willow659
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EQUIPMENT:
•••••~~~•••••skimmer is Eshopps Axium X-120. Sump heater is Eheim Jager 200 watt. Display tank heater is Aqueon Pro 150 watt. Return pump is Syncra silent 3.0 (714 us gal/hr). Refugium light is mingdak submersible led aquarium light. Lights: 48 inch Orbit IC led system and Geisemann 4X54 watt ho T5. Two side power heads are eflux wave pumps 1,050 ph each. Big middle power head hydor koralia evolution 750/850, 2 cheap ancillary power heads are sun sun wavemaker jvp-110 (2000L/hr). Whisper 100 air pump with two wooden bubblers in case of power outage. 3 gfci power strips.API saltwater Master Test Kit. BRS 4 stage plus 75 gpd RODI system. 2 - Red Sea 100 micron felt fine polish filter bags. 1- 250 micron mesh filter sock. 8 in Coral viewer and flipper magnifying glass for DT, Red Sea diy screen lid. Backup kedsum submersible water pump 880gph. •••••~~~•••••
•4/27? Aquarium started. Exxodus BAC plate Bio plate loaded with entire bottle of microbacter 7, plus 50 lbs coraline shapes rock comes coated in bacteria to be activated once in saltwater. 40 lbs life rock. 80 lbs Carib Sea live sand.
•Random dumps of extra microbacter 7 and whatever else bacteria. Heavy feeding daily of omega one small marine sinking + with garlic pellets, cobalt aquatics premium with probiotics flakes, or 1-3 raw shrimp during initial cycling period to keep beneficial bacteria levels high (have new life spectrum ick shield 1mm sinking pellets for fish when they come)
•4/31 huge bacterial bloom at its height
•5/18 first water change at 50% and dumped in even extra microbacter7. REFUGIUM BEGUN. Sump Heater, bioplate moves to provide cryptic area for sponge growth, deep sand bed, refugium light, and live rock placed. Refugium light set for 6pm-6am.
•5/19 tisbe pods and barnabas the skunk cleaner shrimp
•5/20 ammonia alert badge placed to be checked twice daily along with digital thermometer in display tank for temp checks. LIGHTS NOW ON Geisemann 4x54 Watt T5 on with two blue plus, one purple plus, and one coral now set to be on 10a-4p and current LED to be on 8am ramp up till ramp down ends at 6pm with 50% weather during that time. Then 10% blue actinic low light till 2 am. Black out 2am till 8am.
•5/30 5 gal water change
•5/31 indo pacific sea farms. Display tank: 25 amphipods, 6 bristle worms, 6 spaghetti worms, live sand activator, wondermud, 7 micro brittle stars, 1 Hawaiian cowrie, 6 Nerite snails, 6 strombus snails, 6 Hawaiian littorinid grazer snails, 12 micro hermit crabs, live phyto, denitrifier, and two plates covered in coraline algae back and front to seed life rock - all from Hawaii. REFUGIUM ALL SET with 6 micro crabs, 6 bristle worms, 6 spaghetti worms, 6 Gastropod snails, *wonder mud* with tiny tiny critters, 25 amphipods, and 4 macro algae (sea lettuce, sea grapes, red tang heaven and green tang heaven) and will be separately fed small amount of flakes each day until fish arrive and then 1-3 times a week thereafter.
•6/1 5 gal water change. First of routine weekly water changes. Microbacter 7 added this time.
•6/4 Today will be considered DAY ONE since fish will be added. salinity 1.0247, ammonia 0-0.2, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate 10ppm, Ph 7.8, temp adjusted because running 95.7 for last 7 days or so instead of 96.6. So 95.7 @ 11am, 1240 75.9, Filter socks removed and rocks dusted off before putting on new ones. Divers Den arrival of 2 ORA- bred black ice snowflake amphiprion ocellaris and 1 skarlet skunk cleaner shrimp from Sri Lanka (Med Lysmata amboinensis). 8- 3.5 oz frozen San Francisco Bay brand reef multipack X 4( marine cuisine, emerald entree, omega brine shrimp, and plankton) and 1 3.5 hikari frozen vitamin gut loaded spirolina brine. Mixed 2 cubes of each while frozen into small sheet to be able to feed a chunk of entire mix for evening meal. Small amount of Pellets and/or flakes will be fed each day or so in the morning. Coral RX and reef-roids ready for corals.
