Putter's first tank

[reeffreak]

Oh and still no feeder tentacles on the brains...how long can they go with out food?

When they are healthy(which the one on the right looks like)you really don't need to feed them at all.I do think maybe once a week will be beneficial.I haven't fed any of my brain corals in over six months.

 

[putter]

:bounce: Well tonight they ate, MAN what a sight that was...looks like one giant mouth on those things when they go into eating mode WOW amazing!!! Nemo was a pest tho...he kept trying to get the food right from the end of the baster! Cute lil bugger:D

 

[Doc]

yeah. they will do that. If you are going to target feed your coral, drop in some food for your clown at the same time you use your turkey baster.

-Doc

 

[fatman]

Why not activate a sponge filter to use for bacterial filtration in the quarantine tank. If you use live rock and live sand are you going to remove it if you medicate. Especially a hassle to acid burn copper off your rock and gravel if you have to use copper. After all a quarantine tank is usually also a treatment tank. Just my opinion, as it is a lot easier to clean a sponge filter and it will easily activate in a sump in 4-5 days time.

 

[putter]

Mostly I am using the sand and rock because it was the excess from when I set up the DT. Still have 2 bags of sand in the closet, and the rock, well it is only a few small chunks, and if I end up having to use the QT as a hospital tank I can yank the rock out and stick it in a bucket, always have one full of SW and ready for a WC anyhow.

 

[putter]

Well I have the QT tank a little over half full, 4 small pieces of rock and about a 2" sand bed, tossed in a little shrimp, will add the rest of the water on sunday and see how the cycle thing goes.

 

[Doc]

ooo, we like pics

-Doc

 

[putter]

Will grab some pics soon, what kind of critter eats green slime algae?

 

[Doc]

hair algae? sea hares, mexican turbos.

slime sounds like cyano. a starving Koran angelfish will do that, but only after he devours your corals. I have seen cyano come in green, red, and brown varieties. It means your water quality ain't to great. increase circulation in the tank by adding another powerhead or change the direction of flow to hit the dead spot where the slime is growing, shorten light cycle to 4-5 hours a day, reduce feedings to once every other day, increase water changes to 20% a week for three weeks, feed only frozen foods (never pellets), pray a lot to your chosen diety.

-Doc

 

[putter]

Well here are a couple pics, sure hope it is not what you think doc, tested just after I dug the dead foxface out and ammonia was 0 nitrites 0 nitrates were 2, was planning a water change this weekend anyhow, have only one fish and I am feeding him frozen, and very little of it at that. Will do some tests again this afternoon to double check, water flow seems to be ok I can see the current moving the slime around on the rock but can move one powerhead to blast directly on that spot...anywho...the pics.

 

[Doc]

if the slime releases air bubbles when you touch it, it is cyano. looks like it to me

-Doc

 

[reeffreak]

Although I never seen it in green,it looks like cyano to me too.Either that or dinoflagellate which is basically the same thing.I would consider running some kind of phosphate media(Chemipure Elite,Phosban).Siphon what you can when you do a water change.

 

[Doc]

one of the fish stores in this area gets green cyano all the time. it is weird, but i prefer the red stuff, looks better in my tank

-Doc

 

[fishbait]

I have some green and red in mine. I feel special to be blessed with both.

 

[Doc]

yes, you are special.

-Doc

 

[fatman]

Soooooo special.......
Cyano. Kalkwasser top offs and phosphate absorbent, to treat symptoms, to treat illness you get to figure out where your nitrate is coming from along with the suspected phosphates. Did you test for phosphate? What is your water source and how was your rock and live substrate cured? Have you added new rock or live substrate recently? Are or have you been feeding to heavy? And is your food produced from a cultured or wild source? Wild sources usually have less algae nutrient problems. Cultured sources (phytoplankton) are fed heavily with, basically, chemical plant fertilizer, and then the phyto is fed to the next larger cultured food, Wa La, fertilizer in your water. Maybe Biffer will grace you with entry into the AFT club!!!

 

[putter]

Well I ended up in the hospital for a few days so the tank has been dark since my last post, just got home tonight and will conduct water tests tomorrow along with a20% water change. The water sorce is RODI I am feeding Mysis frozen food every other day, only one fish so I am feeding very small amounts. I think I have the source pinned down, I was trying to feed the brains some frozen shrimp pieces prior to recieving the mysis, I tried to retrive the pieces but could not. Will keep a reduced light cycle and do weekly 20% changes for a couple weeks, with a flashlight tonight it looks like the algae is dieing off, will try to siphon as much as I can tomorrow with the water change.

 

[Doc]

hope you are OK...

-Doc

 

[putter]

Thanks doc, things here will be fine with time, just to save me the time to look it up...what is this awsum looking fish??

 

[fatman]

Beautiful Monti Coral! Nice, nice, nice! Silver or Pink Tipped Orange. Took a lot of calcium supplementation for that sucker to get to that size. Oh, the fish, beats me. Looks like something Doc would like though.