Hey Perry, great to see you back in the SPS business. . Long time no chat. I have been out of the game about 3 years myself. Hoping to put some water in the tank next month.
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Love it! I like using leds to go with halides. I finally got my or2 bars straightened out so I have 96 blue LEDs to go with my two 250w radiums in my 100 gallon Rubbermaid. I was about to go with two led fixtures but couldn’t find any that fit. I would have rather went that way like you did but this is a good second option.
My screen name on RC was piper27 and still is on my local forum if I ever get back on there. The “biggles juice” was pretty good for getting some nice green fluorescent shine on certain corals. Once my tank starts growing well I will probably go with supplementing more manganese and zinc.
I like how you are using live rock in the first chamber. I used a 40 gallon breeder full of it in the same spot and used a carbon source dosed in it to grow bacteria so I didn’t have to worry about jelly mats in funny spots when I was using a lot. Sponges grew amazingly well in there and even with low flow detritus was not bad. I still have some large sponges under my rocks that I kept from that tank, they were so big they stuck rocks together. Are you planning to use a carbon source in this tank? If so what?
What is up Ed!!!Hey Perry, great to see you back in the SPS business. . Long time no chat. I have been out of the game about 3 years myself. Hoping to put some water in the tank next month.
We went and specifically got Mexican Red Legs hermits, like 50, 2 days later, the rock was pristine! Like gorgeous beautiful clean rock. From that day forward, they will always have a home on my reef.....ah....I digress
My lfs used to import them, hands down the best hermits.
Edit: I love bristle worms too
Good to find that out early chloramines do suck! I've installed a giant BB chloramine carbon block on my system so I can be a little more lazy about changing it out.Update:
Time for the good, bad, and ugly, please chime in with experiences, very interested to hear
1. Hair algae with no phos or nitrate readings. Clean up crew and manual removal, but have lost a couple of acros, and a couple more looking smug. Now, it is either starvation, or another issue.
Solution:
Am definitely using bacteria and carbon source, now using BW Micro bacter, 3 drops per day. .5ml a day of Aquaforest Nitraphos Minus. To combat bottomed out NO3, now dosing 5ml per day, BW Neo nitro, will monitor every other day, once target reached of 2ppm, will continue to dose until my fish population increases.
I believe some of the rock was not very clean, I most definitely know the low po4 is being consumed by hair.
2. I changed out carbon, with catalytic carbon, in RODI setup. In the past I used regular carbon pass, after sediment, before RO. With 155 TDS, I never really put 2 and 2 together, assuming that didn't warrant any additional filtration other than my 4 stage RODI unit. After several times of smelling chlorine from tap, it makes perfect sense that maybe chloramine leaching is why I have had issues with my past tank, and presumably some in this current setup. Either way, after always smelling heavy chlorine smell from the tap, I think catalytic is the way to go. Our neighboring city most certainly uses chlorine and chloramines, I dont recall on last water report, but plan to call the city soon to find out.
3. Some good news, lol. Alk consumption finally kicked in, seeing daily consumption, this is encouraging despite other issues. Some acros are showing growth. 2 days ago I changed water with 10 gallon water change using TMPR salts. Of course after I changed carbon pass on RODI. This change seems to have halted some of the poor acros.
That is about it for now
More to come
Good to find that out early chloramines do suck! I've installed a giant BB chloramine carbon block on my system so I can be a little more lazy about changing it out.
Having fun yes!!!For a minuet it sounded like you were having fun.
I used neo-nitro when corals faded, overnight they bounced back. Im not a fan of fuges, too much work, time and mess, my corner overflow was filled with marine-pure and would out work the fuge. At the end I only had 3 larges rocks and still had to feed heavily to keep dinos away.
@Perry since you’ve done some research can you explain the difference between catalytic carbon and the other type? What do I want to run in my RO system to combat cloramines?
Lol,Wow Perry. I really can’t explain all the questions you answered in your long winded response. I have had many questions about my reef lately. And hopefully this resolves the issue. Thank you for the answer. I’m glad to see you have solved your problem. Time to get back on track
3 doses at 5ml maybe 8 on the 75, even then I barely got a reading on the Elos test kit. That was the only kit I could get a color change from, the colors returned so I left it, later I removed the fuge and life is good without those woe's.Did you like the BW neo nitro product? Seems to have stimulated PE, What dose did you do on what volume?