YEAHHHH, BUDDY!!!!

THREE MONTHS!

It took three freaking months for my GMK Zoa to grow a single head..

Skipped last weekends 50% water change because my nitrates and phosphates bottomed out after adding a fleece roller, feeding less, removing a clownfish, and adding a bag of copepods

My nitrates and phosphates are still bottomed out.

Over the week, I've done the following since I last posted the issue.

- Skipped Water Change

- Slightly increased feedings

- Lowered Speed of Fleece roller

- Reintroduced Clownfish from QT

- Stopped cleaning rear wall algae

I also tested Calcium and Magnesium, and those have dropped to critically low levels which I assume is due to skipping the water change. Ammonia and Nitrite 0.

Should I go ahead with my normal 50% water change to at least bring the calcium and magnesium back up a bit?

Whoops! I added a fleece roller to my system. At the same time, I lowered my daily feeding frequency from 2-3, down to 1 a day. Also added a bag of copepods.

My nitrates were 7ppm, and phosphates were .03ppm before the changes.

I've not tested these two parameters since making the changes about a month ago. Was about to do a water change, so I decided to test em. I'm glad I did.

Im considering my options because I dont want these two bottomed out. Some of my corals have looked less happy than usual, and this is probably why.

Do I? -

• Do smaller water changes

• Increase the feeding

• Do less frequent water changes

• Throw it all away

I had originally made these changes to combat the uglies. It worked..

Everyone say thanks, Billy! I love the app, bro! Keep on keepin on !

I'm scrambling because I was not prepared for this.. Came home from work to my clownfish not getting along, to say the least.

Over the last few days, the dominant clown had started chasing the smaller a bit more than usual. Today, I came home, and it was chasing the other while trying to nip at it. It got to the point where I felt I had to intervene.

Was only able to capture the stressed clown because he was hiding next to the nozzle of the return pump, right at the surface trying to catch his breath. I didn't know clownfish could swim so fast in such a precise manner and not hit any rocks head on in their 20g cube.

Now that I got the smaller and my favorite clown into the mesh basket, I tried to figure out what I should do.

Does this look like a healthy BTA?

To me, it's looking great, but I also have little experience with BTAs.

It was added 1 month after the tank cycled and has been in for 3 weeks now. I knew it was somewhat early in the tanks' life to add one. I made sure to achieve a certain level of consistency with my water parameters before adding it.