Rob's 3X2X2

[Anguilla82]

Hi all, thought it was about time for an update. (bit pic heavy i'm afraid!)
Recently i've been losing heads on alot of my frogspawns, my blue/red lobo and my catalaphyllia. its really strange as my params haven't been that far out only my alk was particularly low at around 7.
well i've been dosing mag, calc, and alc using the Tank Tests stuff (which is very good, and muzzy is a great bloke!). params are back up to what they should be. but some of the frogs are still looking rough!

however some euphyllia are doing really well, as are my acans, bubbles and blastos; all looking real healthy and adding heads and my zoas and GSP are doing fine. just can't get my head around it. did see a post from someone else in this region that they were also losing LPS for no particular reason. his reasoning was the lunar cycle? i'm doubtful of this but wonder if its some chemical in the air round here???
still don't understand why only some of my euphyllia are affected.

anyways, my banggaii are carrying a brood again ) and i've added a few other fish, a pair of gold head neon gobies [001_wub.gif] and a safron goby.

also had a bit of a rescape yesterday to add a bommie down the middle. this aids circulation through the tank bit keeps a central 'hill' for my zoas.

frags in frag tank:

recovering acan:

new blasto wellsi:

bubbles:

poorly euphyllia:

healthy euphyllia:

new scape (tapered bommie along the middle):

 

[seffieuk]

Nice to see you back

I have also lost some euphyllias recently, lovely healthy ones with all params good apart from phosphate my light cycle was a bit too long and was feeding a little to much which gave me some cyano - but really shouldn't have killed off the euphyllias - I was gutted! I'm really tempted to give the tank over to the Bubble tips as they are thriving

your tank is looking gorgeous

Seffie x

 

[ben1987]

yeah good to see you back rob.

tank looks good, real shame about those heads you lost though. frag tank looks like it will be awesome too

 

[Anguilla82]

quick update.
clowns have spawned once, but of course the eggs disappeared after the 3rd or 4th day.
bangaiis have had their second brood, and low and behold what do i find in the first chamber of the sump but this little guy:

he's currently stuffing his face with bugs in my sump.
he must have gone over the weir, through the frag tank then into the sump!!


also have a couple of new fish, a peacock wrasse, and a hi-fin goby paired with a randall's pistol shrimp. he seems to change their home around every night!!!

i'm still losing the odd lps head but it seems to be slowing down.
am now dosing alk, mag and calc in a sort of balling light regime, bit different from my no testing days!!!!

have added a large skimmer (cheers Morri) which is pulling out a bit of gunk. not alot but then my system is pretty stable. its more there as a back-up and to add some more flow to the frag tank. also so i can feed more frozen to keep up with the needs of the peacock and flasher wrasse.

am starting to struggle with the heat so next on the list is some fans to hook uo to my atc 800

 

[Morri]

I have all my salts for balling but no comp dosing pumps or my reservoir hopefully this week manual dosing does not agree with me.

Liking the hi-fin nice fish at least your pistol shrimp is still in the DT mine made his way into my DSB in my Sump.

Hope you are pleased with the skimmer cant say the new one is pulling out anymore gunk than that one but have a load of extra room in my cabinet now

 

[seffieuk]

Oh how cool, a baby cardinal, no i'm not being sarcastic, even I, the cardinal couldn't fail to admire the little guy

Seffie x