New 220 gallon build
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KurtsReef
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Henceforth it shall be known as "Scotts Oregon Tort" for lineage purposes...
Thanks, I thought it was but had so many frags from that day many of which fell into the abyss.
Did another round of interceptor yesterday...this time on all acro's on the large slanted rock. Cannot take this rock out and treat it as the RBTA is attached, so detached all SPS and dosed them for 1/2 hour in a bucket with power head and replaced.
Of course this led to more new aquascaping...my wife commented that recently I have changed the aquascaping more than she moves furniture around.
Thanks, I thought it was but had so many frags from that day many of which fell into the abyss.
Did another round of interceptor yesterday...this time on all acro's on the large slanted rock. Cannot take this rock out and treat it as the RBTA is attached, so detached all SPS and dosed them for 1/2 hour in a bucket with power head and replaced.
Of course this led to more new aquascaping...my wife commented that recently I have changed the aquascaping more than she moves furniture around.
KurtsReef
Premium Member
Blue...not purple, my error. It has not kept up growth wise with the green, in fact it appears to be the same size it was at the swap but my fingers are crossed it kicks in.
Cassy likes the fish and not so much the corals, specifically her eyes are drawn to the yellow tang and foxface...must like yellow.
I also finished wiring the LED lights, and now that they are attached to the ACIII they will supplement the MH lighting and reduce my electrical costs a bit every day. I reduced the MH lighting by 2 hours which will mean 900 x 2 x 29 = 52,200w approximate electrical savings per month.
Next step will be to reduce the sump lighting from 400w bulb to a 250...think the 400w down stairs is a bit excessive, but the corals in the sump keep such nice color
wastememphis
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Kurt,
I bought a "Kill-A-Watt" meter, which you can plug equipment into and see the actual wattage they are using, incase you wanted to check some of your return pumps/other stuff. I could bring it into work for you to use if you'd be interested in cutting costs, or knowing costs! (you can imput price per kwh and have it calculate monthly costs)... LMK
Neil
I bought a "Kill-A-Watt" meter, which you can plug equipment into and see the actual wattage they are using, incase you wanted to check some of your return pumps/other stuff. I could bring it into work for you to use if you'd be interested in cutting costs, or knowing costs! (you can imput price per kwh and have it calculate monthly costs)... LMK
Neil
wastememphis
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I'll bring it in tomorrow, as long as I remember, I'd just like it back before the 1st, that's when I'm leaving for Alabama.
KurtsReef
Premium Member
I was in the office yesterday but out the rest of the week Neil. Just spent 3 hours in the cellar cleaning, need to spend a couple more hours before next weekend...not an area of the house guests normally go into.
I will be back in the office on Monday...or you could just bring it with you on the 14th.
I will be back in the office on Monday...or you could just bring it with you on the 14th.
KurtsReef
Premium Member
Well, as you know I was out of town for a little over 4 months and when I returned my tank had seen better days but was not really in full crash mode. One of the concerns was the amount of algae that had grown, not cheato or caulerpa but the bad ones...
Anyway, being the kind of guy that does not go to the doctor until it really hurts I chose not to test anything and continue on performing maintenance for awhile hoping this would bring things into order without my going off the deep end and trying to repair it all too quickly causing more damage. I did a few small water changes, ran the phosban reactors changing the media closer together as time went on (first time ran it a month, then a month, then 3 weeks, 3 weeks, 2 weeks, and a week), added Mag/two part as normal when home before...fast forward about 4 months and this morning I decided to test.
I became 'brave' simply due to the lack of algae growth over the past week or so, I assumed that meant things were getting at least close to being good.
Nitrates register 0, Phosphates register 0, KH at 8 DKH or 143.2ppm, Calcium at 360ppm
I was more than happy with the Nitrates and Phosphates, and want to get the KH/Calcium levels up. Decided to test the magnesium as well and it came in a bit low at 1260ppm.
Performed a 35g water change with some Reef Crystals I mixed a few hours earlier and tested that after a recent thread here. I only tested the reef crystals for KH and Calcium which registered 460ppm calcium and a DKH of 11 or 196.9ppm
I then added a cup each of two part solution, plan on adding another cup each in a few hours. Will test the KH and Calcium again tonight.
I did not have any iodine, so did not bother testing. Need to pick up both iodine and some Mag.
If I had tested when returning home and found the Nitrates and Phosphates to be high along with any other parameters out of whack, it would have caused me to try and fix it too fast. I think this worked well in preventing me from causing anything worse from happening.
Anyway, being the kind of guy that does not go to the doctor until it really hurts I chose not to test anything and continue on performing maintenance for awhile hoping this would bring things into order without my going off the deep end and trying to repair it all too quickly causing more damage. I did a few small water changes, ran the phosban reactors changing the media closer together as time went on (first time ran it a month, then a month, then 3 weeks, 3 weeks, 2 weeks, and a week), added Mag/two part as normal when home before...fast forward about 4 months and this morning I decided to test.
I became 'brave' simply due to the lack of algae growth over the past week or so, I assumed that meant things were getting at least close to being good.
Nitrates register 0, Phosphates register 0, KH at 8 DKH or 143.2ppm, Calcium at 360ppm
I was more than happy with the Nitrates and Phosphates, and want to get the KH/Calcium levels up. Decided to test the magnesium as well and it came in a bit low at 1260ppm.
Performed a 35g water change with some Reef Crystals I mixed a few hours earlier and tested that after a recent thread here. I only tested the reef crystals for KH and Calcium which registered 460ppm calcium and a DKH of 11 or 196.9ppm
I then added a cup each of two part solution, plan on adding another cup each in a few hours. Will test the KH and Calcium again tonight.
I did not have any iodine, so did not bother testing. Need to pick up both iodine and some Mag.
If I had tested when returning home and found the Nitrates and Phosphates to be high along with any other parameters out of whack, it would have caused me to try and fix it too fast. I think this worked well in preventing me from causing anything worse from happening.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
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