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-Tested parametersthis week.
- Turned on skimmer. Some levels are still a bit higher then I would like to see but I am still letting the tank settle in. It's been a month now since the transfer and I have lost a couple things sadly. A teseter sps I think it was a green slimer, a Jedi mind trick Monti and a couple favia like LPS.
- Updated lighting. Increased the blues and turned off the white red and green channels completely. The 3 were only at 1% anyway. Max in the blues now is 15% up from 10%.
- Ordered a box of regular IO to use for the first few changes. Mag and calcium are high but alk is low. Po is .138 nitrates are up to 20. Thinking the plain salt will help with the mag and ca. Haven't done a change yet so that prob contrib to hig po and ni. Salt should arrive today. Mixing new batch tonight water change tomorrow.
-Modified the sump baffles so the refugium section will function a bit better.
-Determined that I am going to need more flow as I have som major dead spots in the front of the rockwork. Moved the left ph to the back vs side to hopefully help until the memorial day or 4th of July sales hit.
- Joined a new club that started up. Excited to go to my first meeting June 5. Meeting with a frag workshop at the new lfs (the good one). 10 bucks and you learn (already know) how to frag basic softies and you go home with "free" frags. The memberships provide the ability to borrow a par meter, discounted tables at a swap in October, discounts at lfs, etc. This is the same store I am gonna get my trigger from so it made sense. Plus we have never had a club that was open to everyone since I joined the hobby so I wanted to support that.
My last grandparent ended up in the hospital on Saturday and has been there all week. I have been the primary source of info to my family since I am only 10 min from hospital and can see her after work every day. My how the Healthcare system has changed. The people have been wonderful, the system sucks.
Sunday is my man's Hot Wheels show and I always help him with that. So I am very much looking forward to a break.
Sorry for the info dump. Happy Friday and hope you all have a great weekend.
- Turned on skimmer. Some levels are still a bit higher then I would like to see but I am still letting the tank settle in. It's been a month now since the transfer and I have lost a couple things sadly. A teseter sps I think it was a green slimer, a Jedi mind trick Monti and a couple favia like LPS.
- Updated lighting. Increased the blues and turned off the white red and green channels completely. The 3 were only at 1% anyway. Max in the blues now is 15% up from 10%.
- Ordered a box of regular IO to use for the first few changes. Mag and calcium are high but alk is low. Po is .138 nitrates are up to 20. Thinking the plain salt will help with the mag and ca. Haven't done a change yet so that prob contrib to hig po and ni. Salt should arrive today. Mixing new batch tonight water change tomorrow.
-Modified the sump baffles so the refugium section will function a bit better.
-Determined that I am going to need more flow as I have som major dead spots in the front of the rockwork. Moved the left ph to the back vs side to hopefully help until the memorial day or 4th of July sales hit.
- Joined a new club that started up. Excited to go to my first meeting June 5. Meeting with a frag workshop at the new lfs (the good one). 10 bucks and you learn (already know) how to frag basic softies and you go home with "free" frags. The memberships provide the ability to borrow a par meter, discounted tables at a swap in October, discounts at lfs, etc. This is the same store I am gonna get my trigger from so it made sense. Plus we have never had a club that was open to everyone since I joined the hobby so I wanted to support that.
My last grandparent ended up in the hospital on Saturday and has been there all week. I have been the primary source of info to my family since I am only 10 min from hospital and can see her after work every day. My how the Healthcare system has changed. The people have been wonderful, the system sucks.
Sunday is my man's Hot Wheels show and I always help him with that. So I am very much looking forward to a break.
Sorry for the info dump. Happy Friday and hope you all have a great weekend.