So today I did a water change and I pulled the 4 trays out of my emperor 400 hob filter to "swoosh" any lose junk out of there which may of contributed to my high trates. 2 trays are media that came with the filter and the other 2 trays i added activated carbon. When does this need to be changed? When I pulled out each tray and slid them back in much debris entered the tank. How do I prevent this from happening in the future? Moving forward am I supposed to turn the filter off while doing this and does anyone clean the intake tube?
Thanks!
So I got some chaeto algae and grape caulerpa (sp) I put in a makeshift fuge for right now about 500 pods it said. I also got 3 blue ricordia mushrooms, 2 blue mushrooms ( 1 was attached to rock 1 floating in bag and was lost when trying to situate it on a piece of lr in my tank. 1 Duncan w/ 2 heads. Some pieces of GsP didn't open yet. And the purple sea whip is by far my favorite until the rest open. All corals were drip acclimated for approximately 1.5 hours. Going to lfs to pick up some things tomorrow. Here Are some pics: not too much to see at this time not everything is open yet.
Speaking about the purple sea whip I was thinking about getting yellow and red ones too in the future and I want to know how do you go about propagating them bc I'd like to line them up all along the back wall of my tank if this purple one does well. Kind of like a wall of whips behind my LR. Besides that, let me know what you think I put a FTS in as well. Goodnight!
Thanks! I went to the lfs today to spend $40 on some small frags and just to look and left spending over 200$ fml. Pics to come. I got 2 green candy came coral frags. 1 has 3 heads one has two. I got a frogspawn which I've wanted for so long happy I got it. There was a bunch of talk that they're endangered now so I got one while I can bc the lfs said they wouldn't be getting anymore in. I picked up a 6 line wrasse and a green mandarin. I know they're difficult but he was eating brine shrimp at the lfs and I got amphioids and Copepods just incase.
In 1-2 months I am interested in getting more fish to my stock. Currently I have a yellow tang, 6 line, clown & green mandarin. What are some good schooling fish I can have in my 55g tank besides blue green chromis?