loganj
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Went to a customers house today to get started on their SW tank. It's a 75g with about 60-80lbs of LR, 1" CaribSea Seaflor grade sand, a Fluval 304, a Hagen 802 PH, and two 40w lights (1-actinic, 1-5500k).
The tank had a coating of green and red cyano on the glass and hair algae about 2-3" thick on the substrate and LR. Livestock consists of one 3 stripe damsel. Water parameters are as follows
pH: 8.3
NH3: 0
N02: 0
n03: 100+ off scale
P04: .05
Ca: 360
Alk: 2.5 meq/l
Cleaned glass, vacumed hair algae off rock and sand, removed bio media from Fluval, added Purigen pack to Fluval, cleaned and restarted PH, and did about a 60% water change. Here's the plan:
Take all rock out and scrub hair algae off it. Rinse substrate. Replace all water in tank with fresh RO/DI and IO salt. Use Fluval for circulation only...maybe carbon when needed. Add enough Seaflor sand to bring depth to at least 3 1/2-4". Add skimmer...probably Prizm Pro or Seaclone 150...maybe one of the Aqua Remoras if they have a good HOB. Any ideas or suggestions?
This tank will fall into the FOWLR category so I'm not too worried about the lights now. I may recommend going with a CS Smartlite with 10000k and leaving the NO actinic. Also would be interested in any ideas for stocking the tank. Want to keep the bio load low...small, hardy fish. Guess a trio of green chromis will go in for sure. Maybe a coral beauty.
Some kind of clown and maybe a sailfin/lawnmower blenny. Ideas?
Logan J
The tank had a coating of green and red cyano on the glass and hair algae about 2-3" thick on the substrate and LR. Livestock consists of one 3 stripe damsel. Water parameters are as follows
pH: 8.3
NH3: 0
N02: 0
n03: 100+ off scale
P04: .05
Ca: 360
Alk: 2.5 meq/l
Cleaned glass, vacumed hair algae off rock and sand, removed bio media from Fluval, added Purigen pack to Fluval, cleaned and restarted PH, and did about a 60% water change. Here's the plan:
Take all rock out and scrub hair algae off it. Rinse substrate. Replace all water in tank with fresh RO/DI and IO salt. Use Fluval for circulation only...maybe carbon when needed. Add enough Seaflor sand to bring depth to at least 3 1/2-4". Add skimmer...probably Prizm Pro or Seaclone 150...maybe one of the Aqua Remoras if they have a good HOB. Any ideas or suggestions?
This tank will fall into the FOWLR category so I'm not too worried about the lights now. I may recommend going with a CS Smartlite with 10000k and leaving the NO actinic. Also would be interested in any ideas for stocking the tank. Want to keep the bio load low...small, hardy fish. Guess a trio of green chromis will go in for sure. Maybe a coral beauty.
Some kind of clown and maybe a sailfin/lawnmower blenny. Ideas?
Logan J