Sawdonkey's 220 Progress Thread

[Chriscrna]

My Hanna checker recently did the EXACT same thing.

My measurements were very similar to yours. Just thought I was getting ready to go through a huge growth spurt until I noticed a few burnt tips.

I checked with my salifert as well and my dkh was 11. I threw out the Hanna reagent I was using and tried a brand new bottle of reagent. The new bottle reading was 11....same as the Salifert.

At some point, the reagent went bad. And not because it was expired, I check Alk frequently so I go through a fair amount of reagent.

I should have recorded the defective reagent's lot number. I bet your lot number would have been the same as mine.

I'm going to contact Hanna to see if they've had any other reports.

 

[sawdonkey]

My Hanna checker recently did the EXACT same thing.

My measurements were very similar to yours. Just thought I was getting ready to go through a huge growth spurt until I noticed a few burnt tips.

I checked with my salifert as well and my dkh was 11. I threw out the Hanna reagent I was using and tried a brand new bottle of reagent. The new bottle reading was 11....same as the Salifert.

At some point, the reagent went bad. And not because it was expired, I check Alk frequently so I go through a fair amount of reagent.

I should have recorded the defective reagent's lot number. I bet your lot number would have been the same as mine.

I'm going to contact Hanna to see if they've had any other reports.

Good to hear that I'm not crazy, but I got a lot of accurate tests out of this bottle. There is about 1-3 left when I started to get funky tests.

 

[Chriscrna]

Good to hear that I'm not crazy, but I got a lot of accurate tests out of this bottle. There is about 1-3 left when I started to get funky tests.

Again, same with me. I've had that checker for over a year and easily gone through a dozen or more bottles. Never had that happen before.

 

[sawdonkey]

Again, same with me. I've had that checker for over a year and easily gone through a dozen or more bottles. Never had that happen before.

Lot [HASHTAG]#5441[/HASHTAG] by the way.

 

[sawdonkey]

Big tank day:
-Went to frag swap
-went to lfs and bought a little dry rock and a fist sized fighting conch (named Walter Conchright)
-Changed out GFO
-swapped out filter sock
-moved some frags around
-chipped off and kalk pasted some spongeodes that was taking more space than I like. Glued up frags.
-Filled in come crevices in my scape with dry rock so I can mount frags in those areas.
-cleaned skimmer
-dipped and mounted new frags from the swap. Picked up a WWC Ding Dang Milli and a Joe Knows Reefs White Rose.

 

[spspirate]

Corals look great!!

 

[sawdonkey]

Few pics. I actually fired up my Lightroom software so these are better color corrected then usual:

@coralreeftank's CRT Lavender:

JF Champagne Cooler:

WWC Blueberry:

Edge of the Copp's Efflo:

Left end:

 

[sawdonkey]

Couple more:

My little icefire is finally growing some branches:

Macro of BC Therman's Rainbow:

BC Gary's Yellow:

CRT Red Unknown:

BC Red Robin macro:

 

[Paulooliveira]

Amazing my friend... Lov it...

Best regards

 

[coral reeftank]

They look great Gunner. Starting to grow really good for you

 

[sawdonkey]

You know you've got aggressive fish when your powder blue is the 4th most aggressive. This is nothing compared to when I feed them clams.

 

[philfree]

Very cool!
Surprised your triggers dont make a meal out of your clowns.

 

[sawdonkey]

Couple of pics

Shades of Fall:

BC June Ruby

RMF Ultimate Miyagi

BC Hellraiser Milli- This nearly died becasue I had it too low with too little flow. Strated to STN. I moved it up and it is coming back.

Gary......

 

[sawdonkey]

Video I shot tonight:

 

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Great-looking reef and AMAZING photos! Great stuff!

 

[sawdonkey]

Got the camera out last night:


Red Robin from BC

Tyree Icefire

BC Adam's Bubblegum - got it as a tiny nub. Now its a slightly larger and more colorful nub.

Tyree Pinky the Bear

BC Rainbow Rosaria

Vivid's Rainbow Delight, finally starting to color up

Wet Thumbs Mother of Pearl

BC Therman's Rainbow

 

[sawdonkey]

Couple More...


WWC Blueberry

WWC Ding Dang Millie, pretty new, just coloring up and encrusting.

Copp's Efflo

Sanjay Milka Purple Styo close up

BC Xmas, awesome color and encrusting huge, but wont grow out for me!

SunnyX Sunset

Jason Fox Champagne Coolers, BC Therman's Raninbow, Red Robin, JF Bonsai from above

 

[coral reeftank]

Everything looks to be growing great!!!

 

[TheEngineer]

Wow! That tank is going to be insane once everything grows in on that arch.

 

[sawdonkey]

Everything looks to be growing great!!!

Thanks Hung. It's a slow process to grow these things out as you know. Staring into my tank looking at corals for an hour each day doesn't seem to make the grow quicker. You don't notice the growth until you look at old photos.