Serenity Reef
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slin1977
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It's time to show you a four month status update photo.
Whilst this is a young tank still finding its groove I am happy with the progress so far. Of course there are some SPS that are challenging and painfully slow to colour up but that is part of the fun.
Cheers!
slavetonet
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It's coming along nicely mate.
Get some amino acids and vitamins into your sps and she will fly. :beer:
Get some amino acids and vitamins into your sps and she will fly. :beer:
slin1977
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Thanks! I agree, any brand suggestion or could you send me some of your secret blend to feed these hungry sticks :thumbsup:
HuskerBioProf
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How do you like those gyres at two different heights? I have a similar configuration, but they are blasting right at each other (both in alternating mode). What was your goal with the different heights?
slin1977
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My gyre get moved around weekly. Sometimes they face each other,
sometimes I have just one running for the day.
I have not found any sweet spot to leave them at.
@HuskerBioProf - have you found a nice way to run two gyre, mate?
FloformAustria
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It's time to show you a four month status update photo.
Whilst this is a young tank still finding its groove I am happy with the progress so far. Of course there are some SPS that are challenging and painfully slow to colour up but that is part of the fun.
Cheers!
:celeb3:
looking amazing mate!! :celeb1:
HuskerBioProf
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I have 2 Gyre 130s facing each other. They are both on alternating mode. I tried to time them so that one is in referee while the other is in forward with some overlap either way. It makes the flow pretty turbulent and strong. They are both on about 60%. It seems to be doing well so far. I have a lot more rock than you, and it still wipes water through all the little crevices.
slin1977
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@Wrangy - yep I have been busy lately... You could say I've gone fishing , last week Wednesday went for a bash and hooked up 5 Tailor and 1 Kingfish. For me the challenge is to land them , most times they get away since I use very light line and have to be patient.
I call it the 1000 challenge (1000 size reel and 4 pound line and leader) Last week landed a legal tailor and set it free. On that mission we went around the harbour and a little bit out the heads and spotted some whales breaching about a hundred meters away as well as a couple of dolphin. I also picked up a floating brand new bucket in the middle of no where!!!!Here is a photo taken after I landed that Tailor.
This week Wednesday , we launched again, took the 1000 challenge on and I landed this Australian Salmon, went 55cm on the tape measure -after a good 15 min fight on 4 pound.
The reel was screaming !!!
Right in front of the opera house, lol ! And I found another bucket perfectly intact like the other one.
How good is Australia!
Just as we pulled up toward the boat ramp saw another bucket, this time the handle was broken so decided to let it keep on floating....
In other news my tank looks great!!!
Except for the alkalinity test I took tonight - measures 4.6 dKH ! A bit low I think might pay the fish tank a bit more love this weekend.
I call it the 1000 challenge (1000 size reel and 4 pound line and leader) Last week landed a legal tailor and set it free. On that mission we went around the harbour and a little bit out the heads and spotted some whales breaching about a hundred meters away as well as a couple of dolphin. I also picked up a floating brand new bucket in the middle of no where!!!!Here is a photo taken after I landed that Tailor.
This week Wednesday , we launched again, took the 1000 challenge on and I landed this Australian Salmon, went 55cm on the tape measure -after a good 15 min fight on 4 pound.
The reel was screaming !!!
Right in front of the opera house, lol ! And I found another bucket perfectly intact like the other one.
How good is Australia!
Just as we pulled up toward the boat ramp saw another bucket, this time the handle was broken so decided to let it keep on floating....
In other news my tank looks great!!!
Except for the alkalinity test I took tonight - measures 4.6 dKH ! A bit low I think might pay the fish tank a bit more love this weekend.
slin1977
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I hate you. Simple as that :lolspin:
That is a great looking fish tooI'm actually a little surprised there's many fish in the harbour given the sheer amount of traffic in and out and around lol
Definitely jealous! Haha
And that's why I go on a Wednesday afternoons. Finish work , boat in water latest 4pm and enjoy a good hoon around the harbour with no traffic.
Weekends are a complete write of due to boat traffic.
Time for some SPS updates... Managed to fix the KH - a bit of RTN on one very temperamental frag, that sensitive TDFuego you helped me pick. The rest seem fine. Did a little water change today and hope to correct the water further tomorrow.
Anyway still having fun with my tank.
slin1977
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I kinda have a new appreciation for water maintenance , I had noticed a shift in algea species in the couple of weeks leading upto the day when I decided to check the kh.
Anyway TDFuego completely RTNed . Honestly does not bother me one bit as the rest of them seem unaffected.
These past 6 weeks I have been daily testing and doing water treatment to a couple of pools and spas. Part of the testing include free chlorine, total and combined chlorine, ORP,
iron,copper,phosphate,calcium,alkalinity and ph amongst others.
Keeping swimming pool water parameters in check has been fascinating. The relationship between ph , temp, kh and calcium is just as relevant for pools as it is for our reef aquariums. Before I could perform any water treatment I first had to balance these parameters and there after proceed to deal with the issue of say phosphate for instance.
Having humans enter the pool affected the water chemistry in a big way.
The lessons I took from this and applying them to a small fish tank such as mine would be to keep your hands out of there as much as practically possible.
Here are the dosing rigs!
slin1977
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I can't wait to get my hands on a few more.
I think they are fine with SPS.:thumbsup:
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