Dr's 70G Rimless cube Build Log
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Thanks for the reply ! I'm glad you enjoyed the read and tag along for some more great updates :beer:
DrPheel
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seems to be coming along nicely. keep up the good work
Thanks for the support mate :dance:
DrPheel
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Happy Monday RC ! Past few weeks have been a nice improvement on the phosphate issue. I was able to rid the tank of all algae and get my phosphates at a stable 0.05 (Hanna Egg Checker) and here is what I did to get everything back as it was. I started to change my filter sock every 3-4 days instead of every 7 days when I did my WC. I also manually siphoned and scrubbed all visible algae and took out movable rocks to brush them in my WC bin. I was able to get rid of 99.0% of all algae in the tank and this led to a boom in P04 since nothing was consuming it now that the algae was gone. The Po4 shot up from 0.10 to 0.24. My Po4X4 went hard at binding the extra nutrients available but ended up exhausting at around 0.16. I had this media for the last month or so and I decided to swap it out for a fresh batch. I was able to source my media fairly quickly and I did notice something interesting.... In my mind , PO4x4 was a dark pellitised media that REEKED of a disgusting smell... well in fact I think that was just a bad batch since this is only the second 500ML bag I buy and my initial thoughts on the product were the ones I made on the first purchase. Well I think it went bad or it was just a bad batch as the new media I got was very light in color and also did not smell nothing !! I swapped out for the same amount (1 cup) set the flow , and left it there for a day. After my testing the next day ... WOW .. already at 0.05 !! Now i truly know this was a media issue and my first batch was total garbage :furious: Oh well , the more you know 
it has only been a few days since and I have not tested P04 since. I will wait for my scheduled water change tonight and test tomorrow :beer:
I also looked a the Maxspect Gyre XF130 in action at my LFS. I was doing all the flow in a 6x3 feet shallow SPS tank. Got me thinking about a possible future upgrade if I can sell my 2x rw-8's :crazy1:
I celebrated with a few new frags from the LFS ! I got a few nice SPS and also a nice green monti w black polyps. Please enjoy the pictures and a nice comparison shot of my chalice over the last few months. Stay tuned for a end of week update on the P04 battle :celeb1:
SPS Frags :
When I got it :
Now:
it has only been a few days since and I have not tested P04 since. I will wait for my scheduled water change tonight and test tomorrow :beer: I also looked a the Maxspect Gyre XF130 in action at my LFS. I was doing all the flow in a 6x3 feet shallow SPS tank. Got me thinking about a possible future upgrade if I can sell my 2x rw-8's :crazy1:
I celebrated with a few new frags from the LFS ! I got a few nice SPS and also a nice green monti w black polyps. Please enjoy the pictures and a nice comparison shot of my chalice over the last few months. Stay tuned for a end of week update on the P04 battle :celeb1:
SPS Frags :
When I got it :
Now:
DrPheel
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Good Afternoon RC !
We are now at 0.02/3 for phosphates after 3 days. I'm seeing good results with the new media and I assume the rest will be processed after the next week with a good WC. I'm also suspecting that the rock and sand are releasing PO4 slowly in the tank as I seem to have had a exponential removal of phosphate but I seem to have hit a plateau and not able to get down to 0.00. I have not seen signs of Nitrate so I assume my pellets are on top of the job and since there is no nitrates they don't consume phos either so I think my algea outbreak was caused by lots of bacteria die off since they now have nothing to feed on thus me removing lots of them. I'm seeing people dosing nitrates to get the pellets going and to mimic a higher bio load but I don't think this is the right way to do so. I'm planing on removing some pellets again untill i can see some nitrates . I'm shooting for low nutrients but it still want some traces for my soft coral, now the pellets are making it very low not processing them equally like they should. Since I don't think my bio load is very big I will maybe start adding a few fish untill i see traces of Nitrate and let the pellets go from there. Or depending on what I decide , I may take em offline completely until I have a big bio load that needs carbon dosing to keep in check.
