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#131
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![]() Your photography skills are incredible! Glad to see the corals are recovering. What is the coral in the last picture! Thanks.
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#132
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LOL watch-out!!!! only wish your were around the area as I wouldn't mind getting a few frags from your collection! Thanks for compliments mseepman! don't delete them just keep taking more photos, sooner or later I will be asking you for some photo taking pointer! |
#133
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![]() Actually I use Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash) from BRS.
don't be as am sure the rest of your system is doing much better than mine! Quote:
The last photo is a picture of Meteor Shower Cyphastrea. when this was given to me in the beginning of the year there was barely 3 polyps! |
#134
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![]() I bought a vacuum (I think Hagen..?) that uses a 1" pipe for the vacuum part. I bought a 36" piece of 1" pipe (it's used for undergravel filter uptakes) and cut the pipe to be just a tad shorter than how deep my water is. Looks really well. The extra length helps to get the detritus out while leaving the sand in the tank. Low pH has many causes. The most common being either high bioload or too much CO2. Do you ever open the windows in your house for fresh air? Check for an oily film on the water surface. Pretty much any skimmer works well for off-gassing CO2, but if the house has concentrations of CO2 then all the off-gassing in the world won't help. Bioload also lowers pH as fish poop is acidic, and there are also acids released when organics are broke down through the nitrogen process. Sometimes if everything is "good" simply dripping kalkwasser at night as part replacement for calcium and alkalinity dosing will keep the pH from falling so much at night which enough to keep the pH higher during the day too. |
#135
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![]() People actually vacum the their sandbeds still? Why would'nt you just get a proper cleanup crew rather than disturb the sandbed? The less your hands are in the tank or anything else disturbing things the better. Your tank looks awesome, i'm no expert but just leave things as is. The ph is'nt that bad. Theres lot of threads on here that discuss that very topic. With most of them ending with "if it aeint broke dont fix it"
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#136
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![]() I used to leave the sandbed alone. I practiced that for years...ok a decade at least. Now I vacuum... |
#137
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![]() Sorry. I'm so silly. Should have never questioned an expert.
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#138
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![]() I'm not an expert. Haven't written a book yet.
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#139
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![]() Well you just about got one written in your signature.
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#140
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![]() Being lazy is exactly why I wrote those! Then us lazy reefers can just provide the link and say "go read this".
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aquarium, coral, peninsula, rimless, sps |
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