MBDA project: Making coral bleaching & reef conservation easy to understand!
Goal: Engaging visuals + short explanations + live mini-tank to inspire students, locals, & groups to take action.
Mushroom corals are perfect—hardy, super colorful, polyps move visibly when healthy vs. stressed. A couple tiny baby frags (1-2 polyps each) would make this hands-on demo way more powerful than photos alone.
In Connecticut—looking for donations toward frags or support to get this going! DM if you can help. Let's wake people up to reef threats!
How much score do u guys give for my reef tank in a 100 score?
Equipment:
BOYU WG-310 (impeller modified for better airflow) (protein skimmer)
Aquael FZN PRO 700
Yee submersible pump (1000L/H) (used as wave maker)
18w reef light + 5.2w yikeda reef light
Some random desk fan modified as cooler
2in1 thermometer+salinity meter
Fish and coral inside:
Favia
Mushroom
Damselfish
Ocellaris clownfish ×2
Thickness of the sand
1~5cm
Salt used: Vastocean basic ocean sea salt
Salt parameter:
CA~ 400-450MG/L
MG~ 1250-1350MG/L
KH~ 7-9 d°KH
(The rest.. Idk)
Week 5 and 6! I have definitely learned a lot the last 2 weeks with the help of some amazing experts in the field. They were hard to find as not a lot of people that are sellers take marine husbandry serious. My parameters were stalling and the advice to add more of the RIGHT bio media and some more bacteria saw my nitrites drop within 24 hours finishing my cycle. Some more water changes to come before fish but my first corals are in deviating from the original two planned to allow some learning. Mushrooms allowed me to learn corals opening and closing, rocks and frag plugs and what glue works and doesn’t; which corals can be glued to frags and which can’t and a whole lot of trial and error before getting things right.
Can someone help me or help me create a day by day schedule to help my tank im dosing neophos and prime but my reading are
Salinity 1.024
Alkalinity 15.3
PH 7.4
Phosphate 0
Nitrate 50-100
Nitrite 0.1
Ammonia 0.25
It’s only a 52L tank. I have a frogspawn(closed few days) everything else is fine 2 clownfish urchin torch and mushroom
Why is my mushroom doing this? Does anybody know?
MBDA project: Making coral bleaching & reef conservation easy to understand!
Goal: Engaging visuals + short explanations + live mini-tank to inspire students, locals, & groups to take action.
Mushroom corals are perfect—hardy, super colorful, polyps move visibly when healthy vs. stressed. A couple tiny baby frags (1-2 polyps each) would make this hands-on demo way more powerful than photos alone.
In Connecticut—looking for donations toward frags or support to get this going! DM if you can help. Let's wake people up to reef threats!