Its great to lean how things work and sometimes no matter how much research and reading you do you kind of end up learning on your own at the end
Have a nice weekend RC
We are now at 0.02/3 for phosphates after 3 days. I'm seeing good results with the new media and I assume the rest will be processed after the next week with a good WC. I'm also suspecting that the rock and sand are releasing PO4 slowly in the tank as I seem to have had a exponential removal of phosphate but I seem to have hit a plateau and not able to get down to 0.00. I have not seen signs of Nitrate so I assume my pellets are on top of the job and since there is no nitrates they don't consume phos either so I think my algea outbreak was caused by lots of bacteria die off since they now have nothing to feed on thus me removing lots of them. I'm seeing people dosing nitrates to get the pellets going and to mimic a higher bio load but I don't think this is the right way to do so. I'm planing on removing some pellets again untill i can see some nitrates . I'm shooting for low nutrients but it still want some traces for my soft coral, now the pellets are making it very low not processing them equally like they should. Since I don't think my bio load is very big I will maybe start adding a few fish untill i see traces of Nitrate and let the pellets go from there. Or depending on what I decide , I may take em offline completely until I have a big bio load that needs carbon dosing to keep in check.
Its great to lean how things work and sometimes no matter how much research and reading you do you kind of end up learning on your own at the end
Have a nice weekend RC
DrPheel
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Quick entry in the build logs !
I went on my local LFS hunt this weekend for any good deals as I was looking to get a few nice SPS colony to frag and sell on my local forum. I did not find nothing to my liking so I ended up going back home and forgetting a bag of salt for my next water change. For the salt, I usually go to a large surface store that has a few saltwater items and tanks for livestock but I always find the selection and quality of fish very questionable. I noticed a sale for 20% off marine products and fish, I grabbed a box of IO salt , some replacement blades for my kent scraper and got everything back to the cash. I decided to head over to the tank area and look at what they have in stock for fish as I was actively looking to up my bio load in hopes of geting a light Nitrate reading to give the BioPellets a kick at processing the rest of the phosphate. Not expecting to be impressed I was blown away when I saw all the SW tanks full of fish! The clerk told me they had just got a order in before the big sale that started Friday.... but barely nothing was sold since they did not have much selection in the past and they are much more specialized in fresh water. I took a good 30 mins to scout all the tanks... Wrasses, gobies, clowns, fox face, cardinals, eels :spin1: I could not believe how many strains of each genus they had in stock. I wanted to get 2 fish as they seemed very under priced and I would also be getting 20% off each of them. I had my choices narrowed down to 5... 6 line wrasse, canary wrasse, lubbock's fairy wrasse, high fin red stripe goby and a orange stripe goby. Knowing that I wanted 1 wrasse and 1 goby I chose to pick the smaller high fin goby because the orange was much larger and would of been bigger than most of my fish. For the wrasse I ended up choosing the canary wrasse because of its interesting sleeping habits and the fact he is a open water swimmer that I will see more often than the goby. Took a long time to acclimate them since the salinity at the store was very low according to the clerk. Fed the tank after 2h30min of dripping and I also dropped a few pellets in each bag to see what they would do with food. The wrasse was eating like a pig but the goby was not in the mood. Introduction went well but the gramma was causing trouble as usual, nothing major as I doubt he phased the wrasse. The goby used the distraction to excavate a open corner close to my frag rack. He later found a nice burrow at the back of the tank close to the overflow box.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to grab a few pics in the open for you guys and see how they respond to feeding.
