Sad Day
My magnificent foxface died today. I had him for 6 years when he was a baby. Grew to 7 inches in my tank. He had not been eating well lately and was paper thin. One of my favorite fishes. RIP
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Sunny's 350G build (was 150)
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Always hate to see these! Sorry for the loss Sunny.
Very sorry to hear sunny!Sad Day
My magnificent foxface died today. I had him for 6 years when he was a baby. Grew to 7 inches in my tank. He had not been eating well lately and was paper thin. One of my favorite fishes. RIP
Sorry to hear that Sunny
Rant -
So I added a new frag tank about 4 weeks ago. I have black egg crate in there purchased from BRS. There is now a ton of brown algae over running the egg crate. I mean layers of it with bubbles. No it is not cyano nor it is dino. It is dia-atoms. Ugly looking stuff. What is weird is that it is only on egg crate. Nothing on glass or on PVC.
So frustrated.
So I added a new frag tank about 4 weeks ago. I have black egg crate in there purchased from BRS. There is now a ton of brown algae over running the egg crate. I mean layers of it with bubbles. No it is not cyano nor it is dino. It is dia-atoms. Ugly looking stuff. What is weird is that it is only on egg crate. Nothing on glass or on PVC.
So frustrated.
Put in a piece of white egg crate and see if it grows on that. My first thought is that the growth is living off the mold release agent used on the egg crate.
I believe pyramid butterfly.
Ha!
They heat up my tank. I cannot keep TEMP down. I have to change bulbs and I cannot do it alone. They are not as bright as I want them to be.
But ... They do the job. It is like the love and hate relationship I have with my other hobby - "golf".
I am in the process to try a new bulb combo and that might give me a better eye color - nothing to do with coral color
Looking good man
Ha!
They heat up my tank. I cannot keep TEMP down. I have to change bulbs and I cannot do it alone. They are not as bright as I want them to be.
But ... They do the job. It is like the love and hate relationship I have with my other hobby - "golf".
I am in the process to try a new bulb combo and that might give me a better eye color - nothing to do with coral color
I have an 8 bulb on top of mine and have no real issues with temp, in the summer it will get up to 81 or so but no big deal, i usually keep the tank at 78.5. I also have mine raised about 16 inches off of the tank. I'm not sure what color you're going for but if you want bright, I had two aqua blue specials, 1 coral plus, 1 purple plus, and 4 blue plus and it was bright. I only changed it as i went to lps and that was too much light. take out the coral plus and throw in an actinic, you'll have plenty of light and some bright corals.
arvin
NJRC Member
Speaking of coral colors, what additives do you add to the tank for Corals to get that color?Ha!
They heat up my tank. I cannot keep TEMP down. I have to change bulbs and I cannot do it alone. They are not as bright as I want them to be.
But ... They do the job. It is like the love and hate relationship I have with my other hobby - "golf".
I am in the process to try a new bulb combo and that might give me a better eye color - nothing to do with coral color