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The haul from the Battle Box.
Playing with the Orphek camera kit..
Some early stand outs.
Hyperberry:
Blue Ghost:
Always a sucker for a Humilus.
Bluemoon:
Watermelon Wash Milli
and my favorite name ever.....
Interested to see where the colors go on some of these.
Playing with the Orphek camera kit..
Some early stand outs.
Hyperberry:
Blue Ghost:
Always a sucker for a Humilus.
Bluemoon:
Watermelon Wash Milli
and my favorite name ever.....
"Where did you get that thing?" "From the Mutha Ship!"
Interested to see where the colors go on some of these.
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BRS twisted my arm with the black Friday deals and I added a new tile to the Apex
Once it settles in I will be letting control the DOSs as well. The set up was kind of a bear but automated monitoring and control is pretty dope.
Once it settles in I will be letting control the DOSs as well. The set up was kind of a bear but automated monitoring and control is pretty dope.
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Well I guess it is time for an update.
The tank is doing well. I did end up losing the BC Hyperberry frag but everything else seems to be doing well.
Cal/Alk use is up about 50%
Currently I believe my tank to be too clean.
-Nitrate has never much come off of zero on the NYOS kit.
-Phosphate I had been targeting .05 to .1 and it slowly rises. However I think the may have over done it one week as last week when I lost the frag it tested at .02, well with in the margin of error for it to have been zero.
-SPS are pastel and growing but some of them are even lighter than when I got them from Battle Corals. I have one set of Zoa and they are very flat to their plug.
-Have to clean the glass maybe once every 3 days or more.
-Dead Chaeto. This stuff is harder to grow than SPS lol.
Stuff I have tried:
Feeding as much as the fish will eat. (This does move the phos but not the NO3.)
Dosing Red Sea AB+ Just trying it out as I have the headroom.
Stuff I started:
I have 2 fuge lights I have turned one of them off. Only has been a couple days.
Today I should receive Brightwell Nitrate.
Goal here is to get the Nitrate to the low end of detectable. I am not looking to over do it as I have avoided most of the new tank foibles. Currently don't have enough NO3 and dose a minimal amount to control Phos. If I bring up the N03 I might get out of managing the Phos as the algae will start up taking it.
We will see. Seems super foreign to does nitrate
The tank is doing well. I did end up losing the BC Hyperberry frag but everything else seems to be doing well.
Cal/Alk use is up about 50%
Currently I believe my tank to be too clean.
-Nitrate has never much come off of zero on the NYOS kit.
-Phosphate I had been targeting .05 to .1 and it slowly rises. However I think the may have over done it one week as last week when I lost the frag it tested at .02, well with in the margin of error for it to have been zero.
-SPS are pastel and growing but some of them are even lighter than when I got them from Battle Corals. I have one set of Zoa and they are very flat to their plug.
-Have to clean the glass maybe once every 3 days or more.
-Dead Chaeto. This stuff is harder to grow than SPS lol.
Stuff I have tried:
Feeding as much as the fish will eat. (This does move the phos but not the NO3.)
Dosing Red Sea AB+ Just trying it out as I have the headroom.
Stuff I started:
I have 2 fuge lights I have turned one of them off. Only has been a couple days.
Today I should receive Brightwell Nitrate.
Goal here is to get the Nitrate to the low end of detectable. I am not looking to over do it as I have avoided most of the new tank foibles. Currently don't have enough NO3 and dose a minimal amount to control Phos. If I bring up the N03 I might get out of managing the Phos as the algae will start up taking it.
We will see. Seems super foreign to does nitrate
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Woah that's a killer setup, the aquascape turned out amazing. Going to look awesome once it's grown out.
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So in the last 2 weeks I attempted to raise Nitrate.
Yeah so about that. Need to find a happy medium. While still barely detectable I gave myself I believe cyano bloom. Dark brown but easily blown off. Grows super quick. Everything was eating it.
I got a call from my LFS that the Starry Blenny I requested (in Oct) finally arrived. I asked them too, but I honestly thought they had given up. So picked him up in the middle of this.
