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I do have some bottles on hand and it looks like you have not used them and I have not used them in awhile. Such as Flatworm Stop, Coral Booster and Acropower. Possibly I could use one of these along with the reef activ to try to achieve better growth going forward.
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08/16/2017, 09:52 AM | #1153 | |
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I have never used any of the products you mentioned. I used to use an Amino Acid product, Salifert Coralline Amino Acids. I do not remember any observable benefit to my corals as a result of its use in my set up. Amino acids generally boost cyanobacteria. This is exactly what happened in my tank. Based on my observations over the years, there are two types of products that triggered visible coral. First, I used KZ Cyanoclean and KZ ZEObak a few years ago. Both contain some form of bacteria/bacterial cultures. There was visible acceleration in coral growth during their use. I reported this at the time in this thread. Second, I use TM NP-Bacto-Balance and TM Reef Actif along with TM K+ and A- elements. I have recently compiled a few photo albums on my Facebook page, each of which shows the growth rates of some of my favourite Acros. Proof is in the pudding as "they" say. You are probably familiar with my reefkeeping strategy. I run a high energy reef, by which I mean high nutrient input and output throughput, high temperatures to boost metabolism of all animals living in my tank, high-strong random flow to transport nutrients to corals and move their waste products away from them, and intense T5 lights with the correct spectrum, which is heavy on blue. Furthermore, presence of some nutrients, in particular phosphates, help with coral growth, providing that they are less than 0.1 mg/L. Please let me know if your proposed plan benefits your corals.
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Thanks for detailed response, I greatly appreciate it.
I like the high energy way of things. I just need to make sure everything is stable in the alk/calc area before I do anything. Can you link me to your facebook page? I think for now, I am going to continue what I am doing with feeding a ton and then I am planning on using TM Reef Activ starting next week.
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08/17/2017, 11:29 AM | #1155 | |
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I am getting some new sphere-shaped sponges that was not there before my dosing had begun.
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08/21/2017, 05:31 AM | #1156 |
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You may remember my aiptasia scrubber.
After the death of Mr E.T. the file fish, aiptasia started to reappear in my display tank. This was no surprise. So, I bought Mr E.T. Jr. the file fish. Sadly, as a young fish it probably never fancied aiptasia and went for the polyps of A. gomezi instead. I had to place it in sump with a view to take it back to my lfs. I kept feeding it separately. A few months passed, as the fish grew in the sump, the population of aiptasia increased in my display tank. The problem slowly but surely got worse and worse. Eventually, I decided to do something about it. About two weeks ago, I contemplated a few options to deal with the impending crisis in my tank. I know for the fact that the only way to deal with this anemone is biological control. This is what years of experience in dealing with this menace has taught me. I decided to do an experiment with Mr E.T. Jr. and placed it in my overflow box where the aiptasia scrubber is situated. My hypothesis was that if I did not feed the fish, it would start to eat aiptasia sooner or later and would become a confirmed aiptasia terminator. Nothing happened for the first ten days. Then all of a sudden some gaps started to appear in the scrubber as shown below: At this stage, I cannot confirm that Mr E.T. Jr is consuming aiptasia as I have not established a visual contact with him yet. However, it is reasonable to assume that he is responsible. Since the above photos were taken yesterday, the number of aiptasia has declined even further. I am delighted with the outcome so far. I will wait until the weir is completely clear from aiptasia. In the next stage of the experiment, I will release the fish into my display tank. My expectation is that it will go for aiptasia first (hopefully). Watch this space.
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Mr. Bulent, you are a brave man to put a fish in a weir in order to clean it.
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08/21/2017, 06:23 AM | #1158 | |
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I admit that it was a risky endeavour to put a fish in a weir full of aiptasia as aiptasia can sting and paralyse fish on contact. However, I ensured that aiptasia withdrew their polyps first before putting the fish in. I did that by brushing my fingers against their polyps. I probably contributed to their sporulation in this process, hence the increase in their population in my display tank. I will be sad when the weir is cleared as aiptasia always consumed excess food and prevented it from going into the sump, but hey they broke the truce between us first. I hope I won't be the loser in the end.
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08/21/2017, 07:00 PM | #1159 |
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Earth to Mr. ET.. are you responsible??
Once he comes out of there, the aptasia will grow back, so don't worry, Bulent. Hopefully, he will continue to eat aptasia once back in the display and not revert back to gomezie polyps.. When I had my aptasia infestation several years ago, the addition of 30 or so peppermint shrimps eradicated the problem.. But if i recall, you don't have access to peps where you are..
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I have a aiptasia problem now too but I dont think I can add a filefish now that I have a pair of blue throat triggers??
I am sure my wrasses will attack the pep shrimp is I add them
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I used to keep peppermint shrimps. They did not touch aiptasia unless I starved them. I also found that one of my peppermint shrimps attacked the polyps of some of my sps corals, Pocillapora damicornis in particular. I remember catching that shrimp from its whiskers with my index finger and thumb. I won't tell you what I did with it afterwards.
