Who sold you the GHL dosers?

Got them new at a LFS, wai's in calgary

Careful with that salt and zeovit... That salt is not something to use in a ULNS environment, its really high on most parameters, most importantly the alk which should be around 7 with zeo; also mg and calcium is a little high for zeo.

Best salt to.use with zeo are Red Sea Blue Bucket and the KZ salt

This is from the Zeowebsite:

"Finally, in order to effectively use zeovit you need to run your system as close to natural seawater levels as possible. This mean an alkalinity of 6.5-7.5 dKh, Calcium 410-430 mg, Magnesium 1250-1300 mg, Salinity 33-35 ppt and Potassium (K+) 380-400 mg. Therefore the salt you choose is very important, you want something with a low alkalinity, high potassium and good Calcium levels."

H2Ocean parameters:

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Good to know, I was doing daily water changes with this salt and i was wondering why my tank was only consuming 6 ml or so of calc and alk. I had switched the daily waterchange to my smaller tank and my large tank was dropping alk quick, like .5 DKH per day:( and i didnt notice till i was at 5.9 DKH. Ive been sowly bringing it up with more dosing, now at 30ml/day and raising .25 DKH or so each day.

Water change today, from 6.16 to 6.6 with 10G change. As long as i adjust my dosing and make sure i change similar amounts of water and check alk before water change i should be able to keep it steady for the rest of this salt. Although it may be more cost effective to dose more salt than chemicals or maybe steadier water parameters using the salt as a measured dose?...

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Good luck on that one buddy best advice I can offer is set up an automatic feed that feeds it all day long dedicated foods :)

Beautiful though my favorite gorgonian:)

Im hoping zooplankton at night with all the other coral foods and phyto, should keep it happy, we'll see..

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tank is doing much better, low alk and mag was stunting growth. this stag has took off, not getting much taller but lots of branches.

last check:
Alk - 7 dkh
mag - 1310
calc - 480 ( hanna, pfft..)

havent checked phosphate or ammonia in a month, havent ever had a high reading since first cycle, not sure if i will anytime soon...

Looking good, glad to have helped with the salt selection :)

You should periodically test for po3 no3 as you want some in there as you don't want to starve the coral in a ULNS system
I think target po4 is 0.05 and no3@ .2

I'm a bit stuck.with my zeo as my nitrates are 0 and phosphates are .08 and in order to.drop po I have to raise nitrates a bit, so always good to check.

That trachy is gorgeous !!!

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Let me know when your gonna frag the coral in the first pic that blue I'd amazing

Already got one for you victor you could come pick it up this week if you want

Sweet I'll prabably swing by on the weekend if that's cool with u.

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Looking good!

Love that hairy beast above, what is it and its all looking mighty nice.

this is a flourecent green horn coral, or hydnophora sp.


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Looking good buddy :) you should take a video I'd love to see the whole tour :)

Cheers

Denny

Looking sweet!! You have some really wicked SPS.

check it out.. took it with a cell so its not the greatest video..

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tank at sundown

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Picked up some really nice colonies today from fellow canreefer globaldesigns, awsome guy, superb deal on his tank shutdown. These are now the largest pieces in my tank and also the largest pieces i have transported...about 5 or so gallons of water for the monster monti colony and acro colony topper......

Well despite the passenger seat getting totally soaked on the way home all went well. Until i got rear ended...... funny Rick and I were just talking about how ill be fine as long as I dont rear end anyone. About 5 blocks from my house some guy wasnt paying attention and bumps me at the stop sign, no damage, just a fender bender, old truck who cares...But..the Colony rolled ( like 12x 10x 12 size ) in the 20 gal tub and a few of the nice monti shelves broke off...super bummed...The guy felt bad for my truck, lol i was checking the coral while he was checking the vehicles. Priorities... oh well it'll grow back. Anyway finally got home and got them in the tank...more pics tomorrow..

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switched up my gyres, I turned one horizontal.. so one is vertical and the other horozontal both on the same end running in opposite directions.. i want to post a video of the coral snow to show the flow of water i think this change was well needed! sps seems a little happier. Anyone else running 2 gyres on one end? the flow is kind of like a 3d figure 8..

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Interesting placement of the Gyres. Any dead spots or weak flow areas? What kind of power settings are you using with them? My tank is fairly similar to yours and I have two Gyres as well.

I didnt realize you had 2 aswell, Im running the vertical one on forward at 20% and the horozontal one at 50% in reverse.. Flow is pretty goodould say no dead areas but it does slow down in the opposite end as the gyres, which works as i put all the lps and soft corals at that end.

new wild colony and an acan maxima...

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FTS 5 months

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lyretail anthaias and some coral pics, the colour is really starting to get brighter and less brown..

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Interesting. Maybe I'll give that a shot.

Currently have both horizontal, one at overflow end at about 40% short pulses, and the other end at 60% constant. Some lesser flow area still, but my tank doesn't have SPS at the moment.

new treasures, has been a fruitfull weekend(mon/tues) found a huge tube anenome, a leopard wrasse and super thin pavona coral (similar to ORA's mint pavona) i think its a pavona frondifera or potato chip coral. hope it colours nicely..

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ok so eventually i will want to cram more fish in here, so i need a bigger skimmer. So i got an external and tee'd off of my return, should be good with both skimmers for a 450 gallon heavy load tank. im pretty sure i dont have to worry about skimming anymore..

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since when do cucumbers look this sweet?

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im wondering how much direct sunlight is bad for coral and tank, besides algae what problems could arrise? About 45 mins per day on half the tank.

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those crazy polyps..

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things are going well here are some more pictures

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Nice natural sunlight shots!

Nice pics
Tanks lookin great

those sunset/sunrise pics are cool! Tank is trucking along nicely !