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About every 6 months or so. I find that I have to clean it sooner if my PO4 stays higher. Also, when my pH is trending down, it’s another indication that it needs some attention.
John's SPS Shallow 90g Peninsula-Lagoon build
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Water height is critical. For the Nyos, it’s about 8 1/4” or roughly 21cm.
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The stand for my nuvo black 25 is coming along, just need to paint the top and sump pieces, then buy some walnut plywood for the front and sides.
I have to send in one of my gyres for repair because it's vibrating like crazy, so I'll put one of my Tunze 6040's in there for the time being.
I'm finding less and less pyramid snails now, sometimes I go a day/night or two before I find one, so hopefully I'm on the other side of these little buggers?
Currently I'm dosing EasyBooster, Sps Evo, flatworm stop and TM Elimi-NP (only .5mL a day of TMENP).
I think it's time to clean up the sand bed and sell some frags/corals that are taking up too much room.
Here's a little eye candy.
Confetti
WD
Pretty cool acro.
Spath and pink table.
Mystery pink/red green acro.
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Just a couple daytime pics.
A. florida and deep red milli
Brown out special spath. Sometimes those $15 brown acros color up a bit
Pearlberry
Aussie growing nicely.
Vivids tropical dreams, this one I've had for a while, two colonies and three frags in different locations and it never disappoints. The coloration is a cross between an Oregon tort, purple monster and rainbow delight. I think there's more color to pull from this one too.
A. florida and deep red milli
Brown out special spath. Sometimes those $15 brown acros color up a bit
Pearlberry
Aussie growing nicely.
Vivids tropical dreams, this one I've had for a while, two colonies and three frags in different locations and it never disappoints. The coloration is a cross between an Oregon tort, purple monster and rainbow delight. I think there's more color to pull from this one too.
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OG leng sy cap
It's hard to get a good pic of this one, but it's finally starting to do something nice.
Mystery tenuis (it was part of a rescue package, so it could be one of those named pieces, who knows or cares?)
Tropical dreams with mystery acro.
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They're still in isolation in the sump, but they're growing and coloring up a little. All from a single Kessil a80 tuna blue.
Just sent off my ICP and waiting for my results before I start the reef moonshiners method/program. Currently daily dosing iodide, flatworm stop and TM Elimi-NP. Continuing Easy Reefs EasyBooster and sps Evo. I also decided to increase my color settings during peak hours for my Kessil's to see if there's any color improvements? So, for nearly 3 hours, the lights ramp up from 30% to 35% color.
I had to send in one of my gyres because of excessive vibrations and they found a defect in the motor housing, so they're sending a replacement pump, which should arrive today.
Also, a few of my jawbreakers are developing pink/purple spots like the mother, so we'll see if they develop the blue spots as well?
Close up of an acro that's been hanging on the sand bed. It's the same one I have on the other side, but it's on a square plug.
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Thanks! Like many things, it's a work in progress.Wow this was very enjoyable to go through.
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Thanks! I'm kinda old school when it comes to certain sps.
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Well, just received my latest ATI ICP test and everything looks pretty good, but with a few minor corrections. My RO is showing silicates, so my three stage BRS resins have worked out pretty good, but silicates are slipping by, so I just ordered three new resins from spectrapure, silicabuster super di, maxcap and enduro. Gonna try the hybrid BRS / spectrapure route. I still need to buy the auto flush kit, so that's on the list as well. The ICP showed elevated Tin, but all other pollutants were zero, so I'm just gonna do a few larger water changes and double check my magnets/pumps, etc...... I just placed the order for Reef Moonshiners, so I'll start the method asap. I have been daily dosing iodide, which showed a little elevated, so I'll back off to a single drop a day, instead of two drops. I've been adding 1ppm of NaNO3 about every other day or so, which is helping and I'm slowly increasing TM Elimi-NP to about 1mL a day. I really need to re-home my foxface, which will help with decreasing PO4, but he's such a great fish. He needs his forever home, so I'll get him to a much larger tank asap.
Here's a quick pic to show how tubby he and the yellow tang are, slightly rotund, but happy.
I need to frag my forest fire and few other sps and have a big sale soon. I might even sell a couple smaller jawbreakers (sprinkles Jr) with purple/pink spots too?
FF top down.
Pink table and acid rain table (most likely aculeus?)
Here's a quick pic to show how tubby he and the yellow tang are, slightly rotund, but happy.
I need to frag my forest fire and few other sps and have a big sale soon. I might even sell a couple smaller jawbreakers (sprinkles Jr) with purple/pink spots too?
FF top down.
Pink table and acid rain table (most likely aculeus?)
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Well, I'm full on reef moonshiners now! I have a few correction doses to carry out, but after that, I'm only daily dosing a handful of elements. Two only get one drop a day and three others get 1mL a day. Not bad. I think the miracle mud really helps out with certain elements, but I'm sure they'll deplete over time.
On a different subject; One observation that I've made with battling pyramid snails is the return of vermetid snails. Now that I'm finding less and less pyramids, the vermetid snails are coming back. I know pyramids predate on several different mollusk species, maybe vermetids are one of them? Not readily a method of controlling vermetids, just an observation.
On a different subject; One observation that I've made with battling pyramid snails is the return of vermetid snails. Now that I'm finding less and less pyramids, the vermetid snails are coming back. I know pyramids predate on several different mollusk species, maybe vermetids are one of them? Not readily a method of controlling vermetids, just an observation.
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Wow man. You're an inspiration!
You should keep a current FTS on page 1!.
You should keep a current FTS on page 1!
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