Have a great Saturday RC :beachbum:
I went on my local LFS hunt this weekend for any good deals as I was looking to get a few nice SPS colony to frag and sell on my local forum. I did not find nothing to my liking so I ended up going back home and forgetting a bag of salt for my next water change. For the salt, I usually go to a large surface store that has a few saltwater items and tanks for livestock but I always find the selection and quality of fish very questionable. I noticed a sale for 20% off marine products and fish, I grabbed a box of IO salt , some replacement blades for my kent scraper and got everything back to the cash. I decided to head over to the tank area and look at what they have in stock for fish as I was actively looking to up my bio load in hopes of geting a light Nitrate reading to give the BioPellets a kick at processing the rest of the phosphate. Not expecting to be impressed I was blown away when I saw all the SW tanks full of fish! The clerk told me they had just got a order in before the big sale that started Friday.... but barely nothing was sold since they did not have much selection in the past and they are much more specialized in fresh water. I took a good 30 mins to scout all the tanks... Wrasses, gobies, clowns, fox face, cardinals, eels :spin1: I could not believe how many strains of each genus they had in stock. I wanted to get 2 fish as they seemed very under priced and I would also be getting 20% off each of them. I had my choices narrowed down to 5... 6 line wrasse, canary wrasse, lubbock's fairy wrasse, high fin red stripe goby and a orange stripe goby. Knowing that I wanted 1 wrasse and 1 goby I chose to pick the smaller high fin goby because the orange was much larger and would of been bigger than most of my fish. For the wrasse I ended up choosing the canary wrasse because of its interesting sleeping habits and the fact he is a open water swimmer that I will see more often than the goby. Took a long time to acclimate them since the salinity at the store was very low according to the clerk. Fed the tank after 2h30min of dripping and I also dropped a few pellets in each bag to see what they would do with food. The wrasse was eating like a pig but the goby was not in the mood. Introduction went well but the gramma was causing trouble as usual, nothing major as I doubt he phased the wrasse. The goby used the distraction to excavate a open corner close to my frag rack. He later found a nice burrow at the back of the tank close to the overflow box.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to grab a few pics in the open for you guys and see how they respond to feeding.
Have a great Saturday RC :beachbum:
DrPheel
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Hi RC ! TGIF :wildone:
Everything is great since the new fish addition at the end of last month! The Goby is still MIA but i'm sure he will come out eventually. The Wrasse on the other hand is out and about everyday and living well in community. I have seen the gramma showing sings of hostility but it does not seem to phase him at all. Still no signs of Nitrate after 2 weeks of the new addition so I decided to run with 1/3 cup of pellets instead of 1/2 a cup. Hopefully in the next few days I will see a bit of nitrate and get the pellet bacteria eating again. Algae is completely gone and when i see some its either on the glass or on the rock where I can blow it off easily with a turkey baster since the water has low PO4 the algae has no grip to the rocks and is very weak. Corals are doing great , fish are doing great and I fragged a few SPS over the week to sell to local reefers ! should make a few bucks with this over the weekend and be able to go grab more nice pieces at my LFS and frag them again Gotta love a self sufficient hobby 
I also have been doing some testing with Yellow and orange Flash gels for taking pictures. If you take a camera flash gel in those spectrum of colors , you can take pictures with full actinic's on and the gel will absorb the blue out of the picture. I will post up some pictures in my update next week as I think I will have nice stuff from the LFS to show you guys.
Have a great weekend and happy reefing RC :bum:
Everything is great since the new fish addition at the end of last month! The Goby is still MIA but i'm sure he will come out eventually. The Wrasse on the other hand is out and about everyday and living well in community. I have seen the gramma showing sings of hostility but it does not seem to phase him at all. Still no signs of Nitrate after 2 weeks of the new addition so I decided to run with 1/3 cup of pellets instead of 1/2 a cup. Hopefully in the next few days I will see a bit of nitrate and get the pellet bacteria eating again. Algae is completely gone and when i see some its either on the glass or on the rock where I can blow it off easily with a turkey baster since the water has low PO4 the algae has no grip to the rocks and is very weak. Corals are doing great , fish are doing great and I fragged a few SPS over the week to sell to local reefers ! should make a few bucks with this over the weekend and be able to go grab more nice pieces at my LFS and frag them again
Gotta love a self sufficient hobby I also have been doing some testing with Yellow and orange Flash gels for taking pictures. If you take a camera flash gel in those spectrum of colors , you can take pictures with full actinic's on and the gel will absorb the blue out of the picture. I will post up some pictures in my update next week as I think I will have nice stuff from the LFS to show you guys.
Have a great weekend and happy reefing RC :bum:
DrPheel
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Thanks ! :wildone:
DrPheel
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Hey RC ! sorry for the long delay in updates but I have been busy with other projects and now that my algae issue is gone and under control the tank is on cruise control. Other than feeding and weekly WC not much has happened 
Still no sings of P04 on the Hanna checker , waiting for a rise to change out the GFO media! I aslo took the pellets offline .... Yup , no more pellets. I converted the Phosban 150 to a Cheato reactor from a read in the DIY section I also switched to Reef crystals instead of plain IO salt as i'm starting to get more stocked on corals. My friend let me use his RedSea master test kit to check my CAL and also double check my hanna dKH and Salifert MG . We are at 1500MG (kind of high but in range & Stable) , 8.1 on dKH (perfect) and I tested my CAL twice at 480PPM. Cal is a little high to my liking but I will test every other day until its at 420 ish. I'm only missing the CAL Hanna checker and I will then track the consumption of the trace elements over the next few weeks.
