Gigantea owners: do not dose AquaVitro Fuel!

[D-Nak]

I've been dosing AquaVitro Fuel for the past few weeks at 1/3 recommended dose. I noticed my SPS coloring up nicely, so last night I dosed at slightly under the recommended dose. My gigantea reacted immediately and DEFLATED! Definitely caused concern since it's never done this in over a year that I've had it. Since I couldn't do a water change, I went to bed (couldn't sleep very well however).

This morning, the gig is still partially deflated, but I will do a water change now, and I suspect all should be fine.

Just a warning. Something in AquaVitro fuel is irritating the gig. My immediate thought was the copper, but it's in such a low concentration that I'm ruling it out. However, I did forget to shake the bottle, so something may have separated at the top and I pulled it out while dosing. Never again. My SPS can go without the "Gatorade for SPS".

 

[xtlosx]

Wow... thanks for the heads up and sorry to hear about your Gig.. I know Your Gig just celebrated its one year birthday... Keep us posted.

 

[Rotknee]

That's weird that your gig would react now at a lower dose than you normally use? I wonder if anyone else has had a similar reaction with an anemone? Hope your gig comes back as good as ever.

 

[D-Nak]

That's weird that your gig would react now at a lower dose than you normally use? I wonder if anyone else has had a similar reaction with an anemone? Hope your gig comes back as good as ever.

Rodney -- it was actually a higher dose. I dosed about 7mL for about a month, but last night I dosed 21mL to see what would happen. Dumb move on my part. I know I should've slowly increased it over time, but I figured it wouldn't hurt since I was still under the recommended dose for my tank size.

I didn't take a photo last night for fear that it would've been the last photo of my gig. Fortunately this morning, it looks like this:



Waking up:




Whew, tragedy averted!

 

[xtlosx]

Out of curiosity, what profile are you running with your Radions?

 

[D-Nak]

Out of curiosity, what profile are you running with your Radions?

I'm running a custom profile, but they basically ramp up for about an hour, then are on full blast (all colors) for about 7 hours, then ramp down into a purple/blue (I get a kick out the day-glo look) then ramp completely down. I wish Radions had a moonlight setting that allowed a couple of blue LEDs to remain on at say 20%.

 

[greg1786]

Sorry to hear about your nem but glad it recovered ok. This makes me a bit nervous as I have two RBTA that split from one and are not quite at full health and a GBTA that im nursing back to health from a powerhead run in. I just started dosing fuel about two weeks ago but havent noticed any ill effects. Though my nems dont look so good, but as I said all three arent at perfect health either. Anyone else using the fuel with BTA or any nem for that matter? Have you had similar results as the OP or everything ok? Thanks for giving us this info btw!

 

[OrionN]

I hope your Gigantea recover. Keep us update.

 

[sassAwrasse]

I have 2 rbta's and a pacific long tentacle in a 125 gallon tank. I dose with fuel once a week at the recommended dosage. No problems here.

 

[D-Nak]

I have 2 rbta's and a pacific long tentacle in a 125 gallon tank. I dose with fuel once a week at the recommended dosage. No problems here.

I wish I could edit the title of the thread. I now think using Fuel is okay, it just needs to be dosed slowly, and should be shaken before using (which is recommended, I just forgot to do it).

BTW, the gig is fine. It's actually the biggest I've seen so far.

 

[worm5406]

I'm running a custom profile, but they basically ramp up for about an hour, then are on full blast (all colors) for about 7 hours, then ramp down into a purple/blue (I get a kick out the day-glo look) then ramp completely down. I wish Radions had a moonlight setting that allowed a couple of blue LEDs to remain on at say 20%.

They do have a moonlight.

First update the firmware. Then you will notice some options to include running at 20% in the 'night' time . I set mine up for a moon to come out over an hour and then go back down over an hour. It runs at 20%maxx and I have only blue set.

Can you export your config and also put up a screen capture of the spectrum breakout?

 

[xtlosx]

They do have a moonlight.

First update the firmware. Then you will notice some options to include running at 20% in the 'night' time . I set mine up for a moon to come out over an hour and then go back down over an hour. It runs at 20%maxx and I have only blue set.

Can you export your config and also put up a screen capture of the spectrum breakout?

I keep it simple, and run Natural Mode (Sipadan Reef) shallow... I like the intensity, and apparently my Gigs do too... I've noticed when enabling lunar calendar mode, the lights stay on rather late sometimes, but at a tiny intensity (blues)... Figure I give the Gigs a lighting spectrum and schedule as close to home a possible

 

[worm5406]

They also have a lunar mode that will adjust the light based on what the moon is doing in progression of it's cycle.

Just set the lights to go off after your blue mode.

Then lets say and hour later make a new zero(off) point then an hour later make a new on point for blue only. Continue this for how ever long you want. Then set a end point followed an hour later by a zero point again...

That shows my old graph, since changed it a lot, I am at work so I dont have a screen capture. You can see at 0000 there is a zero point at 0130 a peak then 0300 a zero point. This ramps it up over an hour and a half then right back down over an hour and a half. It is set to do lunar lighting so it will only do __% times max 20% of light output. Where the blank is the percentage of the moon (half moon = 50%)

 

[xtlosx]

They also have a lunar mode that will adjust the light based on what the moon is doing in progression of it's cycle.

Just set the lights to go off after your blue mode.

Then lets say and hour later make a new zero(off) point then an hour later make a new on point for blue only. Continue this for how ever long you want. Then set a end point followed an hour later by a zero point again...

That shows my old graph, since changed it a lot, I am at work so I dont have a screen capture. You can see at 0000 there is a zero point at 0130 a peak then 0300 a zero point. This ramps it up over an hour and a half then right back down over an hour and a half. It is set to do lunar lighting so it will only do __% times max 20% of light output. Where the blank is the percentage of the moon (half moon = 50%)

Interesting.. not to hijack the original thread here, but I just do natural mode, start at 8AM turn off at 10PM, and let lunar mode do it's thing.

 

[worm5406]

If there are no lights set during the night time to come up then lunar mode will turn on ___ X 0% which equals zero, no lights.