Day 30.
Only 3 fish, but lots of easy corals, copepods, some inverts and live rock. Plus a steady dosing routine of nitrification bacteria.
The "ugly" stage lasted less than a 4 days and I think I am most happiest with the growth of that patch of macroalgae which I am sure is ripping out the Nitrate and phosphate but is wiping out the pest algae.
The goni isn't thriving but a drop of manganese seems to be assisting now, and I should probably try and get the peppermint shrimp out now they took care of the aiptasia but are now free to harass the BTA. Which the Clowns are not impressed by.
Gotta get this hair algae under control
Macroalgae love
A sad weed. I thought it melted last night but today has come back to life-some? I am hoping it pulls through- as this is my first slat tank with supposedly easy beginner corals. I think the macro algae is hogging all the nutrients in this pico 5 gallon so maybe this one doesn’t have a chance?
I have this algae growing, I think it’s Bryopsis, in one spot in my tank. It’s only growing in this one spot in my main tank. It’s also the highest point in my tank. Is there anything I can do to remove this before it spreads. I have some in my sump as well. I’m building an algae scrubber to help export nutrients.
Dealing with Cyano, getting better overtime slowly after putting in chemi clean elite, dropping phosphate slowly
My LFS got batch of locally aqua-cultured Trochus in. I have never seen them so small, and importantly juvenile shells uncovered by algae etc.
The magenta colour and patterns are insane. 3 more added to the 2 × adults in the tank.
Got the bacteria bloom taken care of!! 😮💨 added a air stone for 2 days and cleared right up! Now just hopping my hammers dont die, everything else's looks good tho!
Dino battle moving into week 7, very frustrating. Not sure I am going to win.
new phase, algae😢
Wish this cyano would disappear
My last post referred to this patch of Caluerpa Racemosa which has grown from about 3 heads to this, in a month.
Then I realised it couldn't be seen in the video I posted. Here we commonly call this sea grapes (not the bubble version).
Hopefully, I can keep it from extending further down into the path of the alveopora but to fill out and grow up and across this live rock. It's one of the things growing in this tank that I like the most.
Day 30.
Only 3 fish, but lots of easy corals, copepods, some inverts and live rock. Plus a steady dosing routine of nitrification bacteria.
The "ugly" stage lasted less than a 4 days and I think I am most happiest with the growth of that patch of macroalgae which I am sure is ripping out the Nitrate and phosphate but is wiping out the pest algae.
The goni isn't thriving but a drop of manganese seems to be assisting now, and I should probably try and get the peppermint shrimp out now they took care of the aiptasia but are now free to harass the BTA. Which the Clowns are not impressed by.