[Stoney Mahony]

Originally posted by melev
Awesome. Feel free to continue to contribute to this thread, as combined minds will hopefully find a working solution.

I see the eggcrate in your quarantine tank. Just curious why it is there - traction?

Can you discuss how you are maintaining water quality on a daily and weekly basis? Do you do weekly water changes? If so, how many gallons are you changing? Are you dosing anything like B-Ionic for calcium, alk, levels? Are you running a skimmer, and if so, when? Are you using water from your reef each water change?

The more facts we can get out there, the better it will be for others following in our steps.

Cool, just wanted to make sure Melev. The eggcrate in the bottom is b/c I had a few corals enrusted on big rocks so I broke them off at the base and glued them on some DIY frag plugs. A few of my others were on frag plugs as well, and the whole valida colony that I fragged were on plugs so I just needed something to keep them all upright. Ill probably put some 4-6" legs on the eggcrate this week for better circulation and lower my light a little closer to the tank.

As far as maintaining water quality, I am topping off with a DIY ATO using RODI water. Every 3 days I dose with seachem calcium, alk, and amino acid supplements to maintain acceptable levels. So far I have been doing a 20% water change weekely using instant ocean and RODI aged 1 day(No water from the display going in b/c I dont want planktonic rb or FW's getting in after all this!!). I have a crappy skimmer in the sump of the wet dry running 24/7 and as I stated earlier I am using an already established wet dry filter for the main bio-filtration. There is minimal algae growth and nothing to scary happening with the parameters. Nitrate, nitrite, and phosphate levels at or close to 0 and slightly rise as the week goes by. Calcium levels at app. 420-450ppm, alk at app. 10dkh, salinity readings at 1.026, PH is 8.3 during the lights on and gradually slides to 8.1 in the middle of the lights out period. Temp is 79 during the lights on and drops to about 77 at night. Lighting period is 12/12. Any other readings I missed ??????????

Heres some very useful info I found while searching:
http://zoology.unh.edu/faculty/litva...productive.htm
http://www.amscopub.com/%5Cimages%5C...a%20biology%22
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/zoolab/Table...planaria_1.htm
And one more thing that could be worth a test...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract