Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

[najer]

Digi has dumped the algae on the tips mostly, looking cool.

 

[Scurvy]

Ive started my stopwatch.... im betting a total turnaround in less than 1 week!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Cuprisorb is ordered and will be delivered tomorrow before night shift. Any remaining metals should be absorbed by that.

Reef Dreams in 6 days... the amount of vendors that are going to be there. I'm going to go into sensory overload and probably forget to get y'all some cool pictures. We're going to go ahead and pick up some corals, unless something drastically bad happens in the next few days. Right now it's hands off and let this tank do it's thing.

Oh yea, I have a local reefer that I'm trading a piece of digi that's been recovering in the Menagerie for a war coral... need to find a spot for it, and it's sweepers.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Can't stop taking pictures.

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[SashimiTurtle]

Y'all remember this shot? Was just thinking about all the corals this tank has killed.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Reef Roids! I love this stuff...

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[sfin52]

Looks like a very active feeding response

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Looks like a very active feeding response

Everything goes nuts for this stuff. Just rinsing the dust off my little measuring spoon in the tank and the acans extend their feeders way out.

Turn off all flow. Get a 1ml syringe and mix it thick with tank water is the best way to target feed LPS. It comes out like a paste and you can really target the mouth. Acans and trumpet swell up like crazy. After LPS is fed I add a bit more water to my mini beaker and kinda spray it over top of the SPS so it very gently dusts them(it ). The digi reacts very quickly pulling in all of its polyps, hopefully with a mouth full of roids. The fish try and eat what's left floating in the water.

The stuff is very powerful, so I'll probably only do this every so often. Maybe biweekly. I've been dosing 10ml/day Ocean Magik and 1ml/day Oyster Feast to the tank. The fish get fed a tiny amount of LRS once a day.

Smaller than an aspirin pill. You'd be surprised how much that is once thawed and broken up into bite sized pieces. Especially for 3 small fish. Nitrates are 5ppm, phosphates are 0.08ppm. Corals seem happy and once I get my CUC recovered from what I've lost over the last few months(every single hermit and most of my snails) we should be completely algae free in the display. It's very minimal now with the phyto and chaeto soaking up nutrients.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Got a little feeding response out of this lobo tonight. Tissue swelled up just a little bit and it is very slowly eating. Hopefully I can nurse this thing along and get it fully recovered... it sill hasn't inflated fully since I got it.

 

[sfin52]

It's looking better. I feed my tank rotifers. My corals go nuts.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Had an idea about polyp extension and wild pieces... I remembered they normally only extend their polyps at night because durring the day, fish will eat them. Well...

Squishy bouncy.

So glad it's not dying. That was an expensive piece.

 

[najer]

Had an idea about polyp extension and wild pieces... I remembered they normally only extend their polyps at night because durring the day, fish will eat them. Well...

Squishy bouncy.

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So glad it's not dying. That was an expensive piece.

Wow, such a difference, hopefully it will turn back to "daytime" happy at some point.

 

[sfin52]

If you feed in the day they will adjust their behavior. Also the extensions come out at night because plankton comes from the depths at night.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Cuprisorb came in. I added it to the overflow. There would have been more flow down under drain pipe in the sump, but good luck getting it back out and I can't see when or if the color changed. There's a gentle flow over the bag here from the water pouring into the overflow.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

We did that YouTube thing again, go watch it!

 

[sfin52]

Nice looking tank. You forgot to mention the rock change out.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Nice looking tank. You forgot to mention the rock change out.

I think that was in the February update.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Found a second piece of sympodium today. Its pretty shaded but looks to be ok with it. I think it go left on the rock when I pulled the mat off to rearange the rocks... guess it decided to grow where it was. First picture is from the short side of the tank, you can just see the main piece on the right side of the rock, and barely see the newly found piece in the shadows. Second pic is close up of new found piece.

 

[Brew12]

How are things looking today? The Dino's still getting better?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

How are things looking today? The Dino's still getting better?

What dinos?