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God dammit royal gramma died. Just when I thought things were going better. No nitrate nitrite ammonia or phosphates, hardness is a little bit high but nothing crazy (13 drops), 440 calcium. All my corals are doing great, other fish seem fine. Tons of cyanobacteria everywhere, it's not bad for the tank is it?
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Have you considered the possibility of outside contamination somehow?
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I honestly don't really see how, I don't use cleaners or any chemicals around my room.
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SaNChEzZ posted:Yes, I currently have 2 AC70 carbon pouches in the sump, as well as one of those chemical absorbing polypads. I might remove one of those carbons and put one in the overflow box to ensure the water cycles through it. Wait, did the Xenia melt at the onset of all this? Xenia crash could bomb a tank like you've been describing.
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Henchman 21 posted:Wait, did the Xenia melt at the onset of all this? Xenia crash could bomb a tank like you've been describing. No, it's been about a month since the BTA destroyed it. It was only 2 stalks anyhow, the other 50 are totally enjoying whatever is going on. Just did another 15 gallon change.
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May 15, 2013 03:33
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I would like help identifying this little guy I found tonight. It is difficult to get a clean picture because the rock he hides in is a bit deep in my tank and a couple of my narcissus snails decided to pop out of the sand and were destined to photo bomb. I have no idea what that was about..haha. This little creature does not move from the little hole but he does pop out and sorta scope the scene. I noticed it when I caught something speedy move in a place that I thought was pretty quiet. I should also mention this thing is very tiny, around 1/8" to 1/4" stretched out.   
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May 15, 2013 04:03
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Some kind of peanut worm perhaps? Also, tested copper and phosphate, zilch on both. 
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May 15, 2013 05:13
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SaNChEzZ posted:Some kind of peanut worm perhaps? I'll agree to this. He doesn't look like anything harmful to me. Let him roll for now. There may be a lot of bad hitchikers you can get, but for the most part hitchikers are just really great detrivores and he looks like one.
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May 15, 2013 05:34
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Dono posted:I'll agree to this. He doesn't look like anything harmful to me. Let him roll for now. There may be a lot of bad hitchikers you can get, but for the most part hitchikers are just really great detrivores and he looks like one. Peanut worms are rad, I have a pretty big one that looks like a brown and black candy cane haha.
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May 15, 2013 07:13
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Thank you for the information. I can't believe how much thrill my tank provides me. I have a deep sand bed nano tank and have been slowly adding stuff since September. I haven't added anything for awhile so these discoveries are just downright fascinating. Cheers to letting this little creature "roll"  I'm ecstatic about that because I somehow just love him already.Sorry about your tank SaNChEzZ 
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May 15, 2013 13:19
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Warsteiner posted:Thank you for the information. I can't believe how much thrill my tank provides me. I have a deep sand bed nano tank and have been slowly adding stuff since September. I haven't added anything for awhile so these discoveries are just downright fascinating. It's just part of the hobby unfortunately Lets see some pics of your tank!  Still looking kinda lovely, a bit better with some of the corals, slimer is still browning. Going to do more changes tonight. Frozen Pizza Party fucked around with this message at 19:33 on May 15, 2013 |
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May 15, 2013 17:32
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You're using LED's too aren't you Sanchezz? Pretty much everyone here is basically right? I've got a Razor LED but I'm about to switch over to a Halide fixture I think. I'm just not getting the type of colors that I hoped I would. All parameters are on point and things are doing well and growing but I'm not happy with my colors. My red plating monti and some other pieces don't have the color I they should. I think I'm going to try an Aquamedic Halide/T5 combo.
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May 15, 2013 21:08
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I'm using AI Vega(s) (Color variant, not Blue, and with 2 royals replaced with violets as is standard with the upgrade kits) now and so far I couldn't be more pleased.  That's with all light channels on equally (roughly 48% during that first picture) and no adjustments of the image beyond imgur wrecking it during the upload process. I'm still not proud of the full tank shots on the main tank, it's suffered over the past year. I'll post some individual shots from that tank later, maybe today.
