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brad, you have missed this whole thread or something.... this is why he's so curious, is because he's hardly seeing a cycle. It's TBS rock and they ship it in water too, so this helps with the cycling process. I'm sure the phosphates and nitrates will reside in time or with the help of some kind of media.
Will be tagging along as usual!
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In other news, my digital pH pen just arrived!!! Wooo Hooo!!
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The end of Day 5
Day 5 is nearing to a close and the tank readings are:
pH - 8.2 Ammonia - ~0 Nitrite - 0.05 Nitrate - 5-10 (this test is very hard to read) Phosphate - 0.01 CA - 400 SG 1.0255 (I think the new hydrometer is reading about 0.001 high) I will do my first water change tomorrow night. I have 10 gallons of water stewing for the water change. On another note. I got my Coralife pH pen and I cannot get it to work. We have one in our 7th grade science deptarment and I could not get it to work either. My new pen simply reads ~7.0 no matter what you put it in. The old pen will calibrate but then the readings are off. One time it will tell me my tank is at 7.5 pH another 9.8!!! I am about to give up on it!
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I fixed my old hydrometer!!! How good am I!!
The old one is reading at 1.0245(33ppt) and the new one is reading 1.0253 (34ppt). Pretty close to each other!
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hey, im just tagging along to.
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Re: The Start of Day 5
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Stuff is dying on your rock. Probably not much; but enough to produce ammonia. Your rock already has all the bacteria in place-- it is a fully 'cured' filter. So it is able to process ammonia and nitrite right away. But that is where the nitrate and phospate are coming from. Still, you are a long way off from needing to do a water change, IMHO. |
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The start of Day 6
Here are the water parameters at the start of day 6:
pH: 8.2 SG: 1.025-1.026 Ammonia: ~0 Nitrite: 0.02 Nitrate: 10 PO4: 0.1 CA: 350 Temp: 26C This morning I have a large snail crawling up the glass. The snail is a about one inch in lengh, white, and conical in shape. I found a new feather duster worm, this one has brown feathers instead of white. The large crab is peeking out of his rock this morning. I now believe him to be a decorator crab. I have hair algae growing, it looks like tufts of grass groing from the rock, not excessive........yet. I supose from everything I have read the best thing to do is to pull it up. The snail. Look at the large bivalve in the background to the right of center, you can see the hair algae. This is the spot in which it is the worst: A really bad shot of the crabs claw peeking out of a hole in the rock, he picks bits of stuff off the rock and sticks it to his body. He is actually quite hard to see sometimes when he is out and about. You can also see the brain coral, which I think looks a bit better than it did a few days ago.
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looks great!! i think your right on the decorator crab, i looked some stuff up and i think that,s what you got. also the anemone might be a condy or pink tipped.
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ID please?
I snapped a few photos of these brown things I have in the tank. There is at least one colony on each rock I received, can anyone ID?
This hermit is ALWAYS out and always in the same area of his tank, quietly plodding along. A yellow sponge thing:
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Heater inside CPR Bak-Pak 2?
When I transfered the Bak-Pak 2 protein skimmer from the FO tank to the reef tank I took the "bio-bale" out as I knew it would be a nitrate factory. The empty chamber would be perfect to slide the heater into.
Anyone have any opinions on this idea?
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The end of Day 6
I changed about 11 gallons of water, here are my water parameters:
pH: 8.2 SG: 1.025-1.026 Ammonia: ~0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 2.5 PO4: 0.1 CA: 400 Temp: 27C Everything looks good! It seems more and more stuff keeps popping up in the tank!
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Good old TBS for ya
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Im excited for you. Im going to continue to tag along in this thread as well. Im planning on starting my own from TBS in the next month so im interested in your outcome. Good Luck!
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Hey Teach... Looks like you got yourself some VERY nice looking Sun Polyps there as a hitch hiker. I payed 50 bucks for mine. Got 3 seperate colonys but hey yours where free...Well sort of!! Nice anyway! Great Thread By the way. Your levels will be perfect in no time I am sure!
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Re: Heater inside CPR Bak-Pak 2?
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hey teach i also yhink you have cup coral AKA sun coral, do a search here on rc they have very specific feeding needs, you need to feed each individual cup with a siringe, they are somewhat hard to keep because you have to feed them often and individualy
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Day 7
Here it is day 7, actually, a little over day 7. I placed the rock in the tank last Friday at around 5:30pm. Therefore this is really around day 7.75!!
I came in to work do a LOT of grading. Grading papers is the bane of teachers everywhere. I enjoy teaching. I hate grading papers; it is tedious, often boring work! The tanks parameters today are: pH: 8.2 SG: ~ 1.025 Temp: 27C Ammonia: ~0 Nitrite: 0 - 0.05 Nitrate: 5.0 PO4: 0.1 CA: 400 I see more snails on the glass today, big ones, tiny ones, snails on the substrate. Where the heck do they hide????? I am not sure but I think I may have witnessed a couple of snails breeding. Two snails were tangled up together and thrashing about on the substrate. I have NO idea how snails reproduce, but who knows, maybe I did witness snail sex. Either that or a snail was cannibalizing another snail! After about 5 minutes of this the snails separated and went about their own way. I found a tiny feather duster worm (a couple mm tall at most!) in the cave formerly occupied by the crab, he now lives in a hole right behind that one, which was formerly occupied by the spaghetti worm which made a quick move when the crab moved in. I still have my CBS in the 29 gallon tank and I am resisting the urge to place him into this tank. I had planned on adding no livestock until after Thanksgiving. I shall resist the urge to put him into the tank for as long as possible!! I have decided the big crab must go. I caught him picking on my brain coral. I hate to do it, he is a character and really fun to watch. Quote:
Well, this post is now taking over an hour to make as I was writing it while doing some tank maintence. I wrote the above sentence about an hour ago! I decided to thaw some krill and try feeding the sun/cup coral. I took a syringe and sucked up a little krill and placed a bit on each of the polyps of the best looking coral. Withing about 5 minutes one of the coolest things I have ever seen happened! Each individual polyp began opening and ingesting the krill!! I have fed each of the other colonies, even those that looked "dead" and they all ate!! OMG!!! I have just found my brittle star fish!!!! He is purple/pink about the size of a half-dollar with a central disk around the size of two pencil erasers. I had thought he had died as I saw him on day one and then again on day two when I picked up the rock. I never saw him again after that. I wonder if the smell of krill in the water has brought him out? He is right under the place I was feeding the moist krill to. Arrrgggghhhh, I do not have the camera here!!! YES!!! I just but a little squirt of krill near him and now he is extending his arms, wrapping them around the krill and bringing it up under his central disk!!! He even took a couple of bloodworms!! OMG!!! Crap is popping out all over the place!!! a few snails just exploded out of the sand, yes, exploded and worms are coming out of the rock and headed in the direction of the krill!!! I wish all of you could be here to share my excitement! Quote:
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Tank is looking good take your heater and put it in your bakpak so it is hidden.
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DW you really have a knack for making people jealous lol!
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