I also have been testing with some yellow flash gel to take pictures under full actinics , Its insane what difference it makes and I can now show much better pictures when i'm trying to sell my corals Here's is a few teasers for your guys !
Have a nice Week RC :fish1:
Nice polyps:
Few Acan i'm trying to sell as I have them in double:
More Acan:
Some Chalices im growing out from very small frags:
Still no sings of P04 on the Hanna checker , waiting for a rise to change out the GFO media! I aslo took the pellets offline .... Yup , no more pellets. I converted the Phosban 150 to a Cheato reactor from a read in the DIY section
I also switched to Reef crystals instead of plain IO salt as i'm starting to get more stocked on corals. My friend let me use his RedSea master test kit to check my CAL and also double check my hanna dKH and Salifert MG . We are at 1500MG (kind of high but in range & Stable) , 8.1 on dKH (perfect) and I tested my CAL twice at 480PPM. Cal is a little high to my liking but I will test every other day until its at 420 ish. I'm only missing the CAL Hanna checker and I will then track the consumption of the trace elements over the next few weeks.I also have been testing with some yellow flash gel to take pictures under full actinics , Its insane what difference it makes and I can now show much better pictures when i'm trying to sell my corals
Here's is a few teasers for your guys ! Have a nice Week RC :fish1:
Nice polyps:
Few Acan i'm trying to sell as I have them in double:
More Acan:
Some Chalices im growing out from very small frags:
DrPheel
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Hey RC, Happy hump day !
Time for a update since I have not posted nothing in the last month. I'm glad to say the tank is still on cruise control. I am enjoying the tank and the inhabitants. Apart from the regular change of water/sock/media and cleaning the glass I have nothing more to do then spend money on corals. Not much has changed fish wise, although they are all very more active and out in the open. The gramma is still a bully and I tried a few times to get him out with a fish trap with no success. My little goby found a nice spot in the front of the display and I'm waiting for my LFS to source a nice randall pistols to keep him company. I also HAD to buy a green bubble tip nem last week ... let me give you a little more context ... I HATE NEMS ! but on the weekend I have a LFS that is more like a large surface store (petsmart / petco kind of store) I will not mention the name but they unfortunately have incompetent staff that works on weekends. They are mostly a freshwater/plant store but they do have a small section for fish and coral that covers maybe 1/8 of their livestock section. After seeing the GBTA on special for 45$ and noticing it was on a rock that also had 2 nice ricordea shrooms on it. I proceeded to ask the clerk if the GBTA came with the rocks it was attached on... I was told that it does but I might want to remove the nem from it or cut the rock because it had 2 manjano anemones on it... wait what ?:strange:? Someone needs a ID here ! No need to say I took his advice and removed them .... but only to put them on some frag plugs :frog: I will eventually keep one for my shroom rock and sell the nem and the other ric for profit and re-invest in some livestock. As always, here are a few shots for your eye pleasure
Remember that little red blastomussa from my first corals ? look at it now :
The shroom rock in progress ! with a few chalices on top , the wrasse and firefish were surprisingly camera happy that day:
Shroom close up 1 :
Shroom close up 2 (one of my fav) :
Shroom close up 3 :
GBTA and the 2 florida rics I got for free :thumbsup: :
Time for a update since I have not posted nothing in the last month. I'm glad to say the tank is still on cruise control. I am enjoying the tank and the inhabitants. Apart from the regular change of water/sock/media and cleaning the glass I have nothing more to do then spend money on corals. Not much has changed fish wise, although they are all very more active and out in the open. The gramma is still a bully and I tried a few times to get him out with a fish trap with no success. My little goby found a nice spot in the front of the display and I'm waiting for my LFS to source a nice randall pistols to keep him company. I also HAD to buy a green bubble tip nem last week ... let me give you a little more context ... I HATE NEMS ! but on the weekend I have a LFS that is more like a large surface store (petsmart / petco kind of store) I will not mention the name but they unfortunately have incompetent staff that works on weekends. They are mostly a freshwater/plant store but