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May 15, 2013 21:19
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Welp, another clam is dead. That makes two.
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SaNChEzZ posted:Welp, another clam is dead. That makes two. That sucks man. Could anything have contaminated the water?
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visuvius posted:That sucks man. Could anything have contaminated the water? I have no freaking idea. I've tested everything that can be tested, as well as my RO. I've done 30 gallons of water changes, I've cleaned and inspected every piece of equipment, replaced the heater, cleaned overflows, dosed, not dosed, I'm going to change powerstrips next but I'm really strapped for ideas at this point. This all started after the return line came off and I replaced the fitting, but it's plastic and I cleaned it well. At this point I'm semi considering replacing the sand and stuff but I don't want another cycle. The thing that gets me is some things are fine and others aren't, see: clams, one sps and some of the softies.
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Yeah sorry man that poo poo must be really frustrating. If it were me I'd probably cut dosing and feeding and get a bare minimum of equipment going. If no improvement in a couple days maybe a massive water change, like 50% plus?
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Has anyone tried any of the Zeovit additives? The product I'm looking at is this in particular: http://www.marinedepot.com/Korallen_Zucht_ZEOvit_Pohls_Xtra_Coral_Additives_Supplements-Korallen_Zucht-VX5377-FIADSACS-vi.html Seems a little too good to be true but all reviews are positive across forums and whatnot.
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May 16, 2013 07:47
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The only thing I'm dosing right now is alk+calc, and only enough to keep it stable. I've got the return, heater, skimmer going. Cut the MP10 off yesterday. poo poo is frustratingggggggg! I'll do more WC tomorrow, LFS is closed wednesdays. Also, that zeovite stuff is probably an amino acid mix, you could probably blend up something similar at your local nutritional supplement store if you could find the ingredients  That being said, never used it, sorry!
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May 16, 2013 09:00
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Well it's been a few months, I got my 20high tank set up. I got a cleaner wrasse a month ago, and a flame angel saturday. While the angel was bag floating, the wrasse was checking him out but maybe an hour into it he hid. I let the angel out and figured the wrasse would grow up eventually. He never really did. He'd come out when food was around, and sometimes I'd see him swimming around but for the most part he hid once the angel was in there. I never saw the angel do a goddamn thing to him, but I got home last night to find a hermit dogpile on what was left of him. Cleaner wrasses shouldn't be scared of a little angel fish, to the point that he'd starve to death, should they? 
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May 16, 2013 14:18
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It's possible that the cleaner wrasse has been starving the entire time. They tend to die a month into purchase due to not getting "enough" food. These guys eat a LOT and are comparable to mandarins and such dragonets in terms of feeding need.
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He certainly didn't want for food. Mysis shrimp every day or two and I'd stop when he did. Once I got the angel I was putting in the spirulina/algae/brine shrimp combo we've all seen, and he was eating that up too.
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I will post some pictures of my tank. Prepare to be impressed  Nah, it is pretty minimal because I am adding stuff slowly. I can't post pictures immediately because my tank and I are recovering from mass genocide (in my head). I moved some GSP to a different rock. I found 2 new kinds of worms and some little copepods that were really attached to this piece of tile. I highly suspect I killed at least 10 copepods and a couple other little guys I couldn't really see. I really hated this piece of tile though. I was then adding water to my tank when my hand slipped and a rush of water disturbed the sand bed. The water is pretty clear now but after moving a couple small rocks, removing that stupid tile and the water rush, my corals are in half way retracted. or whatever that's called.
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Warsteiner posted:I will post some pictures of my tank. Prepare to be impressed Killed ten copepods 
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More likely amphipods. Pulling a single rock would probably kill hundreds (or magnitudes more) of copes.
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Warsteiner, I dig your enthusiasm. Selling my Kessil a150w if anyone is interested.
