Trad's Nano (New)

[trad]

New shelf

New shelf with doser....

 

[trad]

Cal 480
Alk 8.6
Mag 1400
NO3 1-2ppm
Salinity 1.025
Temp 25

Did my 15l weekly water change and tank looks tops!

 

[trad]

Guys I want to get a Purple tang (tiny) and Small Flame Angel but they tend to jump out of open top tanks. Any word on clear nylon mesh.... I think I can make something good it I can just find some.

 

[mariusmeyer]

The purple will very quickly outgrow the tank so it will not be a good choice. Being in such a small tank it could be very aggro towards any new addition.

 

[Dian6430]

I have to agree. A purple tang would be a bit of a stretch for the size tank

 

[trad]

Any tang??? Or just too small?

 

[Dian6430]

Unfortunately i have to say to small. Dont know if anyone would recommend something else. If i google it they say maybe a tomini tang

 

[trad]

Unfortunately i have to say to small. Dont know if anyone would recommend something else. If i google it they say maybe a tomini tang

possibly the least attractive tang I've ever seen. lol

I have kept a yellow in here before, so did Idol at the shop. Just have to get them tiny and swap them out regularly. but I'll see if it's worth it. The price of purple tangs is something else!

 

[Dian6430]

Haha yes they are very expensive. Just ordered myself 5 tangs for my tank so i know. Small yellow and work. Maybe a kole tang

 

[trad]

Look what arrived. Thanks @Anita Love Tunze products!

With two of these, connected to alternate out of sync, my tank is going to fly!

 

[Anita]

Great news Trad, the Moonlight will be here soon, cheers Anita

 

[trad]

Hey, so I got home yesterday. Fish looked distressed so tested my water. Mg was very high 2000+ (think I calculated the slurry mix incorrectly) increase of 600 from 1400 ppm the night before.

Strange reading from my NO3 tho, dropped to almost zero 0.25ppm from 2-3ppm the night before.

My skimmer also looks like it’s kicked into beast mode. And most of my diatoms vanished.

Any idea what can drop nitrate levels like that? Or is it an error from high Mag levels.

Also added a Monti frag (don’t think it could use NO3) and therefore turned my lighted up to a higher intensity.

Just doesn’t make sense, not what I was expecting. Although all livestock seems good this morning still and monti even has great colour.

Pic from night before...

 

[trad]

New pumps from @Anita

Working just perfectly as I wanted. Cables for the controller are a bit of a mess. So I need to figure out how to hide it all.

Let me know if you guys can see the video.

[GALLERY=media, 11663]Tank pumps by trad posted 13 Feb 2018 at 07:30[/GALLERY]

 

[trad]

FTS this morning without filter @Dane G

With Filter

 

[trad]

Phosphate and Carbon filters loaded and ready to go!

@TheWaterboy Algae-X rx

 

[Baberbek]

Some nice equipment there!!

 

[trad]

Thanks, just trying to keep it neat. Time to get some stock though

 

[trad]

Got some sps from @Marine Aquatics today, somewhat brown (been there a while) sure they will colour up.

Came with a hitchhiker which I think is either a porcelain crab or a Tetralia coral crab

 

[trad]

Went shopping, didn’t want a frag tank look but seems it’ll have to do

 

[Dian6430]

You will start to like the frag tank look as you can follow them grow out and know that was under your watch and doing