ya i feel ya...its such a Pain in the a** to setup and change rocks when ur tanks up and running..with fish...and with corals! lol i took down all my corals and put em in my fuge so they wouldnt get lost during the rescpape...i bought all my rocks used also..but i didnt get as lucky as u, my rocks are all just plain round fiji rock...not very good for making islands or pillars...ya my Nac7 is a little loud too..but u cant beat the skimming for the price..i love my BM...i just upgraded to a Q1 6000 but its a little loud i got it used so i think it might need a new impellar...i see u live in CH..where at? i used to live in CH off grand and chino hills prkway, but i just bought a pad in corona..wheres the fish store that u got ur tank and stuff from? ive been going to Tropical Reef in RC lately its a pretty sweet store, hes got nice fish and corals.
Hey, sorry for the late reply, but I bought my tank from Ali at Amazing Aquariums. Really cool guy. I live more by the brea side near carbon canyon so that's why it's a little easier for me to go out to the OC for stuff. So many fish places in that area. I've been to tropical reef too and he has a nice setup.
Here's an updated pic of my tank. The tank is already cycled, I started in September. I kept the lights off and didn't really have a problem with diatoms until the tank finished cycling and I had the lights on at a regular schedule. Then the diatoms exploded. I threw in a clean up crew and they are keeping the diatoms down slowly day by day. I only have a few nassarius and cerith snails in there along with a conch, 1 blue legged hermit crab, and 2 cleaner shrimp.
I bought some corals already: 1 head of dendro on the right under the ledge where there is minimal light and easy to spot feed. I also have some zoas, a green zoa frag, everlasting gobstoppers, and raptor's rainbow. I also have 2 types of xenias and blue cloves.
For fish, I started with a goby which hides under a rock with a pistol shrimp and I recently bought 2 plats from RAP at the Age of aquariums booth. They are still a little stressed with the move from Florida to the booth and then from the booth to my home. Dan from Age is a really cool guy and helped me out when they started looking sick. They are slowly starting to eat more now. Hopefully they make it okay.
And lastly, I bought a nem. Before I get flamed, I was told that it would be okay to have in my tank as long as my parameters were okay but after reading through the forums, now I know I shouldn't have it until my tank has been established for greater than 6 months. I'm going to keep a careful eye on it as well as my water parameters. So far it is doing okay. It found a crevice to hide in since day one and hasn't moved since then. It's in the rock on the left side and I've aimed my metal halide right at it blasting it with light! So far it doesn't look to bad but I've had it for only 4 days though now. Any suggestions? And by the way, my ammonia is zero, nitrites zero, and nitrates zero. pH is at 8.05 and temp at 78 degrees.
There was a white spot on one of my platinum's fin but now it's gone. Ich?
