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You know your corals look good if they look good inside and outside the water ;-)
No chance, I had to do a Water change after over a year to get Barium down from a new calcium reactor media likely.
Andre’s Full blown 300Gallon SPS Reeftank up within a week ;-)
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You know your corals look good if they look good inside and outside the water ;-)
No chance, I had to do a Water change after over a year to get Barium down from a new calcium reactor media likely.
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Lol, no worries. Everything is fine, knock on wood!
Just removed 50% of water and diluted my Barium down to approx 60 microgram/L.
One more and I'm good.
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Thank you
You mentioned a few pages back that too much bacteria is a bad thing. My tank water has become more cloudy over the past few weeks but everything is doing fine. Feels like a stupid question but what can be done to reduce bacteria? Thanks Andre and love your tank
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Typically simply reduce what you do that fuels bacteria, such reduce Aminos, high nutrients, reduce carbohydrate sources, reduce feeding, improve filtration and skimmer aeration and degassing. A lot of time it helps already a lot of folks to turn off the skimmer for a minute per day if you do have a common skimmer that is not downdraft or external venturi fed.
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Did a bit of Chiseling work on a few Juggernaut Shrooms I got to harvest monthly, since these ones are doubling in quantity on a monthly basis. Many of the Rubidium dosing guys experience the same with almost every Shroom, Zoa, Torches etc.
Chiseling actually allows to get the Shroom off with the rock material they are attached to, so the look happy asap and being glued with ease to discs. See the fresh chiseled shrooms in the plastic container ;-)
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You are killing it! I read you handbook. Thank you for making that available it’s a great read. What CArx media Did you switch to? I’m still running ATI pro essentials, and adding some drops of trace has made a nice difference in my corals.
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I was actually able to get my hands on a couple bags of Reborn again. Hope the product and coral rubble in general comes back to the market. For now I have enough maybe for the next 2-3 years now.
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Also took some efforts and harvested a few more of the ORBTA's out, but they still escape from the Pond Plant Basket.
Need to find a better way how to keep them until rehoming......
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Mushroombox or even a critter crate from petco with some extra slots to get ome water to flow through might work
Also took some efforts and harvested a few more of the ORBTA's out, but they still escape from the Pond Plant Basket.
Need to find a better way how to keep them until rehoming......
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I was looking for something like that, and found in some LFS they usually use slotted acylic boxes so the Nems can't sneak out.
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Also gave this thing a go, a ZeoVibe reactor filled with Siporax Pond as Biofilter. The Siporax in my Sump always clogs so I'm giving the 300Gallon filtration system some support with this method of applying the Siporax. From experience the Siporax will do quite a good job of reducing No3, but not that good on the Po4 hence I keep the 2 Chaeto Reactors working. Will let it grow for a while before start using the Vibe function.
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By the way, I keep doing still the biweekly Biodigest bacteria refreshment for my Biology.
Seems the Bio Digest starts to disappear from many vendors shops, so I signed up for retailing this product by myself.
Here you see the PRO vials which is quite a lot. When dumping this into the tank, the few Cyano spots I occasionally see are gone for a while then ;-)
Had some great experience with this bacteria concerning quick cycling tanks as well it helped quite a few folks to finally cycle their tanks that were screwed up during cycling with other brands products, that ended up in high Nitrites and therefore stopped the cycling process of the tank. Good stuff guys!!!
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By the way this is a very interesting short compilation about trace elements I was asked to share ;-)
This is been published from Mr.Balling a while back, however, informative for many out there.
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So the next few posts will deal with a bit investigation and analytical work on my light settings which I set up by thumb and gut feelings rather than data collection and evidence.
Inspired by Jamie Craggs and @Dana Riddle I used the time I have currently on hand to investigate a bit of my current light characteristics and bring things into numbers and values.
This below article describes a bit about the Lighting on the Reef, and I focused within the last days less on the Spectrum but more on Light intensity and saturation and potential over saturation. Thx to Dana for this work.
Imitating Natural Light Quality, Intensity, and Dosage in a Reef Aquarium – Do We Really Want To?
When it comes to reef aquariums, Mother Nature has always been the de facto benchmark aquarists aspire towards. Dana investigates in great detail the quality and quantity of light over natural reefs in order to lay the groundwork to answer the age-old question: what is the best light for...
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