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I don't think desalwii or plana is correct. Branches don't look right. I am not sure on the species though.
Sierra_Bravo's "What did I get myself into??" 120g in-wall build thread
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Playing with pictures on a Galaxy S8:
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Moved my pair of greenbanded gobies from QT to the display. I have a feeling I'm not going to see them much. . . they are so small they were hard to find sometimes in an empty 20-gallon tank. But they are cool little dudes.
Janci
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I love small fish. They can be so colourful.Moved my pair of greenbanded gobies from QT to the display. I have a feeling I'm not going to see them much. . . they are so small they were hard to find sometimes in an empty 20-gallon tank. But they are cool little dudes.
But I also like the bigger tanks.... so it is one or the other.
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I started dosing nitrates today in the form of a sodium nitrate solution. Up until March my nitrates held around 4 ppm using a Red Sea Pro test, but since then they have been barely detectable and I bought new reagents to make sure it wasn't the test kit. I've increased fish load and feeding with no effect except increased phosphates. I'll see if I can get them slowly back up to hold at 4 ppm over the next week.
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I added a swallowtail angel to the DT and to my surprise, brought the chromis back out into the water column. My purple tang has had them cowarding in the rocks most of the day but the angel has injected them with newly found bravado. Looking forward to adding my bimacs.
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WWC Grafted Sunfire monti:
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I would love to but I don't have a good camera. That was taken with my Samsung Galaxy S8.
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Looking good man. Where did you get that Sodium Nitrate from? I just bought a salifert test kit after my Redsea stuff expired. With my tank now growing well, I'm worried about NO3 levels are too low.
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https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Nitrate-Reagent-Grade-chemically/dp/B0190TOJUS
You want food or reagent grade. Make sure you do not buy sodium nitrite. Use this calculator and choose potassium nitrate to get your dosage, then multiply the dosage by .84 (It takes less NaNO3 than KNO3 to provide the same amount of nitrate ppm) : http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/calculator.htm
I made a solution in a half gallon of RODI at a strength that will add 2 ppm for every 10ml I add to my 120 gallon. I'm testing daily now to get an idea of what the tank uses. I'll probably just dose manually going forward and not worry about dialing in another dosing pump. I usually test on Wed and Sat and once I figure out how my solution works I'll just bring it back to 4ppm the days I test.
Cute..Hey I just seen your thread and had to say "it is one of the best built and thought out builds on here" following
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Siggy - I really appreciate the comment. It's been a lot of fun.
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I was tired of salt collecting around the top of my mixing tank - found this wide funnel online and it's great!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073XWV9SC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073XWV9SC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Update
A side effect on adding the swallowtail angel: Even though she is of the Genicanthus genus of angels, which are planktivores and one of the few "reef safe" angels, I noticed that within a week of putting her in there I've had a large reduction in my polyp extension during the day. I watch her and have never seen her pick at any of the corals. It's as if the tank knows that there is some type of angel present.
Some frags I picked up from @FarmerTy the last time I was over admiring his tank. Top to bottom: Farmer Ty Eternal Flame shortcake (colors dulled a bit in my system - wating for the pink to come back), Farmer Ty Ectoplasm (this one is going to be nice) and a Farmer Ty Blue Lemonade. Very nice frags.
A couple more to share:
Top left is a frag from a wild acro I received from @BoomCorals. Top right is an unknown I picked up at an LFS that looked like it would color up nicely.
Fraghouse Corals Purple Bonsai which looks more amazing every week:
And I couldn't help myself - I bought a male Ruby Red Dragonette and have him in QT. I put a ball of chaeto in with him to supply some food and am also feeding him tisbee pods. I'm not overly concerned about getting him to eat frozen because my display tank is loaded with pods when he's finally introduced.
Finally, I guess out of all those cerith snail eggs a few make it. Seen this little guy this morning:
A side effect on adding the swallowtail angel: Even though she is of the Genicanthus genus of angels, which are planktivores and one of the few "reef safe" angels, I noticed that within a week of putting her in there I've had a large reduction in my polyp extension during the day. I watch her and have never seen her pick at any of the corals. It's as if the tank knows that there is some type of angel present.
Some frags I picked up from @FarmerTy the last time I was over admiring his tank. Top to bottom: Farmer Ty Eternal Flame shortcake (colors dulled a bit in my system - wating for the pink to come back), Farmer Ty Ectoplasm (this one is going to be nice) and a Farmer Ty Blue Lemonade. Very nice frags.
A couple more to share:
Top left is a frag from a wild acro I received from @BoomCorals. Top right is an unknown I picked up at an LFS that looked like it would color up nicely.
Fraghouse Corals Purple Bonsai which looks more amazing every week:
And I couldn't help myself - I bought a male Ruby Red Dragonette and have him in QT. I put a ball of chaeto in with him to supply some food and am also feeding him tisbee pods. I'm not overly concerned about getting him to eat frozen because my display tank is loaded with pods when he's finally introduced.
Finally, I guess out of all those cerith snail eggs a few make it. Seen this little guy this morning:
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Tyree Rainbow Stylo. I really like the colors that have come out on this. It looks good compact, but when it gets big. . .not so sure I'll still like it.
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Wait. . . wut? 
Never had algae on my sand before. Noticed it today for the first time.
Never had algae on my sand before. Noticed it today for the first time.
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Just a few top down shots I wanted to record in the thread. A lot of the frags look like they are about to blast out a bunch of new growth.
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