Lukeluke, that rock "looks" fine. I assume you don't use straight tap water so I feel you removed most of the chlorimines. My water used to contain that also.
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A really easy one is to cut the top off a plastic pop bottle and invert the top into the body of the bottle
I really need to build a trap
I will try this, he’s good sized though just as big as the smaller clown, I bet I’ll be dumping fish out of here more than catching shrimpA really easy one is to cut the top off a plastic pop bottle and invert the top into the body of the bottle
as a thought experiment, i believe no fallow no qt can work. probably what this means is that you may lose some or all your fish, but eventually you will be able to have a tank of fish. now even paul should admit in his early days of reefing back in the 70s he lost fish.
Pauls thread in the general forum is 131 pages of no quarantine no fallow posts, but no new threads as a real test, we can get that here.
OMG. This is getting ridiculous. As was said, in the 70s, 1971 to be exact in the US, (Germany started earlier) I, and everyone else (all 3 of us in the hobby then) lost fish. We lost most of them. Then "we" "invented, discovered, came about" the medications and methods to use to eventually end up with clean, disease free, spawning fish.There's not really skill here imo - it's just like playing Russian roulette.
I tend to disagree that fans can’t move air quietly. Cheap fans can not. Using a canopy and adding and venting out the back wall or even the side of the canopy is effective. There are several online companies that make 1-6 fan kits that install very cleanly and have built in thermostats, speed controllers, and digital controllers. You can upgrade the fans easily to higher end brands (like Noctua for instance) and they are near silent…going with 140mm fans will help to push air and do it quietly at lower RPM’s.As someone new to saltwater I hadn't considered gas exchange. (my tank isn't even set up yet)
I personally don't prefer the open top, bright lights in my eyes look of certain tanks, so what would you do if you really wanted a top/canopy/ whatever?
Use fans to move air?
Thats easy algae to remove by hand. Just keep pulling it out as it gets long enough and sooner or later it should die back while something else out competes it....Hey hey. No action here so I thought I'd check in. So far so good in my DT. Did lose a crab from a cleaner pack. Died and the urchin ate it. Bought a new one a couple days ago. Two clowns, a YWG, and a purple firefish. No fish losses so far.
Been feeding LRS, mysis, and mussels I bought fresh,cycling through them each morning. Also tossing in some pellet foods. Then alternating between BBS and white worms in the evening.
I turned my lights on a few weeks ago, so algae is starting to spring up. I've watched the urchin pick up some of it, and I'm on the lookout for a tomini tang to help clean some of it up. But this is "ugly stage" stuff I should just ride out, right? No major changes to get rid of the algae? As I guess would be expected, my nitrate and phosphate level actually dropped between water changes because of the algae.
I actually kinda like watching it wave around. Despite being "ugly". Maybe I should yank some of it on the next water change though.Thats easy algae to remove by hand. Just keep pulling it out as it gets long enough and sooner or later it should die back while something else out competes it....
I'm not a big fan of IPC tests - the tank looks good. But - eventually things we can't measure are going to build up - and potentially cause problems. Whether thats organics or other elements. Water changes help eliminate organics and other underside elements. An ICP test will help tell if elements (though not organics) are building - and whether a water change is needed. As I said - I prefer not to wait for problems - and an ICP test is more costly than just doing a water change periodically (I'm not religious about it either)Is there a point to water changes? Nitrates too low to read on my cheap test strips and I’ll sometimes dose seachem reef complete for coral supplements. So what would be the point? I can’t be the only one not doing water changes. I also don’t touch the sand.
Looks pretty similar! I assumed it was "natural", just didn't want to take any drastic action if it's not really "hurting" anything. I.e. dump in chems or bacteria.
Algae is our friend. I change water about 4 times a year and I really don't have to. I think people change way to much water.just didn't want to take any drastic action if it's not really "hurting" anything. I.e. dump in chems or bacteria.