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Thanks!amazing like always with your stuff man
Thanks! I use the AB+ on 9 hours with a 45 minute ramp up/down with blues on either end. I run the t5 for 4 hours in the middle with 4 actinic, 2 blue+. and 2 coral+ on the outsides. I just added the coral plus and like the color being less blue, so I'm going to replace one of the blues in the middle with another coral+. Thanks for the reminder! I have the Radions at 95% intensity but just dropped it down to 90 since I added 22 frags from the growout tank to the display last night. I keep the growout intensity at 87% but everything in there is 6" from the surface whereas the new frags in the display are around 12" under the surface.
I added a few new pieces to the display last night...
Hung's Rainbow
bkchem Creme de la Creme
bk Brainfreeze
bk Flaming Sunrise
bk Flaming Sunset
bk Grinch Jr
TSA Bill Murray
BigR Walt
SCOP
CB Maleficent
Oregon Tort
Tyree Pink Lemonade
BC Hot Flashlight
Tyree Superman
CB Flaming Phoenix
RMF Pink Passion
JF Fox Flame
BC Lemon Peel
BC Sky Parade
BC Houdini
TGC Acrolandia
Vivid Insanity
BC Houdini
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
that's pretty much it in a nutshell - right off the ab+ program, nothing fancyCould you send me your radion schedule?!
Thanks! I had an ugly phase there - I will elaborate next postVery nice updates, Doug! Amazing home theater setup too!!
Yes!I need to come visit again and get some more sticks. Hopefully that i keep alive this time.
Thank you - I’m so used to everything being so stable and smooth that any downturns drive me bonkers. I hope you get your hiccups scared out of your system soon tooSorry to hear about your struggles but things are looking great now! Hopefully you'll cruise along. I've had a few hiccups recently as well but getting closer to stable
My Lucky Charms is barely hanging on right now and I doubt it will make it. I think it is weak from Alk swings, low ph, and amino dosing.. It took a turn for the worse when my Alk got so low a couple months ago and has been been getting more faded by the week. I gave it a potassium chloride dip last month to make sure I didn’t have any pests irritating it, which was clear. I dipped it in witch hazel today following the Reef Moonshiners method so hopefully color will return. Im holding off on any aminos and doing my best to keep ph up. It’s one of my favorites and the last acro to color back up, so hope it pulls through.i need to get another rmf lucky charm from you next fall!
how do you remove that check valve without getting water all over the floors?The tds out of my rodi was 9 on the out and 15 after the membrane so I swapped out all of the filters. I flushed 10 minutes and dumped about 30g of the first of the rodi water. Still 15 on the membrane and zero on the final output. The old membrane was only about 3 months old and right at 4 weeks on the rest of the filters. I wonder if either I keep getting bad membranes or if that meter is off. The meter was replaced last month too.
Anyways, on to the fun stuff!
The tank is about 1/4 full so I’m looking at probably 5 days til I’m ready to mix in the 6:1 ratio of Red Sea and Red Sea Pro. This gives me right at 8.6 dKH for the mix. I’ll mix for half a day and circulate it with the other 500 gallons.
I glued some 3/4” plywood strips to the back of the frame to hold panels in place to hide all the wires and stuff for the lights and powerheads. I used 1/4” Masonite and painted it wall color so it blends in. I’ll use some magnets to keep the panels flat. There will be ones for the sides too but I’ll wait til the tank is stocked and I’m finished messing with the powerheads, wires, lights etc. I already have grubby paw prints from putting the back panels in place so I’ll wait til last to do the trim pieces so everything stays looking nice.
I’d close the gate valve right above it, loosen the nut on the check valve to let the water drain, wrap a towel around the pipe underneath it to capture the excess water that comes outhow do you remove that check valve without getting water all over the floors?
I’ve setup I’ve been following this for several months. I’m old to the hobby but new to SPS. Why do you hesitate to dose aminos and how are you keeping nutrients up?
Because I love clams and have a dozen (!) I’m having a hard time keeping nitrates above .5 and detectable PO4 despite medium fish bio load, heavy feeding, and heavy AB+ dosing, and lately, only rubbing the skimmer a few hours per day. I think it’s why my SPS fade it go brown so badly. Some have color, some don’t. Interested to learn from your experience!
I’ve setup I’ve been following this for several months. I’m old to the hobby but new to SPS. Why do you hesitate to dose aminos and how are you keeping nutrients up?
Because I love clams and have a dozen (!) I’m having a hard time keeping nitrates above .5 and detectable PO4 despite medium fish bio load, heavy feeding, and heavy AB+ dosing, and lately, only rubbing the skimmer a few hours per day. I think it’s why my SPS fade it go brown so badly. Some have color, some don’t. Interested to learn from your experience!