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Awesome tank and truly a tank and sps colors to aspire to. Some people are truly blessed with a blue thumb and you my friend have been touched by the hands of the coral gods.

With a beautiful display like have, surely you have gone thru problems in your tank or has it been smooth sailing? Have you ever been thru stn from the base up or rtn? What is your success rate with sps? Please tell us about your failures/semi crashes to make us novices feel better about ourselves.
 
ATL.S.O.F. from above

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Dan,

Do you add vinegar to your Kalk, or is it straight Kalk?.
It sounds like you're doing a lot more testing to maintain levels than you did with just the cal Rx?.

Thanks
Mo
 
Dan, As always, GORGEOUS!!!

In competition for space who fares best between the Montipora Setosa and acroporas near it?
 
Moser said:
Dan,

Do you add vinegar to your Kalk, or is it straight Kalk?.
It sounds like you're doing a lot more testing to maintain levels than you did with just the cal Rx?.

Thanks
Mo
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No vinegar,just plain limewater
I think the excessive testing is more a result of my degree of obsession rater then the method I use for my main alk maintenance ;)

reeftanknewbie said:
Love the shades of fall colors. Your tank is amazing. What kind of growth do you get from your sps?
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Thanks,growth is very good IMO as long as parameters are kept at a very stable # and in the zone.

slojmn said:
Dan, As always, GORGEOUS!!!


In competition for space who fares best between the Montipora Setosa and acroporas near it?
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Thanks,The acropora overgrows it and needs to be cut back a couple times a year to provide light and suitable space for the setosa to live and grow
 
Dan,

Interesting observation about the kalk. I've been looking for ways to simplify my setup and this is definitely intriguing. Why do you feel that dosing from a container is better then from a kalk reactor? Is it the increased precipitation of p04? How much kalk are you adding to your reservoir?

Have you measured how much evaporation you're currently getting? Did you just put fans over your sump to increase evaporation?
 
roni said:
Dan,

Interesting observation about the kalk. I've been looking for ways to simplify my setup and this is definitely intriguing. Why do you feel that dosing from a container is better then from a kalk reactor? Is it the increased precipitation of p04? How much kalk are you adding to your reservoir?

Have you measured how much evaporation you're currently getting? Did you just put fans over your sump to increase evaporation?
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With a still container,I get a very stable dkh on each mix as long as I clean the container after each use and use the same amount of kalk each time.With a reactor I was unable to keep it dialed in accurately in the long term to keep a stable dkh and I would noticed shifts as the rector would need filling or other mechanical fine tunings were required.With a constant drip rate from the still container the effluent dkh remains stable for the entire time.I am adding 2 cups of mississippi lime to 55 gallons of RODI and this is used in one amount week to top off several systems including the DT.The Kalk is never older then one week with my current method.

I do not think it is the actual precipitation of PO4 that lends to the positive effects as much as how little or none is added when using lime water for alk maintenance.All Ca reactor medias I have tested had a fairly high PO4 reading in the effluent .Some were much higher then others but they all contained PO4.Limewater does not contain as much PO4 or any for our purposes with keeping corals.I was unable to get a reading of PO4 in clear lime water using a hanna checker so using it for as much of your daily DKH draw as possible would seem logical and this is the path I chose.I noticed positive results within a few days of changing methods and depending on kalk for much of the daily demands.I evaporate about 4 gallons daily on the DT which is about 220 total gallons.Fans are used on the aquarium and one blowing across the sump surface also when lights are on.One small muffin fan runs all the time in the hood to help with gas exchange and evaporation
 
Dan,

Thanks for the response. Do you think that dosing through a kalk reactor would be the same if you measured out the same amount and fed the kalk reactor via a metered dosing pump (say LM3) and cleaned out the kalkreactor weekly? I like the idea of using kalk alone but at least with my current setup, it would exceedingly difficult to completely wash out my ro/di reservoir but relatively easy to do with the kalkreactor.
 
Hi Dan, You are useing three 250w MH lights with vho's. My question is, what ballast are you using for the mh and do you run a chiller?
 
roni said:
Dan,

Thanks for the response. Do you think that dosing through a kalk reactor would be the same if you measured out the same amount and fed the kalk reactor via a metered dosing pump (say LM3) and cleaned out the kalkreactor weekly? I like the idea of using kalk alone but at least with my current setup, it would exceedingly difficult to completely wash out my ro/di reservoir but relatively easy to do with the kalkreactor.
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Not the "same" but I am sure it would be adequate and do the job.I look at months and years when I speak REEF,as it takes this long to realize success or even failure to be exact.Long term I personally would not get the stability with a reactor and the small variations that would occur along with solids being passed into the effluent at times steered me away and back to the still reservoir..I am sure there are better reactors and a method in which this would work fine but with my particular system,the 50 gallon still drum was what I got the best return on.

reefslugs said:
Hi Dan, You are useing three 250w MH lights with vho's. My question is, what ballast are you using for the mh and do you run a chiller?
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On the DT,I use ARO ballasts which are basically a industrial ballast sold by Hellolights and a few others.These were very un publisized when I strarted testing them on some of the german bulbs .Sanjay also had some of these in the early days and showed them firing the Radiums which gave me confidence to give them a try..It was believed that the ARO would not fire a 250 watt radium correctly but my contact at hello lights send me a couple to try and do par testing etc...as he believed they would work fine.That was many years ago and I am currently running the original three on the DT.I run a few different ballasts on the basement tanks and namely like the Galaxy (Galaxy Select-A-Watt 250-400 Electronic ) and get a slight bump in par when ran in the HQI mode vs the ARO.The color seems very close on the Radiums with either ballast.

And a couple images to brighten up this page

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Actinic shot of Jason Fox Grafted Chalice

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