My 90 gallon tank journey

[GoVols]

(lol)
What brand comes Apex ready?

 

[justingraham]

(lol)
What brand comes Apex ready?

 

[GoVols]

Clueless...

The color scheme kinda of looks like eshopps.

 

[justingraham]

Its the KH Guardian monitor only connects to the apex with a bnc connector

 

[justingraham]

I have it testing every hour right now and in a day it hasn’t drifted more then .1

I set my dosing pumps up for the swings as I stayed up one day and tested every hour with the Hannah but I didn’t think the alk was this steady

So I’m kinda scared it’s not working properly or I messed something up

 

[GoVols]

Its the KH Guardian monitor only connects to the apex with a bnc connector

Dang!!
That's what @Rick.45cal has, but I think he was moving over to a calcium reactor the last time we talked.

Congrats!!, Justin

 

[GoVols]

I have it testing every hour right now and in a day it hasn’t drifted more then .1

I set my dosing pumps up for the swings as I stayed up one day and tested every hour with the Hannah but I didn’t think the alk was this steady

So I’m kinda scared it’s not working properly or I messed something up

Is it staying inline with the Hanna checker?

 

[justingraham]

Is it staying inline with the Hanna checker?

Don’t have enough Hannah checks (as my reagent is old) under my belt

 

[Brew12]

I don't think I would use it to control until I was confident it was working correctly. I would run it for a week with my old dosing scheme letting it sample its minimum 6 times a day. At the end of a week, make sure what the Guardian reads matches your normal sample.

In my opinion there is too much variation in any hobby test kit to accurately read the small changes in alk that occur hourly.

 

[BigJohnny]

I don't think I would use it to control until I was confident it was working correctly. I would run it for a week with my old dosing scheme letting it sample its minimum 6 times a day. At the end of a week, make sure what the Guardian reads matches your normal sample.

In my opinion there is too much variation in any hobby test kit to accurately read the small changes in alk that occur hourly.

There can also be a lot of inaccuracy with hanna alk testers, which I learned through using my Alkatronic. It was consistently reading a full dKH higher than my alkatronic, still not sure why. I checked my alkatronic with reference standards and it was spot on, so was salifert. If you look at my tank log the first 6 months I had my dKH around 8.1-8.4, then it dropped to 7.1-7.4. In reality it was always there though. It really fooled me because it was so consistent and appeared to be very accurate but for some reason the calibration was off.

I definitely recommend using multiple test kits and a reference standard to see where you are really at and what is the most accurate. I also agree about letting any alk controller test only for at least a week or two and then recalibrate and check again to make sure its functioning properly.

 

[justingraham]

Well as of now the guardian is testing 1.2 dkh higher then I was with my Hannah

@Brew12 it is only monitoring and that’s all I plan to do with it until it can be trusted I have been running it every hour since it was hooked up

 

[Brew12]

Well as of now the guardian is testing 1.2 dkh higher then I was with my Hannah I

@Brew12 it is only monitoring and that’s all I plan to do with it until it can be trusted I have been running it every hour since it was hooked up

I get that. My Salifert and Redsea test kits read around 1dkh apart. I have no idea which is more accurate. I hope the consistency is enough and try to keep the average of the 2 around 8dkh.

 

[justingraham]

I get that. My Salifert and Redsea test kits read around 1dkh apart. I have no idea which is more accurate. I hope the consistency is enough and try to keep the average of the 2 around 8dkh.

Hey personally I don’t care if it’s 7.9 or 8.9 as the number in my opinion doesn’t matter what I care about is that if I test the same water 100 times it comes back as the same number

 

[justingraham]

So I am having problems with my Wavs not running after I cleaned them.

Silly me doesn’t have a back up plan if my powerheads stop working

It’s Sunday so what to do?
As much as I love Brs and other internet based shops I love supporting my LFS because in times like these when I need something right away they are there.
I like to thank Ray @tsm corals for opening up for me so I could grab an mp10

Thank u sir

Hopefully this will work until I hear what Neptune has to say.

If they don’t cover it I think I’m a go a different route for flow in my tank

 

[justingraham]

I’ll do a good update later this week (@GoVols make sure I do this please)

But for right now here is a picture of my sump room with the khg hooked up

And here is today khg recordings which make sense as I was going tank maintenance and with my pump failure

I think since my alk is almost at 9 I will shut off my dosing pumps to see what my daily dkh consumption is u see any problems with that @Brew12 i beleive it’s somewhere around 1.5 dkh

 

[justingraham]

Photo dump iPhone with orange filter surprisingly close to the real deal

 

[justingraham]

I’m grabbing another coral pack off Tim @aquavista99
It’s going to be a surprise coral box so I don’t get a duplicate I took an inventory
So I figured I would add it here for later use

(From Tim)
Upscales Mircrocladas
Oregon Tort
Tyree Sunset
Bloodymary Monti
LA lakers Monti
Miyagi Tort
Tyree Pink Dragon Tales
Aquascene Icecire
RMF Red Devil Nasuta
Bubblegum Millepora
PC Superman
(From BC)
BC Pearly Cadaver
BC Secale
BC Premoberry
Vivid Rainbow Delight
(From POTO)
POTO Blue Bomber
Jackson’s Rainbow Tennius
JF Jack-O-Lantern
ASD Phoenix

Holy Grail Tourch
Hammer Coral

Makes me sad to see everything I bought and lost but hopefully no more deaths

 

[Brew12]

;Drool;Drool;Drool;Drool;Drool

I'm not sure what that wonderful yellow plating coral is, but I think I want one!

 

[justingraham]

I beleive ur talking about this one?

size when I first got it

It’s a tyree sunset quick grower I’m trying to make it look like tims with the branches

I have to hit it with more direct flow I’m told

 

[Brew12]

What is this guy?