Serenity Reef

[slin1977]

Hi swnoob - are you referring to the purple acro in the photo about the bubbles and abnormal growth?

I don't have the answers , but interestingly my strawberry short cake is bubbling away. Since this type was suggested to be placed in high current flow I did just that.
I can only imagine it is laying down a solid foundation before it decides to branch or table.

 

[swnoob]

Yes. The purple acro. i have a few pieces that have the same it seemed to have stunned its growth and turned the coral pale. I can't figure out why.

Very odd because i have frags of the same acro but with no bubbles on the tissue. Same amount of light and flow to both pieces but one is affected and the other isn't. Weird.

 

[Piper27]

Hey that pool dosing setup is awesome! We use some dosing systems that are similar but not as many things to dose. We use them in schools on the heating and chill loop.

Your colors look beautiful and that spath frag looks like it's taking off with great color on the new growth. Do you have a tang to keep the algae u see control? Maybe a small convict or something would do it.

The bubbles in the tissue could be something similar to hyperplasia which for me has been more on the growth tips of certain acros. When I had it show up it was because my dosing was not balanced. When I switched to the same amount of two part being dosed daily it went away and the new growth looked normal in a month or two.

 

[Wrangy]

So many pretty colours

 

[AkoAung]

As far as dosing goes , daily 2ml nitrate 1ml phosphate which is 10ppm and 1ppm
Then it goes 2 drops Lugols and 2ml 50/50 Salifert trace hard / koral color every other day
With 1ml to 2ml Iodion per week.
The other tricks are 4 drops sponge power and 4 drops Amino acid daily with 2 drops bio-mate per week.

Love the colour you've got on the SPS! Thanks for the dosing info. It's really helpful! I noticed the ratio you used for nitrate and phosphate dosing. Where did you get that ratio from? You are no longer dosing carbon as I recall?

 

[slin1977]

Love the colour you've got on the SPS! Thanks for the dosing info. It's really helpful! I noticed the ratio you used for nitrate and phosphate dosing. Where did you get that ratio from? You are no longer dosing carbon as I recall?

I made my own solution 15g KNO3 in 500ml RODI I believe is 1ml 0.05pm
3g K2PO4 in 500ml RODI is 1ml 0.01pm

I have held off dosing any additives for 6 weeks and been recently feeding way too much acro power and reef roids.

Yes not dosing carbon as well.

 

[slin1977]

Hey that pool dosing setup is awesome! We use some dosing systems that are similar but not as many things to dose. We use them in schools on the heating and chill loop.

Your colors look beautiful and that spath frag looks like it's taking off with great color on the new growth. Do you have a tang to keep the algae u see control? Maybe a small convict or something would do it.

The bubbles in the tissue could be something similar to hyperplasia which for me has been more on the growth tips of certain acros. When I had it show up it was because my dosing was not balanced. When I switched to the same amount of two part being dosed daily it went away and the new growth looked normal in a month or two.

Cheers Piper, I seem to find new pools to play in , right now I happen to be working on one where flight training takes place, there are all kinds of emergency rafts and inflatable life craft around the pool.
It's crazy there is a full size 747 plane and emergency slide off the door.
Quite surreal really.

The spath is taking off in a big way , it's put on five fingers and off those another five. I love the colour too. As for a tang , I have had them in the past I just like these Nano tank type fish ATM.

I use a calcium reactor, the calcium sits dead on 380 but the alk does swing a lot. From 6.0 up to 9.0 but usually it's between 6.5 and 7 for a week or so.

Anyway I am loving the tank ATM . I am looking forward to playing with the dosing again soon. Just wanted to calm things down and not make the tank a soup of chemicals.

 

[AkoAung]

I use a calcium reactor, the calcium sits dead on 380 but the alk does swing a lot. From 6.0 up to 9.0 but usually it's between 6.5 and 7 for a week or so

So you've been able to survive the alk swings without any coral losses?

 

[slin1977]

So you've been able to survive the alk swings without any coral losses?

