A restart

[blackizzz]

After some water tests:

Sg: 1.025
Ph: 7.9 (a little lower than what I'm usually seeing, probably due to the fresh water from water change)
Temp: 25.1°c
Kh: 7.5
Calc: 430
Mg: 1290
K: 370 (a little too low, but acceptable & better than the last few weeks)
NO3: 1
PO4: 0.03

Nutrient-levels are "high" for a Zeovit-system, but I have been feeding quite heavily the last two-three weeks. Thought I'd see phosphates at a higher level, but happy where they are at the moment.

Nothing in the parameters indicate what would be bothering the monti, and everything seems to love life

[jacky]

Originally Posted by blackizzz

After some water tests:

Sg: 1.025
Ph: 7.9 (a little lower than what I'm usually seeing, probably due to the fresh water from water change)
Temp: 25.1°c
Kh: 7.5
Calc: 430
Mg: 1290
K: 370 (a little too low, but acceptable & better than the last few weeks)
NO3: 1
PO4: 0.03

Nutrient-levels are "high" for a Zeovit-system, but I have been feeding quite heavily the last two-three weeks. Thought I'd see phosphates at a higher level, but happy where they are at the moment.

Nothing in the parameters indicate what would be bothering the monti, and everything seems to love life

Perfect, you check all the water parameters once, which is responsible for the task of the coral.

Ask your KH question, my tank kh=7.0。 Your kh=7.5, why would you choose to position kh at 7.5? Also what is the difference between kh7.0 and 7.5? For corals.

Thank you

[blackizzz]

Originally Posted by jacky

Perfect, you check all the water parameters once, which is responsible for the task of the coral.

Ask your KH question, my tank kh=7.0。 Your kh=7.5, why would you choose to position kh at 7.5? Also what is the difference between kh7.0 and 7.5? For corals.

Thank you

7.5 dkh is what my saltmix (KZ Bio Reef salt) mixes to at the moment, so that's why I keep it there At the moment my growth is so slow, that my weekly water-changes is enough to keep parameters in check, so it makes sense to not have a lower KH, for stability

[jacky]

Originally Posted by blackizzz

7.5 dkh is what my saltmix (KZ Bio Reef salt) mixes to at the moment, so that's why I keep it there At the moment my growth is so slow, that my weekly water-changes is enough to keep parameters in check, so it makes sense to not have a lower KH, for stability

Good job, thank you for your explanation, great, very interesting.

[jacky]

Dude, I am very happy to watch the thread. The plan of the tank has changed from the original to the present coral. Now, like your tank, it is very beautiful and clean. The most important thing is to update quickly and look forward to it.

[blackizzz]

Originally Posted by jacky

Dude, I am very happy to watch the thread. The plan of the tank has changed from the original to the present coral. Now, like your tank, it is very beautiful and clean. The most important thing is to update quickly and look forward to it.

I Will do a little update later tonight, need to take a few photos first

[blackizzz]

So tank is seemingly doing good






A little algae on the sand, but other than that just the normal growth on the glass.

A few close-ups of some corals, seeing growth in almost all of them, and coloration is pretty good!















I really should take off the frag-plugs, but I’m hesitant to remove all that encrusted tissue. Hopefully the growth will be good and they’ll be covered by the corals soon :P

[jacky]

Originally Posted by blackizzz

So tank is seemingly doing good






A little algae on the sand, but other than that just the normal growth on the glass.

A few close-ups of some corals, seeing growth in almost all of them, and coloration is pretty good!















I really should take off the frag-plugs, but I’m hesitant to remove all that encrusted tissue. Hopefully the growth will be good and they’ll be covered by the corals soon :P

Blackizzz, thank you for updating, the corals are beautiful, the corals have space between each other, I can't wait for them to grow up, like the second and third pictures. It's really very artistic. Can you ask a few questions with you? Why do you choose a small coral, what is the name of the fish (white) above in the second picture? Clean sand?

