Well, I thought I was doing alright and I came back from camping a bit early to find my hammer isn’t doing as well as I thought.
We got it June 12 and I only just glued it on the 4th of July.
We moved it a couple times staying within the lower third and found that it looked fullest when it was where we placed it.
Well today, its polyps are way retracted and skeleton is in full view…don’t recall nor have a picture from the 10th when I did tank work.
I worked on getting the alk from a suspected bad batch of salt and got it up from low 6 up to 8.5 over the course of 2 weeks or so. We left for 3 days and it was 8.5 when we left and still at 8 when I tested today.
Slow dosing back to 8.5 to see if she’s grumpy.
Little update on how the new 75g is doing! Toadstool finally stood up and opened, one of the mushrooms is “dropping” its foot from a rock it was holding onto. Any idea what the black dots are on my Pocillopora ?
I maintain a small mangrove island aquarium, restoring coastal wetland ecology in glass tank. Looking for aquascaping friends to share daily updates!😃
If I completely cover the rocks in bta what corals can go in the sandbed that will look good
Well, I thought I was doing alright and I came back from camping a bit early to find my hammer isn’t doing as well as I thought.
We got it June 12 and I only just glued it on the 4th of July.
We moved it a couple times staying within the lower third and found that it looked fullest when it was where we placed it.
Well today, its polyps are way retracted and skeleton is in full view…don’t recall nor have a picture from the 10th when I did tank work.
I worked on getting the alk from a suspected bad batch of salt and got it up from low 6 up to 8.5 over the course of 2 weeks or so. We left for 3 days and it was 8.5 when we left and still at 8 when I tested today.
Slow dosing back to 8.5 to see if she’s grumpy.
Doing a cycle with homemade ammonium chloride. Works well, dosed ammonia up to 1.5 took around 4 days to get to 0.
But my nitrites is high, around 4 which is to be expected but I think it’s been a long time now, a couple of weeks. Nitrates is 50,
I did a 50% waterchange yesterday, nitrates went from 90 ish to 50, nitrites stayed the same at 4.
Should I just wait it out and hope the nitrites will drop, or do another big waterchange?
Just introduced some new corals to my tank, I’m guessing it’s pretty normal for a toadstool to slump over for the first week to acclimate?
Anyone know what this is? It’s been spreading the past few days. I got this piece of live rock from my LFS and there was also a little red spot but kind of faint. The last few days it has spread and gotten a deeper maroon color. Any ideas what it is? It’s localized to this rock. Thanks
Can someone tell me how to take great pics of the reef with an Apple phone..
Just got these zoas. Are they stratospheres or a similar morph?
My reef tank stand finally arrived, and moved my tank to the stand just now
But not sure was the electric cable thingy correct or not, if any suggestion for me to improve, I'd like to hear
(oh btw, I planned to make sump in future, the sump size is roughly around 50×20×40)
Help lil bro out.
Is this fish reef safe.
Checkered Marble Wrasse