What have you done with your tank lately?
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Scubareefman
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It's Tyree Sand dollar monti. It took a really long time to go from a dulled reddish purple to a patch work of pinks, yellowish greens, and a really nice tranlusant purple. My camera never gets the colors correct, even under 10k. I love the way it looks under 14k but it looses some of its pop once all the blues come out at night.
I fragged some for the club tank at the last swap so at least 4 folks have it now.
Pife
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Scubareefman
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Not this one, I picked it up when I was running my 40g DT when I first moved to Mo. Once it got settled it started growing like a weed but the color took over a year to really mature. It seems to really enjoy my new dosing solutions with more color popping after I started on it.
Flippers4pups
Home made abyss
Ordered 3 165w marsaqua units over the weekend. Just tired of replacing t5's at a tune of $200 every year!
Scubareefman
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I did get the Tru-color acro that's on the right just next to the monti from you Pife. I got it at the swap when I picked that Hana checker from you. It has become one of my Fav corals; it's been taking its time coloring back up but has really shown great color and growth over the past two months. I'm hoping it tables out over my MP40 so its east to frag.
maxxII
Super Housemonkey!
Transferred over the second H.magnifca anemone and a mated pair of Rod's Onyx Percula clowns. Tank now has:
1 pair of Rods Onyx Percs
1 pair of Darwin Black Ocellaris
1 Juvi Regal Angel
1 Juvi Flame Angel
1 Juvi/Initial phase Pintail Fairy wrasse
1 male Christmas wrasse
1 Yellow tang
1 Tomini tang
1 Doliatus Rabbitfish
2 H.magnifica anemones
1 H.crispa anemone
Nitrates are still ridiculously high, (50 ppm), but PO4 is showing improvement. I'm in the process of ordering additional Siporax, (3 liters so far) or something similar like the Marine Pure blocks so that I have additional denitrification surface. The display only has 40 lbs of rock and 90 lbs of sand.
Pife
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Transferred over the second H.magnifca anemone and a mated pair of Rod's Onyx Percula clowns. Tank now has:
1 pair of Rods Onyx Percs
1 pair of Darwin Black Ocellaris
1 Juvi Regal Angel
1 Juvi Flame Angel
1 Juvi/Initial phase Pintail Fairy wrasse
1 male Christmas wrasse
1 Yellow tang
1 Tomini tang
1 Doliatus Rabbitfish
2 H.magnifica anemones
1 H.crispa anemone
Nitrates are still ridiculously high, (50 ppm), but PO4 is showing improvement. I'm in the process of ordering additional Siporax, (3 liters so far) or something similar like the Marine Pure blocks so that I have additional denitrification surface. The display only has 40 lbs of rock and 90 lbs of sand.
Have you ever carbon dosed to get trates down?
maxxII
Super Housemonkey!
No.
Not looking to either, to be honest.
My schedule rotates, and my wife helps me with some of the little stuff, (like feeding).
Asking her to do more than that is really asking for trouble since she handles the kids when I'm on midnights. Adding more to her plate might get me on her bad side.
I'm going to try adding the Marine Pure blocks and if that doesnt work, I'll consider going to bio-pellets for NO3 removal. I'm taking this slow, but I would like to get some SPS in there.
Not looking to either, to be honest.
My schedule rotates, and my wife helps me with some of the little stuff, (like feeding).
Asking her to do more than that is really asking for trouble since she handles the kids when I'm on midnights. Adding more to her plate might get me on her bad side.
I'm going to try adding the Marine Pure blocks and if that doesnt work, I'll consider going to bio-pellets for NO3 removal. I'm taking this slow, but I would like to get some SPS in there.
maxxII
Super Housemonkey!
Well then that's completely off the table.
Just trying to decide if I want to go with media such as Siporax or Marine Pure, or if I want to go with bio pellets for denitrification. I already have an Avast bio pellet reactor I'm not using so either way would not be too expensive.
Last resort would be buying a sulfur nitrate reactor.
Just trying to decide if I want to go with media such as Siporax or Marine Pure, or if I want to go with bio pellets for denitrification. I already have an Avast bio pellet reactor I'm not using so either way would not be too expensive.
Last resort would be buying a sulfur nitrate reactor.
Tigé21v
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Have you (or anyone reading this) looked into the LED T5's? They seem promising, but I'm not sure what kind of track record the have been having.i don't want to be the guinea pig.
Tigé21v
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Thanks for the kick in the pants. Got the gyre 150, mp60 and three mp40's all cleaned. Also took the opportunity to move them around in my 90 gallon to change the flow. Put the gyre, the 60 and two of the 40's on one side, going to set them to pulse, probably set the vortechs 6 seconds on and 12 seconds off, and have the gyre pulse 6 on and 6 off. Left the other 40 on the opposite side in NTM. Never used the NTM mode before, hope it doesn't blow out the seams on my (very old) tank.
kegogut
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Ive got 3 8x8x4 marinepure blocks in my sump but I also have 400+ lbs of LR in my system as well. Ive been thinking about getting a few more blocks and doing away with the rock in the sump,but I would want to keep the rock live in a drum or something just in case I would want to put it back in.
Tigé21v
Active member
Ya, all 5. But none are running over 50%, except the Gyre, and that's around 60% I think.
Flippers4pups
Home made abyss
Haven't seen much about them on the forums. I don't have guinea pig money to throw around. Lol
Scubareefman
New member
I cleaned my sump. Ok that's a lie; I cleaned part of my sump.
I noticed some new eyes on my pineapple coral.
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I noticed some new eyes on my pineapple coral.
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Tradewinds
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I changed out the filter media in three of the four canisters on my RODI unit.
I am thinking of buying a booster pump as I can't tap into the house's plumbing until after it has past through the pressure regulator. The unit currently takes a good 24 hours to make 55 gallons.
Does anyone use an RODI unit with a booster pump? If so, how do you like it.
I am thinking of buying a booster pump as I can't tap into the house's plumbing until after it has past through the pressure regulator. The unit currently takes a good 24 hours to make 55 gallons.
Does anyone use an RODI unit with a booster pump? If so, how do you like it.
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