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Not all is horrible news though. I took some new pictures and added some new fish that are doing great!
FTS of the week of Thanksgiving. Since then I have completely lost the Blue tort and had to frag the green birdsnest down to nothing. I picked up a really nice ORA Red Planet right before everything bad started happening in my tank. So far it looks unaffected. Look how much green this guy has! Nifty view of my extremely light colored but surviving GARF Bonsai: Zoanthids in the shade are doing fine, zoanthids in higher light areas are really small and kind of sickly looking: Colony of Duncan's is doing very well: Large mate of a paired set of Randalli gobies. No tank is complete without a goby. And the last new addition, a tail spot blenny. Again, no tank is complete without a blenny:
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For the top of this page, here is the link to the mentioned thread: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1944751
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Nice shot's there Alex!
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tank is moving along nicely
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12/12/2010, 10:18 PM | #256 |
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I thought this shot came out really cool:
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12/12/2010, 10:31 PM | #257 |
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I'll second that and say that shot is absolutely amazing!! It's like a fiber optic urchin.
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Picked up a Hanna phosphate photometer. While my house tap water reads in at 2.3 ppm phosphates my tank is still reading an undetectable 0.0. Maybe I am having trouble with my corals because I'm starving them....
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When i first set up my led's i experienced the same thing, lost 2 torts an burned the crap out of my monti's. The monti's came back after i lowered the lights output. Its been 6 months and I'm just now getting polyp extension and coloration on my Orange Digitata, My garf bonsai bleached almost completely but is now almost fully recovered and finally growing.
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Great Urchin shot!
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I'm running the same WM biopellets you are, and my corals get fed nothing but frozen fish food and fish poop. To top it all off my fish haven't been getting fed as much because I was worried about overfeeding the tank when my nitrates had risen up to 20ppm.
In my last 120g vodka fueled, T5 tank I dosed lugols and amino acids as well and had great colors, growth, and PE, but I haven't wanted to try anything like that on this tank because it was too new and things were going kind of rough.
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Nitrates are 0, they dropped dramatically over the past two months using biopellets.
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Hope your corals are doing good. Any new news ?
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Some corals have continued to look perfectly healthy, others have stayed crappy, and two new ones have died (both maricultured, my Purple A. millepora and A. desalwii).
Two things I have noticed though is that my top off water was reading 1 TDS up from 0 and using the Hanna photometer my top off water had 0.1 ppm phosphates. To fix both of these problems I am completely redoing and upgrading my RO/DI unit. Not only will I go ahead and sterilize the unit, I am going to be running two new 75gpd membranes in series and powering the entire setup with a booster pump to push my measly 30psi up to 60psi. I am also going to change my DI cartridge into a refillable cartridge and use new beads from Bulk Reef Supply. This should have the effect of really polishing my water that I already know contains a significant amount of phosphates, but the dual membranes are also supposed to cut my waste water in half.
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Alex...
How are you going to sterile your RO/DI unit? I think I may have some issues with my 5-year old setup too and curious as to what I should do to sterilize, etc? Many thanks.....
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For some reason I don't seem to be able to find the link I had earlier, but here are some instructions I found:
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Great tank... It looks. Like u have plenty of space for coral growth...
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2 75GPD membranes in series may be overkill, as I think the simple factor of the booster pump will really help....unless you have serious TDS incoming which may be as I probably missed it somewhere.
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double post...just adding to ur post count! lol
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I agree that the booster pump probably would have been enough, but the main purpose of the membranes in series is to lower your waste water. I should now be getting 150gpd (2x 75gpd membranes) with the same rejection rate and the same waste water, or twice the output/same waste = half the waste. I know it won't be 100% efficient like that, but it will still help and should produce water faster.
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Thank you Alex.....just the info I needed.
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Ok, enlighten me...if they are in series don't you still only get 75gpd out put, just polish the water wice before going to DI? series to me sounds like one line thru your pre filters, one going into the first 75gpd membrane, then the output of that going to the 2nd 75gpd membrane, then to DI. Also seems like you'd need to drain the waste water of both membranes as well? NO 2 75gpd membranes in parallel (one input to your prefilter & then split to two inputs, one for each 75gpd Membrane to net 150GPD?
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