Along with a Superman Monty and some Blastos.
As far as the mess. So trying to make the tank dirtier was easy to revert and about a week out the mess has mostly cleared.
Yeah so about that. Need to find a happy medium. While still barely detectable I gave myself I believe cyano bloom. Dark brown but easily blown off. Grows super quick. Everything was eating it.
I got a call from my LFS that the Starry Blenny I requested (in Oct) finally arrived. I asked them too, but I honestly thought they had given up. So picked him up in the middle of this.
Along with a Superman Monty and some Blastos.
As far as the mess. So trying to make the tank dirtier was easy to revert and about a week out the mess has mostly cleared.
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First night of learning the new camera.
Still working on the white balance but there should be an increase in quality of the photos here.
But the resolution and focus on this thing ;Woot
pixel peeked mega crop of the above.
Still working on the white balance but there should be an increase in quality of the photos here.
But the resolution and focus on this thing ;Woot
pixel peeked mega crop of the above.
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So first real afternoon digging into the new camera.
Blue Moon Hummi
The Brain Candy Table
DA MOTHERSHIP
Miss Scarlet
RC Poison Envy
Still struggling with true to eye color but I have seems to get the focus down.
Blue Moon Hummi
The Brain Candy Table
DA MOTHERSHIP
Miss Scarlet
RC Poison Envy
Still struggling with true to eye color but I have seems to get the focus down.
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General tank update.
Project Make the Tank Dirtier.
So recovered mostly like 90% from the cyano out break. Stopped with the Nitrate dosing a week ago.
This morning
NO3 at 1ish ppm on Nyos.
Phos at 0.00 on the Hana. 0.00
The system pre-nitrate dosing had to be dosed LACl to keep Phosphate under control. Makes sense with the ratio as is that this happens but I can trade out dosin LACl for No3 directly to control phosphate. I was surprised how effective it was.
So learning experience. Just have to find the happy medium.
This is by far the most tunable system I've built. I have overhead and tune it either way.
Project Make the Tank Dirtier.
So recovered mostly like 90% from the cyano out break. Stopped with the Nitrate dosing a week ago.
This morning
NO3 at 1ish ppm on Nyos.
Phos at 0.00 on the Hana. 0.00
The system pre-nitrate dosing had to be dosed LACl to keep Phosphate under control. Makes sense with the ratio as is that this happens but I can trade out dosin LACl for No3 directly to control phosphate. I was surprised how effective it was.
So learning experience. Just have to find the happy medium.
This is by far the most tunable system I've built. I have overhead and tune it either way.
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Sharing some new pics.
I've had a small BTA for a while it had settled post tank set up on the back of the rockwork. I moved it's rock and it seems much happier.
The Poison Envy again.
The always purple BC Secale.
and my leather.
and a peeked version.
I've had a small BTA for a while it had settled post tank set up on the back of the rockwork. I moved it's rock and it seems much happier.
The Poison Envy again.
The always purple BC Secale.
and my leather.
and a peeked version.
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That leather is awesome
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Sorry I haven't updated in a bit.
Mostly been watching frags grow.
Thought I would post this pic.
I had another LRS go under. 2 in under a year. Thanks rona.
I got a handful of frags at discount prices as the second one went under. Cool thing for me was this was sold out of their high end tank as "Pink Paradise". They had it in fairly low light and flow. Stress green and brown polyps.
Few other frags from the trip.
Mostly been watching frags grow.
Thought I would post this pic.
I had another LRS go under. 2 in under a year. Thanks rona.
I got a handful of frags at discount prices as the second one went under. Cool thing for me was this was sold out of their high end tank as "Pink Paradise". They had it in fairly low light and flow. Stress green and brown polyps.
Few other frags from the trip.
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General update I added an Orphek Blue Plus LED bar. As much for spread as anything else and I may buy a second.
The Reef Breeders can hit the PAR numbers but the 50" fixtures over a 60" tank was leaving the side dimmer than I wanted.
The Orpheks actually come in 60" lengths.
If I get a second Orphek I am going to slide the front Photon out and down. Then tilt it towards the tank. Front fill lighting. Joys of stick keeping.
