jeremevans
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Adtravels 90 Gallon reef
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jeremevans
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The tank is looking good! What is the flat shelf on the left? Did you find a rock like that?
Yes it is live rock I have several pieces like that, two on the display and 3 more in the sump that I may use later.
It must be formed from coral skeleton as it has a very porous structure but is flat with waves in it.
When epoxied it forms nice shelves, however they do collect a little detritus.
I have let the tank bubble along, there was a bit of a re-scape to house a magnifica anemone. I have added one or two sps and kept on with some FM products. I just recently got back from 5 weeks away from the tank in which time it did well but growth slowed significantly on the sps. nutrients hit pretty much zero even though i was feeding on a schedule via the apex.
Here are some pics, I wish they were better.
I have ordered a new light from Germany it should be here any day..
Here are some pics, I wish they were better.
I have ordered a new light from Germany it should be here any day..
I took some Par readings with a seneye, pumps turned on so the readings jumped a little and I took an average.
This is with 3 radion xr15's two gen 3 with a gen 4 in the middle.
all three at 100% intensity on the SPSAB+ setting.
All readings directly under the lights except the bottom middle and bottom right readings which are 2 inches off the front glass and hence lower.
Not bad numbers but the shadowing is the reason I have changed to an ati 4 bulb hybrid from Germany with the new style pucks.
This is with 3 radion xr15's two gen 3 with a gen 4 in the middle.
all three at 100% intensity on the SPSAB+ setting.
All readings directly under the lights except the bottom middle and bottom right readings which are 2 inches off the front glass and hence lower.
Not bad numbers but the shadowing is the reason I have changed to an ati 4 bulb hybrid from Germany with the new style pucks.
There are the readings for the ATI HYBRID
4 bulb 39 watt unit 2 coral plus 2 blue plus
LED at 70% violet at 72 blues at 255 and white at 125
I turned it down to 60%led intensity after the par tests to get closer to the radion numbers. and then may bump up.
4 bulb 39 watt unit 2 coral plus 2 blue plus
LED at 70% violet at 72 blues at 255 and white at 125
I turned it down to 60%led intensity after the par tests to get closer to the radion numbers. and then may bump up.
Two months on and there have been some changes in the tank.
I switched from basic 3 part dosing (randy's) to the FM balling salts and had an alk spike as a result, this was not too bad but really came about due to a faulty test kit. The only negative result was a bit of stn on my red robin stag. The alk is now stable at 8dkh.
I had to remove the anemone and clowns and relocate them to my 2 foot cube at work as the nem was huge and the clownfish killed a very expensive flame wrasse, literally dragged it around by the gills. I did not really want to take them out but had to.
Another development was that I added some media to the sump to increase biological filtration it was a ceramic media in a block form that was recommended by by LFS here. Anyway after 1.5 months my nitrates went from near 0 to about 16 which could easily have been the lack of carbon dosing or over feeding but due to the size of the media and its possible negative effects i pulled it.
One consequence of switching to FM salts as opposed to randy's recipe is that the pH of the aquarium has fallen slightly. To counter this I have put in a smallish fuge with Chaeto and caulerpa.
I filled the nem space with two larger sps colonies, in fact the only non frags i have started with. one is a lovely aussie piece and the other a green and yellow millie.
Apart from that I have added a chalice, some shrooms and a zoas to fill in and act as accent corals and growth is now really staring to take off at last.
Bubble algae and brown wafer continues to be a little troublesome but I have had two halloween urchins mowing through it.
The ATI hybrid PM has been a great success and now I have resolved a small issue with the clock resetting during power outages it seems we may be getting somewhere.
lastly I replaced the Tunze 6095's with vortechs and am very impressed with the flow and controllability using the apex.
Pictures to follow
I switched from basic 3 part dosing (randy's) to the FM balling salts and had an alk spike as a result, this was not too bad but really came about due to a faulty test kit. The only negative result was a bit of stn on my red robin stag. The alk is now stable at 8dkh.
I had to remove the anemone and clowns and relocate them to my 2 foot cube at work as the nem was huge and the clownfish killed a very expensive flame wrasse, literally dragged it around by the gills. I did not really want to take them out but had to.
Another development was that I added some media to the sump to increase biological filtration it was a ceramic media in a block form that was recommended by by LFS here. Anyway after 1.5 months my nitrates went from near 0 to about 16 which could easily have been the lack of carbon dosing or over feeding but due to the size of the media and its possible negative effects i pulled it.
One consequence of switching to FM salts as opposed to randy's recipe is that the pH of the aquarium has fallen slightly. To counter this I have put in a smallish fuge with Chaeto and caulerpa.
I filled the nem space with two larger sps colonies, in fact the only non frags i have started with. one is a lovely aussie piece and the other a green and yellow millie.
Apart from that I have added a chalice, some shrooms and a zoas to fill in and act as accent corals and growth is now really staring to take off at last.
Bubble algae and brown wafer continues to be a little troublesome but I have had two halloween urchins mowing through it.
The ATI hybrid PM has been a great success and now I have resolved a small issue with the clock resetting during power outages it seems we may be getting somewhere.
lastly I replaced the Tunze 6095's with vortechs and am very impressed with the flow and controllability using the apex.
Pictures to follow
Not much interest for this tank!
Anyway, I have my ati icp results back, very quick considering I sent them to Germany.
slightly low on strontium 5.79
down on Iodine 25ppb and Potassium 380ppm so will supplement the reccomended doses.
Phosphorus and phospate also low 0.01!
Nitrate at 7
alk 7.69
calc 443
mag 1450
I have had some sporadic base recession (very minor) which could the lack of iodine?
Anyway, I have my ati icp results back, very quick considering I sent them to Germany.
slightly low on strontium 5.79
down on Iodine 25ppb and Potassium 380ppm so will supplement the reccomended doses.
Phosphorus and phospate also low 0.01!
Nitrate at 7
alk 7.69
calc 443
mag 1450
I have had some sporadic base recession (very minor) which could the lack of iodine?