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I have recently bought a second-hand Deltec SC 1455 protein skimmer with a manual cleaning head. It was delivered this morning. I am very curious to find out if it will collect more skimmate than my current skimmer. I need to skim more efficiently as bacterial mulm that accumulates in return pipe has increased noticeably after the recent increases in dosing of TM Reef Actif.
I will prepare a stand for it to raise it off the bottom glass so that the water level inside the skimmer will be about 7-7.5 inches.
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The struggles we endure/overcome make us love this hobby in the end.As always interesting read.
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08/26/2017, 03:54 PM | #1164 | |
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Anyway, I installed my new skimmer today. It seems to be running almost silently. It is much much quieter than Deltec 1350 despite having a bigger pump. It seems to be producing some skimmate, but not as much as the old one. I guess I will have to wait for a while until it "beds in".
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08/27/2017, 11:59 AM | #1165 |
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My second-hand Deltec SC 1455 has been running for just over 24 hours. It has collected much more skimmate than my previous Deltec SC 1350 skimmer would have collected within the same period. I am very impressed. The manual cleaner head must be helping with maintaining the efficiency of the skimmer. I turn the lid every few hours. This is strictly not necessary as twice a day is what is recommended, but I want to get into the right habit.
Skimmate production has been consistent so far. This is very encouraging. Following an advice received from a fellow reefer, I have restricted the air by turning the air valve to 1 o'clock position to decrease bubble sizes, thus increasing air/water ratio at the interface. This is to ensure that while the skimmer beds in, there will not be any flooding of the skimmer's collection cup. PS. To find the right water level, I have had to read Andrew's tank thread to find this information and I did. Thanks for providing this information Andrew.
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That skimmer looks to be a beast. You're are twisting my arm to get my neck cleaner installed.
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Pause to turn the lid. Just done another cleaning of the neck.
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More on Tropic Marin Reef Actif Hello everybody, A number of you recently asked me specific questions about this product here on this forum and on my Facebook page. Your questions raised issues on the difference between NP-Bacto-Balance and Reef Actif, copper contained in Actif and Reef Actif's role in nutrient reduction. I promised that (hopefully) I would provide you with intellectually acceptable answers. I approached Herr Hans-Werner Balling of Tropic Marin yesterday and asked him a number of questions and sought clarification on our understanding of Reef Actif. I also took the opportunity to state my own understanding of this product so as to verify it. I have just received his reply. Having read it, I have realised how little I know about reef bacteria. This area clearly presents a new learning opportunity for me. Below is the full transcript of my conversation with Herr Balling. I hope you will find it as informative as I have: My fellow reefers and I would like some clarification on the following points please:
{*} After using Reef-Actif since 25th May 2017 in conjunction with NP-Bacto-Balance, A- and K+, I can clearly see subtle improvements on my corals and reef in general. Corals are now growing much faster, their colours look a little more pronounced (possibly because of zooxanthellae expulsion), sponge growth accelerated and aquarium glass cleaning frequency has dropped.
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Great questions Bulent! Thank you for taking the time to reach out to Hans. It clears up some misconceptions I have had.
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I followed not long after you with reef actif . I see the same affects, mainly growth and cleaner glass. I run 3ml of bactobalance daily, same k. Plus 1 lvl tsp of reef active every 3rd day. My calc and alk demand has increased 20% over the first 4 weeks. Tbh I thought my test kits/doser was playing up as it had been stable for months prior to using actif. So it definitely increases coral growth ! The only thing I struggle with is po4 reduction. This was at 0.14 last week so put my rowaphos back online. Now at 0.006 and happy. Not sure if it's a reasonably new tank syndrome or feeding (5 cubes over 2 days with 15 fish in a 350L) issue. But do struggle with po4, no3 sits around 5 so happy with that. Not sure if I'm being driven by figures as don't see any impact on coral growth or colour, but don't want it to run away. Anyway as you love the product... wish it was cheaper though Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk |
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Regarding phosphates, even though my measurable phosphate readings have remained more or less the same (refer to the second graph in this post) since I began my experiment on 25th May 2017. I increased feeding about a month ago and despite this, phosphates remained the same. For me, this means that my set up can now handle/process more nutrient import without any adverse affect on measurable phosphates. This must be a good thing as all animals living in my reef tank must benefit from increased feeding. In these days, I am only testing to record trends and establish correlation between dosing and its impact on nutrients. I stopped chasing numbers a long time ago.
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Enjoy reading all the information provided. truly appreciate you posting your conversation above.
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Great read, thanks for posting that Bulent
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I spent a lot of time sifting through information on this product posted by Herr Balling on a German forum. I used Google Translator for this purpose and posted this information on my Facebook page. There were only a few awkward English formulations, but one could still get the drift. Herr Balling kindly went through this text today and made some corrections. The corrected version has replaced the old version on my Facebook page. If there is sufficient interest, I will be happy to copy and paste that information here in my thread too.
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