The Reef Breeders can hit the PAR numbers but the 50" fixtures over a 60" tank was leaving the side dimmer than I wanted.
The Orpheks actually come in 60" lengths.
If I get a second Orphek I am going to slide the front Photon out and down. Then tilt it towards the tank. Front fill lighting. Joys of stick keeping.
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Feature creep 2021 edition...
So starting off.
Continued huge fan of the Red Sea 900. I never want to own another skimmer without one of these.
Ah that tang poop lol.
Continues to be an absolute beast.
So starting off.
Continued huge fan of the Red Sea 900. I never want to own another skimmer without one of these.
Ah that tang poop lol.
Continues to be an absolute beast.
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Back to the original topic. Feature creep.
You can see from earlier pages I laid out what I thought I want and was generally happy with the set up.
Well I added a UV a couple months ago that is bolted to the wall on the right. None of the 40W UV really offered very idea mounting options so tubing was a bit odd.
Latest addition is an Avast kalk stirrer.
This is an experiment. I am running Triton. I am happy with Triton. The corals, never better. The ICP test need very little altering. So working as planned.
BUT.....
Like at 15mls a day at the start the $200 a box of 4 part seems like it would last forever. Forever was actually about the first 6 months. Now I am up to 35ml a day per part and the coral is really starting to take off I am foreseeing a future where that might get pricy.
Thing is there are lots of advantages to the system besides the stellar ICP test. I am a 1/4 of the way into my 2nd bucket of salt in 8 month on this system.
The math here with the salt more than makes up for the expensive 4 part.
but I want to see if I can take the edge off. It doesn't get much cheaper than Kalk.
I ordered a 3rd DOS (clutches chest in pain) as round 2 of attempting to use the Coral Box doser I own end in the same frustration as the first.
I mention the UV because it would have been the obvious place to rig up something to mount the Kalkstirrer.
Pros and cons here on the Avast is I like the motor and stirring, the price was decent. The output is high diameter and is gravity fed. I think it would take a decent amount of time for the output to clog. However it comes at the cost of needing to be gravity fed. Placement is a little picker.
Here is what I came up with.
I went over under on the dosers and that opened up the back wall and allowed the room for the Avast.
Full sump shot.
Goal here with the Kalk is to save some money on Cal/alk and boost night time pH.
I will punt on it if my numbers go awry.
Still waiting on some tubing to make it all happen.
You can see from earlier pages I laid out what I thought I want and was generally happy with the set up.
Well I added a UV a couple months ago that is bolted to the wall on the right. None of the 40W UV really offered very idea mounting options so tubing was a bit odd.
Latest addition is an Avast kalk stirrer.
This is an experiment. I am running Triton. I am happy with Triton. The corals, never better. The ICP test need very little altering. So working as planned.
BUT.....
Like at 15mls a day at the start the $200 a box of 4 part seems like it would last forever. Forever was actually about the first 6 months. Now I am up to 35ml a day per part and the coral is really starting to take off I am foreseeing a future where that might get pricy.
Thing is there are lots of advantages to the system besides the stellar ICP test. I am a 1/4 of the way into my 2nd bucket of salt in 8 month on this system.
The math here with the salt more than makes up for the expensive 4 part.
but I want to see if I can take the edge off. It doesn't get much cheaper than Kalk.
I ordered a 3rd DOS (clutches chest in pain) as round 2 of attempting to use the Coral Box doser I own end in the same frustration as the first.
I mention the UV because it would have been the obvious place to rig up something to mount the Kalkstirrer.
Pros and cons here on the Avast is I like the motor and stirring, the price was decent. The output is high diameter and is gravity fed. I think it would take a decent amount of time for the output to clog. However it comes at the cost of needing to be gravity fed. Placement is a little picker.
Here is what I came up with.
I went over under on the dosers and that opened up the back wall and allowed the room for the Avast.
Full sump shot.
Goal here with the Kalk is to save some money on Cal/alk and boost night time pH.
I will punt on it if my numbers go awry.
Still waiting on some tubing to make it all happen.
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