What Going On in Your System Today?
- Thread starter MUCHO REEF
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We have come a long way since PC's for sure. So much out there now to choose from.
Hey Paul, long time, good to hear from you. Are the bulbs SE or DE?
Mucho Reef
Mucho Reef
FormulatedFire
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I'm returning to reefing and rebuilding my Zoa farm that I had 5 years ago...Awaiting my lights from BRS and then I'll be putting together some cash for Zoas frags...Lights are scheduled to be here Monday
goldmaniac
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I took drastic action last week to clean up the tank from hair algae and red slime algae. my wonderful wife & I turkey baster'ed and scrubbed the tank, and new PO4 tests are showing 0.5 ppm PO4 in the water column, AND 0.5 ppm in the Brightwell Salt that I started using about 3-4 months ago as per a suggestion from a LFS employee that I trusted. d'OH!
So now we're trying to clean everything up, but I suspect the serious cleaning killed my tiger sea cucumber, and i had a bi-color frogspawn die on me. so sad... and a bi-color hammer coral isn't looking good, either.
added 200 mL of Rox 0.8 carbon last night to the overflow, I added Black Diamond carbon last week for the first time in years. replaced the Black Diamond with the Rox last night.
I've been fighting hair algae since moving in October. New BRS RO/DI on October and TDS have been 0.0.
So now we're trying to clean everything up, but I suspect the serious cleaning killed my tiger sea cucumber, and i had a bi-color frogspawn die on me. so sad... and a bi-color hammer coral isn't looking good, either.
added 200 mL of Rox 0.8 carbon last night to the overflow, I added Black Diamond carbon last week for the first time in years. replaced the Black Diamond with the Rox last night.
I've been fighting hair algae since moving in October. New BRS RO/DI on October and TDS have been 0.0.
SIR PATRICK
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Still growing.....
PauChi
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I was told there'd be Phoenix bulbs coming in and lo behold no Phoenix but XM bulbs which I ended up with. XM aren't as brilliant as the Phoenix though. Oh well ... I'm using DE 250W all this while.
BTW ... gonna check out about 20 -30 colonies of supposedly very nice Palys come Monday ... :eek1:. MMmmmmm ....
Paul
Jarred1
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I recently had a problem with my TDS meter, the out probe is giving me an error message but the in probe is giving me a number. So I put the in probe into the RO/DI water and it is giving me a reading of 2ppm but when the out probe was working right it was giving me a reading of of 0ppm. So that means I have been putting not the best quality of water into my tanks. So my question is 2ppm from an RO/DI system bad? Do I need to replace my filters?
goldmaniac
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2 ppm isn't bad.
goldmaniac
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Ever since last Summer, I've been battling hair algae in my 120 gallon mixed tank. I didn't do much about it since we put out and won a bid on buying a new house, and we moved in Oct 2010. Since Oct, when I moved the tank, the HA has been getting worse, and Red Slime algae joined the party around January (when I switched salt, by coincidence?).
Light bulb changes, removing all sand, adding an additional macroalgae species in the 24" x 18" refugium, changing to "premium" salt recommended by a LFS employee (big mistake) all have not helped.
Nitrates are below 5, but Phos is .5 ppm, or ppt, whatever the standard measure is. I believe my rocks have become a phosphate sink.
So I just purchased 75 lbs of "reef saver" eco-rocks from BRS, and I'm about to soak them for 2 weeks in old water change water to get bacteria colonized. Then I'll remove all current rock and replace with the BRS rock. I plan on cooking the original stuff, my 5-year-old MMLR is home-made, I really like it, but I believe it's just filled with detritus and nutrients. my other rock is from our honeymoon in Aruba and is 11 years old. I love that rock, too.
Does anyone have any advise on prepping the Reef Saver rock from BRS?
Light bulb changes, removing all sand, adding an additional macroalgae species in the 24" x 18" refugium, changing to "premium" salt recommended by a LFS employee (big mistake) all have not helped.
Nitrates are below 5, but Phos is .5 ppm, or ppt, whatever the standard measure is. I believe my rocks have become a phosphate sink.
So I just purchased 75 lbs of "reef saver" eco-rocks from BRS, and I'm about to soak them for 2 weeks in old water change water to get bacteria colonized. Then I'll remove all current rock and replace with the BRS rock. I plan on cooking the original stuff, my 5-year-old MMLR is home-made, I really like it, but I believe it's just filled with detritus and nutrients. my other rock is from our honeymoon in Aruba and is 11 years old. I love that rock, too.
Does anyone have any advise on prepping the Reef Saver rock from BRS?
Acid bath
freshwater and baking soda soak
pressure washer
swish
freshwater and baking soda soak
pressure washer
swish
goldmaniac
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this is the dry rock that's mined from the ground, as opposed to the rock from the ocean that's dried out with dead organics dried on the rock. BRS advised that cleaning off powerwashing dust is a good idea, are you suggesting that I give it an acid bath, as well?
I would think it was clean also but I have read that some people still have some issues with some mined rock even though it is clean on here.
I guess if you wanted you could soak it for a few days and take a PO4 reading to see if there was anything of concern.
The acid bath would take an afternoon now vs. having issue in 2016.
If you head up to the soft coral forum and read Blide's tank build I think he did a wash.
Good luck either way.
goldmaniac
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Thank you Mike for the courteous and informative post - I'll think what I can do for that -
You are welcome. Good luck and post pics of what you do please.
