back to using NSW again now 25 litre water change the 1st step

put more flow through my rowaphos as it was not tumbling and my phosphate had risen
View October 21, 2019 06:40
last wednesday disaster struck my light fellin the tank and was there for 3 hours till i got home all the corals have died and only 2 clown fish out of 10 fish survived

did a 200 litre water change and cleaned up now the long hard process of starting again slowly
View August 5, 2019 11:03
water change done

all test done all stable except mag which keeps swinging high and low

carbocalcium working really well so far keeping the alk and calcium stable

k and a elements really helping the corals i believe as can see a lot more polyp extension and colour from my corals

added more pellets as well this week to try and bring the nitrate down more will also up my dose of bacto balance to 2ml a day from 1.7 ml

dosed 3ml of iodine
View July 28, 2019 08:07
no water change this week

changed the clarisea roll lets see how long this one lasts

all test done


removed my temp controller and added a new one due to the aqua medic one failing


started using carbo calcium and A and K elements
View July 22, 2019 09:52
Done 25 litre water change

Added 3 ml iodine

Done all tests

Added 5 more frags

Np bacto balance moving up to 2 ml a day now

Put a diy algae scrubber online now as well
View July 7, 2019 18:05
Done 25l water change

Added 3 ml iodine

Done all tests

Changed the carbon as I do every month

Upped the NP bio active to 1.5 ml daily now

Lowered my lights to 7 inches off the water now

Added 5 new coral frags

View June 30, 2019 19:02
Done 25 litre NSW water change

Done all test

Added 3 mm iodine

Bio Bacto balance now on 1 mm a day

Bought two new frags today

View June 22, 2019 20:41
Done 25litre NSW water change

Added 3 ml of iodine

Lowered alk dosing

Will up the Bacto balance to 0.75 ml for the next 7 days

Broke a branch of a frag while cleaning the tank really annoyed

My new trachy coral had part of its head buried in the sand only noticed while doing the weekly clean ,not sure it will make it ,so gutted this was a Father’s Day present from my daughter

All test done


View June 15, 2019 15:41
Done 25 litre NSW change

Done all test

Added 30 ml of iodine

Started dosing bio active @0.50 ml a day and took the rowaphos offline as I think my low phosphate is the reason my nitrate not coming down

Calcium and mag still acting crazy up and down and not even dosing these elements yet

View June 9, 2019 09:48
done 25 litre NSW change

changed rowaphos 100g

changed clarisea roll

mag and calcium finally starting to come down will test again wednesday to see if dosing is required

all test done

added the two new corals

added 3 ml iodine
View June 3, 2019 06:16