270 Gallon SPS tank for JBNY

ReefWreak said:
Awesome video, thanks for sharing!
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Thank you, I'll get better in time.



reefmutt said:
Looking good!
Were your LEDs on for that video? It looks pretty white, or not so typically blue..
Your kno3 supplement, is it from pax bellum? I've been using Seachem nitrogen for fresh water planted tanks. It works quite nicely. A 250ml bottle is around $12..
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The LED lights were off. It was adding too much blue to the video, so I turned them off. So it was just MH/T5.

I mix my own KNO3. A bag of power that mixes up a few gallons is $3 it only takes a few minutes to mix up a 500ml solution that takes me about 3 weeks to go through.
 
Corals look great with nice colours. The health of the acros look spot on. Nice thick healthy tissue. Cant wait to see more corals in this tank. :beer:
 
markalot said:
Looks good, I subscribed hoping for more videos. :)
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Thanks Mark, I'll definitely do more in the future.

sahin said:
Corals look great with nice colours. The health of the acros look spot on. Nice thick healthy tissue. Cant wait to see more corals in this tank. :beer:
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Thank you Sahin, Yeah the corals are coming alone nicely, almost all of those are frags off wild colonies, A few you can see are still recovering but they are coloring up nicely.

I hope to have many more corals in this tank for you to see!!
 
Joe,
How much of an effect on your pH are you seeing the ARID have?

Do you dose NO3 when the ARID is lit up, or is that not something you're really concerned with?

Video looks great, and the corals look fantastic.

I love all of the fish in your video too. How are the Yellow Assessor's doing?
 
maxxII said:
Joe,
How much of an effect on your pH are you seeing the ARID have?

Do you dose NO3 when the ARID is lit up, or is that not something you're really concerned with?

Video looks great, and the corals look fantastic.

I love all of the fish in your video too. How are the Yellow Assessor's doing?
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Thanks, I am really pleased with the corals. The assessors are doing really well. They are all eating fine, some are out int eh open at the back of the tank, but a bunch are still hanging around the caves and more a venturing into the open for longer as time goes on.

The effect of the ARID on my pH has been strange, for a while I saw no difference, then my ph was as high as 8.5 and down to only 8.2, I check the probe a few times and it was correct. But now it has settled down to 8.2-8.0 even with the Ca reactor going.

I dose the NO3 at night, no particular reason, I do it before I go to bed. But the ARID is lit when I dose. I don't think it matters when you dose. If I would stop being lazy I would just hook it up to a dose I have, but I haven't got around to that yet.
 
Glad to hear the Assessors are doing well. They are pretty fish and you're the first person I've read about doing a bunch in one tank.

I'm kinda struggling right now with my stock list for my reboot.

I've got this goofy mindset of wanting to fish from the same general location...

It makes no sense since I have absolutely no idea where my corals will be coming from, but I do try and stay away from Red Sea and Atlantic corals and fish.....

Goofy things we do in this hobby, right?


I've been dosing things when the reactor is lit as well. My thought process is that I want the chaeto in the reactor to be photosynthesizing if possible so that it can take up the supplements vs the nuisance algae I'm trying to get rid of.

I asked about the pH because with my entire set up in the basement, pH gets depressed when the Air Conditioner is running. Since the wife has bad allergies, it runs pretty much consistently from April to October. Yesterday it was hovering about 7.85. Today it was at 8.04 - 8.05 for most of the day. I dont think the AC was running much today though since it was cooler than normal.

Sorry for rambling...

Glad to see your tank is still moving forward with coral growth and health.
 
Hi Joe, I am so happy to see you back in the game. I followed you back in the time of your Cnidarian Reef site. For years I stared at the screen from your last entry RC 4-2010 wondering what happened. On a whim, I searched your old website and wham! Now your back and I couldn't be happier for you. I actually asked you a question once on your website and you answered in one day letting me know you were the real deal. I appreciate your honesty about the things that have failed giving all of us hope that our mutual love of corals can be successful. Thank you not only for your love of the hobby, but your down to earth attitude of helping others in a challenging hobby. I can now follow your thread, with it's back to basics, incorporating new ideas, helping others theme, and I could not be more inspired.
 
reefitted said:
Hi Joe, I am so happy to see you back in the game. I followed you back in the time of your Cnidarian Reef site. For years I stared at the screen from your last entry RC 4-2010 wondering what happened. On a whim, I searched your old website and wham! Now your back and I couldn't be happier for you. I actually asked you a question once on your website and you answered in one day letting me know you were the real deal. I appreciate your honesty about the things that have failed giving all of us hope that our mutual love of corals can be successful. Thank you not only for your love of the hobby, but your down to earth attitude of helping others in a challenging hobby. I can now follow your thread, with it's back to basics, incorporating new ideas, helping others theme, and I could not be more inspired.
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That was incredibly nice of you to write, thank you.

My website was a lot of fun, I am actually planning on starting it back up (well I've been planning it for a while, but now I am doing something about it). I was working on it just last week. The problem with the site ended up being that I wrote all the code for it myself, back in the day using Cold Fusion, a web programing language. Years later, the site moved to another server/provider and they did not support Coldfusion so I had to recode it using php, which I didn't even know at the time. So I learned php and coded it quickly just so the site would show when I switched providers, and figured I would get back to it sometime. There ended up being more work than I thought to get things back, and sometime never happened. But now I have all the back end pieces working, sql database and all, so I just need to get the main pages done and I can start it up again. So stay tuned, hopefully this summer!

Again many thanks for the kind words.
 
Joe,

How are your assessors doing?

What kind of behavior do you have with your?

Mine space themselves apart about every 6-8 inches along the back wall of the tank.

None of them seem to have paired up, or hang out together.

Was wondering what kind of behavior you were seeing.

I also found that when I feed blackworms for a week or so, the color of the yellow assessors gets much better and the red lines show up brighter.

Dave B
 
Hey Dave,

All the Assessors are doing well.

They took a while to come out in the open. In the beginning, when they went into the DT they would only hang out under the ledges and in the rockwork. after a few weeks they were a bunch of them that were only on the back wall like you just described, then after about 3-4 more weeks they started being more in the open, now I have about 6-7 that hang out in the same area of the left side of my tank out in the open most of the day. They are getting more aggressive with feeding so I think that they will ultimately be out even more than they are now, but they sure seem to take a long time to acclimate to the tank for sure.

I have not tried to feed them black worms, I worry about feeding live food when I have had new fish because I want them to eat dry/dead food readily, but now that they are doing well, I might try it, stronger coloration would definitely be welcome on those guys.
 
Here are some recent shots of frags. Color is getting good, hoping for some growth soon and then I will know things are on the right track.

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