introducing my 870gal tank (pics ahead)
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Yeah Ralf! I just sat here for an hour and read through your entire thread! I really want to see what it looks like today! It was beautiful before, I'm betting that it is gorgous today!
meredith1985
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Yeah Ralf! I just sat here for an hour and read through your entire thread! I really want to see what it looks like today! It was beautiful before, I'm betting that it is gorgous today!
Thanks for staying tuned!
A quite famous gardener, called Karl Foerster once said:
"The one who is already happy with his garden, does not deserve it."
Think this is also true with reefkeeping, so I changed a lot in the last months.
I ripped out really large coral colonies (poccies, montipora and acroporas).
I did that step by step, waiting a week inbetween etc.
It could've been soooo great, but the feared cyanobakteria bloom followed.
Moving old structures, detritus etc. should be done even slower, I guess.
Currently I am fighting against the cyanos and its getting better and better.
I wasn't able to detect PO4 or NO3 in the water and only very low PO4 in the substrate.
Reading somewhere that cyano could be a sign for misplaced PO4/NO3 relation, I started to dose NaNO3 with a hosepump again. I keep the NO3 at about 5ppm in the moment.
I also increased the watermovement with two additional stream pumps.
Discussing all this with Claude Schumacher from FaunaMarin, I think that using a lot chemicals with the "Balling" method could raise the traceelement concentration in water and substrate to a really bad level.
The slightly brown coraltissue without having PO4 detectable might also be a sign for that.
I started heavy carbon-filtering, changed the substrate and stopped dosing the NaCl-free salt, which was part of my flavour of "Balling".
Coral tissue is getting more colorfull again and cyanobacteria are going away slowly.
I am not happy with what you'll see on the following pictures,
but.... you asked and it is how it is...
Things are getting better from day to day and I refuse sucking away the cyanobacteria,
to not add new traceelements with the connected waterchanges.
Thanks for asking!
Ralf
A quite famous gardener, called Karl Foerster once said:
"The one who is already happy with his garden, does not deserve it."
Think this is also true with reefkeeping, so I changed a lot in the last months.
I ripped out really large coral colonies (poccies, montipora and acroporas).
I did that step by step, waiting a week inbetween etc.
It could've been soooo great, but the feared cyanobakteria bloom followed.
Moving old structures, detritus etc. should be done even slower, I guess.
Currently I am fighting against the cyanos and its getting better and better.
I wasn't able to detect PO4 or NO3 in the water and only very low PO4 in the substrate.
Reading somewhere that cyano could be a sign for misplaced PO4/NO3 relation, I started to dose NaNO3 with a hosepump again. I keep the NO3 at about 5ppm in the moment.
I also increased the watermovement with two additional stream pumps.
Discussing all this with Claude Schumacher from FaunaMarin, I think that using a lot chemicals with the "Balling" method could raise the traceelement concentration in water and substrate to a really bad level.
The slightly brown coraltissue without having PO4 detectable might also be a sign for that.
I started heavy carbon-filtering, changed the substrate and stopped dosing the NaCl-free salt, which was part of my flavour of "Balling".
Coral tissue is getting more colorfull again and cyanobacteria are going away slowly.
I am not happy with what you'll see on the following pictures,
but.... you asked and it is how it is...
Things are getting better from day to day and I refuse sucking away the cyanobacteria,
to not add new traceelements with the connected waterchanges.
Thanks for asking!
Ralf
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Your tank still is my favorite tank.
The whole package is so well balanced
that i can´t find anything i don´t like about it.
dammit
Seeing this tank triggers two thoughts in me
1) i should never try to setup a saltwater tank again for i will miserably fail against what you have achieved.
2) i should get back to the Hobby asap even if i can only come up with 10 % of that.
well i guess my wife supports option 1
The whole package is so well balanced
that i can´t find anything i don´t like about it.
dammit
Seeing this tank triggers two thoughts in me
1) i should never try to setup a saltwater tank again for i will miserably fail against what you have achieved.
2) i should get back to the Hobby asap even if i can only come up with 10 % of that.
well i guess my wife supports option 1
Hookup
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Ralfp;
First, as said 1000 times or more , amazing tank. Fantastic.
I wonder, are you running the ultralith system from faunamarin as well? Do you still have the fuge? Is there an impact from the ultralith? If you are not running ultralith, why?
I also run the baling method from faunamarin, and the ultralith system, so I am curious about your setup.
Tim
First, as said 1000 times or more , amazing tank. Fantastic.
I wonder, are you running the ultralith system from faunamarin as well? Do you still have the fuge? Is there an impact from the ultralith? If you are not running ultralith, why?
I also run the baling method from faunamarin, and the ultralith system, so I am curious about your setup.
Tim
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