All that for 100$ that's a heck of a deal... no reason for your wife to be angry over that. I've spend 3x that on 1 frag. And 5x that for a torch.. but my wife thinks they're all 20$
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Run your skimmer dry. At least I would (and do)
If your N and P actually end up being undetectable I wouldn’t run my alkalinity at 9. Personally I’d keep it in the 7 range and not past 8.0. And feed the tank more. Maybe throw a touch of coral food in there daily too.
All that for 100$ that's a heck of a deal... no reason for your wife to be angry over that. I've spend 3x that on 1 frag. And 5x that for a torch.. but my wife thinks they're all 20$
Aww......Looks like Sprung Stunner, boy U gonna have fun with that!!!!Edit: wallet is empty because I only had $100 on me. The bank account is fine. (Wife still doesn't understand why I spent money on a handful of twigs to stick in my tank)
I found a guy on Craig's list selling frags and arranged to stop by today to check out his tank and pick up some frags. He advertised LPS, SPS, and zoas. Turns out he had all those things but was mostly looking to trim back his SPS forest and had no where to put it.
Long story short. For $100 I walked out with a 30 head zoa colony, 3 huge pieces of chalace, and 20 SPS frags. I ran out of glue sticking them to pieces of rubble. My 40b is looking a little crowded.
I previously was only keeping zoas, clove polyps, a duncan, and a torch. Everyone has been pretty happy. I wasn't planning on any SPS in this tank for a while and really haven't done all my homework. Honestly I don't even know how to identify most of what I have.
Parameters
Salinity 1.025
Temp 78
All 9
Nitrates 0
Phosphates 0
Light is a viper Spectra 300watt. I run it 12 hours at ( I'll check power setting tomorrow and edit)
I'm also running an over sized skimmer.
For someone who has stumbled into this as I have. What do I need to know and do right away to succeed with SPS.
And what should I do with the chalace? I tried to glue them to rocks but it wouldn't hold. I ran out of glue and had to just lay them in the sand till tomorrow.
Thanks everyone
Test again. You can use muriatic acid to lower your alk or something like seachem acid buffer/sodium bisulfate to lower your alk to match your DT Alk.So with my weekly water change I did a bunch ok ALK testing
Before 7.5
Fresh mix 10.5
After 8.4
I'm not sure those numbers make sense with only a 10% water change.
I have been hand dosing as well and things finally started consuming calcium. Now that I have gotten used to it I am kinda scared to hook up a doser. I have had a few cause issues from malfunction and I always get content with them and forget to check them.
John C used to dose manually everyday all at once and he had a staple tank. The only way I will hook up a doser is if I start forgetting to dose and I don’t have enough money to setup my reactor.
I paid today 30€ ($35) for a tip of and SPS that is just like my fingernail... so it seems to me you made a good deal.
I like how your tank looks.
But beware of those "undetectable" nitrates. It doesn´t matter that you don´t have them or that the algae in your sump consume them fast. The fact is that you have undetectable NO3 in your water column, and that´s playing with fire (dinos). Those b____rds destroyed my previous tank.
The Jebao doser seems to be the most popular affordable option:
It's also pretty easily controlled via a raspberry pi later on if you go down that road.
Hand dosing is awesome until you want to go on vacation -- better to get your automation under control with lots of time rather than doing a last-minute thing before you hit the road.
I believe John was using a doser and dosing into a collection cup to make sure it was right each day and dumping it by hand. This way he could just move the line to the tank if he left. Not many people do this but it does show that you don’t need to automate a doser to dose 24 times a day to have great success .
Cool. I've been trying to find something that will eat the stuff and it looks like you hit it with the trochus snails. I'm due to restock the cleanup crew so I'll make sure to add a handful to my next order.B-Ionic won't let you down. Things are looking good. FYI, trochus snails can take care of that fuzzy algae you go going on the rocks
Remember to dose alk/cal equally (once balanced out initially).
Hi dew, awesome light setup you there. Which light do you have if you do mind sharing the secret? Happy reefing!Okay so from one black box owner to another dial the blues back to 50 percent and leave whites off for a week. Place the frags about 3/4 of the way up the rock. Make sure to check alk every 2 days you want that number to stay consistent. After a week of acclimating your frags to the light start bring up the blues little by little. Then turn the whites on the lowest setting for only 2 hours then a week later do 3 hours then 4 hours do not use more the 5 hours per day of whites blues should be on for 10-12 hours per day and white should be in the middle or that for only 5 hours.
awesome soggy, you are doing great! I love your idea of glue epoxy sandwich and also how you glue rumbles over the frags to hide them. Any chance of a close up pic so i can see how it actually works? I need to do some remounting on some of my loose frags soon. ;Happy Happy reefing!Yup, I like to runn it as dry as possible. Other wise it starts to creep down my salinity.
So I have a theory about the No3 and Po4 that I've noticed as a trend in the "algae problem" threads that I've read through. A lot of people swearing up and down that they have 0 No3 and Po4 but also can't get the algae under control.
I have a lot of algae growing in my sump and I think it's keeping the levels way down even though there is No3 and Po4 being produced. I'm going to up my feeding and see what effect it has. My theory is that the levels will stay low and the algae will grow faster.
What is the advantage of running the alkalinity at 7 vs 8. Right now my plan is to keep things as simple as possible and not chase any numbers until I need to start adding calcium.
Also I'vee got a jar of reef roids on the way
She has come around more to our way of thinking but it's been a slow process. I do now catch her sitting on the couch checking out the tank.