Yeah, I've switched to B-Ionic 2 part for similar reasons, from the BRS 2 part. Just much easier to deal with, more concentrated, though a bit more expensive as well. B-Ionic make solid products.
Lucas's 20g nano
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Yeah, I've switched to B-Ionic 2 part for similar reasons, from the BRS 2 part. Just much easier to deal with, more concentrated, though a bit more expensive as well. B-Ionic make solid products.
until my coral loads increases I probably wont even have to use 2-part with the coral pro salt. :spin1:
Blown away
Blown away
I am now a huge believer in water changes, never again will I neglect water changes. I've been doing one gallon water changes for the past five nights just too acclimate my system to a new salt and the changes are crazy! I had two acans I thought had died because I could see their skeleton. Over the past 5 days they are inflating and look great. Pretty much all of my euphillia corals are open and the tank looks great!
Blown away
I am now a huge believer in water changes, never again will I neglect water changes. I've been doing one gallon water changes for the past five nights just too acclimate my system to a new salt and the changes are crazy! I had two acans I thought had died because I could see their skeleton. Over the past 5 days they are inflating and look great. Pretty much all of my euphillia corals are open and the tank looks great!
effects of water changes
effects of water changes
I've had this acan for awhile and when I first got it, it did amazing and even grew two more heads but then I got busy and stopped doing water changes, the two new heads died and the other two started shrinking. I pretty much doomed the acan dead because I could see its skeleton. but after 5 days of water changes and probably correcting my nitrates I saw this last night!:dance:
It doesn't look amazing or back to normal but its actually inflated and I hope this is a good sign that it is on the road to recovery.
effects of water changes
I've had this acan for awhile and when I first got it, it did amazing and even grew two more heads but then I got busy and stopped doing water changes, the two new heads died and the other two started shrinking. I pretty much doomed the acan dead because I could see its skeleton. but after 5 days of water changes and probably correcting my nitrates I saw this last night!:dance:
It doesn't look amazing or back to normal but its actually inflated and I hope this is a good sign that it is on the road to recovery.
things that are going well
things that are going well
My new bi colored hammer is doing great! the color has returned to my pink tipped torch coral, and above the torch coral is the florida recordia mushroom that is doing really well.
Other corals in that picture, the one on the bottom right is suppose to be a Duncan. I bought it closed which I found out was a really bad idea because it has been the tank 4 weeks and hasn't opened once. too the left of my bicolored hammer is a new Miami hurricane frag I got!
things that are going well
My new bi colored hammer is doing great! the color has returned to my pink tipped torch coral, and above the torch coral is the florida recordia mushroom that is doing really well.
Other corals in that picture, the one on the bottom right is suppose to be a Duncan. I bought it closed which I found out was a really bad idea because it has been the tank 4 weeks and hasn't opened once. too the left of my bicolored hammer is a new Miami hurricane frag I got!
Some life
Some life
This is the most I've ever seen it open. It does this every night usually when the lights start dimming down.
Some life
This is the most I've ever seen it open. It does this every night usually when the lights start dimming down.
RcManChild
New member
I myself just got a 20 gallon Nuvo, tank is awesome.
I am now 1.5 weeks into cycling the tank...
I'll start a different thread and we can compare.
I am now 1.5 weeks into cycling the tank...
I'll start a different thread and we can compare.
Awesome man! Yeah between everyone commenting and stuff that I've posted you should have a lot of answers to the questions I had when I started my tank!
Feel free to ask any questions as you go through cycling and afterwards!
Good luck!
Flow
Flow
So this weekend was very interesting. This is such a beginner thing to do. the hand to the forehead kind of thing haha. All my corals seemed like they were just being blasted by flow in the tank and it actually made it really hard to place corals in the tank. Then it finally hit me. I have a LPS dominant tank. Most LPS prefer medium flow. I know every coral is different but the average flow is medium for LPS. So when placing coral I was thinking more along the lines of where is there medium flow in my tank which "spots" don't get that much flow and this is how I was placing my corals. And then it hit me. I have a 425 gph pump, 240 gph pump and a 211 gph return pump. So this was 876 gallons per hour for my tank. So 43 time turn over. I laughed so hard when I figured this out. I turned off the 425 model, so now I have a 240 pump and the 211 return pump. The tank had a huge change. The coralsl don't look like they are being blasted. They are inflating more and even my fish are acting different. My flame tail blenny which I NEVER see is actually out and swimming and chilling in places he has never chilled in before. Such a newbie thing to do, at least I made the realization tho :spin3:
Flow
So this weekend was very interesting. This is such a beginner thing to do. the hand to the forehead kind of thing haha. All my corals seemed like they were just being blasted by flow in the tank and it actually made it really hard to place corals in the tank. Then it finally hit me. I have a LPS dominant tank. Most LPS prefer medium flow. I know every coral is different but the average flow is medium for LPS. So when placing coral I was thinking more along the lines of where is there medium flow in my tank which "spots" don't get that much flow and this is how I was placing my corals. And then it hit me. I have a 425 gph pump, 240 gph pump and a 211 gph return pump. So this was 876 gallons per hour for my tank. So 43 time turn over. I laughed so hard when I figured this out. I turned off the 425 model, so now I have a 240 pump and the 211 return pump. The tank had a huge change. The coralsl don't look like they are being blasted. They are inflating more and even my fish are acting different. My flame tail blenny which I NEVER see is actually out and swimming and chilling in places he has never chilled in before. Such a newbie thing to do, at least I made the realization tho :spin3:
Alright I'll have to order one of those, any recommendations on a ro/di system?
ssick92
New member
I would recommend the Salifert nitrate kit as it will be a lot more precise than the API kit and give you better insight into your tank's stability and parameters.
And for the RO/DI I always recommend either the BRS, Marine Depot, or SpectraPure systems depending on what your budget is.
SpectraPure is the most expensive, but generally regarded as the best, BRS is probably the most popular, but then Marine Depot came out with the Kleanwater systems to compete with BRS. I went with the Kleanwater 100gpd Advanced system because it gets slightly more gpd than BRS for the same price, and you get 15% off all replacement filters. Whatever system you get you want to make sure it comes with an inlet pressure gauge and dual TDS meter so you can guarantee your water is 0 TDS.
