Share my one month growth!

[Bdial]

Thank you guys for the comments. I'm really pleased with it right now. The tank is just over a year old. A seam gave out on my 110 and I lost 90% of my corals with it. I saved a few but let them wither away with lack of motivation. But a few hung on. Beginning of this year I decided it was time. So I started cleaning, changing rocks, and working on stability. I added 32 frags the first week of April and haven't looked back. Only lost one too. I also haven't done a water change now in about 3 weeks. Well right before I broke my hand.

Some of the corals lacked any color. Pale Browns and ugly greens. I have noticed since bj that the colors are finally coming out. I'm getting blues, reds, yellows, all sorts of beautiful things.

 

[koral_lover]

It appears you have some dinoflagellates going on in the before pictures...you mind sharing how you overcame them? Just waited it out? The reason I ask is I am experiencing them myself, but they aren't too bad...I don't think I want to go to any extremes to get rid of them to risk my sps.

 

[jbvdhp]

I wish Oregon tort grew like that...


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[Bdial]

It appears you have some dinoflagellates going on in the before pictures...you mind sharing how you overcame them? Just waited it out? The reason I ask is I am experiencing them myself, but they aren't too bad...I don't think I want to go to any extremes to get rid of them to risk my sps.

I did have Dinos and honestly I didn't do anything to them. It's the third time I've had them since I started feeding and I've never done anything to rid of them. I just siphoned during water changes and kept everything stable. They went away on their own.
I currently have some sort of bubble algae/ cyano thing going on. I'm out of phosguard and I'm not sure what I want to use. I have some gfo and I was thinking about setting up a reactor but that's just one more thing to do. Plus I'd have to redo my hard plumbing to accommodate the new reactor.
I found my gels so today I'll take some pics with my phone when the mh come on. I got a few more pieces to show.

 

[Bdial]

I wish Oregon tort grew like that...


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I wish I had an Oregon tort

 

[Bdial]

Here's my monti growth. April 24-today.
I used a light gel filter and was able to very closely capture the corals color. It's a pretty dark intense orange/red. You can also see in the picture the bubble algae cyan I'm battling.

 

[kevin_e]

That is almost unbelievable! Incredible.

 

[Bdial]

That is almost unbelievable! Incredible.

Thanks! I'm workin hard.

 

[Bdial]

Here's the same monti on March 25



Quite a change.

 

[Kurt03]

Nice growth! whats your no3 po4 levels? Fish list? With that growth guessing you have a decent fish load and slightly elevated nutrient levels?

What alk/calc method are you using?

 

[reefmutt]

Nice growth!
And color.
What's your dosage for Koralcolor/trace hard/iodine and your total system volume?

 

[Bdial]

Nice growth! whats your no3 po4 levels? Fish list? With that growth guessing you have a decent fish load and slightly elevated nutrient levels?

What alk/calc method are you using?

No clue what my levels are. Haven't tested in probably over a year. Fish include:
Yellow tang
Powder blue
Longnose butterfly
Yellow coris
Watchman goby
3x percs

i feed pellets couple times a day and frozen food once a day or every other day.

I'm dosing two part right now. Diy alk solution and esv b ionic calcium until it runs out.

 

[Bdial]

Nice growth!
And color.
What's your dosage for Koralcolor/trace hard/iodine and your total system volume?

Koralcolor is 1ml daily
I'm using replenish at 1.7 ml daily
Lugols at 1.5 drop daily (1 one day , 2 the next)

I didn't dose in the last 8 days as I've been out of town so I restarted today. So far everything is continuing on the same growth. They may have even picked up a bit. Pics to come in the next day or so of new growth.

 

[Bdial]

I'm going to have to work on the tank a bit. This algae is killin me. Maybe I should get a clean up crew. I only have like three blue legs and a snail.

This last month of growth doesn't appear like much happened. Several pieces have started sprouting new branches so that's nice. My frogskin which has done nothing but encrust since I got it now has like nine branches starting to grow. I took a few pics of the most noticeable growths. Also the coloration is getting nice. Some of my bland corals are developing real nice colors. I'm happy with this dosing regimen.

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Taken this morning


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Taken today


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[kevlow]

Very nice growth and color.

 

[Bdial]

Very nice growth and color.

Thanks! I'm trying to keep up with you guys.

 

[Bdial]

Snagged a few top down. Turned out nice. Color on the first one is awesome.

 

[reefmutt]

Wow. Looking really nice!

 

[BBLINKS]

What ever you are doing just keep it up, good growth for short period of time.

 

[Bdial]

Just checked my no3 and po4 using a Red Sea kit.
No3 was surprisingly really low around 0.25
Po4 was expectedly elevated. I couldn't get a definitive reading however. It's hovering somewhere around 0.36. The solution was a really pale blue. No where near as blue as the reading for 1.0 but not green or yellow. So I kinda guessed.
Guess I'll throw in some more gfo and start feeding more too