My River Reef 94 Marine Adventure!

[simonas]

heres some pics of my new fish with my new camera

my royal gramma which is a good size about 3-4 inch

my 2 new Clowns, said I wouldn;t get anymore but these are a good size and very chunky, so much better and healthier looking than the ones I;ve had and failed with in past

My candy cane using macro function

my maze with Blenny

my shrimp I have two and theyre really active, I;m sure I can see eggs inside one of them

love the finger coral and riccordea

my blennys beautiful eyes

fulltank shot

 

[seffieuk]

Looking real good

Seffie x

 

[MissG55]

Great looking tank and great photos too!

Your Blenny is lovely, what fantastic eyes... I would love a blenny but have read they are jumpers and as i have an open top thought it would be too risky. Do you have a hood? If not have you had any trouble with him jumping!?

 

[ben1987]

cracking pics mate. filling out nicely now too

 

[simonas]

Great looking tank and great photos too!

Your Blenny is lovely, what fantastic eyes... I would love a blenny but have read they are jumpers and as i have an open top thought it would be too risky. Do you have a hood? If not have you had any trouble with him jumping!?

I have a hood so no jumping hes been fine, hes my favourite fish, such a dude and suits his name Dave to a tee!!

cracking pics mate. filling out nicely now too

it is and I;m very happy with it now. I would like some more corals if I can , some more colour would be good, not sure what to get though

Fingers crossed these clowns will be successful. they look great and somuch bigger and stringer than the ones I have bought over last 3 monthsThey are constantly displaying at each other as well

 

[simonas]

right couple of weeks on these clowns are great, they hang round one corner a lot, eat really well and keep making spawning behaviour motions by the glass. This makes me think the problem I had with clowns were with the crap stock from two local LFS's, earlier in the thread you will see I had 5 or 6 from different lfs's which suffered the same fate, heavy breathing,fading colour and no eating

anyway I;m delighted with them

Tanks going well bar the fading of my maze coral.

Saw my Riccordea florida eat for the first time last night, it caught a mysis shrimp and the mouth in the centre munched it right up!!

Needs a rescape and some colour till I;m totally happy with it though

also three months or so in I cannot get the skimmer to work properly, the water levels with the weir system baffle me and the skimmer cup either overflows or the water level is to low for it to have an effect

 

[seffieuk]

Sounding good - I have a friend with the sam etank, I will ask him about the skimmer (if I remember!)

Seffie x

 

[simonas]

I haven;t tested the water for a while so here goes

ph still 7.7 frustrating
ammonia 0 - good
nitrite 0 - yay
nitrate 25 - but a dark 25!! why can;t i get this down
calcium 260 again, not impressed as I;ve been mixing own and water mixed been higher
phosphate 0.25

obviously I;m not impressed with various elements of those stats as they don;t appear to have got any better as the weeks have gone by
I;ve just felt my toadstool which used to be really impressive but is not so now and its quite spongy to the touch, is it not getting enough calcium for example?

 

[simonas]

well I destroyed my Berlin 60 skimmer accidentally by cutting it in half thinking it would maybe skim due to the low water level but I wrecked the skimmer

I;ve just bought a Boyu WG-310 Skimmer? hopefully this will work as I would like to skim on this tank

can;t do any harm can it?

 

[seffieuk]

can;t do any harm can it?

Nope, will not do any harm. Your toadstool doesn't need calcium and I would be surprised if it was low anyway as you do weekly regualr water changes with a good salt. More likely to be something else, like high phosphates etc. Are you running a nitrate reducer like purigen?

Seffie x

 

[simonas]

can;t do any harm can it?

Nope, will not do any harm. Your toadstool doesn't need calcium and I would be surprised if it was low anyway as you do weekly regualr water changes with a good salt. More likely to be something else, like high phosphates etc. Are you running a nitrate reducer like purigen?

Seffie x

I;ve only mixed my own twice andthats at 440 ish whereas the water I;ve always used from the LFS I have twice tested at 260 hence my probblem.
Just got some RO and my own salt again today so I shall raise that hopefully as I go.
I;ve not tried a nitrate reducer, how do you use that? I shall do a search on that now

 

[GAB99]

what is your whole setup? its really nice btw

 

[simonas]

what is your whole setup? its really nice btw

cheers for that

how do you mean what is the whole set up?

Its an Interpet River Reef 94 if thats what you mean mate

 

[simonas]

new skimmer in now a BOYU WG310. Only cheap off ebay £18 but seems to be used by people who have a River Reef 94.Fingers crossed it will work in this tank and that anything it removes will be a bonus

 

[GAB99]

i meant like stock, lights, filters, powerhead the whole shabang