Frag Grow Out #1
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Tasiamay
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System - About 6 Months Old
- 60 Gallon Cube
- 15 Gallon Sump
- No Refugium
- G3 Skimmer
- Media Bag with Carbon in Sump (changed every month or so)
- 250 Watt 14K Hamilton HQI + 4 24 watt T5 Actinics + Moonlights (lights are on from 10 to 10)
- Mag 2 for return
- Oceans Motions 4 Way on a Little Giant 4 for closed loop
- 2" sand bed (mixed grain)
- Oceanic/Instant Ocean combo for salt
- Mostly SPS and zoos/palys + a few LPS and Softies
- Currently has 6 small fish
Parameters
- Alk - 9 DKH
- CA - 450
- NO3 - 2.5
- PO4 - undetectable
- Salinity - 1.25
- PH runs about 8
- Temp runs between 79 - 80
- Buffer added to top off water
- A couple good squirts of Roti Feast every morning before lights come on
- Just started adding Tropic Marin A & K Elements (was using Kent Coral Vite)
- Slowly raising magnesium to about 1650 to see if I can melt the couple bryopsis patches I have
- I do 3 gallon water changes every other day; sometimes I make it 6 gallons
- Use two fans for cooling
- Everything is controlled by the Reef Keeper 2
Am I missing anything????
- 60 Gallon Cube
- 15 Gallon Sump
- No Refugium
- G3 Skimmer
- Media Bag with Carbon in Sump (changed every month or so)
- 250 Watt 14K Hamilton HQI + 4 24 watt T5 Actinics + Moonlights (lights are on from 10 to 10)
- Mag 2 for return
- Oceans Motions 4 Way on a Little Giant 4 for closed loop
- 2" sand bed (mixed grain)
- Oceanic/Instant Ocean combo for salt
- Mostly SPS and zoos/palys + a few LPS and Softies
- Currently has 6 small fish
Parameters
- Alk - 9 DKH
- CA - 450
- NO3 - 2.5
- PO4 - undetectable
- Salinity - 1.25
- PH runs about 8
- Temp runs between 79 - 80
- Buffer added to top off water
- A couple good squirts of Roti Feast every morning before lights come on
- Just started adding Tropic Marin A & K Elements (was using Kent Coral Vite)
- Slowly raising magnesium to about 1650 to see if I can melt the couple bryopsis patches I have
- I do 3 gallon water changes every other day; sometimes I make it 6 gallons
- Use two fans for cooling
- Everything is controlled by the Reef Keeper 2
Am I missing anything????
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buffalobunch
New member
Ok folks, for starters, I still consider myself a newbie. I know a lot but feel I need to learn a lot more! I don't have any gadgets except my own RO/DI Spectrapure unit. All additives are added by hand and all topoffs are by hand, which is a PITA but I'm just taking baby steps here!!
My Tank:
-120g DSB started in December of 2006
-no refugium. Currently working on a project that will rectify that situation. It will be a stacked display refugium that sits beside the tank.
-Fluval Fx 5 canister filter. No laughing
I didn't know any better when I bought the tank. So for now I'm just gonna make do. 1 sponge in there. No carbon.
-2 1100 Seio's, 1 1200 Maxijet
-Recently upgraded from 4 65w pc's to 2 x 250w mh/4 54w T5 combo. This has only been up for 2 weeks and boy can I see a difference.
-Tank is mixed. Bought first acro last week.
-I use Instant Ocean Salt and do biweekly water changes along with siphoning.
-As far as additives, I have just switced from Kalk to Bionic which is a 2 part system for Calcium. I use kent super buffer when needed. I add selcon and iodine weekly to the tank. I add phytofeast biweekly.
I think that's it for tank description. Here are my parameters
-Calcium- currently 380 trying to bring back up to 425 slowly. Dropped when I changed out sand.
-dkh between 9-10
-ph 8.4
-no3 between 5-10. Hopefully the new refugium will help this.
-mag is 1100 and just started learning about how to raise that.
