600 Gallon Upgrade Build

I have been adding a cleanup crew for the past couple weeks. So far I added 7 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, 50 Mexican Red Leg Hermits(10 of which I placed in the frag tank), 100 Coralline Margarita Snails (25 of which I placed in the frag tank) and next week I will add another 50 Mexican Turbo Snails(10 of which will go into the frag tank). Also will be adding a Ctenochaetus sp and Foxface of some sort into the frag tank for maintenance purposes.
 
dave.m said:
This is one of the problems with calcium reactors. When it runs low on media you have to take the whole works out of production, clean it all out, and add new media which will, in turn, require a few days to come back on line, requiring re-calibrating the calcium reactor all over again.
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I used to find this also, so I switched to a dual chamber reactor and only have to replace the media in the first chamber generally. Seems to help reduce this transition.
 
ca1ore said:
I used to find this also, so I switched to a dual chamber reactor and only have to replace the media in the first chamber generally. Seems to help reduce this transition.
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Man that is a big help of advice and I have to keep that in the back of my head. Thanks ca1ore.
 
Yes, thx ca1ore. I've never tried a dual chamber calcium reactor - mostly due to price. Good to know for the future, though.

Dave.M
 
600 Gallon Upgrade Build

So the frag tank has been up and running for a week. Even though it's tied into my DT should I be getting diatoms?
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I really don't understand. Blues are on for 10 hours and whites on for 4 hours.
 
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Newbie Aquarist said:
So the frag tank has been up and running for a week. Even though it's tied into my DT should I be getting diatoms?
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I really don't understand. Blues are on for 10 hours and whites on for 4 hours.
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Nature is at work and that bare rock is an ideal surface area for diatoms to take hold - for a while anyway. Don't worry about your lighting levels for diatoms, just keep the corals happy. I suspect the diatoms will be short lived since your two tanks are plumbed together. There is a lot of coraline in your main tank already that will take hold soon and then diatoms will recede in no time.
 
ReefKeeper64 said:
Nature is at work and that bare rock is an ideal surface area for diatoms to take hold - for a while anyway. Don't worry about your lighting levels for diatoms, just keep the corals happy. I suspect the diatoms will be short lived since your two tanks are plumbed together. There is a lot of coraline in your main tank already that will take hold soon and then diatoms will recede in no time.
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Ok then. As usual I am worrying more than I should.
 
3 Month Anniversary

3 Month Anniversary

Sunday was the three month anniversary for my tank. I am finally beating the battle with phosphates as they read .08 ppms and my nitrates are around 2-5 ppms which i will keep them at to keep phosphates in check. So here is a video and I hope you enjoy.

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Thats sweet. I love my black backround but ur blue is awesome. Please though be careful using the magnet cleaner as it is much easier to scratch tank as opposed to using a filter pad by hand.
 
jt48 said:
Thats sweet. I love my black backround but ur blue is awesome. Please though be careful using the magnet cleaner as it is much easier to scratch tank as opposed to using a filter pad by hand.
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Yea to late on that. I'm getting the pad you can put on the inside of the tank to help clean and also buff the inside of the tank.
 
Newbie Aquarist said:
Yea to late on that. I'm getting the pad you can put on the inside of the tank to help clean and also buff the inside of the tank.
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I use the acrylic magnet sleeve from Champion Lighting...works great and seems to help prevent 'sand' scratches...been using and recommending them for years!
 
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