they do have a small section for fish and coral that covers maybe 1/8 of their livestock section. After seeing the GBTA on special for 45$ and noticing it was on a rock that also had 2 nice ricordea shrooms on it. I proceeded to ask the clerk if the GBTA came with the rocks it was attached on... I was told that it does but I might want to remove the nem from it or cut the rock because it had 2 manjano anemones on it... wait what ?:strange:? Someone needs a ID here ! No need to say I took his advice and removed them .... but only to put them on some frag plugs :frog: I will eventually keep one for my shroom rock and sell the nem and the other ric for profit and re-invest in some livestock. As always, here are a few shots for your eye pleasure
Remember that little red blastomussa from my first corals ? look at it now :
The shroom rock in progress ! with a few chalices on top , the wrasse and firefish were surprisingly camera happy that day:
Shroom close up 1 :
Shroom close up 2 (one of my fav) :
Shroom close up 3 :
GBTA and the 2 florida rics I got for free :thumbsup: :
DrPheel
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Hi RC ! Quick update on the build... I ran into a big issue that I can not get my head wrapped around. I am, for some unknown reason , unable to keep a shrimp alive for more than 2-3hrs :sad2: How could this be ?? all is thriving in the cube but for some odd reason my acclimation process seems to be flawed :sad1:
Here is the original post and you can view the link HERE for all the comments :
After almost a year of running a very successful reef I wanted to add my first shrimp. I got a nice coral banded shrimp at my LFS , temp acclimated for 20-25 mins , dripped for 1h30mins , introduced with the lights off in the DT and after 2 hrs it had already lost one of its claw to what I assume either stress of maybe a aggressor that I did not see. After being very calm for 20-30 mins in a shaded area of the tank , the hermits and nasarius snails were making sandwiches out of him
Checked my water , all was good as usual. PH/Ammo/Nitrate/Phos/Alk/Cal and Mg were all pristine like the last reading in my logs. I change water, do maintenance on Mondays and test on Tuesday. I go to the LFS on the weekend so I was thinking something may of been off. RODI still at 0PPM , even tested for Phos but it was 0.000. I then started to suspect my yellow wrasse or the hermits but since the lights were off I know the wrasse was sleeping.
2 months pass by and this weekend I got a deal on one cleaner skunk and coral banded for 40$, both very small and in good health. I pulled the trigger and as I am temp acclimating them in the DT I do a bit more research to make sure I was doing the right method. I had both specimen in a previous system with wayyy less equipment, knowledge and questionable maintenance but all was thriving and they both lived for a good year until I took down the tank. I then again temp acclimated for 30 mins , drip for 2hrs ( bumped up the time to make sure the drip was small and progressively rise the salinity to my level. Someone online mentioned that the reason of the long drip is when you do not know what salinity the shrimp was in and that most stores will run low salinity. I run 1.026, I called up the store and the system it came from was at 1.024. I took a little longer so as I was introducing them the lights were just turning on. The skunk climbed up my hand when I put it in the bag like it knew it was taking him in the tank , It stayed a bit on my hand and jumped on a rock a good minute after it got a look around. acting normal , perched upside down under a cap. I introduced the coral banded about 10 mins after and set him down in the opposite corner of the tank. he was a little more feisty so I had to take a cup with tank water and drain the bag until no water was left and I then doped him in the cup that I could put in the tank since it was all my water.
Coral banded stayed in the rockscape a bit but went in hiding and has never been seen since (4 days). The skunk cleaner on the other hand was in the other corner a little less active (30-40 mins had passed) but still walking around and grazing. I started to noticed his claws were not picking at his surrounding and it was just swaying in the waves... well it did not take long for the nasarius and hermits to smell him out and try to eat the poor guy
I was watching them both for the longest time to make sure nothing was getting at them but they just seem to not like my tank or water I cant find a explanation for this , I have 6 thriving calm fishes and many picky corals like chalices , a few SPS and a GBTA that are doing well and growing. What am I leaving out ???
