Recent content by Rob_Reef_Keeper

Anyone know of an aquarium service company to come look at a reef tank and/or tear it down and rebuild? I am missing something and would like some help to to establish a good reef tank.

Pics of some corals that don’t change/grow.

Retested the tank PO4 0.14. (Need to lower) Nitrate 0 ( tested with Hanna and Salifert) Alk 6.9 (low) Ca 430 Mag 1230 Sal 1.024

The tor he’s were lid level and had flow. The 2 corals outlined are a blasto and a similar coral ( can’t remember at the moment). I will re measure all again tomorrow. There was a time when nitrates were about zero and did not. Change anything

PAR readings are earlier in this thread. Showing with glass and without glass. The glass tops I removed some time ago really restricted PAR. The glass is now removed. I have 2 Radion XR15 Blues (IMO not great for asthetics as it’s too blue). The few mushrooms are all on the bottom left...

Some pics. The white is temporary as I turned off all the blue leds for the pic

Update. Devils hand, green sinularia, some Zoas have grown and some have not. Tried a green slimmer frag - lasted a few weeks. Mushrooms still don’t spread, frogspawn or hammers just wilt away. Water parameters Alk 8.5 Cal 400 Msg 1200 Amon 0 Nitrate 20 PO4 0.03 Temp 77-78 ph 8-8.1 Sal 1.024...

Where in NJ?

Looking for frags in Rockland/Westchester/ or NJ. I don’t get to the city and LI. Not sure I want to try sps yet but may try a cheap frag. Also any good stores left in the area?

Tired to make the lights white for the pics

Pic

The Zoas that are left are there and not spreading. I have lost at least 6 other colonies that just shrunk and faded away. The blue Zoas fell off the rock structure and need to be moved. The frogspawns/hammers/torches all faded away and died. Even a toadstool shrunk and faded away. I had...

Update: water changes and been scrubbing the rock the best I can. Trying to avoid landslides of the rocks. Pulled out allot of algae. Note to all of you are running. Herbie style drain in your overflow. You will have to watch and clean allot of scrubbing this stuff off the rocks. Ulva keeps...

I feed frozen Mysis. I put some Cheeto in the refugium area of the sump. The corals are still fading away but algae has taken over. The pincushion urchin does eat some of the algae and coraline but A few days later it’s covered in algae again. This tank is just not to be.

Over the past few months we have added a blue eye Kole tang. Does not touch the algae. Also added a cleaner wrasse. My predictions are the Ulva (sea lettuce) algae will overtake the whole tank in a month smothering the few corals left. The spots the urchin did clear are already being...