Archive for the 'reef buildup' Category

coral frag tank installed

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Last weekend I installed a 57 USgal coral frag tank. As you can see on the pictures, it’s located above the right part (algae-partition) of the filtersump. The water outlet of the main-sump-pump was originally directed partly into the algae partition and is now redirected to the frag tank. The overflow of the frag tank […]

reefstatus

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Still running fine. PO4, NH4, NO2, NO3 not detectable, KH 8 degree German Hardness, Ca 412 ppm, Mg 1320 ppm. KH, Ca and Mg are kept up with Balling method (dosing pumps), Sr support is also done by a dosing pump. Diatom algae bloom is over, some green Hairalgae? are still there, but getting less […]

algae gone

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Well… the system is up and running.
The unwanted algae are gone and the corals are growing a lot.

Tja, das Riff steht und wächst vor sich hin.
Fadenalgen gehören glücklicherweise inzwischen der Vergangenheit an. Toitoitoi.

developing fine

Friday, October 21st, 2005

No news is good news ;-)
Still developing fine…. Algae more and more gone… Planing to buy first fishes today. Chelmon rostratus first to give it the chance to saddle before the other, more aggessive ones will come. Well and a Siganus magnificus (Foxface?) which is a very friendly algae eater.

Immer noch alles im grünen Bereich… […]

parameters / diatom algae

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Water parameters are developing fine. NO2 and PO4 near detection limit, NO3 at 2.5 ppm again maybe caused by activating the UV-unit yesterday. The brown algae film is developing more and more ;-(. I had a look at it under the microscope, they are definitely diatom algae. Living from Silicate, which i am already removing […]