Rich Ross - Home Tank - guess the phosphate

[Thales]

Current numbers
Phosphate - .72
Nitrate - 75

From today, not everything is awake yet (Iphone vid, no filter)


and growing baby corals from the April and May spawn (Iphone pic, disco blue lights and theatrical gel)

What a disaster these systems are with these levels!

 

[Larry L]

What a disaster these systems are with these levels!

Agree. You are a horrible person and a menace to society.

 

[LRT]

Yup total disaster. Should tear it all down box it up and send it to me so i can scrap it for you

 

[Midrats]

Yeah, a real sewer!

 

[Abhishek]

What did the hobby do to deserve an aquarist like you Ross !!!!

If people really starts pouring over in this thread - am scared but many scrubber , algae reactor , bacteria based product companies will be out of business ...

On a side note, are those large polyp NPS - T.veroni ?

Regards,
Abhishek

 

[ApoIsland]

Current numbers
Phosphate - .72
Nitrate - 75

From today, not everything is awake yet (Iphone vid, no filter)


and growing baby corals from the April and May spawn (Iphone pic, disco blue lights and theatrical gel)

What a disaster these systems are with these levels!

Nice work. I have not run any tests in 8 or 9 years but I would imagine my levels are similarly high as I run zero mechanical filtration. Although my tank is not as nice as yours its a decent 120g mixed sps/lps tank. Yellow tang, blue tang, kole tang for algae control. Could probably just get by with the kole though...

 

[MabuyaQ]

Love the Rhizotrochus typus an both sides, big and fat. Happy corals, like the rest.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

And I thought I had high nitrates 50 ppm, I just started my homemade sulfur denitrator.

Current numbers
Phosphate - .72
Nitrate - 75

From today, not everything is awake yet (Iphone vid, no filter)


and growing baby corals from the April and May spawn (Iphone pic, disco blue lights and theatrical gel)

What a disaster these systems are with these levels!

And I thought I had high nitrates 50 ppm, I just started my homemade sulfur denitrator. Now we have over 110 Pacific oysters as part of filtration. 100 gallon volume.

2 of 79 carnation corals aka dendronephthya umbellulifera sp from Indonesia

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Agree. You are a horrible person and a menace to society.

We're still waiting for him to buy a Porsche, bleach his hair blonde, and dress like a hipster. ....

 

[revhtree]

Current numbers
Phosphate - .72
Nitrate - 75

From today, not everything is awake yet (Iphone vid, no filter)


and growing baby corals from the April and May spawn (Iphone pic, disco blue lights and theatrical gel)

What a disaster these systems are with these levels!

My gosh that’s beautiful Richard. Seriously excellent!

 

[User1]

Current numbers
Phosphate - .72
Nitrate - 75

From today, not everything is awake yet (Iphone vid, no filter)


and growing baby corals from the April and May spawn (Iphone pic, disco blue lights and theatrical gel)

What a disaster these systems are with these levels!

I believe everything is amazing personally not that anyone asked me

Any hints on the next podcast drop and possible topics? Is Terence considering migrating from the Gen 1 to Gen 2 Philips lighting? Any thoughts on a deep diving around nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate? Any relationship to actual reefs around the world, nutrient levels vs. coral consumption (growth), and other non hot topic stuff but just coffee talk or over a beer? Any Neptune custom library or API support to get geo location and correlate to real world time, tides, etc?

Side note I'm having a nice cyno outbreak and on a whim looked at nitrate levels for which mine are reading 0 according to nyos kits. Dosing to 5 ppm to see how that goes. A lot lower than yours but it is a start. I think nutrients is going to be an awesome toping over the years as we start to collect data around the numbers and how corals may or may not use it.

Keep up the amazing work. You have many a talent clearly. All the best to you and yours.

 

[Thales]

Does anyone get the impression from this thread that I think keeping SPS is easy?

 

[Thales]

Love the Rhizotrochus typus an both sides, big and fat. Happy corals, like the rest.

Thanks!
There is one Rhizo on the left, the white ones are something else and I sadly always forget their name!

 

[Thales]

If people really starts pouring over in this thread - am scared but many scrubber , algae reactor , bacteria based product companies will be out of business ...

On a side note, are those large polyp NPS - T.veroni ?

Regards,
Abhishek

THanks for the kind words.

One is a Rhizo and the others I forget the name - something with a J.

 

[Thales]

I believe everything is amazing personally not that anyone asked me

Any hints on the next podcast drop and possible topics? Is Terence considering migrating from the Gen 1 to Gen 2 Philips lighting? Any thoughts on a deep diving around nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate? Any relationship to actual reefs around the world, nutrient levels vs. coral consumption (growth), and other non hot topic stuff but just coffee talk or over a beer? Any Neptune custom library or API support to get geo location and correlate to real world time, tides, etc?

Side note I'm having a nice cyno outbreak and on a whim looked at nitrate levels for which mine are reading 0 according to nyos kits. Dosing to 5 ppm to see how that goes. A lot lower than yours but it is a start. I think nutrients is going to be an awesome toping over the years as we start to collect data around the numbers and how corals may or may not use it.

Keep up the amazing work. You have many a talent clearly. All the best to you and yours.

Thanks!
We keep trying to record, but there has been a lot of stuff in his work he has had to deal with. We are trying this week.

 

[LRT]

Does anyone get the impression from this thread that I think keeping SPS is easy?

Sure do make it look like it is

 

[tripdad]

Does anyone get the impression from this thread that I think keeping SPS is easy?

I think you put serious effort into everything you do all the while claiming laziness, lol. I have to say I've been enjoying your provocative of thought post and presentations for quite a while. Seems I've learned a Galleon from you over the years about questioning "accepted" information.

 

[Abhishek]

@Thales - So if someone is trying to even attempt breeding and manages to source a single species like say A.Millepora , what are some of the particular traits I should look for while procuring brood stock other than of course large to extra large size for biomass and same species of course ?

I know known geographical location will be awesome but dont think that’s possible except for a rough vague estimate of them being from Australia .

 

[Thales]

@Thales - So if someone is trying to even attempt breeding and manages to source a single species like say A.Millepora , what are some of the particular traits I should look for while procuring brood stock other than of course large to extra large size for biomass and same species of course ?

I know known geographical location will be awesome but dont think that’s possible except for a rough vague estimate of them being from Australia .

Nothing really, if I understand what you are asking. If you can't get gravid corals from the same location, the goal will be to take the time to get them on the same cycle for spawning which can take a full year. Jaime just did it, so that is cool. It also looks like the next issue of CORAL will have a bunch of info on coral spawning

 

[MnFish1]

Nothing really, if I understand what you are asking. If you can't get gravid corals from the same location, the goal will be to take the time to get them on the same cycle for spawning which can take a full year. Jaime just did it, so that is cool. It also looks like the next issue of CORAL will have a bunch of info on coral spawning

what is interesting - My guess is that (if you look at my (in comparison to yours) pathetic tank. The interesting thing is - there is coral that I never 'planted' growing all over. There is some green coral (I do not know the name) - its an sps growing on a maxspect gyre - and all of the orange stetosa. Its all quite interesting. I think if they are happy 'where they are' they spawn - and due to filtration, etc - only a very few 'make it' (probably like on the reef)