110g Mixed Reef V2

[Myka]

Hey fishytime!! I finally read your nem fiasco!! Up to page 21 anyway. Nice clams btw! My nem is still moving around...

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by michika

I spy with my little eye...a very pretty clam...I drooled a little...

Only a little Thanks Catherine...I guess where I put them was ok after all?

Originally Posted by Myka

Hey fishytime!! I finally read your nem fiasco!! Up to page 21 anyway. Nice clams btw! My nem is still moving around...

Nems is evil How are your goodies doing?


I did another bulb swap....after reading recent threads about the the lack of par from actinic bulbs and algae growth from the red color spectrum, I figured I would see if I notice a difference with "pure actinic" and "fiji purps" out of the mix.

So I went from(starting at the front):

Giessmann Pure actinic
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Blue+
KZ Fiji Purp
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Actinic+

To:


Giessmann Actinic+
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Blue+
KZ New Gen
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Actinic+

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Only a little Thanks Catherine...I guess where I put them was ok after all?



Nems is evil How are your goodies doing?


I did another bulb swap....after reading recent threads about the the lack of par from actinic bulbs and algae growth from the red color spectrum, I figured I would see if I notice a difference with "pure actinic" and "fiji purps" out of the mix.

So I went from(starting at the front):

Giessmann Pure actinic
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Blue+
KZ Fiji Purp
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Actinic+

To:


Giessmann Actinic+
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Blue+
KZ New Gen
Aquascience 15000k
Giessmann Actinic+

FTS of the difference?

[rattler]

Come on Josh, we all know only you can truly catch the beauty of Doug's tank. It's a good thing you were there to take pictures of his tank before he became a farmer ( of algae! ).

Cheers!

Geoff

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by JDigital

FTS of the difference?

Probably tonight....need to clean the glass

Originally Posted by rattler

Come on Josh, we all know only you can truly catch the beauty of Doug's tank. It's a good thing you were there to take pictures of his tank before he became a farmer ( of algae! ).

Cheers!

Geoff

Hey!.....was that some sort of crack about my photog skills? (or lack there of) Always had a green thumb

[fishytime]

The past couple weeks I have been off work and spending lots of time in the tank. I spent two afternoons siphoning out algae and after 75 gallons of water I ended up with a small size filter sock near full of dictyota and brown wafer algae. Greg (snappy) was over and suggested a naso tang would eat both kinds of algae. So after some research and much debate (in my head) I added a small (2 1/2") Solomon Islands net caught blond naso. Probably dumb on my part to try and solve the algae problem caused by high nutrients with adding another fish, but the siphoning wasnt doing a dang thing and in my repeated attempts to siphon I have ended up snapping off several frags of sps....I was at the end of my rope of patience. The addition went really well. I was more worried about how a small tang would be received by my regal and yellow tangs than the added bioload. Both tangs hardly even noticed the little newcomer and the naso now has a nice round belly full of dictyota and wafer.

Another benefit of me being home is I have been able to test the tank lots to get a handle on how much Ca and Mg the tank is sucking up. I have been dosing 60ml of two part Ca to keep the levels above 400, 4 caps of T.A. Mg to keep Mg above 1300 and 6 caps of T.A dkh plus to try and raise my dkh above 6...its not working though.

[Delphinus]

Every day?

Sorry the reason I ask is I'm sort of going through the same motions of trying to get a handle of the rate of consumption of Mg in my tanks. Either Mg is a lot lower than what I think it is going in, or the rate of consumption is a LOT higher than what I thought it was. I went through an entire bottle of TA Mg in one week and only raised Mg about 100ish which when you're starting at 900 and want to end up at 1300-1400 is not quite enough. I ordered new Mg from Chemmaster on the board and am now dosing that directly. Previously I had only used his Mg on water change water but I had run out so I had to buy some more, it came last week so as of now I'm seeing how much of that I can add to the tanks to see how much will raise Mg by how much and all that.

[Delphinus]

So at least in my case it's a case of the salt to blame for the depressed Mg. I tested the Mg out of a new batch (RBS of all things) and came up with 825. I'm sort of stunned, all this time I've been doing water changes like crazy and I've been bringing my Mg down because of it. Whoops.