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Red Sea MAX
Daily reef care procedures
Check the appearance of your fish and corals.
Fish
Check the fishes' behavior. Look for signs of aggression like
bites or injuries- diseases or missing inhabitants (the prompt
removal of carcasses is crucial). If you spot any signs of illness,
treat the affected fish in a quarantine tank; most treatments are
highly toxic to marine invertebrates.
Corals
Check the polyp extensions, looking for signs of stress, such as
closed polyps (i.e. for long periods), fading colors or loose tissue.
If necessary, relocate the stressed coral to an area with better
light and current. If all the corals show signs of stress, it most
likely results from water parameters, particularly pH or salinity.
Water color and turbidity
The aquarium water should be clear. Several factors may account
for turbid water:
White or milky water unrelated to calcium/buffer additives
can result from ammonia buildup. This occurs through
decomposing organic matter or rotting carcasses. In such a
case, the water will also emit an unpleasant odor.
6 Caring for the reef
The long-term success and health of the inhabitants of your MAX
aquarium depends on you. Proper planning makes reef care easier
to manage and quicker to perform. This will leave you more time
for the real goal: enjoying your aquarium. Care of the tank should
follow a regular, logical pattern. Divide the tasks into daily, weekly
and monthly procedures, including equipment checks, feeding,
water parameter testing and adjustments.
You may find it helpful to make a systematic checklist of care
activities and keep a log of the activities performed. There is a
comprehensive maintenance log available for download from
the Support section of the MAX mini-site, which you can print
out or use as a basis to design your own log. Your log does not
need to be complicated; you will need to track the following:
The tank's parameters pH, salinity, temperature, etc.
Information specific to each animal when you added them,
their approximate size, date of death (it happens in the most
successful aquaria!) and possible cause, etc.
The general appearance of the tank and individual species.
Equipment changes when you changed light tubes or replaced
heaters, etc.
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