Daniel's Reef Savvy 50g Cube - A Recovering Build...

NanoDJS · Dec 1, 2019

Those fireworms will eat the nudis and eggs thats another predator , hope they are all out also .

Daniel@R2R · Dec 1, 2019

NanoDJS said:
Those fireworms will eat the nudis and eggs thats another predator , hope they are all out also .

Most are gone since I cut back on feeding and rinsed the sand bed.

Daniel@R2R · Dec 3, 2019

The berghias are HERE!

Brew12 · Dec 3, 2019

Daniel@R2R said:
The berghias are HERE!

I don't see them.

Daniel@R2R · Dec 3, 2019

Brew12 said:
I don't see them.

You're not looking hard enough

Daniel@R2R · Dec 3, 2019

Palluk33 · Dec 5, 2019

Daniel@R2R said:
Good news is that other than calcium being high, my parameters are looking good these days.

What app is this?

Daniel@R2R said:
Good news is that other than calcium being high, my parameters are looking good these days.

piranhaman00 · Dec 5, 2019

Mindstream

Daniel@R2R · Dec 5, 2019

Palluk33 said:
What app is this?

Like @piranhaman00 said, it's the Mindstream

Daniel@R2R · Dec 23, 2019

Caught them in the act tonight! Berghias getting it done!

Daniel@R2R · Jan 27, 2020

Haven't seen the berghias in a while despite really trying to look for them after lights out, but there are FAR fewer aiptasia in the tank, and there seem to be fewer every day. So, I'm thinking they're in there doing their job. (Ha! I just used all 3 "theres" in that last sentence ...things only grammar nerds enjoy noticing...)

I am now experiencing a nasty cyano outbreak. I decided to reduce my photoperiod back to 12 hours to see if that might help.

piranhaman00 · Jan 27, 2020

Where did you get the berghias?

NanoDJS · Jan 27, 2020

hold up .... back to 12 hours! what was it ?

Brew12 · Jan 27, 2020

Daniel@R2R said:
I am now experiencing a nasty cyano outbreak. I decided to reduce my photoperiod back to 12 hours to see if that might help.

I'm impressed! I was shocked you could keep the appy's alive this long. Once they were gone I figured nothing would live but you are successfully growing cyano! Well done!!! ;Troll;Troll

Just please don't use a chemical bomb to make the cyano go away. It will take some maintenance, but using antibiotics like Chemi-clean are only a temporary fix and completely unnecessary imo.

NanoDJS · Jan 27, 2020

a cap (2-5ml) o H202 a night , and frag rest , dont put ish in that tank for a min cyano will goooo

Daniel@R2R · Jan 27, 2020

piranhaman00 said:
Where did you get the berghias?

Got them from saltyunderground.com. Free shipping on orders over $75.

NanoDJS said:
hold up .... back to 12 hours! what was it ?

I had extended it to mimic the timeframe of sunlight on an actual reef. 7 AM to 10:30 PM is what I had going. This is the post where I talked about it:

Daniel@R2R said:
I'm playing with my light schedule a little...we'll call it an experiment...

Here's the schedule I've been running:

However, I got to wondering what a typical day schedule is on the reef, so after looking at several charts like this one:

I decided to extend my daylight period as well as my ramping times. My schedule isn't intended to be an EXACT replica of this one (particularly since my viewing time is not on the same schedule as the reef), but I think the time allotments are fairly close... Here's what I'll be running and watching to see how it impacts (or doesn't impact) my reef.

In the above, the light period is 7 AM to 10:30 PM (same timeframe as 4:30 AM to 8 PM in the above natural reef chart). It's blues only to the first point (8:30 AM) and from the last point (9:00 PM) with ramp up from blues only to about 18.5k (the spectrum of the SPS AB+ formula by EcoTech) which runs from 9:30 AM to 8 PM as my peak lighting.

Feel free to poke holes or throw darts or tomatoes (I prefer tomatoes...they're softer).

It's obviously not necessary, but I thought why not try it...it gives me more viewing time and maybe mimicing the reef photoperiod will actually give better growth. I haven't seen where it hurt anything, but since I'm battling cyano now, I figure less growing time for the nasty junk won't hurt. Plus, the berghias are nocturnal, so giving them more time to roam will be beneficial too.

I moved back to running 9 AM to 9 PM with a roughly 1.5 hour ramp up/down (so peak is about 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM)

Brew12 said:
I'm impressed! I was shocked you could keep the appy's alive this long. Once they were gone I figured nothing would live but you are successfully growing cyano! Well done!!! ;Troll;Troll

Thanks! It's nice that someone appreciates the work I put in to keep stuff alive in here.

Brew12 said:
Just please don't use a chemical bomb to make the cyano go away. It will take some maintenance, but using antibiotics like Chemi-clean are only a temporary fix and completely unnecessary imo.

Yep. I'm all for avoiding quick fixes to most things. I learned my lesson with those on previous tanks. LOL IME most of the time beating cyano is about getting things in balance and waiting it out (that is so long as flow is good...and in my case, I'm running an MP40 at full speed on 50g...I think I'm good there.

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