Been 9 days since I got my first fishes from TSM and they are all doing amazing! The anthias are greedy pigs. I'm feeding 5 times a day and every time I walk by the tank they all swim right up to the front pane expecting food. I ran out of phosphate reagent and my LFS doesn't carry it, so I placed an order and added the BSD brine shrimp hatchery disk to get free shipping. Should be here by end of next week and I am going to start feeding live brine as well. Even though I've only had the fishes for 9 days, I am positive the anthias colors are more prominent and the clownfish are bigger.
Since I only have fishes in the tank right now I added my Cad Lights PLS-100 skimmer to the sump. I have it wide open and the foam breaks a lot when I'm not feeding, but it is still pulling out a lot of gunk. It smells horrible after 2-3 days of not being cleaned. Below pic is after about 3 days.
I am changing my filter socks 3x a week; every M, W, F. They clog after about 3 days, so I bought 24 more to go with my 6, so now I can go about a month. I switched to spraying them down with hydrogen peroxide instead of using bleach and am happy with the results so far. Below is after 1 day.
I am developing diatoms, as well as a weird dark green algae I can't quite put my finger on. It is hard to see below, but it is very dark green and stringy. I don't think it is cyano, but that is the closest thing I can put it to. There is some flat slimy looking growth as well, but definitely stringy as well. The only live things to go in my tank have been Dr. Tim's One and Only, Microbacter7, AlgaeBarn 5280 pods, AlgaeBarn purple and pink helix coralline, and the quarrantined fishes, so I'm at a bit of a loss on how this even got in the tank.
I mentioned previously how my pH fluctuates heavily based on when I have the windows open. In the pic below, I switched to AC on 17th, then turned the AC off and opened my sliding door late on the 19th and had it open all day today, the 20th. I'll also open it for a few minutes in the morning if it is cool enough, which causes some of the blips.
And finally, here's a pic of my anthias in a ball. They are awesome fish, highly recommend.
Since I only have fishes in the tank right now I added my Cad Lights PLS-100 skimmer to the sump. I have it wide open and the foam breaks a lot when I'm not feeding, but it is still pulling out a lot of gunk. It smells horrible after 2-3 days of not being cleaned. Below pic is after about 3 days.
I am changing my filter socks 3x a week; every M, W, F. They clog after about 3 days, so I bought 24 more to go with my 6, so now I can go about a month. I switched to spraying them down with hydrogen peroxide instead of using bleach and am happy with the results so far. Below is after 1 day.
I am developing diatoms, as well as a weird dark green algae I can't quite put my finger on. It is hard to see below, but it is very dark green and stringy. I don't think it is cyano, but that is the closest thing I can put it to. There is some flat slimy looking growth as well, but definitely stringy as well. The only live things to go in my tank have been Dr. Tim's One and Only, Microbacter7, AlgaeBarn 5280 pods, AlgaeBarn purple and pink helix coralline, and the quarrantined fishes, so I'm at a bit of a loss on how this even got in the tank.
I mentioned previously how my pH fluctuates heavily based on when I have the windows open. In the pic below, I switched to AC on 17th, then turned the AC off and opened my sliding door late on the 19th and had it open all day today, the 20th. I'll also open it for a few minutes in the morning if it is cool enough, which causes some of the blips.
And finally, here's a pic of my anthias in a ball. They are awesome fish, highly recommend.