my new baby... AKA The Café

[Nate Chalk]

Left the house lights staying off next 3 days. Hopefully coming home to no dinos and everything alive.

 

[sfin52]

Left the house lights staying off next 3 days. Hopefully coming home to no dinos and everything alive.

What's your nitrates and phosphates? It's true that they are photosynthetic but at a point they become preditors as well. At this point they will release toxins to kill competitors.

Nitrates 0, phosphates 0 or either at 0 is a point when they can bloom.

I have a great treatment but it takes a lot of elbow grease with 0 water changes. There's something in synthetic salt that seems to encourage blooms. Delt with them after they killed 80 percent of my corals.

 

[Nate Chalk]

What's your nitrates and phosphates? It's true that they are photosynthetic but at a point they become preditors as well. At this point they will release toxins to kill competitors.

Nitrates 0, phosphates 0 or either at 0 is a point when they can bloom.

I have a great treatment but it takes a lot of elbow grease with 0 water changes. There's something in synthetic salt that seems to encourage blooms. Delt with them after they killed 80 percent of my corals.

N steady at 8 was trending towards 10 but corals didn't seem to like it.
P .004-.01

I haven't changed water yet , changed carbon last week.

What's the treatment I'm interested.

I don't have a sandbed they aren't terrible yet taking over. It's a small foothold and I can't seem to knock them back with anything but low light

 

[sfin52]

N steady at 8 was trending towards 10 but corals didn't seem to like it.
P .004-.01

I haven't changed water yet , changed carbon last week.

What's the treatment I'm interested.

I don't have a sandbed they aren't terrible yet taking over. It's a small foothold and I can't seem to knock them back with anything but low light

Pics

 

[Nate Chalk]

Pics

I'm at the airport I can't go realtime. But here's when the lights were on , lights off definitely has it knocked back. I know it's blue but I had them to knock it back

 

[sfin52]

Here you go
5/10 micron sock (amazon brewing beer)
A bucket
Tube and a return pump like the Marineland maxi jet 1200.
Since they bloom during the day you want to remove them when lights on. Remove as many

as possible.

filter through the sock into a bucket and pump the water back into the tank.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Here you go
5/10 micron sock (amazon brewing beer)
A bucket
Tube and a return pump like the Marineland maxi jet 1200.
Since they bloom during the day you want to remove them when lights on. Remove as many

as possible.

filter through the sock into a bucket and pump the water back into the tank.

Will try this as an additional manual removal. I really hope that when I get home it's gone.


Was wondering if I should try to grab some more mature rock or mud from John at Florida pets that @Eagle_Steve mentioned.

 

[sfin52]

Will try this as an additional manual removal. I really hope that when I get home it's gone.


Was wondering if I should try to grab some more mature rock or mud from John at Florida pets that @Eagle_Steve mentioned.

I would. The biodiversity can't be beaten. I'm a firm believer in the more micro biodiversity the tank the less problems we have.

 

[sfin52]

Will try this as an additional manual removal. I really hope that when I get home it's gone.


Was wondering if I should try to grab some more mature rock or mud from John at Florida pets that @Eagle_Steve mentioned.

The 5 micron or 10 micron sock will pull the dinos out. This sock isn't something you want to use all the time. It will clogg quickly but it's great for dinos and a deep clean.

I have 2 originally for dions. Now I use them when I stir up the sand or haven't blown of the rocks in a long time.

 

[Nate Chalk]

I would. The biodiversity can't be beaten. I'm a firm believer in the more micro biodiversity the tank the less problems we have.

I'm convinced, I wish I was in Florida now.

I can go grab sand and mud out of the bay here in Maryland while I'm here

 

[1ocean]

78-80....house is set to 80 all year..

 

[Nate Chalk]

78-80....house is set to 80 all year..

What the. Our house is set to 70.

If we set to 80 we'd be broke in the winter. Lol

 

[1ocean]

I am in AZ.. summer is like 110 degrees plus sometimes so 80 is perfect...and fall/winter is like daytime temps are like 60-Nighttime temps can get to 32 or so but this house is super well insulated, and wall are 2x6 studs. Heater used natural gas which is cheap right now...

 

[Nate Chalk]

I am in AZ.. summer is like 110 degrees plus sometimes so 80 is perfect...and fall/winter is like daytime temps are like 60-Nighttime temps can get to 32 or so but this house is super well insulated, and wall are 2x6 studs. Heater used natural gas which is cheap right now...

O that's right. We were in Sedona you said that. My memory is bad. Phoenix is so hot

 

[Mschmidt]

78-80....house is set to 80 all year..

I'm sweating just thinking about an 80 degree house. 74 was my concession for Baltimore's summer.

 

[1ocean]

I am gonna do more tile today.. Here is whats done so far. Got the walls all sheetrocked, painted, windows in etc..

 

[Projects with Sam]

I'm surprised more people in AZ don't do Geo cooling in the summers. Is there something I don't know about?

 

[Nate Chalk]

I'm surprised more people in AZ don't do Geo cooling in the summers. Is there something I don't know about?

Phoenix is so hot it's insane

 

[MrsBugmaster]

I'm surprised more people in AZ don't do Geo cooling in the summers. Is there something I don't know about?

Maybe not enough water to go geo? Love our GEO water furnace!

edit. I guess there are other types of geo other than geo water furnace like we have. Cost I think is a big factor.

 

[Lowell Lemon]

I'm surprised more people in AZ don't do Geo cooling in the summers. Is there something I don't know about?

The aquifer in their area is being depleted as we speak. Draining the Colorado River is about to end for a lot of folks in the Southwest. The Saudi's are pumping out of the aquifer as fast as possible to grow alfalfa to ship to their homeland to feed their animals. Just a few complications to GEO cooling in the Southwest.

Unless you are talking a ground loop system.