Everything is still settling in to the glassbox and updates will be postponed for a while until corals color back up. In the mean time here’s a peak at the current liverock layout with some of my own ramblings on aquascaping.
The liverock used here is 25 pounds of Premium’s Cured Bali Alor and it is quite [...]
Per some persistent phone calls, e-mails and comments from you guys here’s how the glassbox looked as of Friday evening… empty. All rock, water and sand was discarded. Plumbing and sump has been dismantled and cleaned. Pretty boring overall, but a nice clean starphire rimless tank never looks bad.
Thanks to a lot of labor and some [...]
I apologize about the delay on this post. Below is a continuance from #1 and #2.
By now all the butterflyfish had been freshwater dipped and were in quarantine under going copper treatment. The C. declivis, C. xanthocephalus and C. collare seemed fine, but the Hybrid at this point looked bad. Prior to the velvet (Amyloodinium ocellatum) [...]
Since the initial installation of the ATB External Small Cone Skimmer I have been required to reduce the air intake slightly to prevent overflowing and/or extremely wet skimming. ATB and myself are not completely certain why this is. The feed is roughly 200gph via MJ1200, but the air intake is elevated at 850-950lph. That increase [...]
The Full Line of Fauna Marin Balling Salts
To go along with the Profilux Stand Alone Dosing Pump, we’ll be giving the full line of FM Balling Salts a try as well. This includes:
Sodium Bicarbonate
Calcium Chloride
Magnesium Sulfate and Magnesium Chloride
FM Mineralsalt (NaCl Free Salt)
Ultra Trace B
Heavy Metal Komplex
Strontium-Barium Komplex
Iodine-Flouric Komplex
All will be used except for the [...]
This post is a continuance from part 1.
Freshwater baths are great for velvet treatment and usually provide temporary relief, but they can also leave open wounds susceptible to infection. First up was Chaetodon declivis, a little food at the surface and a hand scoop and I had him collected for the bath. When performing freshwater baths it’s important [...]
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