Water change schedule
We were lazy last month and missed a water change. But we notice NO deleterious impact on the corals or fish. So the schedule now will be a 25 gallon salt water change every two months.
We were lazy last month and missed a water change. But we notice NO deleterious impact on the corals or fish. So the schedule now will be a 25 gallon salt water change every two months.
Don’t fear it. Use it as a filter medium and then scrape it off when you don’t like the appearance. Don’t let the algae build up get to the point that it is decaying and sending bad nutrients back into…
Not just Butterfly fish, we try to raise aerial butterflies also
We often call corals, “orchids of the sea”. We can’t get along without the land-locked versions either.
We took our UV out-of-service. The bulb stop lighting … again. Will troubleshoot later. The UV was there primarily for one fish, a Copper Band Butterfly. After a couple of good years, we lost it. Perfectly healthy, eating. Next day,…
It’s time for a new bulb, and a new pump. Around the six month replacement time, the original bulb burned out. In an effort to get max dwell time we may have had too little flow. We ordered and replaced…
We just noticed a fair amount of white slime in our freshwater tank used for adding water to the system to replace evaporation. The system is coming off-line for clean-up and re-evaluation. A 50 foot RODI tube will be run…
We are located in So Cal and got a “jolting” reminder why we do euro-braced and not rimless tanks.
We have a pretty good crop of Bubble Algae (Valonia ventricosa) now with no idea how it got started. And we let it get out of hand. The tank was free of this nuisance from the beginning and started about…
For the 140 gallon system, we have been undecided about a freshwater top off system because we were undecided about adding an external refugium. Initially, we installed a 60 gallon glass cube as the sump tank with the intention of…