Have to follow this build! Great job so far.
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Thank you for sharing! Those flashlights are pretty darn handy. I added some copepods to my tank a few weeks back and didn't really see much increase in the population until I shone the light into one of the back chambers of my tank and saw lots of activity. Plus, my 4-year-old totally digs it for nighttime viewing!
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Home from seven-day vacation. Tank did great. Had a little help from friends Paul and Russ to change the filter sock and check a potential issue. Thanks guys!
Did the Fab-5 tests today. Results look good.
DKh (Hanna) - 10.1 and 10.0
DKh (AMI) - 9.58
Ca (Red Sea) - 440
Mg (Red Sea) - 1400
Phosphate (Hanna 713) - 0.0
Nitrate (NYOS) - 8 (somewhere between 5-10)
Hanna is notoriously biased high at higher DKh so that's the deviation from the AMI.
Noticeable growth on various frags for sure.
Amazing that I was able to take down the algae on 32 square feet of glass in just five minutes with the Flipper. Amazing scraper.
regarding the numbers of the AMI, what accuracy/precision do you think it is capable of?
I'm completely flummoxed about ALK. I use a Hanna checker and it's always lower than what the Salifert tests show.Home from seven-day vacation. Tank did great. Had a little help from friends Paul and Russ to change the filter sock and check a potential issue. Thanks guys!
Did the Fab-5 tests today. Results look good.
DKh (Hanna) - 10.1 and 10.0
DKh (AMI) - 9.58
Ca (Red Sea) - 440
Mg (Red Sea) - 1400
Phosphate (Hanna 713) - 0.0
Nitrate (NYOS) - 8 (somewhere between 5-10)
Hanna is notoriously biased high at higher DKh so that's the deviation from the AMI.
Noticeable growth on various frags for sure.
Amazing that I was able to take down the algae on 32 square feet of glass in just five minutes with the Flipper. Amazing scraper.
regarding the numbers of the AMI, what accuracy/precision do you think it is capable of?
I'm completely flummoxed about ALK. I use a Hanna checker and it's always lower than what the Salifert tests show.
It's obviously keeping the expected parameters up to par, but that seems like a whole lot of "extra" stuff there, dare I say contaminates.A little update. A week or so ago I noticed that the second "chamber" of my calcium reactor already had 4" of grey sludge in it and needed to be cleaned out.
I have a Deltec fluidized calcium reactor and both Brad Syphus (who runs one) and I have noticed that the media is much darker now and also that it was putting a fines into the sump with the effluent. To test how bad this might be I connected a bottom up NextReef reactor in line to the effluent so that it could trap it. Well it turned out to be WAY more material than I had expected.
I am curious to hear from anyone who might know what this byproduct actually is. It is the consistency of clay.
I think I may just convert this over to a standard calcium reactor and use TLF ReBorn in it after my current media supply runs out.
Here are some pics.
I would certainly agree. I'm looking for trends as much as anything. Especially with alkalinity. A spike can destroy SPS in no time.This is the problem with color change tests and the human eye. For me, especially with my slight color blindness, there is about .75dkh of range at least for the entire color "change". So, at what point someone calls it has a huge influence on the number. However, if they do it the same every time, then their ongoing precision might be pretty good. For me I could never be consistent so I use the Hanna. Much easier too.
That is exactly how I feel. Once this media is done, I am going to use TLF Reborn I think. It melts at a higher pH so less CO2 use.It's obviously keeping the expected parameters up to par, but that seems like a whole lot of "extra" stuff there, dare I say contaminates.
Still not bringing down the internal ORP much (but beginning to trend down) so it doesn't have much of a colony working in it yet. I expect it will begin working in two or three weeks.Any updates on the sulfur denitrator?
How are the reefbrite metal halides treating ya?
How are the reefbrite metal halides treating ya?