Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate

[User1]

PO4 down to 1.7, nitrate about 50 (vinegar ran out, so in a week or two I'll test again).

What are you trying to get it down to?

I thought I recall a slide in your talk that showed it both low and high and the tank was doing very well regardless of which side of the teeter totter that numbers showed.

Edit; I think my P04 was over 1 and nitrates 80 something but I believe that is to my tank still maturing with the pukani rock only being a year old. I used nopox to get both down over time and now at .18 P04 and nitrates 3 - 5 ppm. I can see my phosphate increasing though so I'm guessing the pukani is still leaching it...

Edit 2: if my tank looked as good as yours I probably wouldn't care

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

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[Dr. Dendrostein]

She's running with the big boys now.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I just found out that PIO has fallen out of favor for various reasons including its artificial origin. The term people like is Peruvian Hairless, or PPSP - Pero Peruviano Sin Pello.

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[Thales]

What are you trying to get it down to?

Don't know the answer to that. I wanted to explore some stuff around lowering it slowly and if there are changes, and around the idea of sequestered PO4 - is it real and can it be exported (looks like it can).

I thought I recall a slide in your talk that showed it both low and high and the tank was doing very well regardless of which side of the teeter totter that numbers showed.

Yeah I am a dummy and decided to muck with a good thing.

Edit; I think my P04 was over 1 and nitrates 80 something but I believe that is to my tank still maturing with the pukani rock only being a year old. I used nopox to get both down over time and now at .18 P04 and nitrates 3 - 5 ppm. I can see my phosphate increasing though so I'm guessing the pukani is still leaching it...

Edit 2: if my tank looked as good as yours I probably wouldn't care

Thanks! Yeah I am silly. But, I want to see if there is an really easy way to lower both, and so, does it make any kind of difference that I can see.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

You've done most treatments. I've used lanthanum chloride(PO4), but I noticed a reduction in pods. Has anyone else?

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[Thales]

I am doing lant it what may be a unique way.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I am doing lant it what may be a unique way.

Let’s us know if it effects pods. Maybe I was overdosing.

 

[Thales]

Let’s us know if it effects pods. Maybe I was overdosing.

Oops, sorry missed this. I have seen no effect on pods. Very low dose.

 

[Thales]

Getting ready for macna so here is video of the tank for my presentatation:


Last tests at the beginning of August, P04 .2, NO3- 37, Alk 8.5

 

[User1]

Getting ready for macna so here is video of the tank for my presentatation:


Last tests at the beginning of August, P04 .2, NO3- 37, Alk 8.5

Looks great. Quick question - are those orange sun polyps? If so I have been considering them for a shaded area I have in the tank. It looks like yours are doing perfectly fine out in the open. If they are something different what is the name if you don't mind me asking.

Hope all goes well at Macna. Looking to catch your presentation once it gets released since I'm not able to attend.

 

[Feet4Fish]

Hopefully BRS or someone will be able to record it! Have always enjoyed your presentation style and insight!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Getting ready for macna so here is video of the tank for my presentatation:


Last tests at the beginning of August, P04 .2, NO3- 37, Alk 8.5

Beautiful! Reef is looking great @Thales!

 

[Thales]

Looks great. Quick question - are those orange sun polyps? If so I have been considering them for a shaded area I have in the tank. It looks like yours are doing perfectly fine out in the open. If they are something different what is the name if you don't mind me asking.

Hope all goes well at Macna. Looking to catch your presentation once it gets released since I'm not able to attend.

Thanks! Some of those are tubestrea and some are dendros. Flow is important for these

 

[User1]

Thanks! Some of those are tubestrea and some are dendros. Flow is important for these

Thank you. I was not aware that the two are similar. I'll go do some reading

 

[jlanger]

Thank you. I was not aware that the two are similar. I'll go do some reading

He mentions them briefly in the latest The SKIMMATE Podcast; lots of feeding promotes the polyp extension during the day.

 

[User1]

He mentions them briefly in the latest The SKIMMATE Podcast; lots of feeding promotes the polyp extension during the day.

Podcast? Didn't know he did one.

 

[tripdad]

Tank looks great! Nice diversity of corals, love it.

 

[andrewkw]

Getting ready for macna so here is video of the tank for my presentatation:


Last tests at the beginning of August, P04 .2, NO3- 37, Alk 8.5

Are there any longer videos of your tank, perhaps where you go through livestock? I've read and watched many of your talks, but don't recall seeing anything focused on your home tank. At least on the animals and not how it runs.

It might just be because you don't really get a clear view of this in your clip, but it caught my eye. What is this? The white not the denros :

Even seeing a short clip of your reef is exciting. I love all the NPS and how you have acros inches away from them, the fish selection and of course the clams and everything else too.

 

[vetteguy53081]

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