What are you dosing? Sps keepers.

[Reginald Reefer III]

My tank is only ~7 months old at this point, but the SPS are growing fast now. No water change and run the Moonshiners method. ~100g total volume.

Live Phyto - ~75mL every night
BRS Soda Ash (Alk) - ~65mL/day to keep it at 8.5 dkH
BRS Calcium Carbonate (Cal) ~65 mL/day to keep it at 450 ppm
BRS Magnesium (Mag) ~5 mL every 2 weeks or so, Mag has been holding steady at 1530
Acropower - ~20mL/week dosed at once
Moonshiners Iodine - 9 drops
Moonshiners Manganese 1.5 mL/day
Moonshiners Chromium - 0.2 mL/day
Moonshiners Cobalt - 0.2 mL/day
Moonshiners Iron - 0.1 mL/day
Moonshiners Vanadium - 2 drops
Moonshiners Selenium - 0.2 mL/day

Last ICP test required this as a correction
Nickel - 1.24 mL 2/2 Day
Zinc - 0.4 mL 2/2 Day
Strontium - 5.33 mL 1/1 Day
Flouride - 34.16 mL 6/6 Day


Greg's Unicorn that is really coloring up and encrusting

Up to ~120mL of Alk/Cal per day and now dosing 45mL of ammonium chloride and ~3mL of NeoPhos Pro daily. RMS elements consumption is also through the roof with Fluoride, Potassium and Molybdenum being the largest. I have had to move those to a daily dose as they bottomed out after a month with the corrections. This is the same Greg's Unicorn 6 months later.

 

[X-37B]

Since my last post I took my no3 sulfer reactor offline.
No3 11
Po4 .1
I was getting low ph at night 7.5-7.6.
No3 effluent ph was 6.8 and carx effluent wis 6.5.
Daytime ph was 8.1.

I setup a Kamoer pump with Kalk.
I am running 2mlm. Around 2.8 liters a day.
Carx was turned down 50%.
Ph now has improved.
7.9-8.2.
Within a few days corals showed new growth.

I think the 2 acidic effluents were to much for the system of 150g's.

The corals looked good before the change and look even better now.
All coral appear to like the boost in ph.

 

[backbayreef]

I run a CaRx on all my tanks, except the little 25gal mushroom/anemone tank. For the CaRx tanks, I'm currently dosing kalk using a Kamoer + kalk stirrer - pH is great and super low maintenance! I've dosed Brightwell Replenish for 3 months and honestly didn't see any difference; perhaps will try TM A&K next time?

Nutrient exports
Nitrate: sulfur denitrator (shutting down since NO3 is now below 10ppm). Will likely switch back to DIY carbon dosing since it's manageable.
Phosphate: Brightwell Phosphat-E (LC-based)

I feed heavy with pellets, flakes, nori, frozen, and Dragon's Breath macro! Don't need to dose amino acid or anything else.

 

[backbayreef]

Since my last post I took my no3 sulfer reactor offline.
No3 11
Po4 .1
I was getting low ph at night 7.5-7.6.
No3 effluent ph was 6.8 and carx effluent wis 6.5.
Daytime ph was 8.1.

I setup a Kamoer pump with Kalk.
I am running 2mlm. Around 2.8 liters a day.
Carx was turned down 50%.
Ph now has improved.
7.9-8.2.
Within a few days corals showed new growth.

I think the 2 acidic effluents were to much for the system of 150g's.

The corals looked good before the change and look even better now.
All coral appear to like the boost in ph.

Looks like you and I are in a similar boat wrt nitrate control! I literally shut off my sulfur denitrator last night, after been running full blast (no reduction) for the last 2 months.

The Avast K2 kalk stirrer is awesome, too. I love dosing kalk now...with the dip in pH, I’ll need to add more kalk. I’m too lazy to install a pH probe inside the reactor. Actually, I’m out of ports!