I live in California and I am an avid saltwater aquarist. I have one newly set up fish-only tank and a full reef tank. The fish-only tank is a 55g tank with a 30 gallon sump. There is at least 65 pounds of live Carrib-Sea Fiji pink sand and about 60 pounds of BRS Reef Saver dry live rock. I just have one of the cheap Aqueon reef lights on it, but it makes the fish look good!! I do have a nice old skimmer on it but I couldn't name it! By now id say this tank is no more then 2 months old. I used a full bottle of the ATM bacteria in a bottle which really sped up the cycle. Ammonia went to zero about 5 days after I added the chemical. Nitrite was never traceable, and now I'm starting to show slight Nitrate. This tank should be getting a hardy fish or two within the next week. Now for tank number two. The reef tank is a 47 gallon, rimless, three side starfire tank. It has an EShoppes 100 sump. I have a Tunze 3155 Auto-Top off. I am running a 350 Kessil w/ the spectral controller. It has about 55 pounds of purple dry live rock, and probably close to 50 pounds of Fiji Pink sand, also. This tank is a bout one year and a month old, and never have had a major problem!
So I started this discussion to talk about the tanks Ik general...
My 55 fish-only tank started on the second week with 2 bengai cardinals and one of thoes half yellow and half purple fish ...
about a month later I added 4 small blue chromis and 3 of them died ( along with a cardinal )within a week/:
I didn't think I was doing anything wrong but I guess so...
Recently I got a new job, started summer school and got real busy so I didn't pay attention so my reef for a while. It was already a mess because of a recent algae bloom but I had kept it under control.
[/URL] After the new job and a trip out of town for a week the tank became a mess. At this point it was out of hand (no pic sorry) A few days ago I made 55 gallons of fresh, new salt water and used it to clean my tank. I used 5 gallons to set up a temporary home in a 10 gallon tank for my fish and coral while I cleaned. I ended up cleaning all the sad deeply and taking each rock out and picking bubble algae off one by one. Now this is what it looks like
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Sorry I don't have parameters right now as the probably changed a little after the water change so let me know opinions on anything!!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
So I started this discussion to talk about the tanks Ik general...
My 55 fish-only tank started on the second week with 2 bengai cardinals and one of thoes half yellow and half purple fish ...
about a month later I added 4 small blue chromis and 3 of them died ( along with a cardinal )within a week/:
I didn't think I was doing anything wrong but I guess so...
Recently I got a new job, started summer school and got real busy so I didn't pay attention so my reef for a while. It was already a mess because of a recent algae bloom but I had kept it under control.
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Sorry I don't have parameters right now as the probably changed a little after the water change so let me know opinions on anything!!