The two money pits....

[Reefcubeboy]

Late night snack of hikari marine granules before the halide knocks out..dopey dori going nuts as usual too

 

[Reefcubeboy]

Asked earlier on an american forum if I ever fed frozen to the tank......

Think might just have answered them..

 

[TigerIssey]

Funny that RCB, that picture looks just like the bottom drawer of my kitchen fridge freezer. :-

 

[Reefcubeboy]

Love the new avatar Tina..keep that whip a cracking gerl... :-00

 

[northernmonkey]

Asked earlier on an american forum if I ever fed frozen to the tank......

Think might just have answered them..

I take it you feed flake then :shock: :?: ......................

Love the new avatar Tina..keep that whip a cracking gerl... :-00

Of course I'll pick you up on the NWMC day out ..............Please leave the whip at home :-

 

[Animus]

What does DSB stand for? (you mentioned this on the vid earlier)

 

[TigerIssey]

Love the new avatar Tina..keep that whip a cracking gerl... :-00

Of course I'll pick you up on the NWMC day out ..............Please leave the whip at home :-

That whip is to keep you men in line NM, just a little reminder :twisted:

Oh.... and thanks for the lift )

 

[Reefcubeboy]

What does DSB stand for? (you mentioned this on the vid earlier)

Sorry..dsb stands for deep sand bed..used as a denitrification filter, nitrates being broken down to their component elements by anaerobic bacteria

 

[TigerIssey]

Technically its Facultative anaerobic bacteria, these are bacteria that like oxygen, but can perform in the absence of oxygen.

Anaerobic = without oxygen, oxygen not needed.
Aerobic = Needing Oxygen

 

[Animus]

Ah, thanks. I had come accross it before but forgot what it stod for. Well, I think I'm well over my one thing to learn a day!

 

[Reefcubeboy]

Pictoral history of a reef, the good times and the bad......

just arrived, last sept

first box of live rock keeping wet

what happens when you rush and forget to rinse yer carbon...fool!!!

clear again and 3 poly boxes of live rock later

nano transferred into it and the diatoms strike

diatoms dying back and good old bryopsis moves in

and then takes over

magnesium raised up to 1700ppm and 6 hungry large blue knuckles let loose and bryopsis is slowly beat back

bryopsis wars are almost at an end

victory !!!...bye bye bryopsis

hair algae and cyano try to move in instead

time to fight fire with fire so a macro algaee chamber is set up in second rear chamber and caulerpa set free in the tank to absorb any remaining nutrients until the dsb's mature fully

and wow did it work, slowly at start

now time to control the grape caulerpa,lol...

not so easy either until........

 

[Reefcubeboy]

enter the gatherer urchin, more bio warfare was the trick

caulerpa gone and algaes tried again but urchin soon made short work of this with help from the 20 odd asstd snails

eventually I started to win

xenia took off and the last part of the biological absorbtion team took control of most of the dissolved nutrients....at last !!

bit of rearranging and a few additions and here we are today.....

Hope this helps any newbies fighting with algae problems..never give up !!!!!!

 

[Reefcubeboy]

Thanx nm..leave the one side covered in algae now as an in tank scrubber and as an open banquet for the herbi's in there

 

[northernmonkey]

That is one hell of a battle you had there Glad to see that after all that hard work it paid off to show the stunning tank you have now mate :-D

 

[Reefcubeboy]

Now it looks like i'm psychic... :- :- :-

 

[northernmonkey]

Now it looks like i'm psychic... :- :- :-

Not sure what you mean mate :?: :?:
















I moved it so your thread looked tidy then noticed you had replied so I was waiting for that reply

 

[TigerIssey]

Can I use those first few set up piccies please RCB.

Seen that graduate maturation before, alot of hard work went into that.

 

[Reefcubeboy]

Course you can missus

 

[TigerIssey]

Thank You

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[Kev]

Thats a great series of shots showing a setups development / maturation. Thanks for sharing, really good to see. :--