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05/07/2017, 09:17 PM | #3576 |
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Looking very well. In no time you will have great colonies.
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05/08/2017, 02:19 PM | #3577 |
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Looking good Matt. Where's N?
So, the cheato reactor is seriously working.
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05/08/2017, 03:03 PM | #3578 |
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Great looking reef tank! Well done!
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Thanks Mark!
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05/09/2017, 11:30 PM | #3582 |
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A couple more comparisons, things are taking off nicely:
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05/17/2017, 10:25 PM | #3583 |
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I continue to be amazed at the recovery the tank is making and how well it has adjusted to an Algal driven system. I get about a gallon or so of chaeto out of the refugia chamber each week, I only have to clean the tank glass every 3 days or so, and the rock is spotless. I tested Phosphate a few days back and the tank was at 0.03ppm. The corals are all doing extremely well, encrusting at the bases and putting out new growth tips all the time. I continue with the trace element regime as before, with some small changes. Note that this regime is in place of changing water and I also run a Calcium reactor that replenishes macro-elements. I am dosing daily: Zinc to target ~10% of NSW(4ug/L) Manganese to target ~12% NSW Value(2ug/l) 3 drops Lugol's 20ml Brightwell Strontium 0.06ppm Boron 3 drops AF vitality after lights out. Once per week: 14 mL ea FM Coral colors red/purple and blue/purple I'm pretty impressed so far with a Chaeto filtered system. I'll get some pics up this weekend with some comparison pics.
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05/18/2017, 05:54 AM | #3584 |
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Matt, am I looking for boric acid or sodium borate? I assume it's the latter..
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05/18/2017, 09:23 AM | #3586 |
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Thanks Matt !
On it. Pics please
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05/21/2017, 08:04 PM | #3589 |
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Tank is doing great, corals growing well. As promised here are some pictures:
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Very nice Matt, colors are looking great.
I miss my bubble tip ... not enough to get another one though.
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05/22/2017, 06:22 AM | #3591 |
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Nice Matt, pe is excellent and you have like no nuisance algea.
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Happy to see your tank moving in the right direction Matt.
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I have never had a "Bubble Tip" anemone with actual bubble tips...so I started feeding this one in the hopes that I produce one. So far so good, some tips are bubbling and the whole thing is less stringy. If it could look like it did when i got it with bubble tips it will be incredible looking. Quote:
No nuisance algae is right - this algal driven system has been really easy so far, everything is growing now which is great, and phosphate levels have stayed low- 0.04ppm on my last test. Me too! I just wish I could afford to buy frags
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Good to see things looking so good again Matt The scape is looking groovy
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How is the tank doing Matt? Anything new? Growth pics?
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07/22/2017, 08:59 AM | #3596 |
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Hi Matt
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09/02/2017, 04:45 PM | #3597 |
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Hi guys! It's been a while since I posted but I keep my eyes on all your threads It's been nuts at work and up until a few weeks ago the wife was looking for a job, so between zero money and very little time the tank was on autopilot. Still, some interesting events/info about this mode of the tank were noted.
First, I had been using chaeto in a fuge as well as a reactor along with GFO and carbon in a media reactor. Phosphate dropped and stabilized at less than 0.05ppm and held there for months. I just let the media reactor go, and when about 3+ months had passed, with phosphate holding steady at less than 0.05ppm, I finally cleaned it out. There were all kinds of organisms and sponge grown through the reactor. I figured the GFO had long been exhausted. About two weeks after removal, I tested phosphate and it had risen to 0.15! I thought it might be a fluke reading, and was too busy to care, all the corals looked good if a little slow in the growth department. Several more weeks passed, Then this week I saw the birdsnests tips thickening and not growing with the needle sharp tips they used to have. Coral growth had slowed to a crawl. A phosphate test showed 0.44ppm More Phosphate minus will arrive tomorrow Chaeto growth went nuts with the higher phosphate, I just wish the chaeto could take more phosphate up. I do not have enough chaeto growth area for the size of the system to do it all without GFO help. I have been dosing Zinc and Manganese and continue to do so daily. I was dosing Boron daily but I think I over-did it as Reds became very intense then other corals started to take on reddish hues where they never had before. I'll re-start dosing if the chaeto shows brittleness, maybe I'll even get a test kit now that we have two incomes again. I dose strontium from Seachem and FM colors Blue/purple weekly, feed the fish, and clean the glass every 4th day or so. It's weird how no algae or cyano is present in the SPS reef, I mean it is clean as can be. A little cyano is present in the flubber tank, mainly on the sand. So far this tank is going on 8 months with no significant water change, I have replaced a few gallons here and there when siphoning out detritus, but nothing other than that. I had one screw-up when the CO2 cylinder ran out and the alkalinity dropped to just over 4.5, I lost parts of one coral colony but otherwise nothing died. I have an infestation of Aiptasia but a Copperband Butterfly has been brought in to help. It's just about time to replace bulbs as well. Well, I think that is about it for catching up See you all in your threads! FTS from last night:
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Good to hear that things are looking up.
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Thanks! Oh I forgot about the little AEFW re-infestation. I think I beat it this time with dips every 5 days for a month. So far a couple months have passed without recurrence
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I can't keep chaeto alive no matter what I do lol , I have a strong led grow light , enough nutrients , and have experimented with slightly raising Potassium, dosing iron etc etc. As soon as I add a new ball of fresh chaeto from a friend , the growth explodes for the first week. Then the growth of the chaeto considerably slows down after the first week and gets very dense , and then starts to deteriorate.
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