Tank Entry

I received 4 testing kits from Aquarium Water Testing for my birthday. With the trouble I was having with Snails dying I was curious to see if these test showed anything. The results are in and most things look okay expect for few parameters Molybdenum and Stronium.

Has anyone heard of troubles with this value. See the note from AWT on the parmeter.

Also the Free calcium versus total - never heard of this before. I'll have to read more.

The good news is ...

I can't figure out how to post pictures in comments (always asks for URL) so I'm going to post here instead.

Here is the cooking vat:





The one thing that is doing great through this whole thing is the Rose BTA. It has grown 4 times it's size in the same time period.



Notice the hair algae on the rocks and the hammer coral wasting away. This picture is actually underwater ...

About 10 months ago my tank was doing great. I created a little gallery of the tank with Iphoto that is available here:

https://www.icloud.com/journal/#p=02....jb/index.json


Around Christmas this past year a rapid decline started. I started to lose some corals (mostly Montipora) but everything else looked fine. Shortly there after the hair algae ...

I'm going to be posting about my project to upgrade my old sump to a new Melev's reef custom sump.

Here is where I'm starting from:



Cramped quarters and a real mess.

Here is the new sump after testing it for leaks:



I'll be posting as I get this installed and some tricks I've figured out along the way.