bgood1
Tue, 31st Oct 2006, 11:37 AM
I'll give my schpeal again to save questions about my setup. But I am starting to see not so good things with a few of my corals so I am second guessing myself again.
My 200gl tank has been up for 4.5 months now. HQI (2 x 250w 10k/14k)and Compaq lighting (4 x 95w act), large fug (Approx 50gal packed full of grape caulerpa with lights on 24x7 for stable PH levels. Never even really had a cycle because of it (silent cycle) , 200+lbs premium live rock, great waterflow (2 x 1200gph Blueline), Euro skimmer and Prime chiller. Water params have been perfect since 1 month up. PH 8.4, 0 Amm., Nitrates. Phos and Alk right on. Calc could be higher (360 /9Dkh) but my calc react / wasser is not up yet (using a buffer though).
Have Naso Tang, Midas Blennie, Royal Gramma and 5 green chromis along with cleaner and blood shrimp, 2 sea slugs, a few snails, a few Emerald crabs and of course about 50 or so small blue legged hermits, 2 types of green Blastos, Frogspawn, several Ricordia, few chunks of Zoos -all of them are very happy and thriving......
…..However, just within the last week I have noticed that two (out of 5) of my neon green blasto polyps as well as all of my Trumpet polyps seem to be withering a bit. Whats up now? These guys have been in the tank for about 2 months now and we doing fine. Water Params still right on.
I feed once a day with homemade fish/coral food (pureed mussels, oysters (and oyster eggs), fish roe, squid, fish fillets, shrimp, sea weed along with a chunk of Cyclops Ease. I tried some phytoplankton for a few weeks but didn't see anything noticable and asked around and everyone thought the food I make should take care of just about any fish and corals?
I turn power heads and one pump completely off during feeding and throttle the other pump back with a valve so just a small current moves the food around just a little and gets the fine stuff into the corals. I do not put any additives or trace elements in the system (yet and was hoping to not have to).
Anyways, so I don't lose your interest here, can someone give me any ideas? Am I overskimming possibly?
If possible, if someone could maybe give me a sample of what their weekly or monthly maintenance, feeding, additives etc schedule looks like that would be a great help. Again, I have been reading tons of stuff but this is my first tank and now that the “rubber is meeting the road” so to speak, I don’t know what I don’t know yet – Devil’s in the details with this stuff right!
Sorry so long winded but I wanted to address any questions that might gets asked….thanks in advance for any help!
My 200gl tank has been up for 4.5 months now. HQI (2 x 250w 10k/14k)and Compaq lighting (4 x 95w act), large fug (Approx 50gal packed full of grape caulerpa with lights on 24x7 for stable PH levels. Never even really had a cycle because of it (silent cycle) , 200+lbs premium live rock, great waterflow (2 x 1200gph Blueline), Euro skimmer and Prime chiller. Water params have been perfect since 1 month up. PH 8.4, 0 Amm., Nitrates. Phos and Alk right on. Calc could be higher (360 /9Dkh) but my calc react / wasser is not up yet (using a buffer though).
Have Naso Tang, Midas Blennie, Royal Gramma and 5 green chromis along with cleaner and blood shrimp, 2 sea slugs, a few snails, a few Emerald crabs and of course about 50 or so small blue legged hermits, 2 types of green Blastos, Frogspawn, several Ricordia, few chunks of Zoos -all of them are very happy and thriving......
…..However, just within the last week I have noticed that two (out of 5) of my neon green blasto polyps as well as all of my Trumpet polyps seem to be withering a bit. Whats up now? These guys have been in the tank for about 2 months now and we doing fine. Water Params still right on.
I feed once a day with homemade fish/coral food (pureed mussels, oysters (and oyster eggs), fish roe, squid, fish fillets, shrimp, sea weed along with a chunk of Cyclops Ease. I tried some phytoplankton for a few weeks but didn't see anything noticable and asked around and everyone thought the food I make should take care of just about any fish and corals?
I turn power heads and one pump completely off during feeding and throttle the other pump back with a valve so just a small current moves the food around just a little and gets the fine stuff into the corals. I do not put any additives or trace elements in the system (yet and was hoping to not have to).
Anyways, so I don't lose your interest here, can someone give me any ideas? Am I overskimming possibly?
If possible, if someone could maybe give me a sample of what their weekly or monthly maintenance, feeding, additives etc schedule looks like that would be a great help. Again, I have been reading tons of stuff but this is my first tank and now that the “rubber is meeting the road” so to speak, I don’t know what I don’t know yet – Devil’s in the details with this stuff right!
Sorry so long winded but I wanted to address any questions that might gets asked….thanks in advance for any help!