Sam's Oceanic 120

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ORD Aquatics is awesome! They honored their guarantee. They mentioned the fish was in their shop for a week before I got it so no idea why he kicked. I had egg crate between the two fish so it wasn't aggression.
I got a Bi Color to replace. She is doing great.

climatizing for about 2 hours now. Salinity...

 

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9/9/2022
BiColor still doing great at lights out. The Tang and Yellow Angel largely ignoring her now that shes behind the egg crate.

~1/3rd of a 29 gallon tank.

2022-09-09 10:02 PM	Alkalinity	12.3
2022-09-09 10:05 PM	Calcium	490
2022-09-09 10:08 PM	Magnesium	1425

Lowered the kalk dosing to 60ml/hour on peak pH hours. Its been very stable, just high...
I don't know why the kalk stirrer kalk seems to work so much better then when I was doing it out of jugs... It comes out of the stirrer clear so I know its not the slurry..

 

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9/10/2022

My daughter is managing the QT process. She has conducted attendance.

 

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9/10/2022

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Are the corals growing fast with the higher alkalinity? I don’t have the guts to go that high in my tank lol.
My alk is only 8dkh.

sometimes the guts are thrust upon you! When I installed my DIY Kalk reactor I accidentally spilled a bunch of Kalkwasser slurry in my sump; The Ph went up to 8.35 from 8.11; I quickly dumped in about 12oz of soda water and 100ml vinegar to bring it down again.
So that raised the alk a bit but also the kalk stirrer kalk is way more potent... dropped my dosing from 90ml/hr to 70ml/hr to stay level; there was some lag in my adjustments thus the high alk. I'm trying to get it down slowly.

the corals that are not paused are growing fast; I've been all over the place though so there are a lot of stalled frags.
edit ** Though, I look back at my alk measurements and I guess its been steadily rising since early August.

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2022-09-10 9:58 PM	Alkalinity	12.3
2022-09-10 10:01 PM	Calcium	485
2022-09-10 10:04 PM	Magnesium	1335

*most of the measurements are at 10pmish right after lights out.
Dropping more hourly dosing down to 60ml/hr
I agree 10+ is too high for my comfort level.
stirrer was added the 5th-6th.

 

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9/11/2022
Timmy accidentally bit me when I was hand feeding him today. it didn't hurt too much. didn't draw blood. was more of a scrape. It surprised him as much as it did me. The Larger of the Blue Hippo Tangs ate from my hand today too which was cool. I think he realized yesterday that he was theoretically the tank boss after Timmy now.

 

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9/12/2022
I have no idea what is going on. I've changed over 40 gallons of water @10dkh and my tanks dkh went from 12.3 to 12.5. I've re-measured both numbers... lowered my kalk dosing to 50ml/hr.

Over the weekend:
Setup DIY overflow for the QT tank so I can do two auto water changes at once.

Added second tier to the 'off the Timmy menu tank' (but the clam attached to the egg crate not a frag :/)

Installed saltwater mixing bucket water tap and float switch:


Weird gloop from heated tank water with no flow:


FTS:


Caught a chromis in the clear trap... no 6-line yet though.

 

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Did you figure out the high Alk issue?