Wooden Micro bubblers in place and set to oxygenate and soft skim both refugium and DT in case of power outage.
6/5 Bottle of biospira poured into tank and prime and slime coat added just in case to help new arrivals from shipping. divers den order of 3 Bartlett’s Fairy Anthias and 3 Blue Reef Chromis arrived approximately 12pm All 3 anthias gasping and gulping and laying on sand or hiding against rock for 10-20 min or so after. After breathing regularly all fish ate really well and are swimming. 7pm readings: temp 75.7/77.1, pH 7.4-7.8, ammonia 0-0.02, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10. 2x Med/heavy feed since new fish came in. They do NOT like the flake food and LOVE all the frozen. 1230 am pH Hanna checker 7.38. Turned on skimmer and both bubblers. Will recheck in morn.
6/6 world wide corals coral club shipment came in. Wwc Purple tipped hammer, wwc indigo mushroom, wwc AOI zoas, wwc ultron micro, wwc neon neither leather
6/7 temp stable at 76.6, am 0, N 0, N 10, pH 7.6, salinity 1.024 (from doing all the acclamations and 2x minimum daily testing.
6/10 Emerald Bay Tonga branch like rock two pieces and one chunk live rock. 5 super red mushrooms, 3-5 neon green textured mushrooms with bubbles, pulsing Xenia (I know, but I like it), neon green green star polyps (I know, but I like it). 1 Mexican turbo snail, 2 large nass snails, and 2 or 3 hitchhiking micro brittle stars and some black jelly looking hitchhiker that’s most probably reef safe so I’m keeping the weirdo for now. Fish still eating huge amounts twice a day . No ammonia or any issues to be seen from adding all the fish. Saw a dotting of nuisance algae. It’s was kinda cute. Will prob be gone tomorrow. Sumped the micro hermits cause I keep catching them eatting all the coraline off the booster packs. I see them pinch it off and literally eat it. Never saw hermits do that before and it’s not just one of them doing it. I even sang a song while I did it... my husband was cracking up laughing
•••••~~~•••••skimmer is Eshopps Axium X-120. Sump heater is Eheim Jager 200 watt. Display tank heater is Aqueon Pro 150 watt. Return pump is Syncra silent 3.0 (714 us gal/hr). Refugium light is mingdak submersible led aquarium light. Lights: 48 inch Orbit IC led system and Geisemann 4X54 watt ho T5. Two side power heads are eflux wave pumps 1,050 ph each. Big middle power head hydor koralia evolution 750/850, 2 cheap ancillary power heads are sun sun wavemaker jvp-110 (2000L/hr). Whisper 100 air pump with two wooden bubblers in case of power outage. 3 gfci power strips.API saltwater Master Test Kit. BRS 4 stage plus 75 gpd RODI system. 2 - Red Sea 100 micron felt fine polish filter bags. 1- 250 micron mesh filter sock. 8 in Coral viewer and flipper magnifying glass for DT, Red Sea diy screen lid. Backup kedsum submersible water pump 880gph. •••••~~~•••••
•4/27? Aquarium started. Exxodus BAC plate Bio plate loaded with entire bottle of microbacter 7, plus 50 lbs coraline shapes rock comes coated in bacteria to be activated once in saltwater. 40 lbs life rock. 80 lbs Carib Sea live sand.
•Random dumps of extra microbacter 7 and whatever else bacteria. Heavy feeding daily of omega one small marine sinking + with garlic pellets, cobalt aquatics premium with probiotics flakes, or 1-3 raw shrimp during initial cycling period to keep beneficial bacteria levels high (have new life spectrum ick shield 1mm sinking pellets for fish when they come)
•4/31 huge bacterial bloom at its height
•5/18 first water change at 50% and dumped in even extra microbacter7. REFUGIUM BEGUN. Sump Heater, bioplate moves to provide cryptic area for sponge growth, deep sand bed, refugium light, and live rock placed. Refugium light set for 6pm-6am.
