Looks like an econophylia sp. or Chalice. Quite a hardy coral (I found) grows mint and encrusts things under the correct lighting and with a good calcium supply.
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Posted 22 September 2014 - 01:10 PM
#42
Posted 22 September 2014 - 11:41 PM
Yeh was sold to me as green plate coral. Looks more like Chalice to me.<br />What's the purple stuff? It looks like a purple Xenia.<br /><br />Some of the coral growing on the live rock is going CRAZYYYY growing so fast and the colours under the moon lights are so fluorescent.<br /><br />Found more live animals tonight some kind of ornamental crab and a blue worm? Or slug of some sort.<br /><br />
#43
Posted 23 September 2014 - 05:47 AM
#44
Posted 23 September 2014 - 01:35 PM
Dont worry about the red sea abc powder your not ready to dose yet. Start dosing when your tanks using all your trace elements faster then what you water changes can supply them.
Is there a good tank indicator to this happening other than having to measure for it?
#45
Posted 23 September 2014 - 05:37 PM
On another note - Nitrate and Ammonia are now completely undetectable. Photo of tank attached. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1411465013.540829.jpg 430KB 7 downloads lots of brown algae? Indication of high phosphate ?
#46
Posted 23 September 2014 - 10:37 PM
Pick up a master saltwater test kit does everything you'll need!!
Is the mantis still in there? I had one in some live rock too I ended up pulling the tank apart and flushing him out with soda water and he went to a LFS he was a beast but, I'd feed him prawn on a skewer and when he snapped you could feel it all the way up your hand!
I was using in the marine, and still using in fresh, the sicce voyager wave make from Vebas with the wave surfer controller, around $270 from memory but I highly recommend them!!
Love marine! Looking at yours makes me want to set up another one!
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Posted 24 September 2014 - 11:48 AM
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#54
Posted 09 October 2014 - 08:42 AM
- RO unit today
- tunze 9002 I get Saturday
- nitrates, ammonia and phosphate held steady for 2 weeks so I have introduced some Corals.
2 x Small ZOA clusters
1 x Hammer Coral
1 x Orange Mushroom (single Head)
My Green plate is fine now and my purple xenia is going great guns. A whole bunch of other corals have grown on the like rock I got.
Inhabitants now are
Clean Up Crew
7 x hermit crabs
5 x Turbo Snails
3 x Strombus Snails
1 x Burnt Sausage Cucumber
1 x Red Furry Starfish
5 x peppermint Shrimp
1 x Blue Tang (Temporary)
1 x blue Chromis
1 x Firefish
- notes
My clean up crew rocks. I had massive problems with the algae for a bit and was stressing (mainly on the sand bed) so the Strombs fixed it all up. The tank is absolutely immaculate and I am now feeding every couple of days and leaving the lights on much longer than I was as the CUC manages the algae and sediment.
There is a few ornamental looking crabs in there, a pistol shrimp a couple of abalone all small and hiding in the live rock that I got.
The tank looks absolutely amazing and I'm sure will get better with the change to RO water.
I had one Chromis kill the other 2. Pecked them to death so they went in the bin. I added a blue tang to graze the coral for the time being and it has done exactly what I needed it too.
Added the Firefish yesterday.
Got lots of little pieces of coral instead of one big pieces, so I can learn about a few different pieces at one time and experiment with them. Apparently my green plate coral is a little more difficult to keep than I thought but it is doing great now and feeding well so these new additions should be a breeze.
I got tons of photos but I can't post them from my phone (in app or via the mobile site or full site) just keeps coming up with an error.
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#55
Posted 09 October 2014 - 02:39 PM
Was fine this morning - death by powerhead. Stuck on the outside of the casing for my powerhead.
Looks like he had only been cause on it for a few minutes. Bugger!!! Was such a beautiful fish. My first loss - cut me to my core.
Will get another one on the weekend.
Just retested parameters everything checks out fine.
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Posted 09 October 2014 - 05:44 PM
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#60
Posted 13 October 2014 - 10:10 AM
It's pretty expensive but has a good list of ingredients and being a beginner I think it's good to establish the tank with quality salts. It's only small as well so top ups and water changes are minimal.
I also have a Tunze 9002 I got for $100 what a steal. Will be ordering the Steve T Media Rack and Cup next pay. I know people debate the necessity of this addition but for me it's all about getting the temperature down and the noise down.
Also ordered two new fans for the good that produce 4 times more air turn over again I don't want to add a chiller unit to the tank so another measure to keep the temperature down.
Right now it sits stable at 26-27
New tannk mates
Decora Fire Fish
6 Line Wrasse
- Note : Had another episode of the brown goo on the chalice. Literally over night in a matter of 12 hours it had gone ape sh*t on it. I had, the day before, remover the skimmer and gave the back a good clean out to get rid of any crap laying in there and may have disturbed or encouraged it to come back.
I gave it a very hard treatment of the eye drops and it blew all the gunk off with a syringe. It seems to be good again now but I had really shaken up the xenia a bit and it isn't fully extending again yet.
I am finding it hard to just leave the tank alone so I am thinking of taping the lid shut for a while so I can stop fiddling.
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