Chapter 3: 150g SCA Tank

[Rainblood]

It’s not timid and hunts all the time but can only eat small pieces of food. If a worm is too big it’ll inhale it, spit it out, inhale, spit, inhale…until it gets it into manageable pieces.
I have to target feed it blackworms. Wait for it to finish chewing. Target feed again. Chew. Feed.
Out of 10 worms it’ll maybe get 5.

Just watching it eat is like watching pandas becoming extinct bc they refuse to procreate…

 

[Rainblood]

I have these somewhat silly magnet frag discs that a friend gave me. I finally decided to put some small branching euphyllia on them to see what happens.

It is rather silly but…

 

[Rainblood]

Wife said she almost drank the phyto this morning so I had to bust out the sharpie…

 

[Adam]

 

[Cook]

Wife said she almost drank the phyto this morning so I had to bust out the sharpie…

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Ready to buy that minifridge yet?

 

[york1]

Minus the salt phyto is healthy for her

 

[Rainblood]

CSB after feeding with and without orange filter

 

[Rainblood]

Doubled down on stupid



Also added a ogo to the fuge. Fuge on this sump is in the worst spot ever…back center behind the skimmer.

 

[Rainblood]

2 chinas finally shipped but unfortunately 1 died overnight.
I caught the old china and also placed it in the acclimation box. They’re both sort of eating for now so I’ll give them a week to get fat and then release them into the thunder dome

 

[Rainblood]

Things got onary in the acclimation box and we had to release these 2 sooner than anticipated. Thus far they seem to be doing ok…pecking at the rocks and drifting in the current. They are about the same size as my skunk cleaners. Hopefully they are able to get food out of the water column because I don’t think any hits the ground in this tank

 

[york1]

 

[hiimsean]

Beautiful fish. If you ever decide to part with one let me know!

 

[Rainblood]

Thing 1 and Thing 2 are doing great. Eating pellets. Holding their own with the other tank mates. I’m happy. Now, I just hope 1 turns male…if not you guys will be seeing a $500 China wrasse for sale soon lol

I cannot tell if the ogo is doing well or not. The ice cap sump has a slow flow refugium which gets very little flow. I added a small powerhead in the opposite chamber to add a little flow but it doesn't really do much. Theres a little bit of protein build-up on the surface of the fuge section. I'l let it ride a little longer and then probably figure something else out...

First acros are in the tank - asd rainbow, op, pretty in pink & garf bonsai

 

[Rainblood]

Office in nightclub mode every night

 

[york1]

I am pretty sure my neighbors think im running a grow house. All the blue lights in the evenings and then red/blue lights from my fuge lights at night

 

[Gabridge83]

I am pretty sure my neighbors think im running a grow house. All the blue lights in the evenings and then red/blue lights from my fuge lights at night

Same!!

 

[Rainblood]

I know I swore off clams but an opportunity came to buy a healthy one so I took it.
Acrylic box is there to protect it from the Regal who used it as a soccer ball for the first hour when it was introduced

 

[Rainblood]

More acros and other sps into the tank. Glued down some stuff. Ran out of glue…

 

[Rainblood]

Phosphates were over .25 and I decided to drop diluted SeaKlear into a 10 micron sock to reduce it.

The first run was 1ml mixed in ~20oz of rodi water which reduced the phosphates to .29 to .22

The second run was 2ml mixed in 20oz which reduced it from .22 to .12

I’m gonna leave it at .12 for a bit because that was a pretty big drop. Alk also dropped during the treatment from about 8.5 to 8.3

Fish all seem fine - no labored breathing. Corals look ok

 

[Rainblood]

What prompted me to treat was that my elegance can closed up for a couple of days. Everything else seemed ok but I couldn’t figure out what was going on with it. We’ll see I guess