Waterbox Peninsula 5526 with DIY Playwood Stand

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Soooo happy with how this came out!!!!!!!
lost a couple of acros, a small colony of PC Rainbow, and of course my largest colony of Purple Milli but that's the price you pay for moving...

 

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Before

After

 

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ICP test post tank migration 94% and using Tropic Marin All for Reef since new tank setup, I am adding 50ml extra magnesium daily to keep the number in the 1300 range, no other daily elements added except a few drops of iodine which could explain the reason that is higher than normal, other high elements may be coming from the lack (laziness) of media change on the RO/DI system.

all elements look good, some copper in there may be from new fish water getting in after acclimation, not going to worry about that, just changed GFO/Rowaphos to bring down phosphates

 

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Any updates?

 

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Tank is doing good, just got back to the tank as I was away from it for 4 months, phosphates are HIGH, will post pic when the lights are on tomorrow

 

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I was away for 4 months while my kids kept an eye on the tanks, also a friend came by mid trip and did a number of tests.

Everything is completely automated and (knock on wood) no issues while I was away.
Got thru the occasional refills requirements over facetime and all was good.

As soon as I got back did a battle of tests, noticed a few levels well outside the normal range, phosphate, nitrates, alkalinity, calcium, so I sent an ICP out the door, just got my ICP test, and my phosphates are thru the roof (


from ICP the eye popping values are:

Carbonate hardness

14.08 °dKH

Phosphate

1.42 mg/l

Nitrate

125.3 mg/l

Iodine

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Phosphate @ 1.42 mg/l
Started a 5ml daily dose of Elimi-Phos (lanthanum) for 5 days, this is day 1
once my Hanna can read below the 0.90 max value I will cut dosage in half, then half again once I hit the 0.05.

dKH is another story, my theory is that with phosphates this high, corals are unable to absorb alk/calcium and thus the kalkwasser elevated the levels of both these as I was pumping about a gallon a day, I have now stopped the dosing of Kalkwasser and A4R until I can detect usage has restarted.

I may have dogged a bullet a couple more weeks and I think there would have been big time coral crisis, in all I lost 3 small and one large Acropora, 1 Chalice, 1 small Hammer, one large Cyphastrea, the montipora capricornis double in size while I was gone, but took a beating, and I think is going to have to come out, it does not fit well in the aquascape now that I see it this large, luckily I have backup of at least a few of the perished corals in my cube.

Not planning on doing anything about Nitrates, I firmly believe the issue was over feeding, fish are big and fat. And I am going to add 1 drop of Lugols a couple of time a week until I do another ICP test in about a month.

here is a quick video