BlennyKravitz
Active Member
Hey fellow addicts! This is my first post on R2R, so what's up everyone?
I felt compelled to share the results of the first full week with my Genesis water change system.
It essentially meters 1G of water to exchange with an automated process. I have a mixed reef, dominant SPS, Red Sea 525XL which is 110G display, 30G sump and I run a 20G refugium with chaeto and mangroves. I dose 20mL of Red Sea Reef energy every morning when my Kessil AP700s wake up. I turn off the return for 45 minutes and also feed the fish. I'll feed flakes in afternoon and some mysis at night. Coral gets fed 2-3x week with Reef Roids, Reef Chili, Oyster feast.
I run in addition to the copepod factory refugium, a BRS GFO reactor and carbon and also run biopellets in a modified Phosban 150. Air to skimmer from inside refugium enclosure - which is located outside. I use dosing pumps because I believe they are more precise and reliable than calcium reactors. I dose 130mL of Red Sea Alk daily and 30mL of calcium. Alk is dead steady at 9.0, Ca is 450, Mg 1350, Na .05, phosphates .02, 1.025 and 7.9-8.1 pH at 78 degrees. Red Sea salt. Everything run by an Apex.
My tank has had exceptional success since I started it eight months ago but it was never AMAZING. I am a maniac when it comes to perfection. I'm a math nerd and fully understand the physics and biology of a mixed reef.
Nothing. I repeat NOTHING has shown the improvements I've seen in the past several days using this automated changer.
Day one of install, I performed a 30G water change which is 20%. I typically do 15G weekly (10%) and am religious about it. I programmed the Genesis to perform 2G/daily or 1G every 12 hours. This is my observation after seven days.
1. Best polyp extension ever day and night. Strawberry shortcake is finally fuzzy.
2. LPS are chubbier and stay chubby longer. Scolymia, trachyphyllia and acan lords all fat as ever.
3. No sign of brown detritus in lower flow area of tank. I used to have to stir up one small area every other day. Sand is all white all the time now.
4. No film on glass at all. Scraped it once this week and only on the side that faces the huge exterior window in our living room.
5. I haven't lifted ANY buckets or spilled ANY water on my floor since last year. 8)
So... other than learning my wife is more awesome than ever, I learned this Genesis system is perhaps the single best purchase you can make. If used enough, one could perhaps forgo any of the other reactors and maybe even a skimmer.
Hope you guys got something out of this info. Happy reefing! The reef shots are six months apart. I'm a couple months beyond that now. Frags growing in nicely.
I felt compelled to share the results of the first full week with my Genesis water change system.
It essentially meters 1G of water to exchange with an automated process. I have a mixed reef, dominant SPS, Red Sea 525XL which is 110G display, 30G sump and I run a 20G refugium with chaeto and mangroves. I dose 20mL of Red Sea Reef energy every morning when my Kessil AP700s wake up. I turn off the return for 45 minutes and also feed the fish. I'll feed flakes in afternoon and some mysis at night. Coral gets fed 2-3x week with Reef Roids, Reef Chili, Oyster feast.
I run in addition to the copepod factory refugium, a BRS GFO reactor and carbon and also run biopellets in a modified Phosban 150. Air to skimmer from inside refugium enclosure - which is located outside. I use dosing pumps because I believe they are more precise and reliable than calcium reactors. I dose 130mL of Red Sea Alk daily and 30mL of calcium. Alk is dead steady at 9.0, Ca is 450, Mg 1350, Na .05, phosphates .02, 1.025 and 7.9-8.1 pH at 78 degrees. Red Sea salt. Everything run by an Apex.
My tank has had exceptional success since I started it eight months ago but it was never AMAZING. I am a maniac when it comes to perfection. I'm a math nerd and fully understand the physics and biology of a mixed reef.
Nothing. I repeat NOTHING has shown the improvements I've seen in the past several days using this automated changer.
Day one of install, I performed a 30G water change which is 20%. I typically do 15G weekly (10%) and am religious about it. I programmed the Genesis to perform 2G/daily or 1G every 12 hours. This is my observation after seven days.
1. Best polyp extension ever day and night. Strawberry shortcake is finally fuzzy.
2. LPS are chubbier and stay chubby longer. Scolymia, trachyphyllia and acan lords all fat as ever.
3. No sign of brown detritus in lower flow area of tank. I used to have to stir up one small area every other day. Sand is all white all the time now.
4. No film on glass at all. Scraped it once this week and only on the side that faces the huge exterior window in our living room.
5. I haven't lifted ANY buckets or spilled ANY water on my floor since last year. 8)
So... other than learning my wife is more awesome than ever, I learned this Genesis system is perhaps the single best purchase you can make. If used enough, one could perhaps forgo any of the other reactors and maybe even a skimmer.
Hope you guys got something out of this info. Happy reefing! The reef shots are six months apart. I'm a couple months beyond that now. Frags growing in nicely.
