...running with no tubing on it... water doesn't go where you want it without some form of plumbing. ;Blackeye
Since the GFO had been sitting in salt water with no flow a few days, I changed it out. I got the refugium light running. Hopefully that will help get things back in line...
#honestyinreefing Confession I trusted my TDS in line meter to guide filter changes try yo get a little more life out of them. Wrong choice folks. Stick to regular maintenance / changes before trouble happens. Always stick to a double check of equipment with testing if possible.
I hope someone...
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I decided to cycle a bit differently than the status quo. First thing I ordered was 3 softies from @WWC and a nano pack of real ocean live rock from the only source that was in stock gulfliverock.com . I received both orders on 12/2/21 and were added to the sump.
I went to...
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Fellow salt fanatics wake the kids phone the neighbors I’m an idiot. Rodi water is indeed the root of my evil. The extra heavy water changes after first scrub have been killing me. The Tds reading of zero is great but need to get rodi back to pure water. Going to replace all...
Hello folks #honestyinreefing im getting spent with the gha battle. Lot mire corraline on glass and plastic but not taking over rocks yet. It’s a less missed weekly WC just got to it today not bad another 24 gallons swapped out and took out half the rocks for a bin scrubbing.
About half the...
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Oh boy... dosing issues and not enough time to fix them. My Alk has stayed low despite increasing my dosing rate several times. I've been so busy since I've gotten back from vacation I haven't worried about it. Last night I started digging into it and noticed my Alk had stopped...
...and now he may not make it because I was scrubbing at Mach 2. Times like this I feel I’m not good enough to care for these animals.
#honestyinreefing this is as close to feeling a failure yet. Dino’s twice cyano slime gha bubble algae no worries I can handle that nutrients feeding lighting...
Well, plenty going right with the tank but a few setbacks.
#honestyinreefing I've been working crazy hours at work for the last 8 or 9 days so haven't paid much attention to the tank. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure all of the anthias are gone. Not sure how or why since I haven't had time to...
#honestyinreefing just an update that pouring bleach over a piece of LR will indeed kill a lot of pods. I just wanted to share that either the bleach or ammonia spike did more than shock a lot of pods. There were many dead pods later in that bucket. :(
...be of great benefit to the fish for their health and tank overall health and biodiversity goals.Will see if salt works as advertised to help get me to a low nutrient system with its sea bacteria feeding eaters do pho’s and nitrates.
She’s not pretty right now but she’s mine #honestyinreefing
This is what I did with that 20 gallon tall I just transferred from.
Checked salinity every 2-3 weeks and did water changes every 10 to 14 days whenever it looked like it needed it.
Checked alk 3 times the entire 5 months it was set up LOL.
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In honor of the month of October coming soon, I figured I would dig up the zombies and bring them back for Halloween and El Dia de Los Muertos :)
Appropriate for the Learning Curve I thought.
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Hopefully I wont be adding anymore between now and the 31st ;)
...Here was my learning curve, through my eyes... approaching 4digits is skeletons...
I hope this is not miscontstruded. I wanna see you succeed and become a part of the r2r family for years to come watching it grow along side ours. Just see a lot of my former self in you.
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...came from an LFS that has their livestock rotating through the same.systems as their inverts.
No ty.
In other sad news...
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1 of the chalice's and the lepto both have started showed skeletons... I may have to hit up @thejuice24 for a saw session to save the lepto. Sadly...
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As I was cleaning the UV QT tank I prematurely dumped bleach into the tank. Right on top of a prized piece of LR that I save for QT. I snatched it out of the tank, threw it in a little bucket and poured Prime over it. I then poured saltwater in the bucket. zillions (that...
You show on here, every day, why you should have a tank. Including your willingness to embrace #honestyinreefing. No matter how much we don't want them to, mistakes happen. It's all about the bounceback. Everything is looking great!
...almost 48 hours without topping off. Discovered it this morning and slowly added RO/DI over the day. Sometimes I wonder if I should even have a tank. A few snails died, but everything else is looking well. Corals seem fine, but I will watch closely over the next couple of days...
Might have found the issue..... #honestyinreefing
I'm just going with "I'm a moron".....
Ever since last Sunday's round of parameters, my Calcium has been WAY off. Went from about 500 to 250, or less, overnight. Well it wasn't accurate AT ALL ! ! ! Me, being a BONEHEAD, mixed the RS #3 reagent...
...has that similar white look. I also don't want to risk more aggression with my Hippo tang. At least he is healing up nicely.
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Unfortunately, I have lost 2 more fish since I decided not to QT. My guess is that they both died of disease. I lost my Starry Blenny and my 6-Line...
...and it was grinding itself to dust.
Was wondering why all my sponges were turning brown.....
Turned flow down on the reactor, made up some Kalk and cleaned the reddish brown gunk out of my skimmer. Will test Cal tomorrow and see where it is before I turn the Kalk back on...