Pat's 120

[Skimmerking]

right on man, good to hear that you had the same problems with your tank, the RED CYNAO I hope that i can get rid of mine too. im waiting on the rocks to come from Mike and then i will be in to it and once that is sorted out the POWER Trace will start once im in the 0 range....


good job on the progress too.

[pterfloth]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

right on man, good to hear that you had the same problems with your tank, the RED CYNAO I hope that i can get rid of mine too. im waiting on the rocks to come from Mike and then i will be in to it and once that is sorted out the POWER Trace will start once im in the 0 range....


good job on the progress too.

I had cyano all over my sand bed and on some of my rock. Really unattractive and I was worried about it spreading onto my SPS. Had bubbles everywhere. It is all gone now. My sand looks super bright and just like new. No bubbles on the rock at all. The last bit of cyano on my frag station left this week.

Hope you have the same good results and btw, thanks for serving our country!

[pterfloth]

End of Week 8

Test Results
Phosphate: 0.00 ppm
Nitrate: <2 ppm
Calcium: 430 ppm
Magnesium: 1450 ppm
Alkalinity: 135 ppm
Salinity: 1.025

Dosing
UltraBio: 4 drops/day
UltraMinS: 2 ml/day
UltraBak: 2 ml/day
1 liter UltraLith
Cost/day: $1.19

UltraPowerTrace #1: 2 ml/day
UltraPowerTrace #2: 4 ml/day
UltraPowerTrace #1: 4 ml/day
UltraPowerTrace #1: 1.6 ml/day
Cost/day: $0.68

Ultra Amin Special Mixture: 4 ml/day
Cost/Day: $0.40

Update
I have been adding the PowerTrace additives for 3 weeks. Although SPS colors improved a bit in the first week, not much changed after that. Maybe the purple acros were more purple, maybe the blue acros more blue.

Since my pink Stylo's were still fading, I resumed the additon of 4 ml/day of the Ultra Amin Special Mixture amino acids last week. The results were immediate. I am back to the neon pinks I had when I was doing this product before.

Phosphate and nitrate levels remain very low. Even more important than the test results is the total absence of cyano and hair algae. For me, this is a big plus. I have a lot of fish, they are all fat and happy and now I can keep my SPS under ideal conditions too.

I have removed my 2 anenomes, moved some SPS around and added 3 very nice new colonies, in addition to several browned out pieces from OA's 2 for 1 sale. They are all beginning to color up nicely.

I replaced 1/2 of the UltraLith 2 weeks ago, kept up my dosing regime to re-seed to the zeolite and now I am about to cut back on the UltraBio and UltraBak as recommended.

Here's a FTS from today.