well... let me thank all of you who helped me in the past 3 months. Thank you. To mention a few: Wendy, ReneeRN, Adam from Wallington and others. Also my wife who put up with me and my hobby lately. After reaching ammonia 0, nitrate 0 and nitrite 0 - i decided to change everything. I broke down the tank, cleaned, bought new lights, new sand, new live rock new wavemaster. I set up holding tank which will be a QT tank before anything comes to main tank. I do not take good pictures and the ones I took do not show truly what it is right now. But I will be posting updates regularly.
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Rafal's 72 Reef
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now i know how to attach pictures here 
Awesome rock work, Rafal! I bet you can't wait to fill this baby up. I'm looking forward to following your progress.
I'm looking forward to following your progress.Ammonia: 0
PH: 7.6
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: somewhere in between 0 and 5.0 on ATI color scale
Phosphate: somewere in between 0 and 0.25 on ATI color scale
Salnity: 1.024
I will do 10% water change on Wed - just in case. Phosphate worries me a little bit - simply I want to avoid algea issues. I may put some phosban in the overflow in a filter bag.
it looks good. I hope tomorrow will be as good as today. I went to see "stan the man" today --- he's got some amayzing tanks. I mean, just the colors in all tanks. I have not seen such a vibrant colors on purple tang anywhere like that.
I bought some stuff - split it with a friend and put them in a holding tank.
I was wondering when it would be safe to add pepermint shrimp or red blood shrimp or some snails? a week?
PH: 7.6
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: somewhere in between 0 and 5.0 on ATI color scale
Phosphate: somewere in between 0 and 0.25 on ATI color scale
Salnity: 1.024
I will do 10% water change on Wed - just in case. Phosphate worries me a little bit - simply I want to avoid algea issues. I may put some phosban in the overflow in a filter bag.
it looks good. I hope tomorrow will be as good as today. I went to see "stan the man" today --- he's got some amayzing tanks. I mean, just the colors in all tanks. I have not seen such a vibrant colors on purple tang anywhere like that.
I bought some stuff - split it with a friend and put them in a holding tank.
I was wondering when it would be safe to add pepermint shrimp or red blood shrimp or some snails? a week?
strange. PH color card says it is for freshwater and 7.6 is last measurment. I will have to see if I can get a card for saltwater PH.
I re-checked PH this morning with new test kit and it is around 8.5 (between two colors) - now i understand the need for PH probe. this is really guessing game with the colors and i am not color blind person.
i came home to discover brown diatoms on my rock appearing. i need some reassurance that this is a normal part of maturing tank and also what needs to be done that it wouldnt get out of the control. water parameters seem to be fine. i have become a mad scientist and check twice a day. lighting is on for 9 hrs. no fish. just 4 snails, red shrimp and two pepermint shrimps. waiting for the group buy in. anything i can do to control it? make it go away?
Rafal, sound perfectly normal. You could add some Cerith snails, they will devour it in no time. I hear you about the mad scientist part. I was doing the same thing in the beginning.
I hear you about the mad scientist part. I was doing the same thing in the beginning.here is the full shot of the tank. my two new best friends in the middle.
and my favorite zoas:
i am still dealing with brown diatoms, but it is much nicer than it was last week. as you can see, there is a lot of empty real estate in the tank still to cover. one frag a time...
Looks AWESOME, Rafal! You ought to be so stoked. ;D Nice additions. No. VERY nice additions!
thank you. i still have unfinished fight with brown diatoms, but it looks like i am winning the war. I have decided to keep the purple tang i have and will add him next week to DT. I will give away the clown for a frag or nothing to close the small QT. The tank looks best around 5pm to 7pm when everything is open and nice.
Why don't you want to keep your clowns? They look so nice in there. You can keep them with a purple tang, you know.
these in a picture are staying in the tank. I have a single clown in QT tank. I dont want 3 of them in DT. the single clown needs a good home. Purple tang will stay with me.
news of the week: purple death frag increased by 2 or 3 babies. i will look at them today for another hour or so to make sure they grow even faster!!! also, nuclear green came up with one baby. I wish i had a camera that would make nice pics of it. I decided to increase the fish population and added Orchid Dottyback - the shy one and not the aggresive one - and took a chance on something very beautiful - Coral Beauty. both fish have been quarantined for
at least 5 weeks.
also, nuclear green came up with one baby. I wish i had a camera that would make nice pics of it. I decided to increase the fish population and added Orchid Dottyback - the shy one and not the aggresive one - and took a chance on something very beautiful - Coral Beauty. both fish have been quarantined forat least 5 weeks.