Seth's Next Reefkeeping Chapter

[sethsolomon]

10 hours ago, ImGoingCoastal said:

Candy Hogfish / two spot Hogfish. Very active upper level swimmer. Mine was docile and fun to watch.

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Ohh candy hog is a good idea!  Its been a long time since i had a hogfish

[sethsolomon]

Well made a good dent in the euphillia needed for the euphillia garden section for my tank thanks to @NovaReef

 

[NovaReef]

Looks awesome! That will look amazing all grown in!


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[menglish]

That i looking really good.

You need more of the different colors

[sethsolomon]

19 minutes ago, menglish said:

That i looking really good.

You need more of the different colors

Yah I am thinking I need a gold torch and an orange frogspawn

[YHSublime]

Looking good man!

[sethsolomon]

Just an update:  

 

New inhabitants:

Large 5" leopard wrasse

a chaoti leopard wrasse

a pin-tail fairy wrasse

2 cleaner shrimp

 

a large green goniopora 

 

and some pics:

 

 

 

[menglish]

Make sure the screen on the tank is really tight.

[sethsolomon]

4 hours ago, menglish said:

Make sure the screen on the tank is really tight.

my hood is completely sealed.  so worst thing that happens is they hop in the overflow.

 

 

Unfortunately I found the Choati leopard dead on the sand.  today is a rough day

[YHSublime]

55 minutes ago, sethsolomon said:

my hood is completely sealed.  so worst thing that happens is they hop in the overflow.

 

 

Unfortunately I found the Choati leopard dead on the sand.  today is a rough day

 

Dang man, sorry to hear, that's never any fun. 

[sethsolomon]

Well woke up to my kutier leopard dead on my power head....  Been going strong for 3 weeks  eating frozen and pellets.  looked him over and no signs of disease or injury from fish aggression.  Nitrates undetectable, nitrites undetectable, and ammonia undetectable on salifert test kits.   Guess its time to do an ICP test to see if there is something like elevated lithium.

[hlem]

2 in a week? something is up...

[sethsolomon]

2 hours ago, hlem said:

2 in a week? something is up...

Yah something is seriously off to loose a eating leopard wrasse.

[sethsolomon]

Well just some small updates: 

 

Got a show size elegance. been watching my sps slowly grow.  Solved my undetectable nitrates issue and its now holding steady at 5ppm.  Realized my phosphates were in the 0.4ppm range so starting to run GFO to bring that down. My sea urchin  found a rubber band in my tank.  Got a really nice blasto from Lynn. And over all the fish seem to be doing good and being healthy even though i lost those 3 leopard wrasses.

 

[lynn.reef.nerd]

Looking good Seth!

[sethsolomon]

18 minutes ago, lynn.reef.nerd said:

Looking good Seth!

Thanks Lynn!

[GraffitiSpotCorals]

Thanks looking good, let’s see a Tank shot of it now that the rocks have cycled. 

[sethsolomon]

On 5/31/2020 at 1:01 PM, GraffitiSpotCorals said:

Thanks looking good, let’s see a Tank shot of it now that the rocks have cycled. 

Here you go!

[sethsolomon]

What's in the mystery box?!!!?

Edited June 11, 2020 by sethsolomon

[ReefAddict]

Second round of wrasses?

[sethsolomon]

Corals!

[DFR]

Tank is looking good.  Nice mix of colors.

[sethsolomon]

Well it's been a hot min since I have updated my build thread.  So I figured out what killed the 2 leopard wrasses.  Its my Moyer's Leopard.  He is one agressive fish. Going to be working on getting him out so he can move to something in the 300-600g range.  Finally finished my stand skin after 8 months.   Added a Avast Marine Kalk Stirrer.  Ditched the Jebao Crossflow pumps.  they are complete junk.  4-5 months in one died and the other 2 are leaking voltage.  Swapped to 2 Vortech MP-40's and in the process of getting 2 more.

 

Got 2 Blue Gudgeons, a pudding wrasse, a second royal gramma, a yellow tail damsel, 18 peppermint shrimp, and 24 emerald crabs.

 

Currently dealing with Aiptasia (Came in on an Aqua SD frag), bubble algae (Came in on a hammer i got from another Hobbyist), and cyano (Probably waited too long to change my GFO or not enough flow)

 

 

[GraffitiSpotCorals]

And I remember telling you not to go with those darn pumps when I dropped the tank off , did you replace them with mp10 or mp40?  Let me know if you want any acros. 

[sethsolomon]

Well again it has been WAYYYY too long since an update.  So my tank has gotten much worse until recently,  Had a Trident fail on me and i didn't have notifications set up for it.  Had 2 MP-40's fail on me and had to RMA them.  Still waiting for one to come back.  Lost my acans, my show size elegance, and a few blastos.  I had the realization that the 0 water change is complete BS. The Triton method is a bunch of BS.  So going back to doing water changes, using Fritz RPM salt and the tank is starting to look better and better. May take a stab at adding some more acros this summer.

 

I have a new family member!  Piper! My new little girl.  She has been eating up a lot of my time as well as a new side project to help with the reef keeping.