Mike's 200g
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mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
MichaelW
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That sounds like a good plan. Dose every other day for now
My system is 200g so I was thinking
Monday - 4 drops a and v
Tuesday - 4drops b (possibly e in future)
Wednesday - a and v
Thursday - b and e and coral food (not sure how much)
Friday- a and v
Sat - b and e
Sun- coral food (not sure how much)
Can coral a and v be dosed same day?
Also do you think 2 drops probio s each day would be of any benefit or just a waste.. Especialy without carbon source?
MichaelW
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Yeah he got me into it originally. My old 90 gallon used to be his tank.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
That looks good, I dose A and V together. I don't know if the Probio S would be of any benefit. I don't think it would hurt though.
MichaelW
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Was picking up some mysis from a LFS and they had a 2 litre container of seachem matrix. So I thought why not? Its just rock that can't hurt anything right? Only place for bacteria. Now my question is... I don't want to run it in a reactor so how should I run it? I see Biggles just chucked it on the floor of his sump, but I would like to be able to remove it more easily for cleaning. I think some pieces would fall through an egg crate box
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
You can put it in a mesh bag and then lay it in the sump. It takes a while to start doing its thing apparently, around 90 days to be fully seeded.
MichaelW
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AF products have arrived. I think I will follow my proposed schedule above but start from the beginning with the coral E. At 4 drops every tuesday, thursday, Saturday. The AF manual says to use coral b and e everyday but for now I will go with 3 times a week and go from there (all my doses are lower than recommended so if any current users thinks I will see no benefit not dosing daily please let me know)
The other change is I am going to start daily 6 drops of pro bio s to keep up good bacteria populations.
The other change is I am going to start daily 6 drops of pro bio s to keep up good bacteria populations.
MichaelW
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Today the fish got no food and no aquaforest dosing. I was just too busy with something way more important.
We spent the day at the hospital with my wife for the birth of our second child. A baby girl!
Tank will be fine for a day.
Tomorrow morning I might have my father in law just stop by and feed a cube or 2 of mysis. I should be home by evening.
Very excited and happy both mother and baby are doing well.
We spent the day at the hospital with my wife for the birth of our second child. A baby girl!
Tank will be fine for a day.
Tomorrow morning I might have my father in law just stop by and feed a cube or 2 of mysis. I should be home by evening.
Very excited and happy both mother and baby are doing well.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Congratulations Mike to you and your family!!!:celeb2:
MichaelW
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Hi everyone so quick update. probably the last one I will do for a while. I don't plan on adding much more coral and just want to let things grow really. I will add more fish though.
Aquaforest
so far I like what I have been seeing. its only been a couple weeks but I feel maybe the water and tank look a little cleaner and some corals have some nice color happening.... of course this could all be in my head.
Currently I am dosing;
pro bio S- 6 drops daily in the morning
Coral A and V - 5 drops Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Coral B and E - 4 drops everyday
Coral food - 3 spoons 3 times a week.
my nutrients have remained very low so far and will probably up my doses coming up very soon.
fish are all looking healthy to me. I feed 6 cubes of frozen a day with 2 rotations of my auto feeder for flake and pellet. Recently I have started using selcon on the frozen food every now and then (about 2 times a week). I will put algae on a clip when I feel like it.
I am hoping to add 8 springeri damsels to the tank. I have heard good things regarding them as a predator for AEFW and they do not have as aggressive nature as other damsels.
the couple corals that were exhibiting bite marks I no longer see them on so I am hopeful I caught them early. Any way taking the tank down to dip etc. is not really an option anymore.
Monti caps growth is really giving me problems and shading acros. unfortunately I cant take it all out because my wife really loves how its growing. I will have to just cut it back.
last few pictures for a while to follow. I managed to sneak some time while the new baby, wife and son were all sleeping the other day.
Thanks for looking everyone
Aquaforest
so far I like what I have been seeing. its only been a couple weeks but I feel maybe the water and tank look a little cleaner and some corals have some nice color happening.... of course this could all be in my head.
Currently I am dosing;
pro bio S- 6 drops daily in the morning
Coral A and V - 5 drops Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Coral B and E - 4 drops everyday
Coral food - 3 spoons 3 times a week.
my nutrients have remained very low so far and will probably up my doses coming up very soon.
fish are all looking healthy to me. I feed 6 cubes of frozen a day with 2 rotations of my auto feeder for flake and pellet. Recently I have started using selcon on the frozen food every now and then (about 2 times a week). I will put algae on a clip when I feel like it.
I am hoping to add 8 springeri damsels to the tank. I have heard good things regarding them as a predator for AEFW and they do not have as aggressive nature as other damsels.
the couple corals that were exhibiting bite marks I no longer see them on so I am hopeful I caught them early. Any way taking the tank down to dip etc. is not really an option anymore.
Monti caps growth is really giving me problems and shading acros. unfortunately I cant take it all out because my wife really loves how its growing. I will have to just cut it back.
last few pictures for a while to follow. I managed to sneak some time while the new baby, wife and son were all sleeping the other day.
Thanks for looking everyone
