Feather Duster
1 Chocolate chip Starfish
I no longer have the condylactus anemone as I took it back to the pet shop.
12-08-2010
1-09-2011
As you can see it went through some changes in a months time. Rock formation changes due to removing a damsel and later a purple pseudochromis, as well as sandscape changing due to large hermit crabs plowing it constantly.
I've been having a lot of cloudy water, and from accumulative research it seems that its been an ongoing bacterial bloom. I also noticed that my marine land filter has filter cartridges that don't really come with a lot of carbon in them. It's quite skimpy on carbon actually has anyone else noticed this about power filter cartridges. I decided to go with custom cartridges and added today a bio-chem zorb pad which removes odors and pollutants from water. Now not only 2 hours later the water is clearing up. I think I'm gonna go with some of the cascade filter pad in my marine-land filter instead of their signature cartridges they seem to not make good enough use of the actual filter and I have to change them out more.
I see a pink spot on my dead rock which looks like the beginning of the spread of corraline algae from my live rock, could this be?
Also, the fish I plan to add to the list of what I already have are a flame angel and a clown, any opinions?