• A half-dead nanocube needs help.

  • Ronald5720

Dear lovers of marine aquaristics!! Help, save us!! So, we have a small aquarium inspired by Aquael 30, just a self-adhesive with a sump (40 liters total), the aquarium has been running for 8 months (started in August) and it seems to be alive, but not everything is as we would like. Two ocellaris clownfish, two blastomussa, and a green fluorescent rodactis are growing well, already with a dozen mouths that I had to change half of them))), mushrooms of all kinds are huge monsters, the hair algae are also growing, the green polyps are not doing as well, their tentacles are not as long as they should be, yuma is also growing fine. Among the invertebrates, a couple of strombus snails are active, alive and healthy, there used to be a pair of columbellids, now there are about ten and a lot of small ones, spaghetti worms are abundant, they come out for walks regularly))), now for the sad part: the ksyukhas don’t survive at all (one or two days and they’re gone), the umbrellas have shrunk to sizes suitable for microscopic dissection, the fire shrimp are gone, the stomatellas have also disappeared, and there are no starfish while the brittle stars are thriving and multiplying))) and I am so tired of the algae, every month and a half I scrub the algae off the rocks with a toothbrush, while the Carolina is growing actively both on the reef and on the filter tubes and glass. More details about the aquarium: a 30-liter cube display, live rocks 4 kg, LED light (3x3W white, 3x3W blue, 1+2x3W UV+royal,-->>

James4757

It would be very good In most cases, yes, but in your case, it is mandatory. Why do you think so? Your aquarium is small, there are many fish for such a volume, and it creates a strong load, which is why there is filamentous algae, and the ksyukha is being pushed out by the well-living discus, fighting for territory, and if the mushrooms do not push her out, she will overpower them. You don't need bio balls, and if there is a red spectrum, remove it.

Nicholas2252

The copper is not being displaced; it immediately starts to wither, and in a day or two, everything dies, including the stoma and the asterisks. So I thought that copper is present, but there is no way to disassemble the distiller, and no one on the staff knows its composition, whether it's copper or titanium. Thus, a decision was made to switch to osmosis, luckily I found it at a reasonable price of 80 kopecks per liter. There are no red diodes; the maximum is set to 50 percent for the whites and 30 percent for the rest. Red will only be in the sample. Now I will sit down with the drawings and try to fit the pen, pump, heater, and algae filter into dimensions of 20 cm by 10 cm and 30 cm in height, but I feel that it won't work out at all.

Theresa5149

In our nanika, Ksyusha refuses to live, although she has grown three times in pico (0.8 L). The distiller is not to blame; everything is stainless steel, except for the heater, which might be made of a copper alloy. But with the presence of copper, the other organisms would feel unwell. And what about the stone and sand, where are they from?

Chad

sand (gravel) fraction 2.7-10 aragonite dry (no other available) 4 kg, I added 3 kg so that the layer would not be too thick, I took the stones here on the forum from an active tank 3.5 kg at startup, and another 2.5 kg I used up in March in Znamyanka (a person was selling and liquidating an aquarium, about one and a half to two tons) although he had a carpet of aiptasia))), I successfully got rid of it using a simple but proven method, I cover it literally for an hour with a plate, it crawls towards the light and then crawls onto the plate, then we take out the plate and mechanically remove the aiptasia, this method has been personally tested but is only suitable for micro tanks)))

Daniel132

Well, it's been 1.5 days since we replaced a third of the volume, and everyone's condition has noticeably improved. Please recommend the most budget-friendly external foam filter like the Resun SK 03 so that there is still space for the algae eater.

Lauren

Sorry, I can only upload one photo from my phone.

Kimberly

HAQOS PS300 PROTEIN SKIMMER TMC V2 120 Nano-Skim SKIMMER DOLPHIN PS 2012 In fact, they are all quite scarce for us.

Joshua9340

So if there are discus fish in the aquarium, there won't be Ksyukha?

Nancy

I also have the same issue as T.S. My Ksyukha falls apart in 2-3 days. The volume is 200, with two disco balls. The umbrellas lost their color in 3 weeks. I just started switching to another salt (from Blue Treasure to Natur Marine), and the color of the umbrellas has started to recover. The freshly received sark begins to wither in a week. What’s wrong?

Andrea

Look for it, you used to have a good time, and then you bought something, added it, and it became worse. Now think about what caused it to get worse or what happened after that. For example, in one of my aquariums, the euphyllia (which was quite large and numerous) was suppressing many corals, while in another everything was fine until the number and size of the green lobophyllia increased. They are not dying, but some invertebrates are feeling 50% worse. There can be many reasons, and the solution is usually close by, something you might not have thought about. Good luck.

Alyssa6727

Can light be "problematic"? I don't turn on white, only royal blue and blue, and even then at 50% in the middle of the day.

Adam4310

and what about personal perception?

Kenneth7210

It's simple - in the morning, while getting ready for work from 7:30 to 8:30, I take a little white for a few percent, and in the evening for a couple of hours for a few percent, but the rest of the daytime I don't take any white. So it shouldn't be taken into account.