-temp runs between 78 in am to 81 in pm. I am still breaking in the new lights. I have had them 2 weeks and am running the mh for 5 hours now. The T5's run from 7:30am to 8p. I just ordered some more fans to go in the canopy to bring temp down and keep more stable. My new lights also have 9 blue moonlights and 9 white moonlights so that I can try to start simulating the moon's cycle as well.
I am really excited to be taking part in this. I think as always with this hobby it will be a great learning experience.
Great idea Kirsten and Tiff!!:thumbsup:
My Tank:
-120g DSB started in December of 2006
-no refugium. Currently working on a project that will rectify that situation. It will be a stacked display refugium that sits beside the tank.
-Fluval Fx 5 canister filter. No laughing
I didn't know any better when I bought the tank. So for now I'm just gonna make do. 1 sponge in there. No carbon.-2 1100 Seio's, 1 1200 Maxijet
-Recently upgraded from 4 65w pc's to 2 x 250w mh/4 54w T5 combo. This has only been up for 2 weeks and boy can I see a difference.
-Tank is mixed. Bought first acro last week.
-I use Instant Ocean Salt and do biweekly water changes along with siphoning.
-As far as additives, I have just switced from Kalk to Bionic which is a 2 part system for Calcium. I use kent super buffer when needed. I add selcon and iodine weekly to the tank. I add phytofeast biweekly.
I think that's it for tank description. Here are my parameters
-Calcium- currently 380 trying to bring back up to 425 slowly. Dropped when I changed out sand.
-dkh between 9-10
-ph 8.4
-no3 between 5-10. Hopefully the new refugium will help this.
-mag is 1100 and just started learning about how to raise that.
-temp runs between 78 in am to 81 in pm. I am still breaking in the new lights. I have had them 2 weeks and am running the mh for 5 hours now. The T5's run from 7:30am to 8p. I just ordered some more fans to go in the canopy to bring temp down and keep more stable. My new lights also have 9 blue moonlights and 9 white moonlights so that I can try to start simulating the moon's cycle as well.
I am really excited to be taking part in this. I think as always with this hobby it will be a great learning experience.
Great idea Kirsten and Tiff!!:thumbsup:
OK my system is 2 months old however the rock, sand and most of the livestock I have had for 6+years
200 gal Tenecor shallow tank
90 gal sump and refugium
1/3 HP arctic Chiller
2 400W XM 1500K MH in lUmenarc mini pendants
CL (if I ever get my pump I bought from frazier)
DSB, LR,
PARAMETERS: I have no idea I never test, I do 20% water changes every other month
Ed C
200 gal Tenecor shallow tank
90 gal sump and refugium
1/3 HP arctic Chiller
2 400W XM 1500K MH in lUmenarc mini pendants
CL (if I ever get my pump I bought from frazier)
DSB, LR,
PARAMETERS: I have no idea I never test, I do 20% water changes every other month
Ed C
Kentanner11
New member
Nice no breakthough with frazier yet hugh?
Nope. What a guy.....
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1127228&perpage=25&pagenumber=2
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1127228&perpage=25&pagenumber=2
buffalobunch
New member
I'll take a pic in the morning and post. I'm at work
Satori
Cancer Sucks
I wasn't expecting pics so soon, but that's cool.
I'll get a one week pic tomorrow, but for now and for reference, here is the pic of the coral on the first day in the tank, last Sunday. Kirsten can confirm that this one had the bleaching on the bottom when I picked it up at PROP.
Day 1:
I'll get a one week pic tomorrow, but for now and for reference, here is the pic of the coral on the first day in the tank, last Sunday. Kirsten can confirm that this one had the bleaching on the bottom when I picked it up at PROP.
Day 1:
OceanLyons
Active member
I'd like to get in. I have a frag of Kirsten's yellow tubinaria from a couple of months ago. It's doing great, and I too would like to track it's progress. I'll post system details and pics in just a bit. I think that AA has a really large colony in their display tank. Has anybody seen it?
buffalobunch
New member
Here is my pic. Sorry my camera is so crappy for close up pics.
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