Tonyscoot's 30 gallon nano tank :).....

[Tonyscoots84]

just as a side note, i believe i was having so many problems with alk and cal balancing not because of magnesium that was fine i believe the problem was that i was feeding it to high up into the tank and it was causing it for some reason to form big air bubbles and it would not dose along with calcium... so i was ending up dosing my calcium then alkalinity. so i rearranged the tubing so it doses into my sump and that why it was now dosing more alk and cal at the same time :duh:..... what an easy fix :arg:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

ok so here are the nightly tests

alk .35 / 10.4 / 3.74
cal 460 ppm
mag 1440 ppm

so far so good...

so i guess the problem was the tubing that kept getting air bubbles that was giving less alk then needed and me overdosing 2 part way to much.. im still at 7ml a day

 

[Tonyscoots84]

here are a couple updated pics of the tank. yea its still up and running.

i did a complete aefw on the entire tank just in case and also dipped all my coral in pro coral cure.

redid the rocks again cause i had a avalanche :bigeyes:

my parameters checked tonite were

alk - 11.4
cal - 440
mag - 1410
temp - 77.8

well here are the pics

on the 3rd pic i was fooling around with the white balance and thats how it came out

 

[ssmtcarlo]

Looking good tony

 

[JLAudio]

Looking amazing, I cant wait to see it when all those sps grow out!

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks guyz

 

[steveo32]

Hey Tony with the 250 lighting are you chilling the tank or is your house running cooler.

 

[ssmtcarlo]

Any updates?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

lol absolutely nothing.... it doesn't seem like the alk and cal are getting taken up by anythingg don't no why..... I'm jus gonna let it do what its gotta do. I'm close to giving up................ u do everything right but its never right

 

[Tonyscoots84]

well i no its been a while i have had the ugliest hair algae growth in history (lazyness) and i lost so many beautiful corals ..

a couple of changes coming soon stay tuned

 

[nanoreefer22]

Good to see you back on the board T

 

[Tonyscoots84]

new pics coming soon love the helios 20k so bright :bigeyes:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

well here are some pics of the tank. it got taken over by hair algae i guess either i was overfeeding the tank, halide light was old or i just wasnt doing a good job taking care of it.

this is what it looks like after it went under a complete remodel and sand was put in .. now i need them colorful sticks again after more then half of the nice ones i had died ....

 

[Tonyscoots84]

soooooo wat does everyone think?

 

[nanoreefer22]

Well you still suck at taking pics :lol2:

Tank looks good, maybe you should give softies/LPS a try

 

[Tonyscoots84]

i have 3 shrooms on the bottom green, blue and pink and i have a neon green candy cane coral 2 types of acans, and a duncan

 

[nanchil]

The tank looks nice...

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Update

Could not be happier with the sand and the helio lights 250 watt 20k... its amazingly bright i would compare it to a 12k or 10 k intensity with a ice blue touch to it. i love the bulb. everything is doing well thankgod. i did a flatworm exit treatment and a interceptor treatment tonite. i didnt see any bad stuff just a couple of my poor pods died. I added 2 clownfish tontie and a purple firefish (yes i had 2 clown fish but they both commited suicide so the girlfriend made me replace them so i rescued them from petco ) figured do something good for these poor animals.

more updated pics coming soon.......... cant wait for the big tank to come along

 

[KathyC]

Good to see you rise from the dust again Tony Tank is looking very nice, you have some very pretty pieces in there.

Are you going to be making it to the swap?

 

[Slamajamajama]

whos tonyscoots?!?











j/k T....u can take a guy from reefing but u cant take reefing outta the guy