fantapants22

Hey guys, News since last post I now have my Coralbox M1-30 wow what an amazing light unit! beautiful color and definitely tonnes of power I dont even need to go past 50% on its changes between times which is also a beautiful feature for me being a shift working and not home to play with buttons manually all the time. Got Morcs bubblemag QQ skimmer and his WP-10 wave maker, which I put in the tank shortly after these guys arrived! two young Ocellaris Clownfish arrived via overnight shipping from auckland today the clowns are happily swimming around glad to be out of a bag that they were in for 25 hours, was so relieved to open the box and see them both swimming around! Im also going to Christchurch next weekend to pickup a new car I bought so will be able to buy some goodies from a pet shop which will be an exciting first in the marine world for me! Obviously corals will be on the agenda what kind of cleanup crew would you guys recommend on this setup?

Nice tank, is that souly a marine tank? cant say I have seen one like that before, or are those clear pipes going to a sump under the stand etc? if so thats quite cool You going to go Natural SW or Artificial salt water? guess that would be the first thing you should crack into to get that rock living

Judging by your new frag tank concept you must have an extremely understanding mrs haha corals look great

yeah man everything is looking excellent, cannot wait for my light unit to show up also!

Ah yes thats right, maybe time to get a bit of clear Acrylic for a few bucks to cover that gap

Aw gutted that sucks! where are they getting out? You do have a lid on right?

Ahh right I see, but my baseline has no ammonia or nitrite in it as is

How do I do that whats my baseline?

Yeah Haha whoops!! didnt think it would happen that fast Im normally pretty unlucky *sigh

Na I didnt in the end as I got that bit of live rock, Yeah i was thinking the same thing it has been 3 weeks now perhaps I should have done more testing in the initial week or so I know that having live rock can enable it to cycle very quickly on occasions. The presence of Diatoms is the ending of the cycle is it not? as diatoms appear once the bacteria is present and then disappear once the bacteria feeding it has been used up? Correct me if im wrong im not 100% sure Do you reckon I should go get a bit of shrimp from supermarket anyway? or give it another week and see what happens? Ideally you want no nitrite and no ammonia only a little bit of Nitrate which is what I have, perhaps Its cycled faster then I was expecting. Will wait it out anyhow and get coral frags and make sure they adapt well before I introduce any form of live stock

So Just did another test on the water 25degrees .025 salinity PH 8.0 Amonia 0 (looked more like .25 last time but definitely zero this test 10 days down the track) No2 0 ppm No3 5.0 ppm So yeah everything is exactly the same really, have started getting yellow colored rock however in the past 4 days

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Thats great that it is doing some good to the tank regardless of the small capacity tank, will definitely end up getting one

Ah well wont stop me at end of the day. Cant be too bad I sleep right beside an air pump and the hum of the filter for my Freshwater haha

hah you should! always good to see inspiration! ah yes the guy I got my live rock from had a real big hair algae problem from where his tank was sitting in sunlight. Its been just over a week since my last water parameters test so will do another tonight. The rock is slowly getting these purple specs on it along with the color turning from white to a yellowish light brown. Got a parcel today with my small mag-float. A lot better than those cheap as ones with the blue grips you can get. Person that won my auction for my old marine lights changed their mind so that didnt sell in the end which is a pain in the ass so trying to sell again with not much luck