frey
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Well it is the 4th rainy day in a row here in PA and I have been doing some additions to my 180, so figured I would post on it. I always wanted a decent sized refugium so when my friend agreed to move his 90 gallon cube and make it an addition to the 180 I figured this will be the perfect time to add a larger refugium.
We set in search of something to use for the fuge and temporary holding tank for his fish, corals, and live rock and found a used 65 at a local pet shop. price was right so in it came. Plumbed it to my sump and added a Vectra to support the new fuge and eventually his tank.
3 weeks ago the move happened and 2 weeks ago i got his tank set up and now the whole system is in place. Wednesday this week got a ball of cheato threw it in the 65 put my CFL bulb and a led fuge light on it to keep it alive until the 380 came in.
Ran these lights 24/7 for 2-1/2 days the 380 showed up yesterday and I installed and set up for reverse DT light schedule.
PH for 2.5 days prior was daytime 8.1 and 8.13 night 7.96 and 7.97 respectively. So not too much of a swing prior to adding the fuge it was 8.1 and down to 7.94 as a low.
Now for last night with the 380 and a baseball size piece of Cheato. 8.13 at 10pm when the 380 came on low of 8.5 throughout the night.
I am not to worried about PH anyways but I like to know I am getting some benefit when I spend a bit of money on something. Stability is king. I will try and get some Parameters of the tanks C,A,M as well as phos, nitrate and nitrite today while I am playing indoors. I am also probably going to remove the Chemi pure elite I use as it has GFO I just wanted to make sure the Cheato was not going to bleach out on me due to the intensity of this light before doing so. I will be honest i do not check Phos, Nitrite's or Nitrates hardly ever. If i start seeing more algae growing on the glass I used to do a water change of about 30% or dose more vodka. The last time i looked at them I had almost undetectable Phos, nitrite, and around 20 PPM Nitrate.
I am considering to go a modified triton method. Anyone else doing Triton with success? I am also moving from more of a mixed reef into mostly SPS with some LPS as I have been having good growth with my sps the last 1.5 years and would like to try something different.
I am very interested in everyone's thoughts and opinion's
We set in search of something to use for the fuge and temporary holding tank for his fish, corals, and live rock and found a used 65 at a local pet shop. price was right so in it came. Plumbed it to my sump and added a Vectra to support the new fuge and eventually his tank.
3 weeks ago the move happened and 2 weeks ago i got his tank set up and now the whole system is in place. Wednesday this week got a ball of cheato threw it in the 65 put my CFL bulb and a led fuge light on it to keep it alive until the 380 came in.
Ran these lights 24/7 for 2-1/2 days the 380 showed up yesterday and I installed and set up for reverse DT light schedule.
PH for 2.5 days prior was daytime 8.1 and 8.13 night 7.96 and 7.97 respectively. So not too much of a swing prior to adding the fuge it was 8.1 and down to 7.94 as a low.
Now for last night with the 380 and a baseball size piece of Cheato. 8.13 at 10pm when the 380 came on low of 8.5 throughout the night.
I am not to worried about PH anyways but I like to know I am getting some benefit when I spend a bit of money on something. Stability is king. I will try and get some Parameters of the tanks C,A,M as well as phos, nitrate and nitrite today while I am playing indoors. I am also probably going to remove the Chemi pure elite I use as it has GFO I just wanted to make sure the Cheato was not going to bleach out on me due to the intensity of this light before doing so. I will be honest i do not check Phos, Nitrite's or Nitrates hardly ever. If i start seeing more algae growing on the glass I used to do a water change of about 30% or dose more vodka. The last time i looked at them I had almost undetectable Phos, nitrite, and around 20 PPM Nitrate.
I am considering to go a modified triton method. Anyone else doing Triton with success? I am also moving from more of a mixed reef into mostly SPS with some LPS as I have been having good growth with my sps the last 1.5 years and would like to try something different.
I am very interested in everyone's thoughts and opinion's
