I have a 75 gallon glass tank that has been running for almost two years. It has a protein skimmer, and an Ecco Enheim canister filter. The Odyssea lighting is T5, four true blue actinic and four 2000k daylight on a nine hours on cycle.
It is currently home to:
A pair of true percula clown
One hippa tang
One box/cow fish
One sail fin goby
One Indigo Dotty back
Several hermit crabs. turbo snails
An Atlantic purple tipped anemone (I can't recall the exact name of it)
One bubble coral
Various mushrooms
Most of the corals I had in the tank have since died, and I've been battling increasing nitrates, with about 13-15% water changes every two weeks, and a carbon filter, to help with the detritus. I've been feeding the fish frozen/live myosis/brine shrimp. The nitrates are still extremely high. About every month and a half, I take apart the protein skimmer's tower and canister filter for cleaning.
Parameters:
Salinity: 1.022
Temp: 78
PH: 8.2
Alk: 1.7-2.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 100(high)-20(low)
Nitrite: .05
It's been about two months since the last coral death. All the fish look healthy and don't exhibit any unusual behavior. I enjoy the fish, but I'd like to figure out how to maintain a reef. I'm waiting to try an 'easy' coral, until after the nitrates are under control. The tank crashing has made me nervous about adding things.
I've attempted to add some photos, if they're not showing up, I must have done something wrong, and will get them up before the week is out.
Over the course of a year an a half, my tank went from:
to:
It is currently home to:
A pair of true percula clown
One hippa tang
One box/cow fish
One sail fin goby
One Indigo Dotty back
Several hermit crabs. turbo snails
An Atlantic purple tipped anemone (I can't recall the exact name of it)
One bubble coral
Various mushrooms
Most of the corals I had in the tank have since died, and I've been battling increasing nitrates, with about 13-15% water changes every two weeks, and a carbon filter, to help with the detritus. I've been feeding the fish frozen/live myosis/brine shrimp. The nitrates are still extremely high. About every month and a half, I take apart the protein skimmer's tower and canister filter for cleaning.
Parameters:
Salinity: 1.022
Temp: 78
PH: 8.2
Alk: 1.7-2.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 100(high)-20(low)
Nitrite: .05
It's been about two months since the last coral death. All the fish look healthy and don't exhibit any unusual behavior. I enjoy the fish, but I'd like to figure out how to maintain a reef. I'm waiting to try an 'easy' coral, until after the nitrates are under control. The tank crashing has made me nervous about adding things.
I've attempted to add some photos, if they're not showing up, I must have done something wrong, and will get them up before the week is out.
Over the course of a year an a half, my tank went from:
to: