Robin Gordon
February 18th 04, 06:11 PM
I have just started a new tank (4 months ago) from equipment and live rock I
had in an old 6 foot tank but I'm having a few problems. the nitrates were
right through the roof for a while but now I've got them to below 20ppm. my
lighting is 36W actinic (just replaced 2 weeks ago), a 36W powerglo about 2
months old and a 150W MH (system 2000) which needs a new bulb even though it
doesn't seem that dull.
when the powerglo is on I have to rake over the gravel 2 or 3 time a day to
keep it clean. it keeps getting covered in that old brown slime algae. I
first bought large green button polyps and small yellow polyps and a bubble
coral. the buttons did well and have started splitting and forming new
colonies but the yellows perished very quickly the bubble corals were two
pieces on one rock but they're growing towards each other very quickly.
thinking that all seemed to be settled now I purchased a feather xenia and a
clove xenia. the clove xenia was on a rock but fell off and landed upright
in the middle on the gravel. it's holding it's own but the feather looked
like it may need a medium flow so I set in the middle of the tank to catch
some flow, alas this doesn't seem to suit it that much but a greater flow
may damage it and a lesser flow will leave I clumped up.
advice anyone.
I feed a cube of brineshrimp and Korralife once every 3 days to help keep
the nitrates low (to avoid overfeeding) is there any better way of doing
this or do these corals not need any feed like this will they survive
without it. my only other occupants are a brittlestar and 11 hermit crabs
(seems everybody else is snapping up the turbo snails before I get there)
Robin
36" x 18" x 15" main tank, 36 x 12 x 18 sump with rio 1770 pump returning
water, prizm deluxe skimmer, 2 x 402 powerheads for constant circulation and
2 x 301 powerheads for wavemaking. 20 Kg of live (?) rock. i have no heater
at the moment as the tank temp varies between 22 C int the morning to 24.9
in the evening.
had in an old 6 foot tank but I'm having a few problems. the nitrates were
right through the roof for a while but now I've got them to below 20ppm. my
lighting is 36W actinic (just replaced 2 weeks ago), a 36W powerglo about 2
months old and a 150W MH (system 2000) which needs a new bulb even though it
doesn't seem that dull.
when the powerglo is on I have to rake over the gravel 2 or 3 time a day to
keep it clean. it keeps getting covered in that old brown slime algae. I
first bought large green button polyps and small yellow polyps and a bubble
coral. the buttons did well and have started splitting and forming new
colonies but the yellows perished very quickly the bubble corals were two
pieces on one rock but they're growing towards each other very quickly.
thinking that all seemed to be settled now I purchased a feather xenia and a
clove xenia. the clove xenia was on a rock but fell off and landed upright
in the middle on the gravel. it's holding it's own but the feather looked
like it may need a medium flow so I set in the middle of the tank to catch
some flow, alas this doesn't seem to suit it that much but a greater flow
may damage it and a lesser flow will leave I clumped up.
advice anyone.
I feed a cube of brineshrimp and Korralife once every 3 days to help keep
the nitrates low (to avoid overfeeding) is there any better way of doing
this or do these corals not need any feed like this will they survive
without it. my only other occupants are a brittlestar and 11 hermit crabs
(seems everybody else is snapping up the turbo snails before I get there)
Robin
36" x 18" x 15" main tank, 36 x 12 x 18 sump with rio 1770 pump returning
water, prizm deluxe skimmer, 2 x 402 powerheads for constant circulation and
2 x 301 powerheads for wavemaking. 20 Kg of live (?) rock. i have no heater
at the moment as the tank temp varies between 22 C int the morning to 24.9
in the evening.