^^ Thanks for all the positive comments.
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Originally Posted by Myka
I think oolite sand in an SPS tank is a terrible idea, but I hope it works for you. If all else fails you can siphon it out and add a coarser sand. My fav for an SPS tank would be the Caribsea Special Grade, although I prefer BB.  Check out Fauna Marin Balling Light for dosing...works well for SPS. |
Thanks Mindy. That is why I chose to paint the bottom of the tank with the sand color. Every 3 days, I need to get in there and shove the sand back to cover the glass in the front. I sort of hate Oolite sand. But then again, I didn't want to vacuum it so stirring it up twice a week isn't too bad. I only went with this sand because I had it already.
I'm trying to grow lots of bacteria (carbon dosing) which is why I need the sand bed in the first place. My previous 90 gallon was bare bottom and looked awful with my aquascape. It doesn't look good if you have lots of open space.
But who knows, maybe I'll siphon it out and go with something else.
Thanks for the tip on the balling. I was reading Iwan Lesser's journal again recently. Now to dream big again.
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Originally Posted by cuz
I like how you mounted your dosing pumps, Are they right over your sump and where do you keep your dosing jugs??
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Hey Larry, I don't have anymore room for your awesome corals.
The dosing containers are the standard 1 gallon jugs of Bionic 2 part. Each jug sits inside the drawer. I just pull the drawer out, turn the container upright and then refill. Nice and easy and out of sight. The dosing pump is at the top left corner of the stand.
If only my ATO reservoir would sit inside the tank, that would be a bonus.
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Originally Posted by zhasan
You got 7 dosing ports.. what else will be be using these for?
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ZHasan - I actually bought 14 dosing pumps for some weird reason. Yes I'm a strange guy. Now I'm down to just the 7 which I'm only using the two for ALK and CAL. I think those other ports will be spares and won't be used at all. With my water volume, I can't dose anything else. The vodka is 0.3ML per day (Bubble Magus can only do a minimum of 1 ML at a time), and everything else is 1 drop here or there. I don't need to dose MG with my IORC.
Update
I'm finding it hard to keep my parameters steady with IORC. Using this salt at 10% WC each week, I'm barely dosing anything. I decided to mix 50% with H2Ocean.
I also double checked my light timer and apparently I was only on a photoperiod of 4 hours for the full lights.
The purple/blue acroporas are browning out fast. I changed it back to 7 hours.