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I'm excited about those little frags! Its funny how those little things can get you more excited than your large colonies sometimes.
FarmerTy 215-gal No Water Change SPS Tank
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I'm excited about those little frags! Its funny how those little things can get you more excited than your large colonies sometimes.
Well I had 18 before I got velvet, now I have 6. [emoji30]
Lost a lot of my large angels.
The plan is to continue to keep angels. I'm coming up with a final list of angels I want to introduce to the tank now that the former stock passed.
I've already picked up another large regal angel and fortunately, my small regal and flame angel survived so there's a start. [emoji6]
I loved that emperor. I really wanted to replace him but seeing how big he got in such a short period of time, even my 215 gallon feels a bit small for keeping one now so I may hold off for my next big tank.
Could have been just mine but he rocketed up in size in just 2-3 years. It was like a giant bass in my tank and dwarfed all the other fish.
72" x 24" x 29"
Got some stuff done this weekend as the wife was kind enough to give me a baby free day mostly.
Built my new frag racks for the frag tank
Installed the board on my walk-board setup finally!
Even got a handy new stool for the fish room and found a nice spot to stash my fragging tools.
Built my new frag racks for the frag tank
Installed the board on my walk-board setup finally!
Even got a handy new stool for the fish room and found a nice spot to stash my fragging tools.
What's up man! I only look 18, I act 12 though. [emoji4]
Tapatalk is still down for ARC, its awful. I get on there in spurts now. Forum surfing without tapatalk is painful.
Gig 'em
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Hi Mike,
It would be an over reaching statement for me to say the CaRX takes care of all of my trace elements but what I will say is that I think it's critical to my no water changes method. I don't think I would have the same results with 2-part. I've been able to run 3 years with two different tanks each and not have issues up to that point.
Beyond that I can't say. I run Triton tests annually to monitor trends but at the end of the day, besides a few known trace elements that are vital, do any of us really know the role of the majority of the trace elements from a coral husbandry perspective? I made it a point to just watch the numbers and not try to dose any that seem ridiculously low just to see if it would affect anything. For instance, my iodine level was not even registering. I still didn't dose for it... Any issues in the tank? Not that I could see.
I made it a point that if I did see issues in the tank at any time that I would do several large scale water changes to hopefully reset the levels of trace elements in the water. I haven't needed to do that yet up to 3 years in both tanks run with this method.
To answer your question, I use TLF Reborn media currently but also used CaribSea media for a number of years as well.
Bpb
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Serious question also regarding those tests. Forgive me if it's a stupid one.
Do we know what form of these elements the test is registering. Surely the test cannot just pick up every instance the element boron is present for example. Which molecules are essential and which aren't. Which are toxic. Trace elements aren't just present in their own elemental or ionic form. They're usually in the form of molecular compounds right? I guess I just don't understand how accurate or reliable those tests are because like you said. We don't even know how or in what capacity these trace elements are utilized, nor do we really understand how the test is actually performed
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Do we know what form of these elements the test is registering. Surely the test cannot just pick up every instance the element boron is present for example. Which molecules are essential and which aren't. Which are toxic. Trace elements aren't just present in their own elemental or ionic form. They're usually in the form of molecular compounds right? I guess I just don't understand how accurate or reliable those tests are because like you said. We don't even know how or in what capacity these trace elements are utilized, nor do we really understand how the test is actually performed
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