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11/14/2017, 08:23 AM | #2201 |
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What system are you using for your auto water changes.
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It runs the heads 150x per day, for just a minute or two. Total daily volume is around 2.25g or so.
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11/14/2017, 03:52 PM | #2203 |
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So Dennis, are you still trying to maintain your levels near NSW. 7-7.5alk, and zeros elsewhere?
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I try to stay around 8.0 Alk which is what I did with Triton. I feel it gives me more wiggle room if it was to drop by .5 - 1 dkh by accident. Calc follows suit. Mag around 1300 give or take. Nitrate around 2 if I can. Higher is fine but I have trouble maintaining it. p04 I don't worry much about. .2 - 1.0 is fine with me, or even a little higher.
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I should have specified zeros in n03 and p04 as many who try to emulate NSW want to keep them around those numbers.
I think how you're doing it is better though, a little wiggle room in case something unforeseen happens and numbers change. Corey |
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ya ya ya.... can't do zero there... that's what got me in trouble!
Sometimes there's a difference between our tanks vs the ocean. That's a big one. Coral need food so gotta have some nutrients in there.
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Yup, but I'd rather do it with feeding a bit more and more fish/fish poop.
I have a bottle of mixed stump remover for emergencies.
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Always enjoy your threads and your attention to detail. Great looking tank.
That's not a typo though, .2 - 1.0 for p04? Nothing crazy about those numbers. If anything it makes me feel a little better about my p04 stats haha. Also, are the radions staying for good or is a surprise in store? Thanks
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The radions are still going strong. Actually, need to see if I can eventually get those diffusers that BRS showed us recently.
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I agree Dennis, I'd rather have n03 and p04 from feeding, fish poop verse zeroing everything out then dosing to control them. In my book, that's closes any chance at accidents or swings.
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With your AWC setup what do you do to ensure little to no drift? Are you even using or relying on the conductivity probe or are you just measuring with a refractometer? |
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But lately I've been noticing my 5 year old probe has been reading low (even after calibrating) so I'm using the refractometer as backup. But as long as I know where it should be, the probe tends to read very consistently.
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Are your Radions still placed 16 inches above the water at 85% intensity?
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Thanks! I have my radions 16" over at 85% and I'm finding that it's not enough to colour up my higher end corals based on discussion over at the other forum - my Walt Disney and Homewrecker are showing "mid-light" colours and not the rainbows they're well known for
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I hadn't heard that light intensity dictated color like that. So are you going push more power? I'm going by what BRS and some reefers I know personally have found which is PAR under LED should be around the mid 200's.
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I run mine for an hour in the morning and use the profilux to disable topoff while the water is being removed and refilled from saltwater container so it doesn't automatically start adding freshwater when the level drops. then when that is finished i reactivate topoff. |
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On my old 200g tank, I used to use the AWC programming in GHL, using two level sensors and two small hobby pumps, and later I switched to a dual head Masterflex pump. It did exactly what you are doing with the ATO shut-off. But no need to do that when using a doser and swapping out such small amounts of water.
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Man, I read your thread and it sure seemed like the Triton method failed for you and you gave up and switched back to basic Berlin. You even sold your custom Triton-method sump less than a year in.
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Nutrients dropped to zero, thus the tank could no longer support the massive brick of cheato (that Triton told me not to trim back) and it started dying off and wouldn't stop. Even after I realized why this was happening. So all those nutrients went back into the tank, along with the refugium food that was being dosed daily as part of the Triton Elements. BOOM. Massive outbreak of brown snot algae that I fought for a few months before throwing in the towel and restarting. In the end, I just didn't see the point of triton. Why do that when I was fine running a standard Berlin system that was basically just like Triton but involved water changes? I usually run a daily auto water change setup anyway. The only thing I'm missing is maybe some minor trace elements, that even Triton isn't sure what benefits there might be? My setup with the AWC, Protein Skimmer, decent sized Refugium and Calcium Reactor is simpler and safer, in my experience.
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