Turtle's 14g SPS Nano Build.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 27, 2017

My six line got a new home as well. He's in the soon to be macro algae tank with Maui the eel. It's just a simple 10g with a HOB filter, preset heater and a Koralia Nano power head. Oh, and a LID!

Maui will be making the move to the 90 as well as Bonnie and Clyde. Notice the heavy coated steel lid on the tank. No escaping to his death like Ryu. The six line will probably stay over here as I'd like to try a few different species of wrasse, and I do not want to flip the Kim Jong-Un switch but at the same time I also don't want to get rid of him. So... he gets a seaweed forest tank with hopefully a bunch of pods to munch on. Sea weed is ordered, I got two sample packs of red and green macros.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 28, 2017

Macro algae came in for the nano refugium. I got a Halimeda sampler and a red sampler pack. The green halimeda had a small root ball that already had some sand stuck to it, so I stuck them down in the sand bed as a small forest. The red stuff I placed in the rocks as best as it would fit. The six line has swam thru it a few times and the eel seems to like the added cover of the algae, as he pokes a little further out of the rocks. Im going to order some 5280 pods from Algae Barn to seed the tank and help feed the six line. Hes a pod eating machine, but eats pellets too.

I think I'm going to need a better light than that $20 clip on LED bar.

najer · Sep 29, 2017

Don't forget that some of those green ones will use calcium longer term, loving that!

SashimiTurtle · Sep 29, 2017

Yea I read that the green ones have a lightly calcified body. The stalks are rigid like a tree, deffinatly a different king of algae than I'm used to seeing. Water changes should take care of it. The urchin has been chowing down on some of the red algae. I intended for him to eat that stuff and will replace it if he goes thru it all.

najer · Sep 30, 2017

England here, most interesting macros are really expensive over here.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 30, 2017

najer said:
England here, most interesting macros are really expensive over here.

These came out of the gulf of Mexico/ Caribbean sea. The company's name is Gulf Coast Ecosystems. There's a lot of cool fish and coral down there too. Like this Carribbean tang...

He's just recently finished QT, but the tank he was going in sprung a leak on the bottom. It was just a drip every now and then, but I didn't want to chance it and have the whole thing dump in my house. I was going to sell him, but after all the stress this fish has put me thru, with two rounds of velvet, and coming thru the other side absolutely beautiful, I decided to keep him in my QT tank as a makeshift FOWLR until I get a larger reef set up. He's only about 4" so the 40B is ok for now.

Seriously, this fish almost died from velvet. Once you save something's life, you get a bit attached.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 30, 2017

najer · Sep 30, 2017

Nice save, luckily I have never had to deal with any fish disease.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 30, 2017

That's good. Mine came only a few months after getting into the hoby... in the biker world we have a saying, "There are two kinds of riders, those who have laid a bike down and those who are going to lay a bike down." If your LFS are anything like ours, they are full of disease. It's only a matter of time here before you run across a fish that looked healthy and two weeks later disease is everywhere... yes, I've laid a bike down before, it's not fun. I'd rather deal with a fully stocked reef tank with velvet.

najer · Sep 30, 2017

Also laid a bike down, I used to do track days but only laid the bike down on the road!
I read loads on this forum and in England we generally appear to get a lot less problems with fish.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 30, 2017

This is the stuff that has been taking over my tank. I can clean it all off and within a few days it's back. Brown, stringy, air bubbles, and it blows right off frag plugs and the rocks.

ReeferMadness80G · Sep 30, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
This is the stuff that has been taking over my tank. I can clean it all off and within a few days it's back. Brown, stringy, air bubbles, and it blows right off frag plugs and the rocks.

I hate it for ya man, my tank is covered in the stuff and I've been fighting it for weeks

SashimiTurtle · Sep 30, 2017

Yep... I can keep cleaning it off and siphoning the sand and two days later it looks like I didn't do anything.

ReeferMadness80G · Sep 30, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
Yep... I can keep cleaning it off and siphoning the sand and two days later it looks like I didn't do anything.

That's what I'm doing, I remember every once in a while it would happen in my nano but it'd be gone in a week or so. This stuff is relentless in the big tank. However bc of the issues I've had with mixing salt, in not as concerned with the tank anymore. I'm just like eh whatever, hopefully once it's all clean and purple the spark for growing sps will come back.

SashimiTurtle · Sep 30, 2017

ReeferMadness80G said:
That's what I'm doing, I remember every once in a while it would happen in my nano but it'd be gone in a week or so. This stuff is relentless in the big tank. However bc of the issues I've had with mixing salt, in not as concerned with the tank anymore. I'm just like eh whatever, hopefully once it's all clean and purple the spark for growing sps will come back.

I saw that thread but it had too many comments for me to read thru at the time. Did you ever get your mixing problems figured out?

ReeferMadness80G · Sep 30, 2017

Robin Haselden said:
I saw that thread but it had too many comments for me to read thru at the time. Did you ever get your mixing problems figured out?

No, it appears that I've gotten a bad batch.