danieyella's micro baby tank

[Quinzico]

Hi...just ordered my PNW micro reef and I am at enabling works phase. May I ask how much evaporation you are experiencing per week? I would like to understand the size of the ATO container.

Thanks

 

[danieyella]

Hi...just ordered my PNW micro reef and I am at enabling works phase. May I ask how much evaporation you are experiencing per week? I would like to understand the size of the ATO container.

Thanks

Hey, great question.... When I'm not running heat I don't see much evaporation at all - but with that I'm in FL where normally we drink our air.

I still haven't gotten an ATO set up.

 

[danieyella]

Moved these two into the cabinet with my lifegard tank.

Very pleased with the trio.

 

[danieyella]

I've been topping off the mct every 3rd time I top off the pnw..... It overflowed when I turned it off to move it.

Guess I'll stop that... About to do water changes & check salinity.

 

[danieyella]

Moved some things around from the 4g to the pnw today during water changes. Another zoa frag that keeps getting knocked around over there and can't just be left in one spot.

 

[danieyella]

 

[danieyella]

They've started to settle... The pnw evaporation has greatly diminished moving it over into this cabinet. Hmm.

 

[danieyella]

Oof I've been slacking. Not showing you a photo of the PNW because I forgot to add a snail back in when I pulled the one out & we've had an algae explosion . MCT is doing well though! Evap is worse in the PNW for sure.

Both got water changes today.

 

[danieyella]

Added some additional cuc to both tanks to help knock down the growth esp in the pnw. Looking much better, still a couple big tufts of hair algae in the center though.

 

[danieyella]

Moved a couple things out of the pnw because they're struggling (lepto bleaching, moved to cade in a dim location: blasto starving, moved to 4g for now, possibly back to cade).

Got an ATO set up on it as well, finally. Once I get the algae fully situated in that tank I'll start moving things back in. The mushroom is doing phenomenal. Not sure what else I'll put in here long term.

MCT is doing beautifully still, without an ATO.

 

[Sgchick]

Moved these two into the cabinet with my lifegard tank.

Very pleased with the trio.
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How do you like your Lifeguard tank? Is that 4 gallons?

 

[danieyella]

How do you like your Lifeguard tank? Is that 4 gallons?

Yes it is, I really like that tank a lot actually.

 

[sfin52]

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Those shrooms look huge in a little tank. Amazing

 

[danieyella]

ATO overflowed in the pnw at some point today. Hopefully I caught it fast enough to save everything.

 

[danieyella]

Looks like we're okay. Everyone got a quick almost freshwater bath. Might have lost the tiny hermit. Zoas still aren't open again but mushroom is starting to sprawl back out this morning (about half the usual size). I moved the blastos out last week because they were stressing. We'll see how the weekend progresses.

 

[danieyella]

Everything open when I got home from work except the zoas. Hermit is still good!

Almost overflowed again today though. There's a tiny snail in the return section & I can't fit anything in there to grab him. Pretty sure he's the culprit, he was blocking one of the drain tubes yesterday and I found him and I didn't think anything of it. I just moved him but still couldn't get him out. He was blocking the other one today when I got home.

 

[fishguy242]

can you siphon it out ?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Tweezers/ hemostat?

 

[danieyella]

Siphon too big.

Tweezers not long enough.

Used to have a pair of hemostats, been trying to find them for the last hour...

 

[fishguy242]

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