120 gallon upgrade

[Streetdoc77]

Your tank looks great ! Its probably a good idea to get that coil out of there and find a chiller ...

 

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Had the coil replaced with a new one yesterday and did another 25% WC which makes 4 now. I sent an ICP this morning and then will test again in a month to see what is happening. Fingers crossed.

 

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Par values via seneye

 

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The major thing I have notices with the PAR values is that the tank does not look that bright to the eye. I have 3 blue plus and one coral plus bulbs in my ATI hybrid powemodule and the led's are set to 100% on the blue and violet channels but 10% on the whites. I would not want to go all blue plus like Jason Fox does as the look is fairly dim. although the PAR is high.

My other lights are illumagic xblaze mini's and they are also set very blue, with the whithe channels only at 5% and the blue and violet at 100%

 

[count krunk]

What is the coil made out of? Both the old and the new

 

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Titanium, the issue is the coil is joined to the straight titanium tube by a weld. I believe that the weld on the first coil was bad in some way I would love to know what used as the metal to weld the tubes together. I think the next ICP may well show elevated metals still.

 

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Full tank October

 

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[NY_Caveman]

It is really beautiful. I probably would not have loved that aquascape bare, but seeing how your colonies are developing I truly love it.

BTW, when you dipped the camera down to show the controls and sump I had this split second feeling like you were going faint, LOL!

 

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Thanks, I am still not convinced on the space but cant do much about it now. I hope the coral growth will add significantly to it. The brown algae on the rock is really weird as it did not really take on the glass which is coralline covered. I am going to fire up my calcium reactor next week as I am dosing at the moment and having to up the dose daily and the bases of the corals are covering the rock.

Anyway off to Bali diving to get some inspiration!

 

[NY_Caveman]

Thanks, I am still not convinced on the scape but cant do much about it now. I hope the coral growth will add signigicatly to it.

I think it really will. Your fish are going to love it.

 

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ICP 2

todays test another mixed bag. still got some issues to iron out but corals look ok.

 

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3 months

 

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So some updates.

I have put my Tunze calcium reactor on the system. I am still tuning the reactor but it is easy to maintain. A link to the initial setup of this reactor on my previous system is here. I still have my doser hooked up but have stopped dosing calcium and carbonate for now. I plan to keep the doser there if the CrX cannot cope.

I picked up some mini colonies. one is aussie toxic table (acropora aculeus) and did a disgusting job of glueing it to the rockwork. I can only hope that this is encrusted over quickly. it is in the place I wanted it though.

I also picked up and unidentified indo colony and a smooth skin with blue polyps. I have some lovely corals but nothing named, which is ok.

Growth at the moment is exceptional, colours are however not super but improving.

I added 6 baby Lyretail anthias that have been doing really well and a little female ruby dragonet that has also settle really well and is fattening up. I am feeding the fish 4/5 times a day on a mixture of my own making and pellets. I was having low nutrient issues but foloowing some advice from the maker of my roller filter I have opened up the bypass ports and have seen the films grow more rapidly indicating higher nutrients.

I dip all my corals well with FM the dip, I have also begun to dose KZ flatworm stop (not because I have flatworms) for the other reported benefits. I can say the corals are encrusting very quickly now. Skimmer doing well. Turned off the UV for now as no signs of any fish disease for over 2 months.

I have been performing 20% WC with an apex dos on a manual schedule each week. It means that stability is much better. I plan to cut this to 20% every 2 weeks if the ICP results come back favorably with the metals.

 

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Made some cool 2.5x2.5 inch grow out tiles. Nice and sturdy

 

[Malifry97]

following

 

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Latest ICP test revealed that zinc and chrome were both almost zero now, so happy about that. My copper had gone up to 9ppb so still some issues there. I ran triton detox again this week.

My Acropora aculeus went downhill very rapidly at the beginning of this week. I believe it is a very sensitive coral and the downturn could have been a result of a steady upcreep in alk. or a biological wobble that saw my coralline die off in some areas (that was weird and has happened before, it goes pink and a jelly forms over it then it goes white and dies). Or could be the copper (not likely).

I bought a gold torch as it was cheap and I like them
I also added a hybrid powder blue tang that has settled nicely.

 

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[chizerbunoi]

Looking great.

No more magnifica? Or is it still in your old tank?

 

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Thanks in my work tank, it massive now