Turtle's Fairy Tale

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Don't forget to carbon dose!

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No nitrates left is my stomach!
 
Was just checking them out. Dont think Id ever be able to reach in the tank with one of these guys. Look like theyd take a finger no problem!

Yea, they are pretty... but require a large tank just to themselves. 3' long, very muscular body and lots of sharp teeth. Oh, did I mention they have a good appetite for fish?
 
Yea, they are pretty... but require a large tank just to themselves. 3' long, very muscular body and lots of sharp teeth. Oh, did I mention they have a good appetite for fish?

and hands. Beautiful creatures, but probably not for my 45.
 
Some of my acros on the rack... most are doing great considering the AEFW. Pretty sure they are gone, but will continue to dip.


Red Planet

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Bonsai

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ASL Irish Gold

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ASL Baskin Robbins

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Bali Green Slimer

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Suharsonoi

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Possible tierra del feugo or strawberry shortcake...

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Unknown green base with blue tips

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Unknown purple

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One of the tri color frags, they've picked up a bunch of color. I thought they wouldn't make it they were so pale.

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Montis!!!

Red cap

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Setosa

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Spongodes

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Jedi mind trick

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Rainbow

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Possible Starburst cap. It's got the colors, just gotta wait until it grows some more. It's just encrusting and hasn't plated out yet like a capricornis.

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I need some digitata...
 
What do you think of your spongeodes?

Pretty neat monti. It's part encrusting, part plating and part branching. Green skin with black polyps. I'm just hoping it doesn't take over too much real estate. It's another fast grower.
 
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Meant to test parameters last night. Ended up getting a shower, eating dinner and got about 15 minutes into a movie before I decided bed was more appealing. The ATO had about 3/4 of a gallon of water in it too.

Yea, itll be ok until I get home. I'll test tonight and see if we have any alk drop. I also have some GHA trying to take hold on the right side of the tank. Ok, ok it's taken hold... I need to remove it before it takes over.
 
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We FINALLY got around to testing some parameters today. I know it's been over a week... Thanksgiving holiday and work have had me pretty busy and drained and I'm finding it hard to get the energy to mess with the tank more than feeding and topping of the ATO. Corals are looking good, the elk horn I thought was gone last week is showing growth this week. It's just a really pale shade of green and at a quick glance looks to be dead, but I can see polyps and new growth on the tips so all is good. Next week I have GOT to do something with the GHA on the right side of the tank. Its the side with the small SW4 powerhead, the side opposite the gyre, and the side of the tank I feed. Likely a little bit of overfeeding combined with low flow/targeted flow from the gyre. Basically it's where everything nasty collects in the tank with how the aquascape is set up. I may move that SW4 lower to try and stir it up without blowing up a sand storm. Next year I plan on getting stronger power heads for the back wall.

Anyway, parameters!

Alk 8.0dKH, exactly where we want it. We can start dosing from here to keep it at this level.
Calcium 420ppm, very close to ballanced. I'm happy with that result.
PO4 0.15ppm, I probably need to order more GFO to get that down further. The amount I had left pulled it from 0.6 down to 0.1 but seems to have stalled there. It might have exhausted itself pulling so much at once.

So on 11/21 we had 8.6dKH and on 11/30 we have 8.0dKH giving us a calculated daily dose of 4.75ml a day. I'll set up the dosing pump for 4ml a day since it only works in whole numbers and not decimals. Cheap Jebao pump for now. Plan to upgrade to the eKoral doser in the future.
 

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