Cyanobacteria

Had an outbreak of red slime algae. 

Cause : Overfeeding

Actions taken

1. Turkey blast the rocks

2. Remove 90% of the cheato in refugium (no space to grow)

3. Add some dead rocks

4. Water change

5. Reduce photo period (2 hours of MH)

6. Stop feeding (2 days)

7. Dosing NoPoX 

8. Increase skimming (wet)

9. Increased flow to PO4 removal reactor

To do

1. Increase return pump flow

2. Increase flow to Bio pellet reactor

3. Clean wavemaker 

Updates

Coral growth updates

FTS

Tridacna Maxima - golden rim

Latest addition on 14 January 2013

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Top View

Was busy setting up another tank and neglected testing the parameters.

Alkalinity - 11.8dKH
Calcium - 355 ppm (before water change) and 395 ppm (after water change and some dosing)
Magnesium - 1360 ppm

Birds of Paradise Birdnest

True Optics Poci

Blue Mille

Capitata

German Purple Digitata

German Blue Digitata

Tridacna Maxima

Sunset Mille

RBTA

Rainbow Stylo

Corals growth & color

Was happy that the corals grew when it was left unattended for 4 days.