I have only lost 1 from the original shipment of sustainable reefs frags.
I would say that salinity swings are the key trigger for RTN followed by temperature. When sps are in grow mode they can pull out a lot of alkalinity. Since I manually set the CO2 on the reactor, sometimes they catch me off guard :headwally:

 

[Piper27]

Man that's a crazy swing for a calcium reactor. My alk hasn't moved from 8.2 since I set mine up a few months ago. Never has moved in the past with calcium reactors on other tanks too. What about the calcium reactor is causing the alk swing? Wired how calcium is stable but all isn't. May have something to do with the odd growth on a few pieces. Colors look good though that's for sure. Nice natural lighting and pics, I appreciate that 100 times more than a blue LED flourecent pigment picture

 

[slin1977]

Man that's a crazy swing for a calcium reactor. My alk hasn't moved from 8.2 since I set mine up a few months ago. Never has moved in the past with calcium reactors on other tanks too. What about the calcium reactor is causing the alk swing? Wired how calcium is stable but all isn't. May have something to do with the odd growth on a few pieces. Colors look good though that's for sure. Nice natural lighting and pics, I appreciate that 100 times more than a blue LED flourecent pigment picture

Yes, I should get a ph controller and solenoid hooked up.
I have been running two blue , one purple the rest 50:50 blue white lights.
Changing all my tubes over to Red Sea brand . So far very happy with the Red Sea tubes. ATI and Narva are hard to get over here and never got my hands on a giessmann dd tube.
Since adding the actinic blue the photos I tried taking with my phone are certainly hyped up in the colour.

 

[swnoob]

Cheers Piper, I seem to find new pools to play in , right now I happen to be working on one where flight training takes place, there are all kinds of emergency rafts and inflatable life craft around the pool.
It's crazy there is a full size 747 plane and emergency slide off the door.
Quite surreal really.

The spath is taking off in a big way , it's put on five fingers and off those another five. I love the colour too. As for a tang , I have had them in the past I just like these Nano tank type fish ATM.

I use a calcium reactor, the calcium sits dead on 380 but the alk does swing a lot. From 6.0 up to 9.0 but usually it's between 6.5 and 7 for a week or so.

Anyway I am loving the tank ATM . I am looking forward to playing with the dosing again soon. Just wanted to calm things down and not make the tank a soup of chemicals.

I've been having the same issue with alkalinity swings with my calcium reactor. I do control my calcium reactors ph with my apex but several times now I have caught it stuck in the on position with the ph not changing for several hours causing it to over shoot my set point.

I have had the same growth issues and have now since switched to dosing 2 part til I get my apex fixed. Looks like our weird growth issues are related to our calcium reactors.

 

[ADVRESOURCE]

I like the Milwaukee ph controller for my carx. I control alk and CA with bubble size. Around 3 bubbles a second, 100ml a minute. Alk stays at 11. CA at 450. Mg is 110 ml a day to maintain 1425.

Make sure your dosing mag for balance.

Your strawberry cheesecake looks great. I'm looking into the tissue bubbling. I don't have any but, I also don't dose all of the acropower product either.

I do daily 2.5 gallon water changes. You have great encrustment.

I had a sump breach recently and salinity went down to 1.02. Brought back to 1.025 over a week. No losses.

 

[ADVRESOURCE]

Shortcake

 

[ADVRESOURCE]

Do you vodka dose?

 

[AkoAung]

I have only lost 1 from the original shipment of sustainable reefs frags.
I would say that salinity swings are the key trigger for RTN followed by temperature. When sps are in grow mode they can pull out a lot of alkalinity. Since I manually set the CO2 on the reactor, sometimes they catch me off guard :headwally:

Amazing! I think there's some sort of orthodoxy around alk stability when it comes to SPS. You're breaking some rules here I think? I wonder what's allowing your SPS to thrive through them. the colours are fantastic.

 

[slin1977]

Do you vodka dose?

No. No additives. I can manipulate my phos by adding Nitrate. (Possible Redfield ratio connection)
As you know a year ago I added a lot of Siporax this time of year and let it colonise with bacteria. Having the Siporax gives me the confidence to remove the entire gravel bed, something like doing that would cause issue if running zeovit. No STN here.

 

[slin1977]

Can't have a page without colour, lol


This one should be yellow but it's more green ATM

I know I can make the blues pop that's why Christian gave me three different blue tenius and a blue tort , but not sure how to control the yellows, the tort is yellow , but the yellow terra is more green. Anyways I know I am running high nutrients, let's see still plenty of time to play with this tank.
Thanks guys for stopping by!

 

[AkoAung]

I can manipulate my phos by adding Nitrate. (Possible Redfield ratio connection)

I learned the same thing by accident a few weeks ago when I started dosing nitrates as I was desiring more nutrients. phos went from little to zip. All my acros sulked up. That's when I started looking into what could explain it and redfield ratio has emerged as the best explanation. Thanks for contributing to my research!

 

[slin1977]