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Awesome work on the pics doug! You've really found the sweet spot with your cameras. :)
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Wow things are looking great! I love that pink monti, the last photo.
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Hey Doug!
What goes into your water on a daily basis or at water change time? Whats your trick? You have nice polyp extension and wide variety of colours, and what looks like great growth. |
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Doug the tank is looking awsome. Glad to see you still had some really nice pieces left when the tank went wonky on ya.
Is this the same acropora you sold me? http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3472.jpg |
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No tricks....I follow the directions on the bottles:lol: IMO the biggest things are a stable and correct "big three" (Ca, Mg and DKH).... My KZ dosing regiment(I wish I could say "I dont think it has made a difference", but I really think it has)....and the fact that the tank is a year and a half old.... I dose "Randy's recipe" for the "big three", Calcium(in the morning) and DKH (in the evening) every day, Magnesium every two to three days. KZ dosing is as I said before...by the bottle. K-balance, B-balance, Strontium Komplex, Xtra, Coral Snow, Coral Vitalizer, Sponge Power, Amino Acid Kaliumiodid-flour, and Stylo-Pocci Glow |
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Right on DOugs thanks again. I broke the bottom off of it to try mounting it flat on a frag discs and am getting a whole bunch of new growth coming off it. Should be a really nice full piece in a year or so.
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I seriously need to get some SPS into my tank... You're making me jealous, your corals look awesome!
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Looking good Doug! Like already said, great PE. ;)
Have you tried the Zeo PIF and/or Iron yet? I'm considering trying one or both to help with green hues. |
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I like when you talk reef-dirty Mindy:twised: No, I havnt tried either one....Thought about trying the Iron ....but there is a little voice in the back of my head that says "dont feed the algae"...maybe Im just paranoid.....finally got rid of the vast majority of all the algaes in the display....except for some halimeda....but thats easy enough to pic out when it needs it, so I leave it..... I must give props where they are due....Gary, our tank guy rocks....knocked out my sump in a time I probably shouldnt post....and left a bill Im extremely happy with.....Thanks Gary So here it is, in all its shiny, clean, new glory.....54"l x 15 1/2"w x 15 1/2t..... 4" longer, 3 1/2" wider and 5" shorter than the old sump....my system volume will increase by 8 gallons and I will be able to work in the sump alot better. Same layout as the last sump...left side fuge(thinking Im gonna put a deep sand bed in this one....nut sure...waffling big time), center is the return section and the right side is skimmer http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3511.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3512.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3513.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3514.jpg |
very jealous of the sump. its going to be a good home for the new toy
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yup, nice lookin sump ya got there Doug !
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Sick sump y0. :mrgreen:
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I cut and installed a small shelf for my high tech dosser (a la Snappy). I was balancing the dosing cup on the edge of the old sump, but I think this will work out better for me. You will have to use your imagination ... the shelf is upside down and backwards, as it was still drying when I snapped the pics. http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3538.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3538.jpg Heres the shelf installed, both before the sump was filled and installed and after. http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3542.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3551.jpg And the dosing shelf in action:biggrin: http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3552.jpg with the longer and wider sump, came an additional problem.... My cluster f of products and test kits and food supplements etc, etc ,etc, that were around and beside the sump would need a new home....this makes the g/f very happy:lol: http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3547.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3548.jpg Ive already found that this sump is much easier to work in and around. Another plus is, the new sump has 1/2 rigid foam schtuck to the bottom that has greatly reduced the noise caused by pump vibration....Again....happy g/f:biggrin: http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3544.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3546.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3550.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3556.jpg |
:crazyeye::shocked!::onfire: .... Sooo much nicer Doug! Can't wait to see the other new toy in there. :mrgreen:
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Can you explain to me how the dosing cup works? Sorry if I'm just dense and not getting it. I see a cup on the shelf with a hole in it. Do you just dump the whatever into that, and let it just drain at its own rate, or is it something more involved?
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Holy crap your display is off the hook man!
Tell me you're not drip-dosing from a cup? How can you keep it dripping anything for long...cup must empty fast! |
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Thats petty much it:mrgreen:..... it takes 2-3 minutes for the cup to drain....at 350ish gph on the fuge side(where the dosing station....ya dosing station:biggrin: is) that should be.....well..... the math is hurting my brain:biggrin:...I figure its better than just dumping it all in at once:wink: Pretty hi-tech huh? |
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What's the new thing coming?
Thanks for the explanation re. the cup. I thought maybe there was some complicated thingamabob dispensing some set amount into the cup and the draining from there. I guess the complicated dispensing thingamabob in this case just happens to be you :p |
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Where'd you get that last piece... it looks ALOT like the piece I was gonna give you a frag of from the Aussie shipment awhile ago... except yours is missing the green base?? or is it a completely different specie? growth pattern looks very similar
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You nailed it bud....that is one of those Aussie frags....I took two home from that shipment and we just got a half a dozen more on Friday that all went into the display.....well almost all:wink: I grabbed one that had some xenia growing on the frag.....so out came the dremel, off came the xenia and it looks gooood in da tank:biggrin:....will snap a couple pics later today when the lights come on.
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mmmmmmmmmm love the color man , that is what i call a great looking frag well done nice score buds
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Heres the other two Aussie frags I snagged... http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3558.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3559.jpg And some random sps pics Blue millie http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3561.jpg Teal millie http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3562.jpg "Pokerstar" M. Danea http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3563.jpg Yellow birdsnest http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3564.jpg Blue stag http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3565.jpg Green tenuis http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3566.jpg A.cerealis http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3567.jpg Purple digitata http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3568.jpg and not quite sure about this one http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3571.jpg |
wow
Doug, I would have a hard time not bringing some of those corals home if I worked there too. Those are simply wow!
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doug where do you work at
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhh
said in a Aussie Voice "What u want me to do Margret cut my hair and work Christmas too. you pretz's LOL |
Ive been seriously slacking on this thread as Ive been "going hard" on trying to get the add on tank going....that and Ive been really sick for about two weeks...heres some FTSish type pics from tonight....
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Love the montis and millis Doug. Your colonies are starting to get pretty damn big.
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yeah Doug those colonies are getting real big, very nice stuff.
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Doug, looks great but your tank has something growing at the end of it like a tumor.. Oh wait, nevermind! :-)
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I believe the term is "keiki". :mrgreen:
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