62g in Wall sps build
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Hey guys.
So after such a long time , I guess its I have revive this thing. Well I have had many down with this tank in the last few months. High Alk, this tank barely consumes any of it. High nutrients, low nutrients, rtn/stn. Pretty much all except bugs... no bugs thank god. Oh and forgot to mention 1 kid and 1 one the way
This was the only good news. Anyways I decided to move on and try the Aquaforest line, since everyone is having amazing success with it. Soo after reading and asking, I got the Probio salt, Ballin Comp 1,2,3 and coral a b e v like the guys at AF suggested in the dedicated thread. WOW its all I have to say, this stuff looks so good that cant wait to see how it works. I even got a free NP Pro with the salt.. Thanks.. Anyways here are some pics and some numbers before my 20g water change with the good stuff....
Alk-8.9 Salifert
Calc-440 Salifert
Mag-1400 Salifert
No3-10ppm Salifert
Po4-.07 Hanna
Temp 78f
SG- 1.024
DAY 1
20g Water Change
Alk - 8.3- goal is less that 8
calc - 420
mag - 1400
No3 - 5ppm
Po4 - .03
temp and sg same.
1 drop of np pro
1 drop of coral a b v e
Components 123 I'm at 4 ml a day of each. Started at 25ml and it would keep my alk at 8.9. Granted I was shooting for higher alk to get more growth but, this comes with rtn/stn sooo no, I cut the dose drastically to make it go down. Even then, its barely using alk.
Here are some pics enjoy
So after such a long time , I guess its I have revive this thing. Well I have had many down with this tank in the last few months. High Alk, this tank barely consumes any of it. High nutrients, low nutrients, rtn/stn. Pretty much all except bugs... no bugs thank god. Oh and forgot to mention 1 kid and 1 one the way
This was the only good news. Anyways I decided to move on and try the Aquaforest line, since everyone is having amazing success with it. Soo after reading and asking, I got the Probio salt, Ballin Comp 1,2,3 and coral a b e v like the guys at AF suggested in the dedicated thread. WOW its all I have to say, this stuff looks so good that cant wait to see how it works. I even got a free NP Pro with the salt.. Thanks.. Anyways here are some pics and some numbers before my 20g water change with the good stuff....Alk-8.9 Salifert
Calc-440 Salifert
Mag-1400 Salifert
No3-10ppm Salifert
Po4-.07 Hanna
Temp 78f
SG- 1.024
DAY 1
20g Water Change
Alk - 8.3- goal is less that 8
calc - 420
mag - 1400
No3 - 5ppm
Po4 - .03
temp and sg same.
1 drop of np pro
1 drop of coral a b v e
Components 123 I'm at 4 ml a day of each. Started at 25ml and it would keep my alk at 8.9. Granted I was shooting for higher alk to get more growth but, this comes with rtn/stn sooo no, I cut the dose drastically to make it go down. Even then, its barely using alk.
Here are some pics enjoy
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Hey guys quick log in. Tank is doing extremely well since I started the AF products. Colors are getting very deep and brighter, specially blues and greens. I am currently dosing 1 drop every night of Corals A B E V, NP Pro, BioS. Ill start at 1 drop for the first week, then bump to two after and measure from there. My Slimmer, which had browned out it having the best P.E I have ever seen in it and its polyps are BRIGHT green. Only coral that is doing bad is my setosa, which has almost bleached after I trimmed it, and my hammer which I think is going to die. My Alk has dropped to 7.7 so I upped the components 123 to 8 ML a day , spread out throughout 4 doses every 6 hrs. Nitrates and Phos remain the same, as well as cal and mag. I'm debating in changing my skimmer but having a hard time deciding which one to get. I currently use a BM NAC 5.5 and its never really worked good for me. So im looking into a CO1, CO Q2, Sea Side Aquatics ES5 or a Reef Octopus SSA 110/150. My space is limited in the sump so I cant get crazy, its about 12/8 or 12/10 chamber. Anyways need some help posting pics from Flickr, since my photobucket seems to be messed up. Anyone know how to upload from flickr?
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Got photobucket to work.
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Found this picture of what the tank used to look like before my crash... i cant wait untill it starts to look better than this.
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How did it crash?
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Alk got to almost 14 dkh , by the time i noticed it was wayyy to late.
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Thanks Perryjust saw this one, wow, what a setup!!! Another one going AF, love it!!!
Those are some tasty frags you got there, bracing myself for take off
Maybe one day it will look half as good as yours bud lol
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UPDATE
Second Water Change with AF Probiotic done 10g. It is insane how fast this salt mixes, and how spot on the params are. I also harvested some cheato which has been growing insane, guessing from the dosing. Also started to alternate dosing of a/v and b/e to EOD as Perry and Matt describe in their threads. Im beginning to see an increase in hair algae or turf algae no really sure what it is. So I tested nutrients and they are about the same No3 10ppm and Po4 At .09. Don't know if I should increase nppro and bioS dose to 2 drops, Max dose for my tank should be 3 of each given the total water volume vs Af recommend dose of 1 per 27g. Maybe since I started EOD dosing of the vits and amino should diminish this. Besides that everything looks amazing. Ill get some pics in tonight
Second Water Change with AF Probiotic done 10g. It is insane how fast this salt mixes, and how spot on the params are. I also harvested some cheato which has been growing insane, guessing from the dosing. Also started to alternate dosing of a/v and b/e to EOD as Perry and Matt describe in their threads. Im beginning to see an increase in hair algae or turf algae no really sure what it is. So I tested nutrients and they are about the same No3 10ppm and Po4 At .09. Don't know if I should increase nppro and bioS dose to 2 drops, Max dose for my tank should be 3 of each given the total water volume vs Af recommend dose of 1 per 27g. Maybe since I started EOD dosing of the vits and amino should diminish this. Besides that everything looks amazing. Ill get some pics in tonight
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Got some goodies in today courtesy of asd. Think im going to eun out of space lol
https://flic.kr/p/DFp1y8
https://flic.kr/p/DFp1y8