•5/19 tisbe pods and barnabas the skunk cleaner shrimp
•5/20 ammonia alert badge placed to be checked twice daily along with digital thermometer in display tank for temp checks. LIGHTS NOW ON Geisemann 4x54 Watt T5 on with two blue plus, one purple plus, and one coral now set to be on 10a-4p and current LED to be on 8am ramp up till ramp down ends at 6pm with 50% weather during that time. Then 10% blue actinic low light till 2 am. Black out 2am till 8am.
•5/30 5 gal water change
•5/31 indo pacific sea farms. Display tank: 25 amphipods, 6 bristle worms, 6 spaghetti worms, live sand activator, wondermud, 7 micro brittle stars, 1 Hawaiian cowrie, 6 Nerite snails, 6 strombus snails, 6 Hawaiian littorinid grazer snails, 12 micro hermit crabs, live phyto, denitrifier, and two plates covered in coraline algae back and front to seed life rock - all from Hawaii. REFUGIUM ALL SET with 6 micro crabs, 6 bristle worms, 6 spaghetti worms, 6 Gastropod snails, *wonder mud* with tiny tiny critters, 25 amphipods, and 4 macro algae (sea lettuce, sea grapes, red tang heaven and green tang heaven) and will be separately fed small amount of flakes each day until fish arrive and then 1-3 times a week thereafter.
•6/1 5 gal water change. First of routine weekly water changes. Microbacter 7 added this time.
•6/4 Today will be considered DAY ONE since fish will be added. salinity 1.0247, ammonia 0-0.2, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate 10ppm, Ph 7.8, temp adjusted because running 95.7 for last 7 days or so instead of 96.6. So 95.7 @ 11am, 1240 75.9, Filter socks removed and rocks dusted off before putting on new ones. Divers Den arrival of 2 ORA- bred black ice snowflake amphiprion ocellaris and 1 skarlet skunk cleaner shrimp from Sri Lanka (Med Lysmata amboinensis). 8- 3.5 oz frozen San Francisco Bay brand reef multipack X 4( marine cuisine, emerald entree, omega brine shrimp, and plankton) and 1 3.5 hikari frozen vitamin gut loaded spirolina brine. Mixed 2 cubes of each while frozen into small sheet to be able to feed a chunk of entire mix for evening meal. Small amount of Pellets and/or flakes will be fed each day or so in the morning. Coral RX and reef-roids ready for corals.
Wooden Micro bubblers in place and set to oxygenate and soft skim both refugium and DT in case of power outage.
6/5 Bottle of biospira poured into tank and prime and slime coat added just in case to help new arrivals from shipping. divers den order of 3 Bartlett’s Fairy Anthias and 3 Blue Reef Chromis arrived approximately 12pm All 3 anthias gasping and gulping and laying on sand or hiding against rock for 10-20 min or so after. After breathing regularly all fish ate really well and are swimming. 7pm readings: temp 75.7/77.1, pH 7.4-7.8, ammonia 0-0.02, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10. 2x Med/heavy feed since new fish came in. They do NOT like the flake food and LOVE all the frozen. 1230 am pH Hanna checker 7.38. Turned on skimmer and both bubblers. Will recheck in morn.
6/6 world wide corals coral club shipment came in. Wwc Purple tipped hammer, wwc indigo mushroom, wwc AOI zoas, wwc ultron micro, wwc neon neither leather
6/7 temp stable at 76.6, am 0, N 0, N 10, pH 7.6, salinity 1.024 (from doing all the acclamations and 2x minimum daily testing.
6/10 Emerald Bay Tonga branch like rock two pieces and one chunk live rock. 5 super red mushrooms, 3-5 neon green textured mushrooms with bubbles, pulsing Xenia (I know, but I like it), neon green green star polyps (I know, but I like it). 1 Mexican turbo snail, 2 large nass snails, and 2 or 3 hitchhiking micro brittle stars and some black jelly looking hitchhiker that’s most probably reef safe so I’m keeping the weirdo for now. Fish still eating huge amounts twice a day . No ammonia or any issues to be seen from adding all the fish. Saw a dotting of nuisance algae. It’s was kinda cute. Will prob be gone tomorrow. Sumped the micro hermits cause I keep catching them eatting all the coraline off the booster packs. I see them pinch it off and literally eat it. Never saw hermits do that before and it’s not just one of them doing it. I even sang a song while I did it... my husband was cracking up laughing
