need advice please

[bleedingthought]

You were going throught the algae phases - experiencing diatoms and possibly cyanobacteria. Hermits will fight each other but shrimp will generally only "eat" dead things.

I know it's been a while since you posted this and you haven't really been back. I just wanted to know how your tank is doing.

Let us know and post some more pictures when you can.

 

[aquarius77]

The tank is looking good so far.
I come here i just dont post that much i guess. I will get some pics up real soon, the tank has really changed over the last month, i need to take some new pics.

 

[aquarius77]

WoW i was just looking at older pics... i have been taking them weekly since setup, i cant belive the transformation. I will get some taken today and upload them and some older ones and maybe show ya the progression so far.

 

[bleedingthought]

Great!

 

[aquarius77]

As promised here are some tank shots:

second week:

one month:

week 5:

week six(no FTS on week six sorry):

week 7:

I will take more tomorow I took week 7 today after i did a water change and moved some stuff around.

Kevin

 

[aquarius77]

What the heck heres a few more... i promise ill take some coral shots tomorow.

Jaques:

corals:

yellow colony that is green and never yellow lol:

one of my zoa frags after i made it unhappy:

same zoas only happy:

nothing spectacular.... yet!

Enjoy


Kevin

 

[bleedingthought]

So, your SPS took on color or are those new frags?

It looks very nice!

Keep the pictures coming!!!

 

[aquarius77]

So, your SPS took on color or are those new frags?

It looks very nice!

Keep the pictures coming!!!

Some of the sps is new but the original brown acro turned a metallic green and is doing wonderfull.

 

[bleedingthought]

Nice!

 

[aquarius77]

Here are some more pics that i took today.

Frogspawn:

A frag of what was called millepora when given to me:

Need an id on this one:

Some shroomz:

Purple zoas:

 

[aquarius77]

Here are some more.

More zoos:

Got these free from LFS and the popped a baby already!

Anthilia i got a nice bit of it for 10$ and it is growing like mad:

Some purple shrooms with nice blue dots:

 

[aquarius77]

I have a hydor flo head on a aquaclear 201 powerhead for some random flow along with the hob for flow wich i want to mod into a fuge. I have my water tested for me at my fav LFS and have been dosing a for alk and calc and i top off sometimes 2 times a photoperiod because i am running the tank open top and i get alot of evaporation due to a fan used to stabilize temp. I have nearly 20 pounds of live rock between the display and whats in the filter. I have one maroon clown and thats it on fish. I have one cleaner and 2 peppermint shrimp and varity of snails crabs and hitchikers and pods like crazy cause i dont have anything that eats them.

A few more of the SPS:

birds nest that came into contact with the green hairy sps coral on accident... looks like it killed the bottom portion of my birds nest while the green coral was not affected:

A shot of the acro i plan to get rid of due to i have another peice that i like where it is mounted.. these two get knocked around due to not being mounted and they are getting im my way more than anything now:

Here is one from above of the same type its a crappy pic but it kinda shows what i mean by green:

one more of the acro and my dragon eye zoos that also recently popped a baby!

Enjoy


Kevin

 

[bleedingthought]

Yeah, I think it's looking great. I'm interested to see if all your SPS are going to hold up their color in the next couple of months.

 

[aquarius77]

What would cause them to lose their color?

 

[trido]

Excess nutrients or lack of light can cause loss of color. If they are gaining color now and you dont change anything, they should get more color. You definately must get a bigger tank to accomodate your need to have sooo much diversity.