Sawdonkey's 220 Progress Thread

[sawdonkey]

About two to three weeks ago, my JF Bonsai started to STN from the middle of the colony. I cut it off and trimmed the dead pieces and glued the rest back in place. It has continues to lose tissue for a few weeks. It's still showing great PE. Yesterday I noticed my PC Rainbow colony is doing the same thing.

Tonight I ran a bunch of tests to see what's up. Much to my surprise, my nitrates were at at least 25! I never check them because I figure that my bio pellets keep them in check. PO4 is keeping up too, but not crazy. Colors are all good on most of my corals.

Do you guys think the nitrates are causing the STN? Wouldn't I see poor coloration before STN?

What would you do? Water change? (I'm going to do one tomorrow). Add more bio pellets? I have been feeding quite a bit because honestly, with the bio pellets, I've always worries about too little nutrients, not too much.

Thoughts? Recent test results below:

 

[sawdonkey]

I think I've fixed my nitrate issue or at least I'm headed in the right direction. Couple of pics.

 

[sawdonkey]

Couple of pics:

Tyree Pinky the Bear

Vivid's Rainbow finally coloring up properly

Getting great colors from the RMF Ultimate Miyagi

BC Xmas. Great colors. Only encrusting for 10 months!

 

[sawdonkey]

She's a little glitchy, but here's a new vid:

 

[TheEngineer]

Looks great!

 

[sawdonkey]

FTS

BC Gary's Yellow

Cops Efflo

Conch Eyes

 

[eric8625]

Love the aquascape. Looks amazing.

 

[sawdonkey]

New pics

 

[sawdonkey]

Few more

 

[sawdonkey]

Couple of new pieces. Need to get them colored up, but I'm optimistic:

Reef Raft Limitless:

Reef Raft Cactus:

RMF Psychoberry:

Reef Raft Unnamed:

 

[Chriscrna]

Tank looks amazing!

 

[Bokevince]

This is wow tank, wow fishes and wow corals!
Congrats
Sps Necrosis stopped with lower nitrate level?

 

[sawdonkey]

This is wow tank, wow fishes and wow corals!
Congrats
Sps Necrosis stopped with lower nitrate level?

Thank you! Yes, I never lost anything, but had to chop off the top of my JF Bonsai colony. I cut Acropower, did some water changes, and lowered my feeding. I accidentally let my biopellets dwindle down too far, so nitrates haven't come down too much, but everything is doing fine. I topped off the pellets, but it will take a few weeks before they take effect. Everything looks happy even with nitrates close to 20 or so.

 

[revhtree]

Great job! Beautiful!

 

[JDJP]

Awesome tank. I really like the psamacora by the setosa.

Sorry i didnt see it i kinda scanned through but do you only dose kalk in the ato or do you do something else for cal and alk?

 

[sawdonkey]

Awesome tank. I really like the psamacora by the setosa.

Sorry i didnt see it i kinda scanned through but do you only dose kalk in the ato or do you do something else for cal and alk?

Thank you! I've had the Psamacora for a few years. It's older than my acros because I had to reset after AEFW in 2014. I started restocking with acros about this time last year.

I only dose kalk through ATO. I don't even fully saturate, so I believe I have a while before I have to upgrade to a cal reactor.

 

[sawdonkey]

Played around with the camera tonight.

 

[Bryce Peterson]

Awesome tank! You may have mentioned this somewhere, but have you had any trouble with the triggers? I am considering a niger. I had an undulate years ago and I like the way they interact, but he nipped everyone and was constantly chewing on my live rock. Can't imagine what he would have done if I had acros in there.

 

[sawdonkey]

Awesome tank! You may have mentioned this somewhere, but have you had any trouble with the triggers? I am considering a niger. I had an undulate years ago and I like the way they interact, but he nipped everyone and was constantly chewing on my live rock. Can't imagine what he would have done if I had acros in there.

Thanks. The triggers are fine with the corals. They are usually curious when I add a new frag. They might rip it off of the rock work, so unjust have to glue everything down really well. After the new car smell of the new frags goes away, they don't bother anything. The biggest problem is that the Picasso likes to "make it rain" and spit gravel on my corals. Need to have a good turkey baster.

 

[sawdonkey]

I did a bunch of electrical cleanup this week. I built a shelf to hold all of my power supplies as well as an DJ powerstrip. I also mounted a OR T247 above the first chamber of my sump so I can use it to grow out frags. I hate frag racks in my DT and many of my corals are getting big enough that I have to cut them somewhat frequently.