[blackizzz]

Originally Posted by jacky

Blackizzz, thank you for updating, the corals are beautiful, the corals have space between each other, I can't wait for them to grow up, like the second and third pictures. It's really very artistic. Can you ask a few questions with you? Why do you choose a small coral, what is the name of the fish (white) above in the second picture? Clean sand?

Thank you Jacky

The reason for small corals is that large colonies are mostly very expensive here in Europe, and you can often get more colorful pieces if you buy smaller ones Plus, my tank is very small, so I can have more corals

The white fish is a "Valenciennea Strigata", a sand-sifting goby. It's both interesting to look at, and very annoying as it's always throwing sand on my corals

[G.Alexander]

Originally Posted by blackizzz

The white fish is a "Valenciennea Strigata", a sand-sifting goby. It's both interesting to look at, and very annoying as it's always throwing sand on my corals

This goby can really become annoying as he does shift the sand all over the corals. This one does keep the sand on the bottom:

https://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/ti..._puellaris.htm

Had them and they where doing a really good job to keep the sand clean but they often jump out of the water so some kind of a net over the tank can be helpful.

G.Alexander

[blackizzz]

Originally Posted by G.Alexander

This goby can really become annoying as he does shift the sand all over the corals. This one does keep the sand on the bottom:

https://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/ti..._puellaris.htm

Had them and they where doing a really good job to keep the sand clean but they often jump out of the water so some kind of a net over the tank can be helpful.

G.Alexander

Thanks for the suggestion G. If I get tired of removing sand from the corals I'll look at that one

[jacky]

Originally Posted by blackizzz

Thank you Jacky

The reason for small corals is that large colonies are mostly very expensive here in Europe, and you can often get more colorful pieces if you buy smaller ones Plus, my tank is very small, so I can have more corals

The white fish is a "Valenciennea Strigata", a sand-sifting goby. It's both interesting to look at, and very annoying as it's always throwing sand on my corals

The fish is so cute, I searched for it and it was really cute to filter the sand. Whether your live rock is at the bottom or the sand is first placed on the top of the live rock. If the fish filters the sand, it will cause the live rock to collapse. Also like G.Alexander said, they are easy to jump out of the tank, it is always a lively, cute and functional fish, I like it.

Your coral color is beautiful and colorful. Great.

[jacky]

Originally Posted by G.Alexander

This goby can really become annoying as he does shift the sand all over the corals. This one does keep the sand on the bottom:

https://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/ti..._puellaris.htm

Had them and they where doing a really good job to keep the sand clean but they often jump out of the water so some kind of a net over the tank can be helpful.

G.Alexander

Thank you G. The website is very detailed, let me get more information, thank you for sharing.

[jacky]

Originally Posted by blackizzz

Thank you Jacky

The reason for small corals is that large colonies are mostly very expensive here in Europe, and you can often get more colorful pieces if you buy smaller ones Plus, my tank is very small, so I can have more corals

The white fish is a "Valenciennea Strigata", a sand-sifting goby. It's both interesting to look at, and very annoying as it's always throwing sand on my corals

Fish is a "Valenciennea Strigata",thank you。
Many of the beautiful boutiques that you have always dreamed of are small ones, like yours.

[blackizzz]

New
So, got my Triton-test results back, overall it looks good.






A little surprised that Calcium is so high, my Salifert test kit tests it to be around 400, and against a reference solution (fauna marin) the test kit shows slightly lower than actual values, around 15-25 low, so my Calcium should be around 415-425. Triton is showing 562 mg/l, so a huge difference. I'm not dosing any Calcium either yet, so most likely it'll drop down in due time.

High Barium, seen that a lot of Zeovit tanks have that, must be in something we dose. Shouldn't be a problem though, according to the masses.

Low Potassium, as I knew, been trying to get that up, but struggling - been dosing twice the recommended amount of K-balance daily, will increase to three times the recommended amount.

Iodine is tested at absolutely 0, which I find unlikely since I dose it daily, "must" be a testing error.