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Folks with LEDs - what percentage/ratio are you running your colors? What did you start at and what did you end up with? I am upgrading from a very old Luxeon system that only had 12 royal blue and 6 neutral white and had the old maximums at 100% and 50% respectively as it produced a decent balance of white and blue. The PAR was a little low the last couple months due to some fogged optics (super glue stupidity) and burned-out diodes, so that prompted an upgrade to a new Cree setup with 16 RB, 8 NW, 4 OCW and 6 UV. I am thinking of starting with 40, 20, 20, 20% on the new setup and am wondering what other people use long-term.
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Wandering Orange posted:Folks with LEDs - what percentage/ratio are you running your colors? What did you start at and what did you end up with? http://www.marinedepot.com/Maxspect_Razor_R420R_LED_Light_Fixture_36_Inch_LED_Light_Fixtures-Maxspect-0M1131-FILTFILDTS-vi.html That is the light I have and when I first got it, I had it turned up waaaaay too high for several weeks. I think it was running around 75% whites/100% blues and I lost a lot of color. The LED was bleaching poo poo out and so I dialed it way back. For the past several months I've been hitting a max of 55% whites/80% blues and I got most of the color I lost back. My colors are still not where I want them to be but I think that is more chemistry related in my case.
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Back in the hobby after a year off. Would a Tunze Nano Osmolatorbe appropriate for a 12x12x12 7.5 gallon cube? This would be for a nano reef with no sump.
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Vigilantly Vigorous posted:Back in the hobby after a year off. Would a Tunze Nano Osmolatorbe appropriate for a 12x12x12 7.5 gallon cube? This would be for a nano reef with no sump. I wouldn't bother with a skimmer for a tank that size. Just do regular water changes.
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Ordered some filter replacements from BRS only to find out that while I haven't received them yet, UPS "Delivered" them to my "Front Door" on Wednesday. Never had an issue before, ugh.
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Vigilantly Vigorous posted:Back in the hobby after a year off. Would a Tunze Nano Osmolatorbe appropriate for a 12x12x12 7.5 gallon cube? This would be for a nano reef with no sump. Yeah that would work. Salinity will fluctuate easily in a tank that small so that osmolator nano will help.
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 If you have a back chamber with a return pump on that cube then you could do this...
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Wandering Orange posted:Folks with LEDs - what percentage/ratio are you running your colors? What did you start at and what did you end up with? I started with a 48 led aquastyle kit, half NW and half RB. Since then its changed to 24 RB 12NW 9 430nm 6 405nm 5 OCW Still screwing around with levels, the OCWs are constantly 100% but other then that everything else is adjustable
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Tank is looking better today, got polyp extension on the angry SPS although not full, and everything else seems to be looking a bit happier. Going to continue the water changes and keep my fingers crossed.  RIP Clams 
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api call girl posted:Checked for polyclads or anything? Yeah, whatever happened with the chemistry or whatever killed them for sure. The other one is looking alright.
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Coming clean: I had (maybe still have, idk) a polyclad flatworm in my 20gal (one of those green ones with white polkadots). I've never had a clam in that tank. It ate a good number of snails including a chiton but it stayed well out of the light and I was only sure what I was looking at when I saw it eat the chiton. Haven't seen it in a good while. e: pretty much this dude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1lWaso4Bc
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api call girl posted:Coming clean: I had (maybe still have, idk) a polyclad flatworm in my 20gal (one of those green ones with white polkadots). I've never had a clam in that tank. It ate a good number of snails including a chiton but it stayed well out of the light and I was only sure what I was looking at when I saw it eat the chiton. I'd love to have a species tank full of polyclads and just feed them clams from the market, that'd be rad as hell. Also, I'm super happy the tank is bouncing back. The acans look toasted, but there's still flesh, so they're staying in the tank haha.
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It feels so good to start a new tank after a long break. First one was a 75g FOWLR now I want to go nano reef. Here are the plans for equipment so far. 12x12x12 7.5g rimless cube Ecoxotic pico LED arm with two white/blue and one blue strip. AC30 W/media removed Some pictures!   Was thinking about getting the nano osmolator but I will probably get it. Has anyone ever used pure water club RO/DI? http://www.purewaterclub.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=95&products_id=270 Seems like a good deal since I am only getting RO/DI for a nano tank. Planning on keeping just soft corals.
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