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zibba
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I was out of town for back-to-back weekends so regular maintenance and upkeep has been slacking a bit. I'm still dosing one cap-full of Acropower, which is 5mL on the 500mL bottle, per day on my 150g volume system. Still seeing continued PE, good colors and increased growth (will try to take more comparison pictures this week).
The Tahitian maxima was finally removed after a very slow death in my system and some of the chalice frags and a few other LPS weren't looking so hot. Upon really close inspection, I noticed hydroids on some of my high end chalice frags, jawbreaker mushroom, and a few zoa frags. I took those frags out and tried to manually remove all of the hydoids I could see with a toothbrush. We also came home to a little bit of diatom/cyano on the sandbed. Phosphates were at 0.06ppm and Nitrates were at 0.85ppm yesterday . I don't think that the nuisance algae is related to the AP -- I think it's directly tied to me running half of my regular amount of GFO (0.5c instead of my regular 1.0c) and the clam dying. I suspect it will clean up with a WC and a carbon/gfo swap.
We replaced 1.0c of Seachem Matrix carbon with a fresh batch and I replaced 0.5c (again, normally run 1.0c) of BRS GFO with 0.66c of Rowaphos. We also did some rearranging in the tanks because some of the plates, zoas and mushrooms weren't reacting well to certain flow patters.
To add to all of that, I accidentally left the doser in "manual mode" before we left for the weekend and had a mini-alk drop after 30-hrs of being away -- from 8.4 to 7.2 I manually raised it back to 8.2 with two spaced out doses of BRS alk (soda ash).
Here were the other parameters:
Alk: 8.2 (was 7.2 yesterday and manually brought it up)
Cal: 430
Mg: 1480
K+: 390
pH: 8.2-8.4 (day-night)
Temp: 77.0-77.5
We'll be doing a 20% WC tonight and hopefully things will get back in good order rather quickly. Other than all of that, the corals are reacting well to the LED swap over the Envision -- still running the VHOs as we have about 3-more weeks of acclimation mode.
The Tahitian maxima was finally removed after a very slow death in my system and some of the chalice frags and a few other LPS weren't looking so hot. Upon really close inspection, I noticed hydroids on some of my high end chalice frags, jawbreaker mushroom, and a few zoa frags. I took those frags out and tried to manually remove all of the hydoids I could see with a toothbrush. We also came home to a little bit of diatom/cyano on the sandbed. Phosphates were at 0.06ppm and Nitrates were at 0.85ppm yesterday . I don't think that the nuisance algae is related to the AP -- I think it's directly tied to me running half of my regular amount of GFO (0.5c instead of my regular 1.0c) and the clam dying. I suspect it will clean up with a WC and a carbon/gfo swap.
We replaced 1.0c of Seachem Matrix carbon with a fresh batch and I replaced 0.5c (again, normally run 1.0c) of BRS GFO with 0.66c of Rowaphos. We also did some rearranging in the tanks because some of the plates, zoas and mushrooms weren't reacting well to certain flow patters.
To add to all of that, I accidentally left the doser in "manual mode" before we left for the weekend and had a mini-alk drop after 30-hrs of being away -- from 8.4 to 7.2 I manually raised it back to 8.2 with two spaced out doses of BRS alk (soda ash).
Here were the other parameters:
Alk: 8.2 (was 7.2 yesterday and manually brought it up)
Cal: 430
Mg: 1480
K+: 390
pH: 8.2-8.4 (day-night)
Temp: 77.0-77.5
We'll be doing a 20% WC tonight and hopefully things will get back in good order rather quickly. Other than all of that, the corals are reacting well to the LED swap over the Envision -- still running the VHOs as we have about 3-more weeks of acclimation mode.