Lets hear it RC , help me get my head around this!
Got some great feedback from everyone and as much as I know inverts like shrimp and anemones are very picky most of the people seem to not drip them at all and just float the bag and drop them in for better survival rate. So I took all the good advice and totaled what came up more and ended up with a new process :
-Temp acclimate with bag closed for 25-30 min in sump
- Drip for 20 min with bag in sump
- Dump n pray
Well , 2hrs in and the dam thing hit the hay
I'm now seeing that many people just float acclimate and dump it in. I may this this again over the weekend but this is getting aggravating and costly, not to mention the fact I hate to not be able to take care of something I purchases and cause it to decease a few hrs later :sad2:
Hopefully its just my acclimation method , yet I'm able to keep every other thing I acclimate and drip. keep you guys posted on the outcome if I try again and I will have a nice update with pictures over the weekend on a fragging frenzy I have been working on
Have a great day RC :beachbum:
Here is the original post and you can view the link HERE for all the comments :
After almost a year of running a very successful reef I wanted to add my first shrimp. I got a nice coral banded shrimp at my LFS , temp acclimated for 20-25 mins , dripped for 1h30mins , introduced with the lights off in the DT and after 2 hrs it had already lost one of its claw to what I assume either stress of maybe a aggressor that I did not see. After being very calm for 20-30 mins in a shaded area of the tank , the hermits and nasarius snails were making sandwiches out of him
Checked my water , all was good as usual. PH/Ammo/Nitrate/Phos/Alk/Cal and Mg were all pristine like the last reading in my logs. I change water, do maintenance on Mondays and test on Tuesday. I go to the LFS on the weekend so I was thinking something may of been off. RODI still at 0PPM , even tested for Phos but it was 0.000. I then started to suspect my yellow wrasse or the hermits but since the lights were off I know the wrasse was sleeping.
2 months pass by and this weekend I got a deal on one cleaner skunk and coral banded for 40$, both very small and in good health. I pulled the trigger and as I am temp acclimating them in the DT I do a bit more research to make sure I was doing the right method. I had both specimen in a previous system with wayyy less equipment, knowledge and questionable maintenance but all was thriving and they both lived for a good year until I took down the tank. I then again temp acclimated for 30 mins , drip for 2hrs ( bumped up the time to make sure the drip was small and progressively rise the salinity to my level. Someone online mentioned that the reason of the long drip is when you do not know what salinity the shrimp was in and that most stores will run low salinity. I run 1.026, I called up the store and the system it came from was at 1.024. I took a little longer so as I was introducing them the lights were just turning on. The skunk climbed up my hand when I put it in the bag like it knew it was taking him in the tank , It stayed a bit on my hand and jumped on a rock a good minute after it got a look around. acting normal , perched upside down under a cap. I introduced the coral banded about 10 mins after and set him down in the opposite corner of the tank. he was a little more feisty so I had to take a cup with tank water and drain the bag until no water was left and I then doped him in the cup that I could put in the tank since it was all my water.
Coral banded stayed in the rockscape a bit but went in hiding and has never been seen since (4 days). The skunk cleaner on the other hand was in the other corner a little less active (30-40 mins had passed) but still walking around and grazing. I started to noticed his claws were not picking at his surrounding and it was just swaying in the waves... well it did not take long for the nasarius and hermits to smell him out and try to eat the poor guy
I was watching them both for the longest time to make sure nothing was getting at them but they just seem to not like my tank or water I cant find a explanation for this , I have 6 thriving calm fishes and many picky corals like chalices , a few SPS and a GBTA that are doing well and growing. What am I leaving out ???
Lets hear it RC , help me get my head around this!
Got some great feedback from everyone and as much as I know inverts like shrimp and anemones are very picky most of the people seem to not drip them at all and just float the bag and drop them in for better survival rate. So I took all the good advice and totaled what came up more and ended up with a new process :
-Temp acclimate with bag closed for 25-30 min in sump
- Drip for 20 min with bag in sump
- Dump n pray
Well , 2hrs in and the dam thing hit the hay
I'm now seeing that many people just float acclimate and dump it in. I may this this again over the weekend but this is getting aggravating and costly, not to mention the fact I hate to not be able to take care of something I purchases and cause it to decease a few hrs later :sad2:Hopefully its just my acclimation method , yet I'm able to keep every other thing I acclimate and drip. keep you guys posted on the outcome if I try again and I will have a nice update with pictures over the weekend on a fragging frenzy I have been working on
Have a great day RC :beachbum:
DrPheel
New member
Hi RC and happy Memorial day if you are in the USA.
