Joe's high end acro tank

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525XL Red Sea Tank
Trident
2 wav pumps
2 mp40s
Del Tec Skimmer
Fuge packed with chaeto

Dose 2 part
Dose trace elements
Dose Vibrant
Dose phyto (20ml) e/d

Feed fish 2x a day LRF or rod's

Nitrates -- keep at 20-25 (dosed)
Currently really high po4, it's gone from 1.0 (yes you read that right, down to .39)

Water changes at least 20% weekly with Tropic marin.. I have a pretty solid RO/DI setup w/ booster. I change out sediments and carbon blocks every 2 weeks. Change RO membrane, 2-3 months.


A list of my acros

JF jolt
JF home wrecker
SBB half baked
SBB purpliscious
BkChem fruitloops
WWC culture shock
WWC budgie smuggler
WWC Something over the rainbow mille
CC Pink Highlighter
TGC Uultimate Orange passion
POTO home wrecker
TSA BUbbleyum
TSA bioshock
TSA princess peach
TSA Bill Murray
JF Cheap Date
Matt V Orange Envy
Hungs Rainbow Granny
SBB Skywalker
SBB high Times
SBB Fruit ninja
Tyree Pink Lemoande
SBB Sour Diesel
 
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Some pics of some of my acros

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Thats pretty nice for some reason even when k keep my phosphates at 0.10 i get crazy hair algae lol
 

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Change your RO membrane so often? Wild. Why? Just install multiple dual inline tds meters in your setup and it will tell you when to replace it. Which should not be very often. Those other blocks should be able to go a lot longer as well. Just stick on dual resin carts at the end with meters and you can stretch things so far
 
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Change your RO membrane so often? Wild. Why? Just install multiple dual inline tds meters in your setup and it will tell you when to replace it. Which should not be very often.

I have a dual TDS meter. You can still get contaminants through . Just trust me on this one. I got the tip fro a local vendor and the second I changed my RO membrance that was only 5 months old, my acros loved it!
 

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I have a dual TDS meter. You can still get contaminants through . Just trust me on this one. I got the tip fro a local vendor and the second I changed my RO membrance that was only 5 months old, my acros loved it!

Coming out of ro.. assuming 200 to 300 tds tap.. you should have knocked it down to 5 to 8 tds. Then resin polishes it further to 0. Rotate resin carts to maximize resin life.

Dunno. 0 is 0.
 
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Coming out of ro.. assuming 200 to 300 tds tap.. you should have knocked it down to 5 to 8 tds. Then resin polishes it further to 0. Rotate resin carts to maximize resin life.

Dunno. 0 is 0.

You can still crash a tank with zero. Ive seen it. Before you knock it. try it if you have a bunch of acros.
 
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I've also been told SPS can't eat phyto. And maybe they dont, but via the same vendor, gave me the tip to dose it. Sure enough, they are hairier/happy looking.
 

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I been using the same membrane for my rodi unit since i first bought it and its almost 3 years now but tds still said 4 comming out on my dual tds meter. I wonder if my meter is broken? Apologized if this post high jack the OPs thread. Delete if neccessary
 
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