Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Just some details...

Alright... so everything seems to be on track as of right now. The thing I love about this tank is that it is running and has been running without any expensive equipment.

My maintenance routine includes:

  • Weekly 5- 10 gallon water changes, 
  • Replace the filter floss twice weekly, 
  • Feed the tank a little every other day and once a week heavy feeding for the fish and feed the LPS the day before the water change,
  • Blow the rocks off every other day
  • One drop of iodine mid-week
  • Check the chemicals once a week and add magnesium if needed
This has kept the tank going well without much issue, including nuisance algae, for a little over two years now.

Livestock includes:
  • Two clownfish
  • A yellow watchman goby
  • A banded brittle star
  • A decent sized pom-pom crab

As far as corals go:
  • orange montipora cap
  • green and blue polyp montipora cap
  • purple with green polyp montipora cap
  • orange montipora dig
  • green and kryptonite candy cane colonies
  • baseball sized colony of galaxiea 
  • two small frags of purple and blue stylophora
  • small frag of green porcillipora
  • three different brain colonies
  • two common paly colonies
  • a frag of pavona
  • a colony of branching duncan
  • misc mushrooms including a purple and green yuma and a green and orange ric florida
  • a nice frag of blue stag that is starting to get its blue color back
  • a few pieces of green slimmer that are slowly recovering
  • a baby piece of green loripes that i cut off of a dying colony
Everything has growth on it from within the last few weeks since it crashed due to a heater malfunction.

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