Tested water parm today, did a water change yesterday. My salinity is 1.017… how can I raise that up? I don’t have any salt to mix.
On the other hand, my bubble tip is gaining color back!! You can see the green coming back. My Duncan is doing good. I added 2 new corals, Rasta Zoas and a Kenya tree. My mushrooms have been reproducing like crazy but all my corals except my gsp look to be doing just fine. My gsp hasn’t fully opened in a couple days, I’m assuming that’s because my salinity is low.
I have a couple types of algae coming back, brown/tan algae on the sand bed and my glass, then that green hair algae looking stuff is coming back too.
All fish seem to be doing fine.
Week 3 and 4! Diatoms everywhere! Massive KH drop forcing a mid cycle water change. Understanding KH and the role of KH/PH in cycling was a massive learning curve for me! Hopefully nitrites continue to drop to 0! Ammonia at 0! Should be cycled in a week or so!
After completing a water change the tank had become more cloudy than before, is there anything that might help with the cloudiness (it’s not the glass it had just been cleaned)first photo is after and second is before
Good morning reef fam.
I have a brief question on the sand work. So for my clean up crew at the moment I have a couple zombie snails and some astrea snails. The astrea snails do a great job on the rock and glass work cleaning up algae, the zombies do a good job doing what they do and help turn up the sand, and eating decaying matters of food and fish poops but what can I add or do to better up the sand with other inverts without over cleaning to much that it will interrupt the bio. I do have a bit of hair algae growing, and of course I have diatoms, but like I said I don’t want to over kill anything because the tank is doing amazing, my water parameters and everything are amazing, I do 20% water change every other week. Much appreciated
Just started my first Phytoplankton culture working with Reef by Steele. He’s been awesome. We decided on a Single Strain Phytoplankton Diatom Cheatoceros Muelleri that will help with my diatom issue and feed my copepods.
Tested water parm today, did a water change yesterday. My salinity is 1.017… how can I raise that up? I don’t have any salt to mix.
On the other hand, my bubble tip is gaining color back!! You can see the green coming back. My Duncan is doing good. I added 2 new corals, Rasta Zoas and a Kenya tree. My mushrooms have been reproducing like crazy but all my corals except my gsp look to be doing just fine. My gsp hasn’t fully opened in a couple days, I’m assuming that’s because my salinity is low.
I have a couple types of algae coming back, brown/tan algae on the sand bed and my glass, then that green hair algae looking stuff is coming back too.
All fish seem to be doing fine.
Side view 🙂
Sandbed is finally clearing up. I’ve been dealing with an extremely dirty sandbed for many months. I added nassarius snails, 4 jars of copedpods, feeding phyto daily, and added AquaForest Life Source over. All with the goal of growing bio diversity in the tank and pretty happy with the progress so far.
Hey Guys First Reef tank 🥳🥳
Hello Reef 15 Gallon AIO and super excited
Cycle is almost done and diatoms are growing, pic is from first day, ammonia and nitrites are near zero and nitrates are rising.
Any recommendations for clean up crew?
Hi, does anyone know if it’s normal to have biofilm and some bubbles in the corner 2 days after setting up the tank? I’ve been adding bacteria..