Reef and Marine Fish Forum

Ok. Following on from my previous post some developments.
Lots of red slime on my sand, which from reading is the bi-product of the bacterial action of cyano bacteria.
I'm scooping it out with a net, rinsing the sand thoroughly until its all washed away before returning it.
Phosphates have now dropped right back again, and curiously the skimmate has lightened considerably from it's previously near black colour to light brown, which would suggest less organics? So, if the cyano bacteria...

So what do you think and what are your experiences with keeping fish in a reef system and a fish only system, in your experience were/are your fish more healthy than in the other and if so why?
Personally, my fish seem more comfortable in my reef than when I had a fish only system but that was many many moons ago and of course things have changed greatly.

Does anyone use bio pellets ?

Do the work ?

Which ones do you use ?

Thanks

Here is a good bit of information that I read years ago,and I though would be a good item for all you guys and girls on here.

Regards dan

First part.

Reef Safe Plastics & Leaching (myths&facts)

infamousCorkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Reef Safe Plastics & Leaching (Myths & Facts)

This topic came up when someone in my reefclub posted a thread about plastic autotopoff container and which one should be used. Everyone in the reefclub jumped on it suggesting #1 or #2 plastics.

I decided to do...

As above

The only things I've changed recently are that I've added a piece of caribsea life rock that used to be in my tank once a long time ago (i.e. 7 months) and also have added an upturned butter tub (to raise my skimmer in the sump).

The butter tub must surely be catering safe and so I assumed ok for salty use?

Is it more likely to be the rock? Had them about a week now and getting fed up, but hope they will clear when the source runs out

Having this tank running for 6 weeks now I thought it's probably time to make a tread on here to log the development of this tank

Tank:

24" cube 10mm glass with corner weir
Sump:

24" diy glass/acrylic 6 stages
Stand:

Diy steel frame 50mm box channel
Equipment:

Light - ATI sunpower 6 bulbs plus led for moonlight

Circulation - 2 jebao 4000l with twin controller

Stc 1000

I'll edit this later can't be asked right now

Current Parameters:

PH 8.0
NO2 0.05
NO3 0.5
PO4...

Hi,

I’m hoping someone can help me out - I’m struggling with a few things on our aquarium at the moment, water flow and high nitrates.

We had this tank custom made but when it turned up they had changed the design of the sump from our original designs and installed all the piping in a way I wouldn’t have thought was best practice! I’ve had one issue solved on this forum with the weir so hopefully I can get some help on the this

The tank size is 1568mm (L) x 685mm (H) x 456mm (W) and...

Well you wouldn't believe it,
woke up this morning with less than 24hrs until we go on holiday for ten days to our mustard tang covered in white spot. Setting up a quarantine tank and catching all the fish then expecting our kind neighbors next door who are looking after the fish while we're away to then treat them isn't an option, so I nipped out this morning and bought some polyp lab medic to treat the tank. They are happy to dose this morning and night as well as feeding and I have also...

My mg has been low for a while and despite dosing seachem reef advantage mag weekly, now double the dose that should raise my level, I can't raise it above 1150. So what to do? Because apart from the impact on my tank, and the frustration, it's getting costly. To my eyes nothing seems to be suffering, and even tho my calcium is also low at 350, corals and coraline algae seem to be doing fine. Ph is 8, Alk is 9.5.

As above for 15mm glass