Links to my tank (1 Viewer)

[Wildfire]

I just upgraed my thumbnailing /indexing script tonight (working on regenerating thumbnails) and figured that I should, finally, post the links to my tank.

My current (mostly) setup can be found here: http://www.wildfire-tech.com/~matt/tank/135g/

Links to my historical work can be found here: http://www.wildfire-tech.com/~matt/tank/

The pages CAN take a long time to load (that's the part I'm fixing tonight) please be patient.....

 

[Guest]

Tank looks nice. If the dates are correct from when you had it set up to when you put in fishes etc. And from the looks of the algae, doesnt seem like the tank has cycled yet. What are your water parameters??

 

[Wildfire]

Last check (Monday night) water Chem was

pH 8.2
Nitrate 5.0
Ammonia 0.1
Temp 81
Salinity 1.024
Alk 2.51
KH 7.0
Calcium 350
Po4 0.01

I'm fighting a Phosphate problem (the 0.01 was 0.30 3 days earlier) and the Ammonia is on it's way down after a spike (I had a snail die off). Generally it's 0.0 on all things, 80 Temp, 1.025 Sailinity, Calcium 450 (it's low in this reading set due to a water change during that day).

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure if 1 snail would cause the .1, but I would try not to put anything else in there till your sure everythings in check and everything is cycled. So you've gone through the algae blooms already I suppose??

 

[Wildfire]

It wasn't one snail. I bought a bad from a LFS and almost all of them dies withn 24 hours (yes, I acclimated them.. in fact with inverts I acclimate them even more slowly than the fish). The others I bought at other stores earlier in the fall are all still alive, so I don't think it's a water problem, I think I got a mess of sick snails....

I've been through light brown, green, and red algae. I'm now working on a light-triggered "brown" algae (that produces a ton of bubbles per day, and grows everywhere the lights is). I'm starting to see some red corraline (sp?) algae patches creeping in around the tank now.

 

[Guest]

Interesting point of note: I just had all of my fish die in my reef tank (Clam spawning event) and since then there has been no noticable ammonia spike at all. I was able to get 3 carcasses out of the tank, but that still left about 15 deaf fish and a dead abalone to deteriorate in the tank.

Now, my reef is well established....over two years old in this particular 180 gallon tank, with another 4 years in my previous 75 gallon tank.