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02/13/2019, 11:07 AM | #26 |
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is no one going to point out his post "Alk prwtty stable at 8-10"
Thats NOT stable! not even close! |
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02/13/2019, 12:21 PM | #28 | |
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What kind of light do you have?
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On my small tank I run a Radion XR15 G4 PRO @ 100% 12" above my tank and my coraline grows like crazy..... I used to run a 250W Halide before switching to LED and coraline was fine too. It all comes down to water chemistry and stability
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02/13/2019, 02:42 PM | #31 | |
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I feel like alk swings are huge and if you have excessive nutrients that really hampers coraline growth as well. Try to keep you alk in control.... Like I said I have a doser for my tank and it stays in the low 8's.... I check my alk every other day to adjust dosing as needed (if needed). Keeping things stable is really key in this hobby. Each tank is slightly different in terms of what is stable. For me I aim for Alk in the 8's, Calcium in the low 400s, Mag anything over 1300 and salinity of 1.025 To maintain stability I use an auto top off and a dosing system.... That way my doser doses my tank 4X's daily (every 8 hours) keeps things very stable and corals love stability. Hows your nutrients? Do you have any nuisance algae?
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I had some really bad algae a while back but it's all gone now. My nutrients are super low. No trave of nitrate and .034 phosphate.
I have ATO and my alk is always 8.2-8.8. I think my rocks just need to be cleaned. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
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Yea it seems tanks that are started with really healthy live rock get the best algae results the fastest.... but along with live rock comes hitch hickers and other nuisance things
Do your rocks have slime on them
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Ya a little bit of gunk all over them. Clean up crew slowly taking it off. It's clear and just a film but left over from algae outbreak I think.
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I use the 32" reefbreeders photon gen 1 now. Never had any luck growing coralline with 250W 10k or 14k MH lighting either, only thing that helped for me was lowering the intensity of the LED lighting and it colored up my hard corals and accelerated growth as well. I have an automatic water changer that does change about 2% of the water per day and that has not changed and I have always used the same salt, IO.
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I'm growing corraline in a 20 gallon with a HOB filter and a $60 led light from my local fish store
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I pointed that out for the record. Got to watch out for these dead zombie posts this ones almost a year old!
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