Acro Grow test
- Thread starter mojo~
- Start date
Just wanted to post some picture of the frag at the one week mark. I am going to try to take two pictures each week at the same angle.
Parameters right now are:
Salinity: 1.024
PH: 8.5-8.4
Phosphates: 0.0
Nitrates: 0
Alk: 8
Ca: 400
Mag: 1250
My alk and mag are actually a little lower than what I want. I am working on bringing them back up. My corals cont. to consume more and more alk which is forcing me to adjust my dosing pumps each week to keep up.
Parameters right now are:
Salinity: 1.024
PH: 8.5-8.4
Phosphates: 0.0
Nitrates: 0
Alk: 8
Ca: 400
Mag: 1250
My alk and mag are actually a little lower than what I want. I am working on bringing them back up. My corals cont. to consume more and more alk which is forcing me to adjust my dosing pumps each week to keep up.
JCR's Reef
New member
So how this little test doing?
I will try to post another picture sometime next week. The coral is definitely a slow grower. It has started encrusted a good amount onto the frag plug and I have started to see a bit of growth on th e branches. The other corals in my tank have really taken off lately. I am struggling to keep my alk at 9. I think I finally got it balanced out but I am having to dose 75 ml of alk portion (Bulkreef Supply 2 Part) to maintain 9.
JCR's Reef
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Thats one reason its hard for me to decide to run BB or not. I have heard in the long term it is hard to keep the alk up running a BB tank.
mojo~
Skimmer Guy
yea IT been hard to keep my alk up and my calcium. I am getting closer. I havebeen running some alk additive I won at the indy swap in my topoff and my alk is at 10 today. MY calcium is low though it was at 340. So i am upping my dosing I thought I had it balanced out pretty well. I will be adding the 2 nd dosing pump on the alk maybe later tonight. It works pretty well. Running all mine on a reefkeeper lite L3.
JCR's Reef
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Bare Bottom, yeah. Just been reading alot that people are having a hard time. One of the threads I was reading it in was Sonny's thread just recently. He added the sand back and hasnt had problems keeping it up now. But who knows?
I honestly don't think the bare bottom has anything to do with it in this case. The tank has been up for a year and I have only been having this problem the last couple of weeks. During that same time I noticed an explosion in growth on a lot of the corals. I have roughly 30 pieces of sps in my tank so a high alk requirement is not really surprising.
Fireworm
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So you just have to dose a lot more when running a bare bottom system?
I can't wait to see pics. It would also be neat to do this with a tank that has sand that is similar to both tanks in the test now, just to see if that helps keep it more stable and grow at a different rate.
I can't wait to see pics. It would also be neat to do this with a tank that has sand that is similar to both tanks in the test now, just to see if that helps keep it more stable and grow at a different rate.
Sand introduces all kinds of potential problems when keeping sps. If you aren't on top of changing it out every year or so it just becomes a detritus trap. Once this happens it will become a struggle to keep your nutrients under control. There are very few top sps tanks running deep sand beds these days. The ones that do have sand are running it mainly for appearance only.
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