Tank Journal Archive

[aussieant32]

so my CBS took a slice out of my sailfin. About half a cm long and 1mm wide. Looks clean but will have to keep an eye on him, hopefully will just heal over.

Anything I can do to help or just see if 'nature' sorts it out? He is still smashing food as much as normal so seems uneffected by it.

 

[NiCd]

I have heard the good old garlic rumor perpetuated here. I dont know if it is just anecdotal but there does seem to be some evidence to support this. I certainly dont think it does any harm trying it either.

 

[aussieant32]

just soak some NLS in some crushed garlic?

 

[NiCd]

yeah, I think you can buy pre eniched garlic NLS as well but same diff really

 

[aussieant32]

will have a go.

Osmolator issue seems to have rectified itself? I turned it off for 2 days and did top ups manually, set it all back up and was fine yesterday. Only added about 10L of RO in case is fails today but will see when home

 

[aussieant32]

also, my alk is too high, any way to drop it? I am not dosing etc

 

[NiCd]

How is your alk increasing then?

 

[aussieant32]

I don't know?

Unless the test failed, might re test tonight

 

[aussieant32]

nope, emptied the ro chamber again

tank is a bit cloudy too, levels look fine, everything is out, fish are fine all accounted for and feeding. Will see if it clears up, small bacteria bloom?

 

[vman]

lookin good buddy,i got a nem just like the one you have from a guy out greenacre way his tank was full of em and they split like mad.

 

[aussieant32]

I got mine off @stefan79

Tank is all clear now, not sure on why it was cloudy?

 

[aussieant32]

just bought a grounding probe. Running 4 pumps and a titanium heater thought it might be worth it.

 

[aussieant32]

 

[chimaera]

Nice blastos! Love that graded green colour.

 

[aussieant32]

Yer the wife picked it out lol. It's almost blue on the edge and green in the middle, almost mottled look

 

[chimaera]

Awesome pics, by the way. Really getting the hang of your new toy.

 

[aussieant32]

Thanks a lot mate :)

 

[vman]

ahhh yes nice mate,good quall pics.

 

[aussieant32]

ok, after a bit of advice.

Basically I want to keep LPS, not really interested in SPS. I was over feeding as my tank was ULN so hammers etc were struggling. Was getting a bit of algea back on the sand, retested and phos was 0.28! Ran some carbon from 7pm last night and phos is now at 0.
How do I balance it?

 

[MTG]

0 is a little to low for lps, what are you running for phos? what are your maintenance schedules ? one think to kick some life back into them is zeovit lps amino