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Pink thingy

BryanDuggan

BryanDuggan

I picked this up at Fengs yesterday. Now for the life of me I cannot remember what its called and I want to research its needs. I will admit it was an impulse buy, the color really pops!

Feng told me to put it in a low flow area, which I did. Take a look and let me know what you think this is.

Ps - You'll also notice some red slime. Feng sold me a bullet goby for this. I've seen posts saying they don't eat it, but he went straight for it and has already reduced it considerably.

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Hawkeye

Hawkeye

No clue on the coral. The red slime will only diminish once the amount of nutrients in the tank is less than your tanks ability to uptake it. As an interim I'd just siphon it off as much as possible. Removing the bacteria is a useful way of getting rid of the nutrient, but it's stop gap measure.

skimmers/water change/biopellets will help take up nutrients.

Feeding heavily/big bio load will create nutrients.

Your tank might be maxed out in terms of fish. Consider larger volume water changes, or maybe other reactors. I guess I gotta check your tank thread (if you have one) to see what's in there. Sorry not up to speed.

btw i just saw the other thread with downbeach's clam..that is one sweet clam.
 
BryanDuggan

BryanDuggan

Thanks Hawkeye. I've realized my skimmer is useless and certainly that isn't helping my cause. In fact I've even unplugged it because all it was doing was making noise and not producing any skimate. Ed W has offered me a skimmer he's not using and I'm sure that will help.

As for feeding/bioload - let me know what you think. 30G with ~3 or 4g in sump. Filter sock with phosguard. I do a 10g water change at least every two weeks.

Fish - I have 2 clowns, 2 damsels, and the goby.
Corals/clam, you can see in the photo.

Feeding - I've been feeding half a cube of brine shrimp most evenings. I wasn't straining the shrimp, just dumping it in there. Recently moved up to a full cube. Last night I started feeding strained mysis. My guess is I'll be dumping less "dirt" into the tank this way and it seems much better food.

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Hawkeye

Hawkeye

Skimmer or biopellets would help. But I don't see any slime in that pic. Set up looks sweet! Congrats!

you're not overloaded on fish imho - but straining the frozen food is probably a good idea. I don't think you need a full cube - do you? You're probably giving them a buffet every day lol.
 
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