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08-20-2015, 05:09 AM
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Time for a small update.
After mounting all the frags, the only thing left on the frag rack were the Rastas, which were quickly getting out of hand...  ... they were even growing on the stem of the plug.  Then, one evening, the RBTA was looking a bit weird. After a couple of hours, it split...  ... and decided to go for a little walk. No harm done, whew!  Most folks seem to hate coralline, but I am welcoming it. Now it just needs to start growing more on the rocks.  Went to Cancun for a week and came home to a messy tank.  PO4 dropped from .03 to .006. Manually removed as much algae as I could, and added a sock to the sump.  Spent the last 2 days cleaning and doing a w/c. More work planned for the next couple days as well. Not quite sure how to safely remove the algae from the snails.  Got these weird bubbly things everywhere (dead centre of pic). At first I thought it was bubble algae, but they are more tear drop shaped, and not dark green like bubble algae. Perhaps Trochus snail eggs?  Picked up an Emerald, but he's not interested in them. #freeloader. I actually think the SOB is flipping me the bird in this pic.  8 months running my first salt tank and I think I'm doing ok. Already wanting to upgrade (Rich... not one word from you!)!  Thanks for looking. 
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08-20-2015, 05:13 AM
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Lol for my snails I picked them out and placed them in a plastic container with tank water in it. Then I floated the container in my tank with multiple snails in it. Lol they cleaned each other off
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08-20-2015, 05:16 AM
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08-20-2015, 05:20 AM
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And forgot to mention the tank is looking great!!
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08-20-2015, 08:23 PM
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Time to upgrade!
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10-05-2015, 06:19 AM
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Lots of additions to report. My fallow period ended the first week of August and I had a pair of clowns in the 20 for a few weeks of observation. Once I was happy that they were relatively healthy, I moved them over.  Then Rich and I headed out to Ryanericksons for one of our little coral adventures and shopping spree's. Tri-coloured Nana  Blue/green Cyphastria  Sunset Monti  In the above pic you can see the RR Wolverine at the top. Encrustation is good, however I have been having a hard time getting all the corals to colour up. Knowing that I needed to start dosing Amino's, I thought I'd start with the cheapest products, so I picked up some RedSea Energy and dosed for a couple weeks. Didn't really notice any change. In the end, once the bottles ran out, I bought some Zeo AA. Under the AA you can see my fancy dosing schedule. Still a huge learning curve for me. Considering adding some T5's.   Picked up a wicked Rainbow Monti from CanuckGod604.   Once again, cell photos do no justice. I'll finish off with a side FTS.  Thanks for looking.
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10-05-2015, 03:08 PM
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Tank's looking good Warren! That suspected Bubble Algae is Bubble Algae - it comes in several different varieties. Not all Emeralds will eat it ime. If you want small fish, make sure you buy female Emeralds. Just the males get the big pincers, and they will catch small fish.
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10-05-2015, 05:16 PM
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Get a spray bottle and some hydrogen perxoide from the dollar store and spray down the snail wait five minutes and put it back in the tank. that Amino acid should not be used if you have GHA it will just unlease a beast of algae on the tank.
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