Sabella's 450L mixed reef build thread

[Wilsoni]

No matter what i do i cant raise it, i know the whole "algae sucks up phos so you dont get a reading" law will abide, but still. Theres no present p04 available every day according to 4 separate test kits. Its not like i run gfo or have a fuge or anything, but i litterally go through bags upon containers of food a month. Is there another way? Other then dumping food in the tank everyday?

Other than bubble algae do you still have turf present in the tank?

 

[Greenstreet.1]

How are you liking the ease of the kit? What size is your tank? Are you dosing Potassion?

I'm loving the test kit very easy to use. 75g yes I am using brightwell.

 

[Sabellafella]

@Sabellafella are you shooting in RAW?

Dont make fun, i have no idea what the difference or what it is i never bothered. I know to some of you guys your looking at me like im crazy but i think its fine?

 

[Wilsoni]

I'm loving the test kit very easy to use. 75g yes I am using brightwell.

Sweet! The Salifert kit rocks... What was your K value prior to dosing? Also where is your Ca?

 

[Sabellafella]

LRS is too clean ;)

Dude i accuse them for this haha!

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Are you sure that's what it is did you run more than one test back to back ?

 

[Wilsoni]

Dont make fun, i have no idea what the difference or what it is i never bothered. I know to some of you guys your looking at me like im crazy but i think its fine?

I'm not making fun bro :D RAW is a setting in the camera. I shoot with a Canon so I'm not sure where the setting is in your Nikon. But it definitely helps if you shoot in RAW mode then adjust it after. Do you have Photoshop or Lightroom for post processing? If so I can give you a preset that I've made which makes my coral look the best under blues.

 

[Wilsoni]

Regardless I think your photos look good already. The photos which look dark could just be the exposure which is an easy fix

 

[Sabellafella]

I'm not making fun bro :D RAW is a setting in the camera. I shoot with a Canon so I'm not sure where the setting is in your Nikon. But it definitely helps if you shoot in RAW mode then adjust it after. Do you have Photoshop or Lightroom for post processing? If so I can give you a preset that I've made which makes my coral look the best under blues.

No i use w.e came with my computer
Think its called windows live picture maker or movie maker. It does have stuff like saturation-contrast-sharp-brightness. But all that just makes the pictures look worse lol. Ill usually just upload and resize the photo

 

[Wilsoni]

Dude i accuse them for this haha!

Feed Fauna Marin pellets to your LPS, they will love you for it and it will also help get your P04 up quickly ;)

 

[jsker]

No matter what i do i cant raise it, i know the whole "algae sucks up phos so you dont get a reading" law will abide, but still. Theres no present p04 available every day according to 4 separate test kits. Its not like i run gfo or have a fuge or anything, but i litterally go through bags upon containers of food a month. Is there another way? Other then dumping food in the tank everyday?

I will send you some of mine :)

 

[Greenstreet.1]

Sweet! The Salifert kit rocks... What was your K value prior to dosing? Also where is your Ca?

K was 340 cal is at 425

 

[Sabellafella]

Yea i have no idea what im doing but its funny because my pictures acually look great. Ill just take a bunch of pictures at different iso and exposure. Some corals are illuminated differently so ill have to change everything

 

[Wilsoni]

No i use w.e came with my computer
Think its called windows live picture maker or movie maker. It does have stuff like saturation-contrast-sharp-brightness. But all that just makes the pictures look worse lol. Ill usually just upload and resize the photo

If you're open to getting PS/Lightroom they have a special where you pay $10 per month which is fairly cheap opposed to paying for the full Adobe Cloud. I think you would love Lightroom as it's super user friendly and easy to use for quick adjustments... Definitely my go to when I don't feel like firing up PS. Lol

 

[Wilsoni]

Yea i have no idea what im doing but its funny because my pictures acually look great. Ill just take a bunch of pictures at different iso and exposure. Some corals are illuminated differently so ill have to change everything

You'll get it bro... Photography takes time but I've seen serious progress since you first started this thread

 

[Wilsoni]

K was 340 cal is at 425

You'll have to let me know your observations in maintaining your K value of 400.

 

[Sabellafella]

I will send you some of mine :)

Yea i wish lol, i really dont want to get into dosing phosphate is just crazy, ill be adding some cured rock i have cooking to try and get it up

 

[jsker]

I feed frozen twice a day. I mix LRF, mysis, my homemade, a couple of drops of reef nutrition oyster feast, R.O.E. and Roti feast. Make a batch for a week and feed .5 tabls at each feeding.

 

[Sabellafella]

I feed frozen twice a day. I mix LRF, mysis, my homemade, a couple of drops of reef nutrition oyster feast, R.O.E. and Roti feast. Make a batch for a week and feed .5 tabls at each feeding.

Im using 2 spoons of reef chili twice a week mixed with a cube of hikari rotifers. Today im relentlessly scraping algae out of my tank today. Hopefully by the time rap comes it will be somewhat up

 

[jsker]

The Miss., was just there in the area and pick her up from the air port here this morning. I might be up in the fall.