5/6/2009 – 37 gallon reef

Hello all, and welcome new-comers. I know it has been quite some time since I last posted some photos of the fish tank, but I am a busy guy (full time work and school) and I just finished finals for the spring semester!

Also, I have been avoiding posting pictures of the tank recently because it looks really bad and overun by algae. However, I have been taking the necessary steps to try to track down the problem. In the past month I have bought numerous animals to test and see if they will impact the levels of green hair algae to no avail. The first animal I bought was a lawnmower blenny. This fish has done a great job of eating algae off my glass, but has not touched the rocks as of yet. This is a problem because I already had snails doing a pretty good job keeping the glass clean, so he was pretty much a waste so far. He does look cool though, I just wish he would perform.

Recently, I bought 3 large mexican turbo snails. Since they were acclimated, only 1 has moved around on the glass and has not touched the rocks. I strategicly placed one on a rock that wasnt near the glass to see if he might mow down some algae on the way to the glass, but instead he has only moved about 2 inches on the rock signifying to me that he may be confused or doesnt think he can make it anywhere else. He has been on the rock for a week already. The 3rd one I bought moved around on the glass a lot, but I havnt seen him in 3 days. All 3 of them are quite large, I dont know how I cant find it.

My most recent purchse is a long spined urchin (just got him 2 days ago). He hasnt moved much since I put him in, but thats to be expected with a newly acclimated animal. Im excited to see if he will make an impact on the algae.

I also bought a simple HOB refugium on ebay that should be here by friday. Cant wait to get rid of my bio balls and get this bad boy installed.

without further delay, here are some new pictures of my “swamp”

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3 Responses to “5/6/2009 – 37 gallon reef”

1. My Aquarium Update - 6/24/2009 | Reef Chronicle says:

   June 24, 2009 at 11:52 am

   [...] ammonia and nitrate into the water fueling the algae growth. If you check out my update from 5/6/2009, you will see that the tank looked pretty bad, but before I was able to take some action and try to [...]