Greg's 75g

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Rice Reef

Greg, looking good and the new scape is awesome! Is that a green slimmer in the last pick? Interesting growth pattern and likey!

Thanks Wayne
Yup, that's a green slimer, and a brown right before it. They are growing with the flow ...

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Tank is looking great. Lots of nice corals in there. Is that long spine black urchin behaving himself? I eventually had to get rid of mine.

Thanks Walt
The urchin munched on a green turaki once, but all in all is no problem, as long as frags are glued into holes
I feed it nori and shrimp here and there

[kien]

Yay for no cyano! Tank is looking great! So sparkly clean :-)

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by kien

Yay for no cyano! Tank is looking great! So sparkly clean :-)

Thank you K
Yay Chemiclean !
Now all I have to do is get this pesky film algae under control

[gregzz4]

I got my Mag doser setup today - Thanks J&L
I have new 4-litre space saver containers on the way from Reef Supplies

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Now all I have to do is get this pesky film algae under control

With the green film algae (if it is the stuff I'm thinking of), just keep blowing it with the turkey baster. Unlike hair algae, it doesn't grab hard on rock or other surfaces and can be easily blown off. Usually it floats to the surface then, and out the overflow. But if you leave it, it will keep spreading and hard to get rid of otherwise.

[gregzz4]

It's just the dusty stuff on the glass
I clean it once a week and the wrasses eat the large pieces that float off the razor blade

[Reef Pilot]

Didn't know that wrasses eat algae... The stuff on my glass is eaten by my tangs, and my Kole is the real champ for that. Then, mag cleaner for the front to make it really clean. I don't think you can ever stop that from growing on the glass. Low P04 reduces it, but never eliminates it, or at least not in my tanks.

[gregzz4]

Long time and no update

I've switched over to Randy's 2-part and also installed a 3rd dosing pump (Schlobster 1.1ml/min) for Mag

I've cut my annual dosing costs from $150 to $30

I bought Calcium Chloride from Home Hardware; 20KG for $25.99
Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate from Canreef Sponsor/Member TimT; 10KG for $39
I buy my Baking Soda and Epsom Salts from Walmart for; approximately $4/2KGs and $9/4KGs respectively

Our corals are looking very happy and growing well
Of course the biggest grower is the green birdsnest
This was Feb



This week



If your eyes are sharp enough you saw that one branch of the brown slimer in the back right of the tank is pointing the other way. I had a glass cleaning mishap and decided to glue the broken bit facing the other direction

Looking at the 2 pics shows me that it's not the Green Slimer that's growing so much as the birdsnest. Looks like it's time to trim it back before there's a battle

I had Ram3500 come by on Wed the 23rd and he helped me prune the front of the birdsnest to get it away from the glass, plus he took away a bunch of the GSP. Thanks Ian !!

I'll be adding another update shortly as I'm going to attempt to add a larger pump to my skimmer

Stay tuned ...