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06/29/2017, 02:56 PM | #228 |
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Nice. Can't really get that type of thing in Canada very readily..
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11/01/2017, 09:31 PM | #229 |
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Z'up zach?
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01/21/2018, 07:27 PM | #230 |
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Things are going great. Fish are happy. Coral are growing like wildfire. Here's a few updates. I just replaced the T5 bulbs after 12 months and wow... I can't believe how "dull" the old bulbs had gotten. I didn't do a formal PAR test but the fluorescence of the coral and overall look of the tank seems to be greatly improved by swapping out the bulbs for new ones. The old bulbs were definitely worn out, I'll be replacing on a 9 month schedule going forward. Ostreopsis dinos are a thing of the past, but I still get a bit of the large cell amphidium on the sandbed. The watchman goby does a great job of keeping the sandbed clean on some days and on others not so much. It's strange. Some days it'll look like they're completely gone and some days they'll pop up around the perimeter of the live rock and coral and dust the open areas. I'm considering adding a big handful of Nassarius snails to help keep the sandbed turned over. As a matter of fact, I need to up the snail population of the tank for several things. I'm dealing with a bit of a cyano outbreak. Rather than treat with chemical means, I'm just blowing it off the rocks and continuing with water changes and keeping the water chemistry as stable as possible. I'm hoping it will subside with time and stability. I've heard of cyano popping up when T5 bulbs have gone past their prime, so maybe with the new bulbs I'll catch a break. The only thing I'm dosing currently is Alkalinity and Calcium at the rate of 85 ml a day, which equals a consumption rate of .85 dkh and 5.935 ppm. I'll dose up NO3 and PO4 as needed but that's only been once every 2 weeks or so. I'm considering starting back up a bit of live phyto dosing but I haven't made up my mind yet. Things are going good enough that I'm not sure I need to make any changes. Feather caulerpa has taken over the refugium and completely starved out the chaeto and other macros I had in there. It's fine, the whole goal is nutrient consumption and it seems to work... I'm still having to dose nitrate and phosphate on occasion. I'd rather have to dose occasionally than worry about high nutrients causing problems. I have a few upgrades planned for the near future. I scored a Neptune DOS unit for AWCs and a new Trigger Systems Triton44 sump from BRS during the Black Friday sales. I'm going to run the plumbing for the DOS auto water change setup from the mixing station in the garage, through the crawlspace and up behind the tank... Not looking forward to crawling around under my house. I'll hopefully be installing the new sump in the next few weeks. I'll have to change up the drain plumbing a bit... That's the step I'm looking forward to the least.
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Great to see you back, Zach! From what I can tell, the tank looks great. The pics are HUMONGOUS! Some are twice as wide as my 27" screen. Glad to hear things are well!
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I'll go check your thread, as well... How's the tank?
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Hey Zach! Yep, that's better. They fit on my screen now and look great!
They still might be too big for phones though. I usually try to keep my pics between 600-1000 pixels wide at 72 dpi. Whenever I post pics wider than about 800, I get complaints that the pics don't show up on phones. My tank's a mess! I'm just about to break it down and reboot.
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Nice looking pictures. Showed up well on my screen too now.
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Thanks. How's your tank doing?
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Not as well as yours. My GSP and some of my mushrooms are growing, but I haven't had the funds to add any other corals.
It's very weird... when my GSP is doing well, the Zoa's don't and vice versa. My Engineering Goby is getting quite large. He's fun to watch. And I added a sand sifting starfish that's doing a great job of keeping the sand turned over. My top off pump recently died, so I replaced it with an aqua lifter. It takes longer to top off when it comes on, but it's quieter. For the most part, it's just been normal maintenance. Oh. I did finally get a 'flipper' for cleaning the glass. I was getting corraline growing on it that I couldn't clean off with the mag-float. The flipper does an awesome job of scraping it off. |
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Curious as to why some of your coral will do well and vice versa. Are your parameters staying stable? I used an aqualifter for a long time as my ATO pump. I didn't mind the slow speed of it. That flipper is a heck of a tool isn't it! I never have to clean the glass with anything but that one tool! I hate putting my hands in the water so it's just about the perfect tool. Once I learned the trick for flipping it effectively, it really became my favorite tank tool.
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I'll be honest. I don't test parameters as much as I should. And with the cold weather lately, I've been hit or misses on weekly water changes.
I find that if I'm dosing kalk, the zoas and mushrooms do really well, but the GSP seems to go into remission, but when I stopped dosing kalk for a month, the opposite is occurring. Right now I'm trying to dose kalk again, but I've cut the dosing in half. I really need to finish my Kalk-stirrer design. |
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Did you ever hook up trigger 44? Thinking of a new build 48x24x20 and was thinking of a 34" sump but worried it maybe too small even though math works out
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Good luck with build, always a certain level of fear since most of us only do this once or twice so never sure how it turns out very stressful
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