Archive for October 2007
Going OK
Posted on Monday, 22 October, 2007 at 8:30 AM by miskairal
Luckily this tank is doing far better than the 5 footer. Both mandarins, Angelina and Whoopi are going great with Angelina being a fat sausage who eats just about anything while Whoopi, the psychedelic, has good condition on her but only eats frozen mysis and brine shrimp. She is also the underdog and often chased by Angelina but it is easy to make sure she gets access to all food with the diner and target feeding.
I now have in this tank my orange Scolymia Australis and green Cynarina. The cynarina is partially bleached and the Scoly is smaller but still a brilliant orange. A few mushies seem to be still alive and I have some caluerpa growing in there now too.
I've pretty much been changing 20% a month during water changes although I've done a couple of extras. Nitrates and Phosphates are still fairly high so I have Rowaphos and Purigen added. Not much else to say.
Edited on: Monday, 22 October, 2007 8:34 AMPosted in Peregian 4 foot (RSS)
Bad to worse
Posted on Monday, 22 October, 2007 at 8:17 AM by miskairal
Hmm, no good news. Virtually all my coral are dead as well as all 4 Trochus snails. I have left my fish, my leather coral, an anemone, a couple of mushies a few snails, some micro hermits and the urchin. Oh and whatever it is that makes the loud clicking/cracking sound. I managed to save my Scolymia, the orange one, by putting it into the 4 foot tank where things seem to be doing a bit better.
It's all so weird and inexplicable. I even setup my ex freshwater 45litre tank one day with lovely clean water and a few pieces of rock, a heater, a good powerhead and a single 150MH light and put the corals that were still alive at that point in there, namely the acans, the duncan, symphillia, cynarina and fungia but they all died dammit! I tested that tank all the time too and the KH was a bit low but everything else was perfect and the caluerpa is still growing (I am going to use the tank as a Q tank for my next fish so it's still running).
I have the nitrates and phosphates under control and I'm running a filter containing carbon in all water used for topups and water changes. I changed the lighting in the refugium and now have caluerpa growing a bit better. Unless I win lotto I won't be replacing the coral so I'm thinking of going FOWLR and getting some more fish. Haven't decided what yet and need to do some research but perhaps a yellow tang and a clown goby.
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