Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
Met them at the swap yesterday. Great guy really know what he’s doing. All the fish are fat and active. They will be at the club swap as well so be prepared to see some nice specimens. I got this beautiful leopard wrasse from them and it was eating like a pig 10 minutes in my tank!
Welcome to the board and the hobby.
Let's keep it simple here. For a newbie, the only thing you have to test in Salinity. You can worry about everything else a few months later.
My orange sea fan has been doing well so I decided to give carnation corals. It’s a very difficult NFS coral and few have been able to keep it alive long term. The main problem is it needs to be fed constantly. Stopped by ACC and they happened to have it in stock. (BTW I love the gorgonian tank...
I took advantage of the tunze sale and added an macro algae reactor. I have been eyeing this for a while. It’s well made and a perfect fit for the waterbox sump. I feed the tank 2 cubes plus nori and dry food. Let see if it can keep up.
It’s not bad from the picture. I can see the frags lol. It will get better over time. I always run a skimmer it will remove bacteria and other organic compounds and it aerateS the water. If you want to clean the water even further run a uv. The cheap green killing machine works fine. Just run it...
If you have cloudy water most likely you have an bacteria bloom. Cloudy is not the same as dirty water. You can have a lot of detritus but the water is still clear. To fix this problem, you can add a skimmer or add some live rock for the bacteria to colonize on. UV can be used short term as well.
I have the octo 130 as well and it works well. It came with the tank. However compared to a skimz it’s kind of cheaply built. I also have bubble magus, not that great. If I were you I would get an A/C pump skimz and call it a day. BRS is running 15% off skimz now.