Old Moe's 75g

[SarahSmile]

Moe, that looks really great. Look at you, you're a sumpin', 'scapin', master now!

 

[Waddi]

Yea....... Sooooooooo....... Wanna come do my tank now????? :mrgreen:

 

[little_fish]

looks great!

 

[Old_Moe]

looks like I might be near the end of my cycle :)

looking for advise on what to do now

should I do a water change?
do I need to wait until the Nitrites reach zero?


Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 77.2
Ammonia: 0ppm ( high of 4ppm )
Nitrite: 2ppm ( high of 5ppm )
Nitrate: 10ppm ( highest reading so far, has not come down in 5 days )
High Range Ph: 8.0

 

[SarahSmile]

Yes, wait til amm and nitrites are at zero, then do a big ol' water change to get at those nitrates. Everthing is coming down nicely!
Love the graph. So professional.

 

[Old_Moe]

thought so too, but I wanted to ask...

chart: while I am waiting, and waiting,,, I thought I could geek it up a little bit. hahaha

 

[SarahSmile]

I know, I know, the waiting is killer. I had a multiple highlighter situation going myself. I never thought of a computer graph, if I had, I would have done it!

 

[Old_Moe]

still cycling.... Nitrites down to 0.25ppm

as I have been starring into the tank I have noticed:

• good amount of new coralline growing on the live rocks, none on the Key Largo yet.
• 3 peanut worms
• 1 Bristle worm

maybe a piece of apistia growing, it is very small right now,, and tucked on an end of a rock. Very hard to get a pic of.

The aqualife light is awesome...

Thanks.

 

[Old_Moe]

Yipeee.....

Nitrites down to ZERO :^:

Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78.5
Ammonia: 0ppm ( high of 4ppm )
Nitrite: 0ppm ( high of 5ppm )
Nitrate: 20ppm
High Range Ph: 8.1

Going to watch it until Friday to make sure the Nitrites are still zero, if it is, I am going to do the 20% water change. Mixing the water now, so it can sit/mix a couple of days.

I ordered the mini CUC from Reefs2Go last night ( figuring it would take a couple of days to get here ). I didn't want too big of a crew in fear that they might starve to death.

Also... starting to get some Diatoms and a little bit Algae.

I was looking at the tank with a flashlight and noticed that I may have fleas? little white bugs hopping all over the place. Hope they are not bad.


thanks!

 

[little_fish]

Those little bugs are pods, which are good guys! Free fish food!

And congrats on finishing your cycle!!!!!

 

[Old_Moe]

Good news... Thanks!!!

hmm, since they are good... I will have to figure out a way to "save" them when I clean my sump. I have hundreds of those things in my sump and I was gonig to clean it out as part of my water change ( I have a good coating of white new-tank-dust in there ). The ones in the tank I will just leave alone and let my future fish enjoy the snack in their new home... kind of like finding the little chocolates left on your pillow at hotels...


since they are not fleas... now I have to figure out why I am itching... haha just kidding. :D

 

[Old_Moe]

moving along here. Nitrites were still Zero Wed eve, so I did the water change yesterday morning. These are the readings I got after running for about 10hrs.

Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78.0
Ammonia: 0ppm ( high of 4ppm )
Nitrite: 0ppm ( high of 5ppm )
Nitrate: 5ppm ( high of 20ppm )
High Range Ph: 8.1


Have the CUC from reefs2go coming in the mail today. Going to do another reading tonight ( I try to test the water about the same time each day ). If all goes well I think I am good to add fish???... my little guy really wants... Nemo :D

Thanks!!!

 

[ZyberGoby]

looking sharp may you have a pod explosion because they are a great cleaner crew in them self's on top of the cuc you ordered :D

 

[little_fish]

Looks like you are ready for your first fish!!!!!!!

 

[Old_Moe]

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:


thank you all for all the help!!!!

 

[Old_Moe]

Yikes... its been over a Month since I updated my build thread... my bad.

ok... so since last update,

Dealt with building my sump and fixing the noisy overflow.

https://www.livingreefs.com/overflow-question-t37299.html#post514152
https://www.livingreefs.com/sump-overflow-t37367.html#post513206

I added a CUC

https://www.livingreefs.com/clean-up-crew-t37548.html#post515851

Had new tank Algae

https://www.livingreefs.com/identification-help-bryopsis-algae-t37594.html#post516249

I added my First Fish ( 2 Clowns )

https://www.livingreefs.com/first-fish-need-little-advise-t37467.html#post515301

Surprise Guest

https://www.livingreefs.com/crazy-crab-story-t38003.html#post520779

repositioned my rock... again and again...

Thanks.

 

[Old_Moe]

I got my first Corals :D

corals are from pacificeastaquaculture
Maryland Corals for Sale | Saltwater Fish | Inverts | Reef | Clams

Corals came very fast ( next day ) and I was very very impressed with the packaging. Every Coral was tripple bagged and there were 2 heat packs inside of styrofoam packed with news paper. They left nothing to chance with delivery.

I got 3 Mushrooms, 3 Zoanthids and a Frogspaun ( my favorite so far )

my peppermint shrimp went after one of the mushrooms as soon as I put it in the tank...

• I temp acclimated them for about 30mins.
• Dripped in bucket for about 90min.
• Dipped in Two Little Fishes Revive for 5 min ( worked awesome, a couple of nudi's came running out )
• Rinsed in salt water
• Put in DT

All pics were taken a few hours after they made it into the DT.

Green Pinstripe Mushroom

Red Hot Chilli Pepper Mushroom

Flame Mushroom

Purple tip Frogspawn

Watermelon Zoanthids

Gold Marble Zoanthids

Green Garden Zoanthids

Thanks.

 

[little_fish]

Looks awesome Moe!

 

[ZyberGoby]

vary vary nice man digging the rock work :D

 

[ErinCahir]

Looks great Moe!!