d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

biecacka said:
So Dennis, are you still trying to maintain your levels near NSW. 7-7.5alk, and zeros elsewhere?

Corey
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Zeros?
I try to stay around 8.0 Alk which is what I did with Triton. I feel it gives me more wiggle room if it was to drop by .5 - 1 dkh by accident.
Calc follows suit.
Mag around 1300 give or take.

Nitrate around 2 if I can. Higher is fine but I have trouble maintaining it.
p04 I don't worry much about. .2 - 1.0 is fine with me, or even a little higher.
 
I should have specified zeros in n03 and p04 as many who try to emulate NSW want to keep them around those numbers.

I think how you're doing it is better though, a little wiggle room in case something unforeseen happens and numbers change.

Corey
 
ya ya ya.... can't do zero there... that's what got me in trouble! :D

Sometimes there's a difference between our tanks vs the ocean.
That's a big one.
Coral need food so gotta have some nutrients in there.
 
d2mini said:
Zeros?
I try to stay around 8.0 Alk which is what I did with Triton. I feel it gives me more wiggle room if it was to drop by .5 - 1 dkh by accident.
Calc follows suit.
Mag around 1300 give or take.

Nitrate around 2 if I can. Higher is fine but I have trouble maintaining it.
p04 I don't worry much about. .2 - 1.0 is fine with me, or even a little higher.
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Have you tried dosing nitrate specifically to up your numbers?
 
Always enjoy your threads and your attention to detail. Great looking tank.
That's not a typo though, .2 - 1.0 for p04? Nothing crazy about those numbers. If anything it makes me feel a little better about my p04 stats haha.
Also, are the radions staying for good or is a surprise in store?
Thanks
 
RCS82 said:
Always enjoy your threads and your attention to detail. Great looking tank.
That's not a typo though, .2 - 1.0 for p04? Nothing crazy about those numbers. If anything it makes me feel a little better about my p04 stats haha.
Also, are the radions staying for good or is a surprise in store?
Thanks
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Yep, as long as I'm not seeing algae, I'm not stressing over p04. :)
The radions are still going strong. Actually, need to see if I can eventually get those diffusers that BRS showed us recently.
 
d2mini said:
Yep, as long as I'm not seeing algae, I'm not stressing over p04. :)
The radions are still going strong. Actually, need to see if I can eventually get those diffusers that BRS showed us recently.
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I had no3 at 60ppm+ & po4 at 3.0ppm + once upon a time. Didn't know it - bad test kits. Had no real algae issues at this time, but when I got those parameters back down to near zero, coralline algae growth, which had been non-existant, took off big time.
 
I agree Dennis, I'd rather have n03 and p04 from feeding, fish poop verse zeroing everything out then dosing to control them. In my book, that's closes any chance at accidents or swings.

Corey
 
d2mini said:
Yep, as long as I'm not seeing algae, I'm not stressing over p04. :)
The radions are still going strong. Actually, need to see if I can eventually get those diffusers that BRS showed us recently.
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I think they're for sell in December?
 
d2mini said:
GHL Doser 2.1
It runs the heads 150x per day, for just a minute or two.
Total daily volume is around 2.25g or so.
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I tried using my Neptune DOS doing daily AWC before getting my GHL Doser but had a problem with conductivity drift over time. I was relying too heavily on my conductivity probe which is very inaccurate. I think air bubbles in the sump was interfering with the probe's connections and causing an inaccurate measurement. I have been monitoring my GHL Conductivity Probe and it seems to keep a more stable/correct measurement for some reason.

With your AWC setup what do you do to ensure little to no drift? Are you even using or relying on the conductivity probe or are you just measuring with a refractometer?
 
cpllongjk said:
I tried using my Neptune DOS doing daily AWC before getting my GHL Doser but had a problem with conductivity drift over time. I was relying too heavily on my conductivity probe which is very inaccurate. I think air bubbles in the sump was interfering with the probe's connections and causing an inaccurate measurement. I have been monitoring my GHL Conductivity Probe and it seems to keep a more stable/correct measurement for some reason.

With your AWC setup what do you do to ensure little to no drift? Are you even using or relying on the conductivity probe or are you just measuring with a refractometer?
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Usually the conductivity probe.
But lately I've been noticing my 5 year old probe has been reading low (even after calibrating) so I'm using the refractometer as backup. But as long as I know where it should be, the probe tends to read very consistently.
 
d2mini said:
17" and the overall intensity is 70%.
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Thanks! I have my radions 16" over at 85% and I'm finding that it's not enough to colour up my higher end corals based on discussion over at the other forum - my Walt Disney and Homewrecker are showing "mid-light" colours and not the rainbows they're well known for
 
d2mini said:
GHL Doser 2.1
It runs the heads 150x per day, for just a minute or two.
Total daily volume is around 2.25g or so.
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Do you find that is better than having it run for an hour or a few hours constantly? I am using ghl also changing about 1gpd in a 110g total volume system
 
illumnae said:
Thanks! I have my radions 16" over at 85% and I'm finding that it's not enough to colour up my higher end corals based on discussion over at the other forum - my Walt Disney and Homewrecker are showing "mid-light" colours and not the rainbows they're well known for
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Very interesting!
I hadn't heard that light intensity dictated color like that. So are you going push more power?
I'm going by what BRS and some reefers I know personally have found which is PAR under LED should be around the mid 200's.
 
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