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Update:

- cover/hood has been delivered, problem it is a little bit bent because of the nylon strings pulling on it. Putting 2 boards on the side to help flatten it out!

- released the 4 barnacle blennies and 2 helfrichi firefishes, what a sight!

- will move the lined dartfish soon.

will post some pics soon.

fishes that I'm looking for: (suggestions welcome)

- beautiful and colorful gobies (something like green banded perhaps?)

- flavo anthias

- beautiful and colorful flasher wrasses!

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Tank update:

- Refugium is working nicely, put in 2 chaeto balls and it has been growing slooooowly for weeks now. Very green and alive! But the good thing is, a lot of pods have made it their home!

- managed to remove 2 barnacle blennies as I think 4 is a bit too crowded

- around last week, moved the lined dartfish and it's a pretty thing to see it come out at feeding time

- 3 days ago, moved in 3 acans and 2 blastomussas

- moved a yellow assessor, a randalli assessor and a snowflake clown too

Will update with pictures soon!

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Tank update:

Had a real bad discovery last week, My water parameters were terrible! DKH was like 81ppm. magnesium was around 1100ppm, calcium was at 490ppm.

Spent the week trying to get the parameters up.

Here is the cover/mesh pics that was done to prevent my jumping fish from meeting the floor!

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Wow how can your alk be so high?

300Gallons of Pure Goodness! >Dimensions 6x2x2 (Foot)

1: Maxspect 160 Watt qty-2

2: Vortech MP 40 Wes

3:Jaebao WP40 qty-2

3: Skimz Becket Skimmer/ Ehiem 1260

4: Dymax XC 900 Calcium Reactor

5: American Pinpoint PH Controller

6: Iwaki MD 55 And MD 70 (Return)

7: Hydra Aquatics FR45 Reactor

8:Hailea 10HP Chiller

R2R forum->>>http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/photography-forum/154896-ashwins-reefing-photography.html

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finally achieved desired magnesium (1300) and alkalinity (7)!!!

Sadly though, my 2 helfrichi firefishes were murdered by my lined dartfish. They were harassed to death :( RIP

My bleached acan and discolored acans are slowly startign to show signs of recovery.

My blastomussa is showing new heads! From original 11 head colony, now have baby heads of around 5!

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A small frag of an acan. But may I ask the experts here, what sort of algae is this? and what kind of cleanup crew consumes these? So far I have mexican snails, and turbo snails.

My Po4 is kinda high at 0.24ppm, I already have 330ml of seagel since Oct 13,2014. Do you think adding PHosguard will help?

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U can try fenestrate snails, tuxedo urchins or sea hare to clean up those hair algae.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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U can try fenestrate snails, tuxedo urchins or sea hare to clean up those hair algae.

Thanks for suggestion, although I have turbo snails, may I ask are they the same as fenstrate snails? Am starting to look for tuxedo urchins. Am kinda scared to get sea hare as these excrete stuff that I don't like :D

Checked again today, my nitrate is 0 (according to color chart) and phospates are at 0.23 ppm.

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Thanks for suggestion, although I have turbo snails, may I ask are they the same as fenstrate snails? Am starting to look for tuxedo urchins. Am kinda scared to get sea hare as these excrete stuff that I don't like :D Checked again today, my nitrate is 0 (according to color chart) and phospates are at 0.23 ppm.
They r different unless u r referring to Astraea turbo snails as they looked quite similar. Here a link showing a pic of it from liveaquaria. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+526+1755&pcatid=1755

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Yellow tangs eat those algae too. Mine cleaned up all my LR.

Thanks for the tip. I actually considered putting in a bristletooth tang just to clean up algae. But I found something better! As suggested by a reefer here, tuxedo urchin! They've been cleaning up my algae problem. Although it's not yet completely solved, I'm seeing less and less algae every day.

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Tank update:

Last month around Nov 13, I started to experience some fishes dying on me, first were the 2 helfrichis. :( At first I thought it was just bullying from the lined dartfish that I had. Then after about 5 days, I noticed my clown swimming wrong and the clown died after 2 days.

Here is the thread of the disease:

So I finally decided to catch all my remaining fishes which are a yellow assessor, a tangaroa goby, a randalli assessor and a lined dartfish and put them all in a seperate tank.

I will run the tank without fishes for (GULP!) 8 weeks. ( I hope my patience can hold!) Since then I had my lined dartfish adopted by a friend because I find it too aggressive for my little 3 foot tank.

As of right now, I have a McCoskers Flasher wrasse in another tank being QTed for introduction into the tank. Am also waiting for a lineatus flasher wrasse too. Any experts here have experience with multiple flasher wrasses in 1 tank? is 70 galons going to be enough?

Here are some pictures of the McCosker!

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Tank update:

Last month around Nov 13, I started to experience some fishes dying on me, first were the 2 helfrichis. :( At first I thought it was just bullying from the lined dartfish that I had. Then after about 5 days, I noticed my clown swimming wrong and the clown died after 2 days.

Here is the thread of the disease:

So I finally decided to catch all my remaining fishes which are a yellow assessor, a tangaroa goby, a randalli assessor and a lined dartfish and put them all in a seperate tank.

I will run the tank without fishes for (GULP!) 8 weeks. ( I hope my patience can hold!) Since then I had my lined dartfish adopted by a friend because I find it too aggressive for my little 3 foot tank.

As of right now, I have a McCoskers Flasher wrasse in another tank being QTed for introduction into the tank. Am also waiting for a lineatus flasher wrasse too. Any experts here have experience with multiple flasher wrasses in 1 tank? is 70 galons going to be enough?

Here are some pictures of the McCosker!

Its a beauty!! :wub:

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Nice acans!

Flasher wrasse are docile fishes but be wary of that lineatus that you might be adding

Lineatus are colourful and dominant ! And their colours are hard to resist

Thanks!

I meant Attenuatus Flasher wrasse not a Lineatus (yes thanks, lineatus are very dominant)

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Tank update:

Tank is 40 days Fishless due to marine velvet. But now I have a NEW problem to deal with, BRYOPSIS! Arrrggghhh!!!! It's in a Lot of patches in the LR and also all over the substrate! Manually removing will likely mean manually removing ALL the LR and substrate! (it's like recycling the tank if thats the case!)

I am not contemplating of going high magnesium!

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