What did you do to your tank today?
- Thread starter JOSE CASAS
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Bone headed move. Mixing salt water for a couple days and I finally had the chance to do a water change. Finished that quickly last night and realized this morning that I didn't check the salinity of the new water.
I usually add in 1/2 cup per gallon and adjust. Sometimes I have to adjust from 1.016. I have no idea what salinity the water I just added. Everything was happy after the water change last night, hopefully they are still like that when I get home.
I usually add in 1/2 cup per gallon and adjust. Sometimes I have to adjust from 1.016. I have no idea what salinity the water I just added. Everything was happy after the water change last night, hopefully they are still like that when I get home.
Short answer is I added some corals from the LARS meeting but by the time I had a chance to dip corals it was technically 1am so i'll count that as today.
I dipped some corals and sure enough something fell off. I was really worried about what fell off the coral so i removed it and inspected it with the magnifying glass. Still couldn't see what it was so I went to the garage and started digging through boxes. finally I found my kids microscope and used it to see what it was that fell off the coral. Turned out to be Copepods. I googled for about 30 minutes finding all the different types.
The microscope was a big help in getting a positive ID on what i was looking at. might be upgrading to a real one for all my unwanted critter id.
I dipped some corals and sure enough something fell off. I was really worried about what fell off the coral so i removed it and inspected it with the magnifying glass. Still couldn't see what it was so I went to the garage and started digging through boxes. finally I found my kids microscope and used it to see what it was that fell off the coral. Turned out to be Copepods. I googled for about 30 minutes finding all the different types.
The microscope was a big help in getting a positive ID on what i was looking at. might be upgrading to a real one for all my unwanted critter id.
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https://vimeo.com/119205742 Got the new build wet today
Saw some hair algae yesterday when I was taking pictures of some coral. It really bothered me so I had a full maintenance night on my tank. much needed siphoning of the sump,
I cleaned the lights
deep skimmer cleaning which was pretty clean actually.
I glued down a few frags from my frag tank to my display.
I moved a couple corals to better locations in the tank.
I cleaned the lights
deep skimmer cleaning which was pretty clean actually.
I glued down a few frags from my frag tank to my display.
I moved a couple corals to better locations in the tank.
Have been letting my 30g run without cleaning for the last couple of weeks to let algae cycle and ampipods and Copepods cultivate and worked very well there's pods everywhere! But now the algae is annoying me so today I scrubbed it all away and will have to do it again once it all settled. Also glued acouple frags the snails decided they wanted to move
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I agree that sounds like zoa nudis. Had a problem alittle while back with them, one day zoas are open next they're all closed up and only couple polyps open here and there. Almost lost a 40+ utter chaos colony but Luckily caught on to the problem quick and got a six line wrasse that cleaned it up in a few days and zoas are happy and healthy and all open again. Back to building the zoa garden 
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