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Getting the Rotifers and phytoplankton cultures running was a challenge. Kept crashing things.
Even gave Brine Shrimp a go!
Which also resulted in crashing the rotifers and phytoplankton.
Tried making my own hatch night Vassen Trap.
While it came out GREAT! I found better methods for collecting...
But on July 24, 2022…
As luck would have it something amazing happened!
I came home and in the JBJ were a hundred little baby clownfish.
100% unexpected!
I ran upstairs googled everything I could and tried scooping them out into a hastily made holding tank.
Anyone who knows clownfish breeding...
I have lots of stuff to post since this last update. And I know I tell the story of my perfect storm and the resulting tank crash. Glad I documented it real time!!!
It did crash. Lost everything almost coral wise. No fish affected.
Lost huge Hollywood stunner and red cap colonies, many many...
A little better this morning….
Added a little more magnesium sulfate and then some calcium chloride.
Will just keep slowly adjusting and adding as needed.
I tried multiple salfiert tests which I have been using as my primary test method for years.
I have read if you raise the other 2 it could reduce the Magnesium along the way.
So I have been skipping on water changes a bit or just fewer overall.
I really hadn’t been testing as things were looking good.
Just started getting some algae and some odd coral closures….so tested Tuesday morning.
Oh boy: Alk 6.9, Calcium 320, Magnesium 1260.
So I used the BRS calculator to...
I had one that was awesome RED on one wide and totally plain on the other. I fragged it down the middle and confirmed my past experience. Jasbreakers, while so awesome looking, are also so sensitive!
LOST the RED Side and Yellow side remained yellow and took forever to grow after being split...