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Back to my first saltwater tank

njtiger24 aquariums

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So today I setup my auto doser (which I got for Christmas) cause I have been dosing about the same amount every day. Because this is my first time using an auto doser I set the dose lower (about half) than what I been dosing every day. I will keep testing every day for a little (then go every week)

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njtiger24 aquariums

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Hmmm maybe I should take this as a sign. This morning I was thinking of maybe selling my life stock and just breaking my tank down. Lately I have not had the time to work on it nor am I really in a place to take care of it. Just now I am laying in my bed when I hear my mom yell my name and say something is wrong with the tank. I walk out to the living room and can hear popping and smell plastic melting. I turn off my power strips and discover I had water dripping down one of the cables into the power strip (which was now melting). I clean everything up and mounted the good power strip off the floor. I then only plugged in my heater and pump. Need to think long and hard if it might just be a time in my life to break the tank down and wait until I'm in a better place.
 

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damn!!!!! I know it's too late to say, but always keep outlets off the floor. drip loops are always needed. good thing you got to it in time.

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njtiger24 aquariums

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damn!!!!! I know it's too late to say, but always keep outlets off the floor. drip loops are always needed. good thing you got to it in time.

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I did have both power strips off the floor but I got lazy. The issue happen cause I got lazy lol. awhile back I installed some new equipment and while doing that the power strip felled off the wall and I never put it back. Then yesterday, when I got home from work, I checked my tank and noticed that my filter floss was clog so my in-the-tank filter was overflowing the sides. I checked it and it wasn't running down the power cord, at that time, so I ignore it but in fact I should had at least pulled the filter floss out cause that what lead to the water getting onto the power strip. Lesson of the story, don't get lazy lol.
 

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so I been sick of looking at my dirty tank. Decided to really tackle it. I took two smaller rocks out which were the worst of the bubble algae. I baked them in acid for over 1 hour and they got nice and clean. They are back in the tank and doing ok so far. Today I took one of my larger rocks out baked it for 1 hours but it did not get as clean so i am going to bake it over night. I also turned my fug light off (cause there no macro algae in there anymore). I also picked up some fluval clearmax, to remove the phosphate, and bio pellets which are now in the fug. Once i get this algae under control then I might look to get my fug up and running again.
 

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So today I took 3 rocks out and baked them. This should be my last round of baking cause I think I got all the bubble algae. I think the clearmax is helping. Still trying to keep ontop of all of this and once I get the tank looking the way I want I will then start worrying about corals.
 

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Ok been some time since I updated this.

My current live stock compare to my first list:

Live Stock (before)
* 1 Flurry clown
* 1 Condy Nem
* 1 Rose Bubble Tip Nem
* 2 Flower nems
* Hammer
* Green birdnest
* 1 Coral Beauty
* 1 Green/Blue chromie
* Red cap
* a couple of different zoas

Live Stock (now):
* 1 Flurry clown
* 2 flower nems
* Hammer
* 1 coral beauty
* red monit caps
* a couple of different zoas
* 1 yellow clown goby
* 1 sand star
* Satosa
* Red Acro

Equipment(before):
* 1 Kessil 360we connected to a Kessil controller
* 2 Kessil A150 Deep Ocean Blues
* HOB Fuge with a LED light
* In tank filter (which is slowly being phased out)
* UV filter (which I might slowly phase out as well)
* 2 Jabeo RW4s
* My DIY raspberry Pi controller

Equipment(now):
* 1 Kessil 360we connected to a Kessil controller
* 2 Kessil A150 Deep Ocean Blues - (connected to my pi-controller)
* HOB Fuge but no fug just carbon, gfo, bio-pelltes, and heater inside it - (connected to my pi-controller)
* In tank filter (which just runs filter floss) - (connected to my pi-controller)
* 2 Jabeo RW4s
* My DIY raspberry Pi controller
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njtiger24 aquariums

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looking good james...plan on doing some dosing or something?

Not sure. I had my doser hooked up but things with my tank wasn't going well. I turned the doser off and trying to get things under control before I look to dose anything else. I have bubble algae which I am fighting right now
 

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the bubble algae you'll just need to manually remove for now....just try not to pop them. Overall i think it looks good
 

njtiger24 aquariums

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the bubble algae you'll just need to manually remove for now....just try not to pop them. Overall i think it looks good
Thanks. Yea I did a big removal last weekend (when I was doing a water change). I have read about popping and some say dont and other say it doesn't matter cause they are sporless. I was also thinking of getting a foxface which seems to help many people but my tank is way to small for a foxface and I don't even think I can temporary house one
 

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Thanks. Yea I did a big removal last weekend (when I was doing a water change). I have read about popping and some say dont and other say it doesn't matter cause they are sporless. I was also thinking of getting a foxface which seems to help many people but my tank is way to small for a foxface and I don't even think I can temporary house one
with your livestock, the fox face may out grow your tank quickly...emerald crabs are pretty good for management but you'd need a platoon for eradication
 

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Wow been a while since I updated this.

Here a new FTS after finishing a water change. Lights are down low and everything is doing well (beside the two corals I lost ).

I am shocked how welly red cap is doing.

Hopefully my gold hammer gets larger and joins up with my other hammer

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