So made a trip to see greg (coral master) today and picked up some new goodies. Some new mille's, digitata's, birdsnest, and my first deep water. Also a great visit, thanks again greg


Also I didn't know where to post this, had a good laugh over it

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K so i am going to update both tanks tonight

So first I am going to start off with a rant about why I am against vodka dosing and jdigital can vouch for the causes it can do if you stop dosing. Previously i was fighting hair algae with no luck. So after picking and picking just to see it grow back thicker and covering more and more area (it was a main supporting rock so taking it out involved ripping the whole tank apart). So I started considering vodka dosing, and after much research decided that dosing Tailored Aquatic's nitrate destroyer was my route of choice. 2 months of dosing goes by with great results and all of the hair algae was now gone I decided to stop dosing. Over 2 weeks i slowed down and than stopped dosing. Now where is the fun part. Tank was looking amazing, I was happy with the outcome of the product and than i started to produce excessive amounts of dinoflagellates, which now if being talked about with vodka dosing. No matter what I have done they would not go away. 2 months has passed and they are not producing as much. Its been a huge headache and i just want everything to be perfect like ever reefer. There are people out there who have been vodka dosing and want to get off (lol sounds like a drug) but are worried about the same out come. My summery about it is to not even start. There have been nights where I wanted to shut it down and restart.

Since than I have changed the bulbs, started running carbon and phosban and things are starting to clear up.

Old light Set up

AquaScience 22,000k
KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k)
KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k)
KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k)
KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k)
AquaScience 22,000k


New light set up:

AquaScience 22,000k
AquaScience 17,500k duo
KZ New Gen coral light (14,000k)
Giesemann actinic+ (22,000k) doug shhhhh
AquaScience 17,500k duo
AquaScience 22,000k

I was really hoping for the 17,500k aqua science bulbs to be a bit more blue but they aren't to much of a difference in my eye's. i think adding that third 22,000k made a bit of a difference. looking forward to seeing some of the long term effects this selection has on my corals as I will be running this combo for at least 6 months before changing them.

FTS for Nov. 3rd

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love the blue look alot , looks great. i was dosing vodka for about 2 months and then just stopped and nothing happened. then i went to phosban and that is the ticket i think for red turf algae and bubble and any hair kill it at the heart...

It was the only thing i changed and a week later BAM. But i have talked to a few people and i totally agree, phosban is key in a system and same with carbon for me. things are starting to turn around. hopefully it stays that way

aww its been a month. still messing around with the setting on my camera. some shots with the white balancing on, others on auto with only my 22,000k's on

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This frag is growing on me more and more. can't wait till its a large colony
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Nice. Love that pink birdsnest ;-). Hey, did you buy josh's red/orange digi??

Oh and I have your teal stag frag if you still want it :-)

Looking very good ! What is the red SPS on the Rt side? Is it as red as it looks ? The last pic I had a piece of also - from RC ? - and my blue tang picked it up and dropped it down in behind the rock work where I can't get it :twised:

wow very nice i like the rockwork.
do you dose anything to keep your alk or ph up

nice stylo, inbetween the red zoas. :biggrin:

That is a digitata and its like a redish orange, very nice frag that has grown extremely quickly. It actually came from one of the canreef celeb's (fishytime).

kien oh man tempting but i have to hold off till the upgrade. Its going to be a strickly sps only tank and all of the zoa's will either be sold off. Hopefully this will be happening late spring, all depends on money. As for now, i am max'd out and have no more room. :redface:

Only thing i dose is tailored aquatic's products (calcium and magnesium every second day, potassium and phosphate destroyer once a week)

I am also running KZ carbon in a phosban reactor and i have rowa phos hanging in a bag

And i only change my water once a month

I like to keep my systems as simple as possiable, lol its been working so far but i hate the waiting game with sps

Oh man, i have a fever for stylo's and wanted one of those hot pink ones that RC got in so badly. Maybe i will just have to bug you for a frag ha ha ha