This hobby requires time, dedication and patience. I now realise, 30 members is no where near enough! My next few additions will be more CUC members just to try and bring the issues back under control. ![]() When you look at list of stock, it’s not a lot for the financial cost and in a 180 gallon, I can tell you, it looks empty.ĭespite the 30 odd clean up crew members, I do have a algae along with the cyano & dino. I am used to that happening with the tropical tank, but with the marines it seems to hurt more (I guess that is due to the initial cost being so much higher). The livestock loss is gutting, especially when you can’t see any reason for the loss. I thought I was fully prepared for everything this tank could throw at me… ohhh how wrong I was! I think I have had a bit of a bad run with getting both cyano & dino’s this early on in the game, but in the same breath at least I don’t have a tank full of corals to worry about loosing. You name it, I’ve probably watched it, joined it or read it before there was even a tank in the house. From lighting, to flow, to livestock, pests, water quality, new innovations. I have spent/still spend countless hours researching every aspect of keeping a reef tank. It seems to be a never ending battle with one pest or another, despite dipping of all corals and curing live-rock before putting it in my tank. ![]() For the last three months I have been trying to catch a six inch long bristle worm to no avail (it’s a very clever & fast worm!), just yesterday I discovered a peanut worm in a piece of live rock, which I have now ripped out of my tank to dry the rock out and hopefully kill the worm (I realise both of these worms are good clean up crew, but I don’t want them in my tank). The life within a marine tank is fascinating, even before you add fish or coral, the potential hitch-hikers you get from live rock are exciting and terrifying all in the same breath. Your first spot of coralline algae is an elating feeling, you feel like you are doing something right… but the very next day you can discover something like cyano or dino’s, which you will soon loose the will to live with! Sometimes these discoveries are good, other times they feel like the end of the world. Marine Tank 17/04/19Īs I sit looking at this tank I see something new nearly every day. Along with this I have an evasive bristle worm, one dead firefish, two dead Zoa frags and a third soon to follow, along with one dead cleaner shrimp and I have had to give up my much loved tropical aquarium. The dino & cyano are an on-going battle that I am determined to beat. In that six months I have battled bacteria blooms, had a never ending stream of micro-bubbles in my display, experienced a diatom bloom which quickly turned into a cyano & dinoflagelltes. I am six months in to my first saltwater tank.
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