Nano Reef Aquarium

Aiptasia and green bubble algae are about to defeat me. I am becoming unable to control aiptasia and green bubble algae. The only solution other than pulling all my hair out from using aiptasia x and removing bubble algae one by one, only to find it seems to double every time i do this. Is to use natural cures. Namely  a Mythrax crab to eat the bubble algae and a Peppermint shrimp to consume all the plagued aiptasia. If there are any UK readers in the midlands area have any of these please contact me as these seem to be hard to come by. Some good news though, the reactor i bought in July has certainly done the trick. Green algae has all gone and remains that way. So if you have bad hair algae you must get yourself a phosphate reactor.

I have a lighting dilemma and don't no what to do. I am considering two options. I will be keeping my Led lighting, but i am thinking of building a new hood. This could incorporate either T5 lighting with that i already have. These will be stripped out of it's frame and placed in new hood. The other option is creating a new hood that could incorporate a 150watt metal halide unit. Both these options include my current led lighting of three reef white and one blue aqua beam. With these options in mind i am only wanting to use this additional lighting for about four hours per day to keep utility bill costs down. My most favourable option is T5s but unsure if this will be sufficient for SPS corals. I also think running costs between the two will be very little. Please express your opinions and thoughts to aid my decision.

I have been getting ready for some new corals recently. So decided to place an advert on Ultimate Reef to get rid of some of my soft corals to make way for more LPS and SPS corals. The very next day i had a reefer collect a mushroom, zoa and toadstool coral. This allowed me to purchase a Favia coral which i put first dibs on a few weeks ago. With a couple of SPS frags thrown in. here's my latest additions. Favia SPS frag. Top left and Right I am jost waiting and hoping on the sale of a large toadstool coral and two zoas corals on live rock to free up more cash for more SPS frags.