55 Patience is a Virtue Seawater Build

[ReefNoob0424]

Did you clean your pads in the canister filter

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

I replaced one of two pads. I'll pull the second now.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Actually two new floss pads in the canister and added charcoal and purigen. No pads in the HOB filter now. Plan to put some chaeto in there when I can buy some. Just using the HOB right now for flow.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Still 0 Ammonia and 1 nitrite.


I am wondering about Prime which I have been using from the beginning. It says that it detoxifies nitrite and nitrate. Hmmm.

SRC

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Starting to get green spots on my rock!! Yay!


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[San Raphael Catfish]

One month as of today.

Chromis is happier. Can't get a good photo but dorsal fin is up hiring. Peppermint shrimp molted last night. I can see it is in one of the cave in my DIY live rock. I look forward to see it come out and show its new brighter fine self. The hermits are out and active. Clown is all over the tank.

Have 4 Narcissus snails. One keeps going to the top of the tank and hanging out 50% in the water and 50% out of the water. Is that normal Narcissus behavior?

A couple of the mollies look like they could live bear at anytime.

Nitrite is still at 1. Grr. Will do a 20% pwc after work today. My 800 gph powerhead should be here at anytime in the next 5 days

Do you pull the molt or leave it?

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[TommyP]

Glad to see the tanks going well. I leave the molt if I can't reach it otherwise ill take my tongs and toss it out

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

I'll take it out when I get home and do my water change.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

When I got home, there was my new 800 gph powerhead. Put it in the tank, pointed it at the rocks. No pwc but nitrite is .5 this morning. Flow plays a big role.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Just did 20% water change.

 

[ReefNoob0424]

Water quality, lighting, filtration and flow are the key for all saltwater aquariums.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Dos Amigos

 

[ReefNoob0424]

Very cool! And here's my wish live stock as well:

Fish:
- 2 Harlequin Shrimp
- 2 Clowns (getting rid of my Maroon clown for sale if interested)
- Maybe a six-line wrasse
- 1-2 Derasa Clams

Coral:
- Torch
- Frogspawn
- Mushroom & Zoa garden
- Montiporas
- Couple of SPS & LPS (when I get my lights dilated probably 60%)
- Leather Toadstool
- Bubble (green)
- Wellsophyllia
- Brain & Acans
- Couple of Sponges

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Looking to add

Pistol shrimp
goby
Mushroom coral
Ricordea
Xenia
Cleaner shrimp
2 more Chromis

I think that is it. Maybe a starfish or two later.

 

[ReefNoob0424]

Are you buying the pistol and the goby paired? Or separate?

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Separate but using the goby and pistol shrimp information that is found on reefs to go.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Was feeding squid. The narcissus snail had a good sized chunk when he got jumped by a peppermint shrimp who drug him along by the squid until he gave up.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Probably over feeding.

Ammonia 0
Nitrite .5

Been feeding three times a day. Gonna cut back to 1-2. And see what happens to the numbers.

 

[ReefNoob0424]

3 times a day? I feed my corals and my fish every other day. That could be your problem with your ammonia and nitrate. Try to feed them once a day, every other day.

 

[San Raphael Catfish]

Gone reef! 1 hour in of acclimating. Read up on fragging leathers. It was already two connected stems. Split them, and then trimmed one again because I didn't realize they were connected and one clip from the large toadstool top. I expect 3 of 4 pieces to do well.

The one cut was just cleaning up my first frag cut.

Looking forward to seeing how they do under the lights.

Edited-- went from UGLY brown at Petco to a decent purple in its first 15 minutes under lights.

SRC