Aquarium Stats
Statistics
| Date | Temp (76-80) | Salinity (1.020-1.024) | Ph (8.3) | Ammonia (0) | NitrAte (0) | NitrIte (0) | Calcium (400-500) | dKH (8-12) | Change (4-5) | Media (Monthly) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-26 | 1.023 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sponge | lots of algae (strips show GH 180 and KH 240) | ||||
| 2019-03-10 | 1.022 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 gal | Sponge | algae looks terrible (strips show GH and KH at 180 ppm each) | |||
| 2019-01-13 | 1.022 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 gal | Carbon, Sponge, Purigen, Ceramic Rings | added another reef cleaner pack and algae is still out of control | |||
| 2018-09-09 | 1.023 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen + Ceramic Rings | added massive reef cleaner pack since there is so much algae | ||
| 2018-03-24 | 1.023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 gal | with aquarium tools; hand-picked a bunch of the green algae | ||||
| 2018-01-14 | 1.0225 | 6 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | LOTS of green algae bubbles – added two emerald crabs, 12 red legged hermits and two yellow clown gobies | |||||||
| 2017-10-01 | 1.022 | 5 gal | Carbon & Sponge | ||||||||
| 2017-07-09 | 1.0225 | 5 gal | Added three emerald crabs (hoping to fight back the green algae bubbles) and 12 blue legged hermits (to work on the brown algae showing up on the top of the live rock | ||||||||
| 2017-04-18 | 1.022 | 4 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | ||||||||
| 2016-10-15 | 80 | 1.022 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 400 | 9 | 8 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | Added yellow clown goby, blue damsel (eaten within a few days by clown!), and eight hermit crabs |
| 2016-06-11 | 80 | 1.021 | 6 gal | 2x lights | added two emerald crabs to combat the green algae bubbles (condy ate the new fish we bought) | ||||||
| 2016-04-24 | 1.022 | 3 gal | Sponge | Lost the six line wras | |||||||
| 2015-12-12 | 1.022 | 4 gal | |||||||||
| 2015-08-30 | 80 | 1.022 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 440 | 10 | 4 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | |
| 2015-06-07 | 78 | 1.022 | 4 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | |||||||
| 2015-02-15 | Added six line wras, emerald crab, and some torch coral | ||||||||||
| 2015-02-01 | 75 | 1.022 | 8.3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 420 | 11 | 4 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | Results were identical before & after water change – incredible stability for 2.5 months w/o a change |
| 2015-01-26 | 76 | 1.023 | n/a | Somehow things have been doing very well despite my almost complete lack of attention due to work travel | |||||||
| 2014-10-18 | 1.022 | 4 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | Didn't test the water before I changed it, but did notice salt was 1.027 | |||||||
| 2014-07-04 | 81 | 1.0225 | 6 gal | ||||||||
| 2014-06-01 | 4 gal | ||||||||||
| 2014-04-11 | 5 gal | Moved tank to /wiki/spaces/ATM/pages/16187394 | |||||||||
| 2014-03-16 | 80 | 1.022 | 5 gal | Sponge | Added "reef cleaner pack" (lots of crabs, snails, etc) after last change and green hair algae was consumed | ||||||
| 2014-02-02 | 80 | 1.0215 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 320 | 5 gal | Sponge | Generous amount of green hair algae | |
| 2014-01-05 | 80 | 1.0225 | 9 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | Used two doses of Chemi-Clean which helped with the red slime | ||||||
| 2013-12-21 | 1.0225 | 8 gal | Sponge | Still battling red slime – haven't lost anyone else since Cindy about two months ago | |||||||
| 2013-11-02 | 1.0235 | 8 gal | 2nd "emergency" water change of the day | ||||||||
| 2013-11-02 | 8 gal | Water still looks terrible | |||||||||
| 2013-10-12 | 80 | 1.0215 | 7 gal | Added 5 astrea snails, 5 hermit crabs and 2 small peppermint shrimp (which I think got eaten!) – water still looks terrible; I really need to test it | |||||||
| 2013-09-22 | 82 | 1.022 | 5 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | Tank is looking pretty poor right now; algae is overrunning live rock and the polyps – the mushrooms are not opening up as big as usual | ||||||
| 2013-09-02 | 82 | 1.0225 | 5 gal | Sponge | Changed 264 g/h pump to a 300 g/h one | ||||||
| 2013-08-04 | 80 | 1.022 | 5 gal | Carbon, Sponge & Purigen | Added 2 astrea & 2 turbo snails + a six line wras | ||||||
| 2013-07-20 | 80 | 1.023 | 5 gal | ||||||||
| 2013-06-30 | 80 | 1.0225 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 400 | 6 | 5 gal | ||
| 2013-06-02 | 82 | 1.022 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 440 | 7 | 5 gal | Carbon, Sponge, Purigen & Airstone | Used new chem set for testing |
| 2013-05-19 | 80 | 1.022 | 5 gal | Long overdue water change and desperately need to test water | |||||||
| 2013-04-21 | 76 | 1.021 | 5 gal | UltraLife's Red Slime Stain Remover has done some good, but dead stuff is still lingering around | |||||||
| 2013-04-07 | 80 | 1.020 | 5 gal | Got some of the purple algae off the big rock and rearranged all live rock – been using Instant Ocean's Natural Nitrate Reducer for several weeks now and eager to see if results | |||||||
| 2013-03-10 | 80 | 1.0215 | 5 gal | Carbon & Sponge | Water has been looking bad w/film on top; going back to 1/2 cube of food for a few days has seemed to help. | ||||||
| 2013-02-19 | 80 | 1.0215 | 8.3 | .25 | 20 | 0 | 380 | 7 | 4 gal | Sigmond is all but dead. | |
| 2013-01-20 | 79 | 1.023 | 3 gal | Added some soft corals. | |||||||
| 2013-01-06 | 80 | 1.0225 | 8.3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4 gal | Carbon & Sponge | Threw out the Purigen pack. NitrAtes continue to be high!! | ||
| 2012-12-16 | 80 | 1.023 | 8.3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 400 | 8 | 5 gal | NitrAtes are surprisingly high for some reason, but Ca & KH are finally up. | |
| 2012-12-02 | 78 | 1.022 | 5 gal | Sponge | REMEMBER to bring water in the house a day before using! Heater not worth a darn. | ||||||
| 2012-11-22 | 80 | 1.024 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 340 | Protein skimmer cleaned up water (no longer running). | |||
| 2012-11-10 | 78 | 5 gal | Much less cloudy, but still a ways to go. | ||||||||
| 2012-10-28 | 78 | 1.0225 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 3 | Still very, very cloudy. Looks like a fine white silt blowing around. | ||
| 2012-10-26 | 78 | 1.021 | 9 gal | Purigen | Very cloudy this week. Guy at shop suggested I add a Purigen filter pack which should show water results it can do within 12 hours. | ||||||
| 2012-10-20 | 78 | 1.0215 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 3 | 4 gal | Carbon & Sponge | Pretty cloudy looking, but test look so-so; need to raise calcium & KH |
| 2012-10-16 | 78 | 1.0225 | 3 gal | Added more snails/hermits & single shrimp and cucumber | |||||||
| 2012-10-13 | 82 | 1.024 | 8.3 | .25 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2012-10-06 | 80 | 1.023 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 gal | Added Yellow Clown Goby (Cinderella), Emerald Crab (Chef) and more hermits and snails | |||
| 2012-09-30 | 1.022 | 7.8 | 0 | 10 | 0 | Added hermits and snails |