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[McPikie]

Turban snails?! YOU RACIST [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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[CEECH]

Turban snails?! YOU RACIST [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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[CEECH]

Grabbed some more CUC. 6 nas snails, 6 turban snails, a strawberry conch....

and I couldn't resist taking this little man home too

what type of a fish is that ? leopard wrasse ?

 

[McPikie]

Aye, think so. May be a peacock, but most probably a leopard

 

[CEECH]

Lovely looking little fish. Will be nice to watch it grow [emoji3]

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[McPikie]

Added some cheato, put it in the 3rd chamber after the skimmer. Hopefully it won't drop into the return chamber and end up in the sump. So had to move my UFO light over.
2017-07-12_11-37-42 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-12_11-37-35 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Then realised what an utter mess my wiring was, so had a tidy up
2017-07-14_09-26-37 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Picked up a 7 headed hammer colony off Woody
2017-07-12_11-37-55 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

and a nice large stylo colony off Craig
2017-07-12_11-37-48 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

I've also made a cage for the siporax
2017-07-12_11-37-27 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-14_09-26-47 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-14_09-26-52 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-14_09-26-58 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Only 2 rows deep, so may add some more in the future.

FTA as of 13/07/17, need to get that algae under control and scape

2017-07-14_09-27-14 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

 

[warby]

looking pretty good there phil. can you not put the cheato before the skimmer as the skimmer will be taking nutrients away from the cheato (think how a triton sump is set up)

 

[McPikie]

ahhhhh, is that how it works? Wont the cheato get full of crap from the return then?

 

[McPikie]

2017-07-19_08-47-07 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-19_08-47-21 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-19_08-47-39 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-07-19_08-47-48 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

 

[McPikie]

Need to get some filter floss ordered, can't even see through the glass on my sump now

 

[McPikie]

Had a bit of a bad time of late. All SPS stripped and frogspawn closed up. I think someone has sprayed something in the front room, despite being reminded regularly not too.

2017-08-07_11-27-02 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

So, added carbon in my reactor, cranked the skimmer up

2017-08-07_11-26-49 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Grabbed a full set of Salifert test kits and checked water

2017-08-07_11-26-21 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Ben seems to think it was a nutrient issue, so I've been doing 10l water changes every other day for a week or so.

Rock is covered in some weird algae. Dom at Kracken reckons I need a 3 day blackout, others say it's fine, just new tank syndrome, so grabbed 5 more mex turbos from marine 23

2017-08-07_11-23-00 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

SPS are starting to come back a bit, so I will need to do some fragging this week. Fish seem fine

2017-08-07_11-22-52 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Lobo is doing well

2017-08-07_11-22-43 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Had another play with my sump, moving cheato to 2nd chamber, then skimmer, then reactor in return chamber

2017-08-07_11-22-29 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr
2017-08-07_11-22-23 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

 

[Grannycarolann]

Its lousy when something goes wrong and trying to find out what is a bit needle and the proverbial haystack , good luck.

 

[McPikie]

Dusted the DSLR off

Stylo seems to be recovering

 

[HiddenReefer]

Think the tank is still maturing and going through it's various changes that most tanks go through in the early months on first setting up then adding copious amounts of new stock in it so the loads and parameters are adjusting constantly bringing there own side effects as u know buddy your last tank never looked better than when it fully matured out

 

[McPikie]

Think the tank is still maturing and going through it's various changes that most tanks go through in the early months on first setting up then adding copious amounts of new stock in it so the loads and parameters are adjusting constantly bringing there own side effects as u know buddy your last tank never looked better than when it fully matured out

Aye, think I am just rushing. I need to step back and just let it happen. Going to do twice weekly water changes while it levels out.

Good to see you back on here dude. You got a tank yet?

 

[Realist]

It's nice to see tanks mature specially via pictures from start to present day.

Keep up the good work.

 

[HiddenReefer]

Just nosying around pal u know me haha
Will get a reef again soon think by end of the year

 

[cuprajake]

It's nice to see tanks mature specially via pictures from start to present day.

Keep up the good work.

well peed off with photobucket.

used it on alot of forums and now there all pictureless

 

[Realist]

Yeh its a pain in the bum and they know people need their photo's.

Look for an alternative or can you not sign up with them once, get your pics back and re-add them via another image host.

Pain yes but an option.

 

[McPikie]

2017-08-10_08-33-58 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

2017-08-10_08-33-49 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Getting that flow/wave going