Finding Sauce (a lot of tanks in a little time) RSR 250 Nem tank

[Panama Brown]

Yes but it took a rip clean of the tank and replacement with a bigger one!

The tank those readings were in had failing seals on the bowfront. Without a full rip clean they would have never come down though. Sand was loaded with years of gunk and rock pores filled. New tank runs high as well but manageably high and the corals don't mind it go neither do I.

When you changed out the aquarium did you clean your sand or get new sand? If you don't mind me asking what are your nitrates now? TBH For a long time I was running nitrates around 80ppm (I dont do water changes). Like you, recently, I upgraded my display, did a 100% water change and used the old water to clean my sand. Started running a refugium and dosed plenty of AquaVitro's Seed and now have been sitting at .10 or lower. Obviously everyone's system is different... Hope everything is going well. Any new pix of the new display? Ever heard of the Reefers Moonshine Theory? Was life changing for me and my tank.... Heres a pic of my new display

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

When you changed out the aquarium did you clean your sand or get new sand? If you don't mind me asking what are your nitrates now? TBH For a long time I was running nitrates around 80ppm (I dont do water changes). Like you, recently, I upgraded my display, did a 100% water change and used the old water to clean my sand. Started running a refugium and dosed plenty of AquaVitro's Seed and now have been sitting at .10 or lower. Obviously everyone's system is different... Hope everything is going well. Any new pix of the new display? Ever heard of the Reefers Moonshine Theory? Was life changing for me and my tank.... Heres a pic of my new display

When I tore both the bowfront and 120g down, I pulled out all sand. Bf is bare bottom hospital tank currently and new sand was put into the 120 DT. I did rinse about 10 gallons of sand and realized that process sucks.

Last week nitrates were sitting in the 45 range. I have not heard of the reefers moonshine theory but it sounds like something up my alley on a long weekend.

Here's a few recent FTS's from the last little bit.

Very nice display. What LAMP are you running?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Here we go. Didn’t seem to load it in hd. YouTube is still processing the HD version.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Here we go. Didn’t seem to load it in hd. YouTube is still processing the HD version.

They look gorgeous.
Your Dj serious photo bombs EVERYTHING. IT'S GREAT

Who's this guy?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Love this, a lot of people don't think about draw flow, I have my blue sponge in draw flow, easy to make sure it's fed without target feeding.

Thanks Simon. There must be something in that oregano!

 

[Eagle_Steve]

They look gorgeous.

Who's this guy?

Massive 7 year old feather duster.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Massive 7 year old feather duster.

Well 7 years in my care.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Massive 7 year old feather duster.

And the torch doesn't bother it?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

And the torch doesn't bother it?

Nope.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Nope.

That's great. They look awesome flowing together.

 

[Panama Brown]

When I tore both the bowfront and 120g down, I pulled out all sand. Bf is bare bottom hospital tank currently and new sand was put into the 120 DT. I did rinse about 10 gallons of sand and realized that process sucks.

Last week nitrates were sitting in the 45 range. I have not heard of the reefers moonshine theory but it sounds like something up my alley on a long weekend.

Here's a few recent FTS's from the last little bit.
Very nice display. What LAMP are you running?

LOL Cleaning the sand sucks but a $ saver. My sand also hadn't been ran for years and years like yours. So, hard to blame you.

Your display looks amazing!!! Everything looks happy! Nitrates at 45ppm really isn't as terrible as it sounds, especially if you dropped from 80 to 45ppm your corals are probably super happy lol. However I bet if you can knock it down even more it would be that much better. Funny, I used to freak if my Nitrates hit 10 but looking back it was a lack of experience in this area that scared me. I was searching for every solution but nothing seemed to work for me. I bought a Cheato reactor which worked but imo not nearly as well as the refugium I now run. Changed out my ceramic bio balls, started carbon dosing vodka (created Cyano bloom) and moved to Vinegar (I recently stopped dosing, no need for it anymore). Got a slightly larger skimmer when I upgraded my display, dosed a few bottles of AquaVitro Seed, did the 100% water change (I moved into a new house at the same time I upgraded my display, or else I wouldn't of made a water change.)

The reason I don't do water changes is because I'm running the Reefers Moonshine Method. You can find out all about it on Facebooks "Reefers Moonshine Support Group". Its similar to the Triton method where instead of water changes to replenish elements soaked up from coral, I'll send out an ATI ICP test which will test all 47 elements in the water. Once the lab is finished with the results I load them into the RMT Calculator which will then guide me what elements need to be dosed, how much to dose for how many days. Repeat every month, bimonthly, etc whatever works best for the user. If you look through the FB forum you will see tons and tons of people running the method and killing it. It is a little pricey to get started on the Moonshine Theory but worth every single penny and I try to tell everyone about it. It really changed the game for me!!! Check it out!!! Oh and no water changes!!! Best part of it lol By not doing changes I'm able to keeps Temp, Alk, Salinity, & PH waaaaaaaaaaaay more consistent than ever before. No more accidentally "shocking" the system....

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

LOL Cleaning the sand sucks but a $ saver. My sand also hadn't been ran for years and years like yours. So, hard to blame you.

Your display looks amazing!!! Everything looks happy! Nitrates at 45ppm really isn't as terrible as it sounds, especially if you dropped from 80 to 45ppm your corals are probably super happy lol. However I bet if you can knock it down even more it would be that much better. Funny, I used to freak if my Nitrates hit 10 but looking back it was a lack of experience in this area that scared me. I was searching for every solution but nothing seemed to work for me. I bought a Cheato reactor which worked but imo not nearly as well as the refugium I now run. Changed out my ceramic bio balls, started carbon dosing vodka (created Cyano bloom) and moved to Vinegar (I recently stopped dosing, no need for it anymore). Got a slightly larger skimmer when I upgraded my display, dosed a few bottles of AquaVitro Seed, did the 100% water change (I moved into a new house at the same time I upgraded my display, or else I wouldn't of made a water change.)

