Andre’s Full blown 300Gallon SPS Reeftank up within a week ;-)
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When you add the Biodigest use also a carbon source to boost slightly the bacteria population.
User friendly I found over the years the use of Zeostart as a carbon source.
Good luck my friend, and I see you really worked yourself through, lol.
Bugsy_Barboza
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It was a process, lots of reading. Pics kept it interesting. So I got a couple of ?’s
So on 150 gal system just using vodka as a example may use the zeostart.
1 vial a day and 25ml of vodka a day?
How long would I keep up dosing that everyday?
Then say 1 vial a week after 2 straight weeks of everyday dosing?
Do you dose carbon source every time you does biodigest?
And all that is fine with keeping my fish in there right?
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ReeferMadness80G
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Hey bud, Nice tank.
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Nah, not really. Added maybe 2 or 3 fish, but nothing special.Flying along mate! Just flyingmade any progress in the way of adding fish? lol
What a shame, this tank is lacking of Beautiful fish ;-)
Wait until the move is over!
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Dang, late response, sorry mate!
Biodigest double dose in the first day and keep a weekly maintenance dose until you feel the nutrients are where you want them.
Since you have the tank almost matured, do yourself a favor and use a small daily dosage of Vodka and watch nutrients! IF they drop, reduce dosing by half.
Start slowly and do not overdose Vodka, I did VSV for years and it's dangerous powerful.
Really recommend to use the Zeostart for less issues down the road!
For example I did use pure Potato Vodka (not the grain Vodka, which is not even real Vodka!) of 5-6ml per day on my previous 210G SPS forest which had about 200-300 clown fish!
What I did with my tank in the first few days you can only do with an empty tank or a bucket of rock in water! Fish won't like it!!!
-Andre
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I figured that might be the case
you've got no need though with how things are going I for one certainly can't wait to see the tank in it's new permanent home!
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Thx Sir!!!!
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It's going to be interesting to report the entire move here with all the details and **** that will happen, lolI figured that might be the case
Looking forward to start building furniture and skirting ;-)
So I can play with all my new toys, lol.
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Here some Ice Fire eye candy ;-)
Doing really good so far.
Deeper colors from day to day………………….
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Still not sure with what sort of sand I go.......I figured that might be the case
Definitely white Tropic Eden sand, but not sure yet what grain size.
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For history purpose, my BC Twilight Dragon........
Hard to catch the fluorescence on the tips.
A bit dark in purple, it's at about 150-200 PAR.
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Pink branching Cyphastrea close up ;-)
Originally from the @Diesel Tank. Glad a frag made it at least through the disaster.
Love the unique green coloration on the base which is tricky to achieve. Haven't figured out which trace element did trigger this effect.
On this pictures you can see the little pink/red mouths coming out........
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Pink branching Cyphastrea close up ;-)
Originally from the @Diesel Tank. Glad a frag made it at least through the disaster.
Love the unique green coloration on the base which is tricky to achieve. Haven't figured out which trace element did trigger this effect.
On this pictures you can see the little pink/red mouths coming out........
My lfs has a nice small colony going well, I have a frag promised! Stunning coral!
Wrangy
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It'll be lots of fun and not nearly as stressful for us to watch the move happen haha I do not envy you, I've done two tank moves and they're never any fun at all.
I'd love to use a super fine in my tank but even my coral sand has troubles staying put in certain areas lol. That being said I don't mind the coral sand at all
Easy to keep clean, easy for my critters to live in and my wrasse can bury nice and easy in it too The biggest downside is that coralline loves it and most my sand is now a purple hue haha
Pink branching Cyphastrea close up ;-)
Originally from the @Diesel Tank. Glad a frag made it at least through the disaster.
Love the unique green coloration on the base which is tricky to achieve. Haven't figured out which trace element did trigger this effect.
On this pictures you can see the little pink/red mouths coming out........
Lol!
I have colony that is the size of a softball, maybe bigger and this stuff is slow growing.
Besides it's hard to find as well.
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Stick with it and take the chance, you won't regret it!My lfs has a nice small colony going well, I have a frag promised! Stunning coral!
Yes, agree, definately a collector coral that takes it's time.
I remember you were barely fragging it.
My frag turned at least into a mini colony, really proud about this piece.
Broke my heart when the bigger colony died :-(
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Wild Acro that I have for years, and now mutated to a greenish Acro with cherry red tips coming up.
Looking forward to what the final coral will look like.
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Beautiful piece I snagged from UC.
Unfortunately the fluorescence is not captured in the picture :-(
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Dang right, always looking forward to tank moves until after the first 12-14 hours of work and things doesn't seem to come to an end, lol.It'll be lots of fun and not nearly as stressful for us to watch the move happen haha I do not envy you, I've done two tank moves and they're never any fun at all.
I'd love to use a super fine in my tank but even my coral sand has troubles staying put in certain areas lol. That being said I don't mind the coral sand at all
On the sand, I love the fine sand but concerned that I will blow it all over the place, hence I may stay with a shallow bed but bigger grain sizing.
It's not that I'm not ok with it, to have little piles of sand in different spots in the tank, it's just I plan to have a dynamic flow pattern in place again and that will blow stuff around all day long..............
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