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04-06-2009, 02:34 AM
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April 5 Update - End of Week 6
Test Results Phosphate: 0.00 ppm Nitrate: ~2 ppm Calcium: 420 ppm Magnesium: 1350 ppm Alkalinity: 130 ppm Salinity: 1.025 Dosing UltraBio: 4 drops/day UltraMinS: 2 ml/day UltraBak: 2 ml/day 50% UltraLith Changeout 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 Changed out 50% of the UltraLith today, the end of week 6. Started adding the UltraPowerTrace #1,2,3,4 six days ago. Definite increase in the pink color of the stylophora's. Blues and purple acros may be intensifying as well. Too early to tell but positive signs. All cyano in tank is gone. Sand bed looks great. No more hair algae. Will probably have to return sea hare to LFS. Excellent water clarity. All SPS growing well. Much better results than I had with RowaPhos and vodka dosing. Happy with results.  Will provide before/after UltraPowerTrace pictures at the end of next week. |
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04-06-2009, 02:37 AM
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So my change in dosing worked?
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04-06-2009, 02:47 AM
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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.
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04-06-2009, 02:52 AM
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Ok so now you have changed the 50% media you are now on phase two.
After this initial phase, add 2 drops of Bio per 100 Liter every three days, until the next exchange of the Ultralith filter medium Bak: after the nutrient levels start to drop decrease the dose slowly to 2 ml per 1000L per day. If nutrient levels are extremely low you can decrease the dose even further to 1.0 ml per 1000 L per day. Min-S: Ultramin S should be used permanently and dosed every day |
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04-06-2009, 02:54 AM
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04-20-2009, 02:17 AM
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April 19 Update
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.  |
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