The reason I don't do water changes is because I'm running the Reefers Moonshine Method. You can find out all about it on Facebooks "Reefers Moonshine Support Group". Its similar to the Triton method where instead of water changes to replenish elements soaked up from coral, I'll send out an ATI ICP test which will test all 47 elements in the water. Once the lab is finished with the results I load them into the RMT Calculator which will then guide me what elements need to be dosed, how much to dose for how many days. Repeat every month, bimonthly, etc whatever works best for the user. If you look through the FB forum you will see tons and tons of people running the method and killing it. It is a little pricey to get started on the Moonshine Theory but worth every single penny and I try to tell everyone about it. It really changed the game for me!!! Check it out!!! Oh and no water changes!!! Best part of it lol By not doing changes I'm able to keeps Temp, Alk, Salinity, & PH waaaaaaaaaaaay more consistent than ever before. No more accidentally "shocking" the system....

Firstly thank you very much for the compliment. Always appreciated to hear from others. I'm normally my worst critic.

Now that you're talking about it I actually think that @Reefing_addiction is going through the same preliminary ICP testing in order to start the moonshine method. We were discussing it some last week. I'm not on FB so can't access most of that information easily but to be honest, I don't chase numbers. I try to stay in sinc with the animals in my tank and let them tell me if something is wrong. I've got a few canary corals in the I can always look to. The big ol bubble is one of them. If anything starts to slide, the bubble reacts pretty quickly.

The method is certainly flawed as reacting means the params have already moved slightly but I am disciplined about my maintenance routine.

I don't really mind doing water changes and cleaning filter socks. It's part of my Saturday morning routine. Put some music on, get in the groove.

I'm very much looking forward to ending the fallow period On my display tank. The refugium section in my sump is currently housing most of my frags. I had to switch out the kessil fuge light for one of my backup Chinese black boxes for the corals.

The cheato is kind of just stuck in the corner. I'll have to reseed macro when the time comes. Maybe even beg a care package out of Mr @Eagle_Steve . He's got all the good stuff.

 

[Panama Brown]

It looks and sounds like you got things under control! You're right though, chasing numbers is nothing but a headache and cause of anxiety. I try not to be that guy, even though atm Im chasing a 8.3 ph for ultimate coral growth. I live in Florida where 99% of the time Ive got out windows closed and have a higher than normal co2 reading. lol

Like you I enjoyed my Saturday water changes until my son started playing baseball which practice stole my maintenance time however due to my personal experience of RFT being the bees knees I don't ever see myself going back to my old days of making my own water and doing water changes. I have managed to save a lot of time, money on salts, cleaning up after myself, etc. RFT has been a blessing! But, again to each their own and hey... if it aint broke, why try to fix it? But, if you ever want to "elevate" things I swear on my life it really works lol Ok... starting to sound like a salesman lol

Your bubble has to be the biggest bubble Ive ever seen lol. I thought mine was big lol

Im running 60" Aquatic Life fixture with 4x80w T5's ATI Deep Blue w/ 4x Radion XR15 Pro Gen 4. Run might lights for 10 hours w/ only 4 hours T5. Running par of 250 on sand bed with pars in the 600s from the middle of the tank on up during the T5 hours.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

It looks and sounds like you got things under control! You're right though, chasing numbers is nothing but a headache and cause of anxiety. I try not to be that guy, even though atm Im chasing a 8.3 ph for ultimate coral growth. I live in Florida where 99% of the time Ive got out windows closed and have a higher than normal co2 reading. lol

Like you I enjoyed my Saturday water changes until my son started playing baseball which practice stole my maintenance time however due to my personal experience of RFT being the bees knees I don't ever see myself going back to my old days of making my own water and doing water changes. I have managed to save a lot of time, money on salts, cleaning up after myself, etc. RFT has been a blessing! But, again to each their own and hey... if it aint broke, why try to fix it? But, if you ever want to "elevate" things I swear on my life it really works lol Ok... starting to sound like a salesman lol

Your bubble has to be the biggest bubble Ive ever seen lol. I thought mine was big lol

Im running 60" Aquatic Life fixture with 4x80w T5's ATI Deep Blue w/ 4x Radion XR15 Pro Gen 4. Run might lights for 10 hours w/ only 4 hours T5. Running par of 250 on sand bed with pars in the 600s from the middle of the tank on up during the T5 hours.

This is me having things under control..

The tank looks great. Where's your main thread? Do you have a build thread I can follow?

 

[LRT]

This is me having things under control..

The tank looks great. Where's your main thread? Do you have a build thread I can follow?

This has been me all morning

 

[dvgyfresh]

Spam ! Happy Friday y’all may the Memorial Day sales be ever in your favor , anemone in pic recovering from taking a trip in the gyre lol

 

[LRT]

Spam ! Happy Friday y’all may the Memorial Day sales be ever in your favor , anemone in pic recovering from taking a trip in the gyre lol

Is that a dragon wrasse in middle of pic?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Spam ! Happy Friday y’all may the Memorial Day sales be ever in your favor , anemone in pic recovering from taking a trip in the gyre lol

Please don't anyone tag me in any sales this weekend!

Need MOAR ROOM!

 

[dvgyfresh]

Is that a dragon wrasse in middle of pic?

Yes it’s a young one , starting him off in my 40b and moving him next year to a 125 which he will be the only inhabitant

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Yes it’s a young one , starting him off in my 40b and moving him next year to a 125 which he will be the only inhabitant

That's a beautiful fish.