Thanks so much! I appreciate you saying that.Hey. I love your instagram account btw! And your tanks are stunning.
Best Regards
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Thanks so much! I appreciate you saying that.Hey. I love your instagram account btw! And your tanks are stunning.
Best Regards
You have some species that I would love to get! It's nice to see variety.
Yeah I can't lie, I'm very envious of the selection you have in the states! But I won't give up, I'm sure some new species still become available at sommmme point.Probably have a bit of an edge on availability being in the states, since I can order from folks that harvest in the gulf and keys. Kudos for doing a macro tank in London!
Those could be dinos. Without a proper ID, its hard to recommend a course of action. What are you Po4 and No3 levels? I suspect with all that macro algae absorbing nutrients, they could have bottomed out.Hiatus
I was busy arranging an aquatic life event at the start of summer which was immediately followed by a lot of holiday and me feeling quite down! Needless to say, the saltwater aquarium got neglected hard.
I've managed to clean up the tank and get it back to a respectable level. It's looking quite scraggly at the moment since I removed most of the Cryptonemia crenulata (literally a bucket full). I feel like it needs colour balancing? There's lots of red/green/pink and nothing else. Need some orange and yellow to bring it back - any recommendations??
Back in March, I decided to get a Mandarin dragonet to help tackle the flatworm issue. The shop manager told me it's 50:50 whether it would do anything, but to my delight it has cleared the tank of any flatworms and I've not seen one since! I also got a beautiful Mandarin as a result. Weirdly, it shows no interest in live copepods that I add but is a keen eater of frozen mysis, frozen lobster eggs, live tubifex and live whiteworms which is a relief. He's been living in the tank for 5 months now, so far so good.
I'm also battling a brown algae problem which I think it's hair algae? Maybe diatoms? I'm assuming it's because of water quality but I'm not sure. If anyone has any suggestions on how to combat it, I'd welcome it!
The tank looks beautiful IMO! I don't have any good suggestions for additions.Hiatus
I was busy arranging an aquatic life event at the start of summer which was immediately followed by a lot of holiday and me feeling quite down! Needless to say, the saltwater aquarium got neglected hard.
I've managed to clean up the tank and get it back to a respectable level. It's looking quite scraggly at the moment since I removed most of the Cryptonemia crenulata (literally a bucket full). I feel like it needs colour balancing? There's lots of red/green/pink and nothing else. Need some orange and yellow to bring it back - any recommendations??
Back in March, I decided to get a Mandarin dragonet to help tackle the flatworm issue. The shop manager told me it's 50:50 whether it would do anything, but to my delight it has cleared the tank of any flatworms and I've not seen one since! I also got a beautiful Mandarin as a result. Weirdly, it shows no interest in live copepods that I add but is a keen eater of frozen mysis, frozen lobster eggs, live tubifex and live whiteworms which is a relief. He's been living in the tank for 5 months now, so far so good.
I'm also battling a brown algae problem which I think it's hair algae? Maybe diatoms? I'm assuming it's because of water quality but I'm not sure. If anyone has any suggestions on how to combat it, I'd welcome it!
That is one great looking mandarin!Hiatus
I was busy arranging an aquatic life event at the start of summer which was immediately followed by a lot of holiday and me feeling quite down! Needless to say, the saltwater aquarium got neglected hard.
I've managed to clean up the tank and get it back to a respectable level. It's looking quite scraggly at the moment since I removed most of the Cryptonemia crenulata (literally a bucket full). I feel like it needs colour balancing? There's lots of red/green/pink and nothing else. Need some orange and yellow to bring it back - any recommendations??
Back in March, I decided to get a Mandarin dragonet to help tackle the flatworm issue. The shop manager told me it's 50:50 whether it would do anything, but to my delight it has cleared the tank of any flatworms and I've not seen one since! I also got a beautiful Mandarin as a result. Weirdly, it shows no interest in live copepods that I add but is a keen eater of frozen mysis, frozen lobster eggs, live tubifex and live whiteworms which is a relief. He's been living in the tank for 5 months now, so far so good.
I'm also battling a brown algae problem which I think it's hair algae? Maybe diatoms? I'm assuming it's because of water quality but I'm not sure. If anyone has any suggestions on how to combat it, I'd welcome it!
Oh yeah, I don't know why I never considered that too.Those could be dinos. Without a proper ID, its hard to recommend a course of action. What are you Po4 and No3 levels? I suspect with all that macro algae absorbing nutrients, they could have bottomed out.
Thank you!The tank looks beautiful IMO! I don't have any good suggestions for additions.
Love the mandarin! Crazy that you got one that actually prefers frozen OVER live foods!
Thanks! That would nice! Can you just buy them from shops?Tank looks good. there are yellow, orange, and blue sponges out there that would give you interesting color and texture variety.
This side of the pond, they aren't everywhere, but I've seen them around.Thanks! That would nice! Can you just buy them from shops?
you can always throw a piece raw cocktail shrimp in your sump and monitor your nitrate levels. they should start to increase. Remove when they get where you want.Looks like it could possibly be dinos.
The algae is brown, slimy and wavey and is mostly attached to macroalgae but is also on some parts of my gorgonian.
I tested my nitrate and phosphate. The phosphate was low but present (I suspect from the frozen foods I feed?), but the nitrates were basically non existent.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to increase nitrates to a good level? My nitrates used to be way too high (50+) so I'm surprised that it's now rock bottom.
I used to dose Tropica Premium which is NPK + Trace but I'm pretty sure the nitrates are very low in that anyway.