Taller is better: Kev's 80g column

[G_Lows]

vibrant is weird. I’ve double dosed to get rid of red turf algae. Because the regular dose wasn’t working. Almost killed everything except for my softies... luckily I had a friend to rescue the all of my sps and lps. They’ve been in his tank for about a month and are finally starting to come back from the brown poo they looked like. But on the bright side I got rid of the turf algae . Did a series of large water changes and rebooted the tank..

All that aside your tank is looking great. I’m a huge Kessil fan and I’m glad to hear your enjoying their new product!! This hobby wouldn’t be fun without the challenges.. oh wait yea it would!

 

[Kevin Jaako]

16 days without dinos... Been running the UV for about a week now. I’m feeding my corals pretty heavily every couple days to help them bounce back, and they are– which is a huge relief! There’s a fair bit of red cyano that I turkey baste off once or twice a week but it’s manageable.

vibrant is weird. [...] Almost killed everything except for my softies...

Yikes- it did quite a number on my tank too, but it got me the results I needed, so... :cool: - lemme know how you go with getting everything re-established, @Grant Lowry.

My green hammer is starting to look a bit happier. So am I.



KJ

 

[Kevin Jaako]

moonlight :)



KJ

 

[Kevin Jaako]

My parents came over for dinner on Friday night and we finished off the dinner party by moving the new banggai cardinal and 6-line out of QT and into the display. Hurray! I love graduation day almost as much as I love imposing my hobby on my family...

The bigger clown and the royal gramma got a bit territorial with the wrasse, but that seems to have subsided.

Last week I also added a white porcelain crab and a few new corals. A symphilia, a caulastrea and an octospawn. The tank no longer feels so empty!



Dinos: still gone :)

KJ

 

[Dj City]

Still looking good!
Your rock looks really good.

I tried vibrant and almost lost everything except Dinos.
Not saying it does not work but it did not work for me.

 

[Kevin Jaako]

MOAR!



KJ

 

[Kevin Jaako]

I graduated!

Or, rather, I added graduations to my kalkwasser reservoir last night.

My DOS is currently set to dose 580ml of saturated kalk per day, so this 4L container gives me about a week. I’m holding steady at 8.7dKH.

I’ve also started VV carbon dosing, which I add to my kalk reservoir whenever I top it off. I’ve ramped up over the past few months, and my ratio is now 100:1 water to vinegar and 400:1 water to vodka, so to 4L of water I’d add 40mL vinegar and 10mL vodka. NO3 is at 2.5 and PO4 at 0.02. I think I’m happy with that.

My cleaner shrimp died outta nowhere last week. Everyone else is happy, healthy and growing. He will be missed. Then he will be replaced...

KJ

 

[najer]

Sorry to hear about the shrimp. :(

 

[Kevin Jaako]

Happy birthday fish tank!

Today marks 1 year since the tank first got wet. It's been fun, but I'm also enjoying a much more mature and stable tank.

Current stocking list

Fish & Inverts:

• 2 Ocellaris clowns
• Hippo tang
• 6-line wrasse
• Royal gramma
• Banggai cardinal
  
  
• 1 Massive long-spined urchin
  
  
• Cleaner shrimp
• Fire shrimp
• 2 sexy shrimp (maybe?? I haven't seen them once since I added them)
  
  
• White porcelain crab
• Various hermits,
• Baby snails! (dozens & dozens of them just appeared a few days ago...)
• A Handful of asterina stars

Corals:

• Neon Green hammer
• Green & purple hammer
• Purple octospawn
• Green palys
• Teal caulastrea
• Duncan
• Pipe organ
• 3 Various gorgonians
• Chalice
• 2 Kenya trees
• 1 Single acan (lost his brothers but somehow still holding on)
• 1 Orange, 1 green hairy mushroom
• Turquoise birds nest
• 3 Various unknown green acros
  
  
• Forest fire digi (for now... on its way out)
• Pink symphyllia (STN. On its way out)

Over the next few months I'll be adding a few new fish (starting with a yellow tang), another cleaner shrimp (I love that guy) and I'd like to get a zoa garden started. I'm also long overdue for a real deep clean (break down the skimmer, clean off all the salt creep, etc.)

Thanks R2R for all the help & advice over the past year. Here's to the next one!
KJ

 

[CL_]

Very nice - super clean tank. Love the birthday hat on it!

 

[Hemmdog]

Looks great! Question, How do you set up the moonlights on the 360x controller? I’ve tried before but it seems to have a separate program for just lunar cycle? But it doesn’t automatically come on after I enter my desired start and end times. I haven’t been able to figure it out... I do however have a good custom spectrum ;)

 

[Hemmdog]

Double post

 

[Dj City]

Hey Kev,
What's up?