The Reef Central Corner Club Thread
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reefscape15
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Jbird - welcome to the club! I love your current tank, and i'm sure you'll have a great build in a corner. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with
vickreyreef
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2 part doing for 92g corner
2 part doing for 92g corner
hi ...i have the 92 with a 15G sump...I am about to start dosing the 2 part recipe 1 using dosing pumps....when I look at BRS calculator it seems like I would only be dosing 42.6ml a day of each ca and alk
does that seem right or way too low?? I have a fairly stocked tank with everything...lps, softies and sps and 2 clams....
thanks!
2 part doing for 92g corner
hi ...i have the 92 with a 15G sump...I am about to start dosing the 2 part recipe 1 using dosing pumps....when I look at BRS calculator it seems like I would only be dosing 42.6ml a day of each ca and alk
does that seem right or way too low?? I have a fairly stocked tank with everything...lps, softies and sps and 2 clams....
thanks!
reefscape15
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I have NO IDEA about dosing! I have only dosed Purple-Up for a few months at a time, but haven't used it in quite a while. I really do pretty much nothing but bi-monthly water changes, but everything is doing well. Hopefully somebody else will chime in and give you some useful advice!
vickreyreef
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wow Jim I wish I was that lucky....its like a balancing act trying to keep all my params on keel without a ton of spikes....that is why I am giving in...I added a ton of SPS at once and it shot my tank to hell with the calcium...so I am sick of daily testing and dosing and need to just automate it. I just got a GHL all in one unit so I want to fire it up but that amount seems so oddly low to me when I read what others are dosing...am I right that the 92 has a tank volume of 71? That is what my program said....
reefscape15
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a 92 has a volume of 71?......I don't even know what this means! 
But if you are sick of dosing, maybe a calcium reactor is in order. I've been thinking about adding one whenever I get around to adding a sump.
But if you are sick of dosing, maybe a calcium reactor is in order. I've been thinking about adding one whenever I get around to adding a sump.vickreyreef
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when I put the dimensions into my maintenance program it comes out with a 71 gallon tank volume. What is everyone else using? There is a calculator on the home page of RC as well....
the program calls it useable volume...it takes the height and width and the depth of the sand bed(4") and came out with 71.16 useful gallons so I am assuming that is the volume I use when figuring out the dosing on the 2 part? Also my program takes into account that its a corner tank...where the one on RC doesn't give you that ability
the program calls it useable volume...it takes the height and width and the depth of the sand bed(4") and came out with 71.16 useful gallons so I am assuming that is the volume I use when figuring out the dosing on the 2 part? Also my program takes into account that its a corner tank...where the one on RC doesn't give you that ability
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Hookup
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That low to me.
I dose the faunamarin products, but the dosing is similar when the mixes are done... (cept for alk which in faunamarin is different)
I have the 92g corner with a good amount of sps and lps.... I also have a 140 gallon sump, so my total water volume is well over 220g. I dose 70ml/day of ca to maintain my params.
I dose 60ml/day of Mg btw, and 180ml/day of Alk... but.... the Faunamarin system mixes Sodium Bicarbonate (Alk) at 25% strength, so its about perfect...
It takes a few weeks to balance the system... This is because as the params stabalize, the corals start to grow... consuming Ca and Alk... so you dose more, but then they stabalize more... so it yo-yo's a bit as you fine-tune your params... Once you think you are stable with your consumption/dosing rates, I strongly suggest testing every 3 days for a few weeks (5-6 weeks) to ensure things are good... in my experience it takes 3+ weeks for corals to "ramp up to speed" once the parameters stabalize...
Hookup
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a 92 has a volume of 71?......I don't even know what this means!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Baling method light is the way to gooooooooo!
Seriously, the cost is the same, and the ability to fine-tune the baling method over cal-reactors isn't even comparable IMO.
reefscape15
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Maybe I'll have to look into this. I would like to add something that's pretty automated as I'd like to keep from having to dose and test all the time. I'm planning on a 15-20gal sump with a SWC200 skimmer in the first chamber. The rest of the sump space will be saved for a fuge, only leaving enough room for a bubble trap and return pump, but I have a design in mind where I can just isolate the return in one corner, and build a corner style bubble trap. I want to have as much room for the fuge as possible. I think the skimmer will take up a bit of room, but any fuge is better than none.
OK, I'll chime in on this. As Hookup said, it takes a few weeks to get it dialed in. Do this after adding a few sps and increase the amount of sps over a period of time and keep a "very close" watch on your levels for at least a few weeks after adding the last of the sps. If not, you'll be doomed. As I was. My tank looks like crap right now, and only a few sps survived the disaster. That's one of the reasons I haven't posted much. Things were going great for the first few weeks. Had plenty of growth and colors were great. I stopped watching the levels much and all of a sudden the cal dropped through the floor. A major PIA getting it back up, and things went south very quick.
Things are stablizing out now and alot of the things left are doing fine. But with the loss of a few corals the dreaded cyno started up. It's going away now and I've got back to pretty much normal. I'm leaving things alone for a bit and just getting things leveled out. I'll wait awhile before doing much else.
Things are stablizing out now and alot of the things left are doing fine. But with the loss of a few corals the dreaded cyno started up. It's going away now and I've got back to pretty much normal. I'm leaving things alone for a bit and just getting things leveled out. I'll wait awhile before doing much else.
reefscape15
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WOW!!!! Thats gotta be a nice little toy! How's the skimmate from it? And what's the footprint? Did you get it used or new?
Its much better than the skimmer I was using. Its a lightly stocked so there isn't much to pull the the foam action is much better. I got it new...there wasn't many people getting rid of them. Marine depot had them on sale 20% off so it was right around the used prices. I think the footprint it 8"x 10" or so. I will measure later.
gawf4fun
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Hey Jbird, just read your build thread. Looking super! I wish that I'd had your experience prior to designing my own sump and equipment layout. In retrospect, I would have loved to configure an in-sump skimmer. I've subsribed and I'm sure I'll pick up some pointers to apply to my own 180 gallon corner which is here in Oregon as well, Lake Oswego. Where are you located?
L98-Z
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I plan to put one in my tank, but I don't expect much out of it. I have one in a 75 gallon right now and it's not overly impressive. Limiting the length further is only going to hinder it more.
