One Year Old Update!
So a year has already gone since I filled the tank up and I am pretty happy with how it's all going.
All the fish I have moved over from my previous nano tank are doing well, as are almost all of the corals. I know I lost a coral or two but I can't remember what they are now.
My first coral I got, a Duncan, was going really great and I fragged it in to 3 parts with 5-10 heads each. A few months later all of the Duncans got brown jelly. I managed to save two heads so hopefully I can grow them back to their former glory. It was strange because the Duncans were all in different parts of the tank but all died at the same time. I have a green Duncan that didn't get any brown jelly at all.
I also lost two clams that both died at the same time, I still have no idea why.
The fish that I transferred over from my nano are the two clowns, a tiger blenny, yellow coral goby and a carpenters wrasse. All these fish are doing great and my clowns started laying eggs a few months ago.
I have added seven new fish in the last year. A blue tang, foxface, cleaner wrasse, yellow watchman goby plus shrimp, a mandarin, a lyretail anthias and a tuka anthias. The last three were from a tank shut down as I was helping a friend out, hence the random anthias! Ill probably get a school on Anthias some day. The next fish on the list is a copperband butterfly.
My crispa anemone decided this week that it would walk about 20cm, (over the top of a xenia which didn't even bother it!) after being in the same spot for almost a year and attach it self to a different rock. It actually chose a pretty good spot so hopefully it stays there.
All of my hammers are going great, I bough a nice orange one a while back which is getting an even more intense orange colour now.
My green leather is getting huge and my zoanthids are out of control which looks great.
I added a biopellet reactor about a month ago which hasn't had a measurable affect yet but I am hoping it will allow me to feed a bit more.
I decided that since my tank was a year old now, I would give it a really good clean out. I scraped all the coraline off the back wall... the entire back wall! I used a long handle heavy duty paint scraper. That coraline was thick! It made the water pink for a few hours and for some reason my bristle worms went weird and started flapping around on the sand and one looked like it was spawning.
I did a big water change, cleaned off my power heads. One of them was playing up but started working again after a vinegar soak, but one of the grommets has worn out so I will need to replace that.
I think that is about it for the update, I just need to add pics over the next day!
New red Trachy
Cool looking fungia
Before and after power head cleaning. As you can see, there is a slight film of algae on it. Surprisingly, this power head was working perfectly. The other 'cleaner' one was the one playing up.
More pics to come...
All the fish I have moved over from my previous nano tank are doing well, as are almost all of the corals. I know I lost a coral or two but I can't remember what they are now.
My first coral I got, a Duncan, was going really great and I fragged it in to 3 parts with 5-10 heads each. A few months later all of the Duncans got brown jelly. I managed to save two heads so hopefully I can grow them back to their former glory. It was strange because the Duncans were all in different parts of the tank but all died at the same time. I have a green Duncan that didn't get any brown jelly at all.
I also lost two clams that both died at the same time, I still have no idea why.
The fish that I transferred over from my nano are the two clowns, a tiger blenny, yellow coral goby and a carpenters wrasse. All these fish are doing great and my clowns started laying eggs a few months ago.
I have added seven new fish in the last year. A blue tang, foxface, cleaner wrasse, yellow watchman goby plus shrimp, a mandarin, a lyretail anthias and a tuka anthias. The last three were from a tank shut down as I was helping a friend out, hence the random anthias! Ill probably get a school on Anthias some day. The next fish on the list is a copperband butterfly.
My crispa anemone decided this week that it would walk about 20cm, (over the top of a xenia which didn't even bother it!) after being in the same spot for almost a year and attach it self to a different rock. It actually chose a pretty good spot so hopefully it stays there.
All of my hammers are going great, I bough a nice orange one a while back which is getting an even more intense orange colour now.
My green leather is getting huge and my zoanthids are out of control which looks great.
I added a biopellet reactor about a month ago which hasn't had a measurable affect yet but I am hoping it will allow me to feed a bit more.
I decided that since my tank was a year old now, I would give it a really good clean out. I scraped all the coraline off the back wall... the entire back wall! I used a long handle heavy duty paint scraper. That coraline was thick! It made the water pink for a few hours and for some reason my bristle worms went weird and started flapping around on the sand and one looked like it was spawning.
I did a big water change, cleaned off my power heads. One of them was playing up but started working again after a vinegar soak, but one of the grommets has worn out so I will need to replace that.
I think that is about it for the update, I just need to add pics over the next day!
New red Trachy
Cool looking fungia
Before and after power head cleaning. As you can see, there is a slight film of algae on it. Surprisingly, this power head was working perfectly. The other 'cleaner' one was the one playing up.
More pics to come...