Quick update here on the 70G cube ! I have unfortunately lost my anemone for some odd reasons , It was deflated for a few days and I notice one morning that its foot let go from the shell it was attached to. I removed it and did a few back to back water changes in a 3 day period. I also changed the carbon out just in case it leached back the toxins it filtered out. Other than that the tank is going 100% ! I started dosing Acro Power from TLF and I can say that over the last few weeks I have notice nicer colors and good growth in my corals. The chalices are the one that I have notice a net improvement. I don't have that many SPS but I can say that they do show nice colors but no noticeable growth for now. I dose 10ML every 4 days at night about 1hr before the lights go off. I shut down the return from the sump and let the dosing circulate in the tank a good 10 mins before turning it back on. I am now on a strict schedule for feeding / dosing and maintenance because I have not been on top of my chores since the nice weather is out.
Fish wise I had made the addition of a spotted green mandarin and I have yet been able to get the Royal gramma out of the tank. I also suspect the yellow wrasse giving troubles to my inverts and other fish. I think it will be much harder to get this one out so I will start with the gramma and go from there when I get my fish trap skills to the next level.
For corals , I have been doing more and more online orders since my 2x LFS seem to have run out of new stuff for me to get ... or maybe im getting too picky
I have been getting lots of Acans, both enchinata and lord and I also got a nice Trachyphyllia and a few rhodactis. I also got a few nice zoos but have not take pictures or placed them in the DT yet , still growing a bit and target feeding on the frag rack.
Here are a few shots for you guys and Im looking forward to the next update in a few weeks :beachbum:
Nice Acan's : ( how much do you guys pay for Acan frags ?? )
Rhodactis :
Trachy :
Enchinata's :
full actinic , no gel filter :
Quick update here on the 70G cube ! I have unfortunately lost my anemone for some odd reasons , It was deflated for a few days and I notice one morning that its foot let go from the shell it was attached to. I removed it and did a few back to back water changes in a 3 day period. I also changed the carbon out just in case it leached back the toxins it filtered out. Other than that the tank is going 100% ! I started dosing Acro Power from TLF and I can say that over the last few weeks I have notice nicer colors and good growth in my corals. The chalices are the one that I have notice a net improvement. I don't have that many SPS but I can say that they do show nice colors but no noticeable growth for now. I dose 10ML every 4 days at night about 1hr before the lights go off. I shut down the return from the sump and let the dosing circulate in the tank a good 10 mins before turning it back on. I am now on a strict schedule for feeding / dosing and maintenance because I have not been on top of my chores since the nice weather is out.
Fish wise I had made the addition of a spotted green mandarin and I have yet been able to get the Royal gramma out of the tank. I also suspect the yellow wrasse giving troubles to my inverts and other fish. I think it will be much harder to get this one out so I will start with the gramma and go from there when I get my fish trap skills to the next level.
For corals , I have been doing more and more online orders since my 2x LFS seem to have run out of new stuff for me to get ... or maybe im getting too picky
I have been getting lots of Acans, both enchinata and lord and I also got a nice Trachyphyllia and a few rhodactis. I also got a few nice zoos but have not take pictures or placed them in the DT yet , still growing a bit and target feeding on the frag rack.Here are a few shots for you guys and Im looking forward to the next update in a few weeks :beachbum:
Nice Acan's : ( how much do you guys pay for Acan frags ?? )
Rhodactis :
Trachy :
Enchinata's :
full actinic , no gel filter :
DrPheel
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It is indeed one very nice specimen. Interested to know what you guys would pay for this at your LFS ? i got it online for 29.99 + 3$ shipping (divided among all the corals I got) so 32.99 for me is the average range for a rhodactis. Somewhat around 25 to 45 $ depending on the color and size.
Thanks for looking / commenting :thumbsup:
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