Ricenoodle Reefer 170 Euphyllia Paradise

[revhtree]

Love!

 

[kinetic]

dmfdhn


Thanks for the response, I too have a similar bb system and I'm running a hydra. Wondering how high your light fixture is off the water surface as well as your white channel. Seems the white channel can be an issue if to high.

Depends on what you're keeping Brad. My RSR 170 has as Hydra 52 HD+, 9" off the water, running SPS AB+ (high peaks), except I cranked my whites way higher (about 30% at the highest intensity). I'm only keeping anemones, so they're actually pretty happy (and coloring up nicely). The rule of thumb is to start with something like the AB+, which is super blue, and slowly raise the whites over time until you see bleaching or some other distress to your SPS. That's when you've gone a tad too far. Whites look aesthetically better to humans (sometimes), but will burn SPS and other corals. You'll need to crank up whites slowly over time (like a few percent every day). The ideal spot is when you're happy with how it looks and all the corals are fine with it.

 

[kinetic]

rice, I can still see sand, you have space!

Then it's all about mounting magnetic rocks to your glass to add even more. =)

 

[ricenoodle]

dmfdhn


Thanks for the response, I too have a similar bb system and I'm running a hydra. Wondering how high your light fixture is off the water surface as well as your white channel. Seems the white channel can be an issue if to high.

My light is 8" above the water surface and whites were only a mix of 7 percent for cool white and 10 percent for warm white. Tank had primarily blues. Where i think i made the mistake was i was not paying attention to brightness versus intensity. Visually it was bright enough for my eyes and with 35% i believed the Radion were providing enough light throughout. Such is not the case, in real life they're not as pale but i can tell, and on video it shows way more due to the lighting effects. Other changes i made was started up a biopellet reactor also. So the combination of low lighting and lack of nitrates and phosphates compounded the overall effect. My plan is to ramp up light from 35% to 55-60% the next 4 weeks, 5 percent each week. I'm also feeding slightly more and dosing Nyos Amino Acid. Hoping to see results by then and i'll know to adjust accordingly.

 

[ricenoodle]

rice, I can still see sand, you have space!

Then it's all about mounting magnetic rocks to your glass to add even more. =)

Lol i think i'm about out of space, I need to do a livestock and equipment update, added alot since then also. I do have magnetic single plugs coming to mount maybe 1 or 2 colony up a bit. But i think in the coming my focus is to try and adjust my parameters and lighting to bring color back and just let everything settling in before i add anything else, that is if i can hold off on running to Aquasd every few days. Living 10 min away from Aquasd is rough lol.

 

[Evan West]

This.is.amazing

 

[ricenoodle]

Any reason for stirring the kalk so vigorously before adding to the ATO? To reduce its potency?

I got the lab mixer to not have to manually mix, it actually mixes on a medium steady setting for about 30 min. Then i let it settle for 1 hour per the direction on the container so it's only high Ph water i'm adding and any sediments is on the bottom of the container. So far it has save alot of work.

 

[ricenoodle]

Love!

Thanks for the share bro

 

[bubblemytip]

I got the lab mixer to not have to manually mix, it actually mixes on a medium steady setting for about 30 min. Then i let it settle for 1 hour per the direction on the container so it's only high Ph water i'm adding and any sediments is on the bottom of the container. So far it has save alot of work.

Nice. It’s clearly working for you.

I use a continuous-duty peristaltic pump connected to a 5-gallon bottle hidden away. I dump kalk powder into the bottle and then every time I refill the container with rodi, the kalk is mixed with minimal exposure to co2. No stirring required. The peri pump then draws saturated kalkwasser from an acrylic tube positioned above the sediment layer.

 

[ricenoodle]

With limited room left i decided i gotta have some room for a zoa garden. Been eyeing some Bowsers and other goodies the last couple weeks at Aquasd so i decided to pull the trigger.

 

[ricenoodle]

Spent the weekend building the zoa garden. Finally completed and i'm quite happy with the variety of the ones i put together.

 

[jppfonseca]

Beautiful tank!! Please share the mp10 setup. I’m using also two in a rsr250 but I’m using to much power on them.

 

[ricenoodle]

Beautiful tank!! Please share the mp10 setup. I’m using also two in a rsr250 but I’m using to much power on them.

2 MP10 QD Wireless on a variation of modes, mostly short pulse during the day at 50% and lagoon later on during the day and a nutrient export mode for 1.5 hours after lights off and lagoon all night at 35%.

 

[ricenoodle]

Quick video of the zoa garden

 

[Brian W]

Soooo Beautiful

 

[ricenoodle]

Ran into a critical flaw in my lighting & feeding schedule. I've noted it below.

 

[ricenoodle]

Been a busy couple of weeks but here's the latest. I was always worried about burning corals under too high of an intensity on my Radions so from the get go this tank was only ran on 35% max intensity on a modified Coral AB+ schedule. I've come to realized that's way too low and by being super cautious the corals turned pale in the process under that lighting for 2+ mos because they were only getting barely any light. At its peak it was only getting 35% and that's only a few hours a day! Top that off with me not feeding anything but the fish the corals reacted the way they did. By the time i saw this adverse effects it was already months into it. Luckily there's time to recover. Since then i've ramped up to 60% intensity the last few weeks with raising it 5% each week and they are alot happier. I've also started feeding Nyos Coral Nectar and have upped my feeding of Reef Roids and Fauna Marin LPS pellets to twice a week. They are on the rebound, will take a month for 2 but i can already tell the colors are coming back and the pop which made me buy them in the first place are gradually returning. Whew! Take this as a lesson learned from me, don't run your lights too low and feed your corals more often.

 

[kinetic]

They do look a little pastel like, almost like those zeovit systems for SPS when they reduce the amount of zoaxanthellae. Either way, still looks pretty good and definitely can get back to the right colors soon enough!

 

[leahfiish]

Any updates?

 

[ricenoodle]

Been busy with work but yes, lots of positive changes. Best yet there's a second tank build coming.