Randy's Tank and Learn Thread

[kratosxxl]

I have auto feeders that deliver food (Prime Reef flake and TDO chromoboost small pellets) 10 times a day, and I add frozen food 2x per day when I am home.

wow thats a quite schedule :) do you also turn off wave makers during feeding ? I feed twice a day for now using Plank but i do turn off waves

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

wow thats a quite schedule :) do you also turn off wave makers during feeding ? I feed twice a day for now using Plank but i do turn off waves

I don’t do anything except let the two Eheim auto feeders and a Lonza brand equivalent deliver into floating ring feeders to make the food sink before floating away and over an overflow.

 

[Dan_P]

Chemistry Update

Nothing particularly notable, but I’m reporting it for completeness.

Nitrate 11 ppm (no change to ammonia dosing)

Salinity 34.6 ppt (sg = 1.0261) no change to AWC; made a new batch new salt water and added molybdste and nickel as I did last time)

Temp 78.5 deg F. Back to normal after the raising during the blizzard)

pH 8.1 at 12:40 pm

Alk 9.3 dKH. Rising a bit, but ok and hard corals and coralline are doing very well. Not going to reduce the AFR yet.

Phosphate 0.48 ppm. Continues to rise. I’m reluctant to use GFO or lanthanum, but I may get an external canister filter to better run GAC and do some mechanical particle removal.

I cleaned the skimmer neck. Photos below of the neck after a finger swipe, and a handful of the mud from it.

Made a new 1.5 L batch of AFR and 1.1 L of 0.1 N sulfuric acid for alk titrations from the 2.0 N acid I have on hand,

Looking at the quantity of mud, I would guess you skim on the dry side 100 mL liquid/day) and don’t clean the neck that often (once a month). Am I close?