Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

[sfin52]

One problem solved. If I remember right some Duncan’s grow deep in the Australian reefs. Moderate light at best.

 

[Second Shot]

• Low Light translates to about 30-50 PAR
• Medium Light is between 50-150 PAR
• High Light is anything over 150 PAR

Well guess I didn’t have low light then after all. [emoji848]

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I moved the galaxea from where I had it and placed it on the sand on the other side of the zoa peninsula. Another head is gone, doubt it's going to make it. Tomorrow, I'm going to figure out some coral placement. Or replacement... oh and finally test water. I have a sample from Saturday in a specimen cup, so we can see if there's any change in phosphates over the last few days.

Oh, finally saw one of the little asterinas I added to the tank from the frag tank. Those guys came in as hitch hikers on the live rock and haven't bothered anything. I have been picking them out whenever is one on the glass and throwing it in The Deep Blue Sea. I figured they don't bother anything and they eat detritus, the more biodiversity the better.

 

[sfin52]

That’s a cool hitch hiker.

 

[Zack K]

How many more do you want? I have probably 200 or so. At least

 

[SashimiTurtle]

How many more do you want? I have probably 200 or so. At least

Hahaha, thanks for the offer but they'll multiply on their own. I was just glad to see they didn't die like everything else seems to be trying to do.

 

[Zack K]

Haha offers always their

 

[sfin52]

A great way to keep a harlequin shrimp

 

[najer]

I had my last harlequin for about 3 months before it sorted 500 litres, I took it back when done, so many starve to death in the end!

 

[sfin52]

I watched one of these starve to death at my lfs. It was a very sad to see such a gorgeous creature starve in a tank because it is pretty.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Orange spot file fish are so pretty, yet hard to keep. Unless you have an endless supply of SPS for them to eat. One of those best enjoyed in the ocean.

 

[sfin52]

Loads of that in aquarium trade.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

We moved the duncans and the galaxea out from under the Kessils. We'll throw some SPS in those spots at a later date. We picked up another bucket of Red Sea salt today at the LFS. We also saw some branch rock that's been cooking at the LFS for a month. That stuff has great color on it. Maybe later this week I'll go grab a few pieces for the back of the tank.

 

[Zack K]

What about the triton salt?[emoji6]

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Meh, Red Sea has been good for me... no point in ordering new salt.

We finally got around to testing our water. Something is using up foundation elements.

So, we set up the Jebao dosing pump on the Deep Blue Sea. We'll run this pump until we can get the Coralbox Wi-Fi doser. We had a dosing tube holder left over from an acrylic sump kit and some spare RO tubing that we used to hook the pump up to our fancy DIY containers. Calcium is black and Alkalinity is white.

 

[sfin52]

What happened to alkalinity and magnesium? They looked like they bottomed out.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Dunno...? Not like anything is growing yet...

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Manually added some alk solution to give us a bump. Back up to 7.3dKH. Not too much, don't want to disturb any more than what already is. I'll test again every day at 2300 this week to make sure we get stabilized.

 

[sfin52]

When did you add the micro algea?

 

[sfin52]

It was the 28 dec but that doesn’t coralate with the drop that started back about the 25th.