Eurobraced 60gal

Boomboy · #1 09-04-2009, 01:09 AM

you can definatly see the water movement on the growth of your sps.

lorenz0 · #2 09-30-2009, 04:46 AM

so quick update on this one... turns out i am in a battle with Dinoflagellates, which explains why my snails have been dying. crap. thought it was diatom's for a bit till it started looking snotty.

got lazy in the past 3 weeks with going back to school.

Mg 1080
Ca 360
Alk 8
salinity 1.021

buying new bulbs (after i have the fixture off for 2days) starting bi-weekly 5 gal water changes again, getting the phos-ban running again (maxi-jet died somehow...), might run an internal filter to see if that helps with the situation

well gotta love being a poor ass student, well sobey's has hungry man's for sale for $3 each right now

lastlight · #3 09-30-2009, 04:51 AM

$3? How could you do that to your tank?!

Bulk KD at Costco or cheap noodles at T&T!

Sorry to hear about the minor issues...the last pic you posted looks fantastic.

kien · #4 09-30-2009, 05:16 AM

When I was in university I lived off of ramen noodles at 50cent a pack. They are good for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Man your salinity looks low. Do you always run it at 1.021? Or is that due to evaporation without topoff? Just curious.

lorenz0 · #5 09-30-2009, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by kien

When I was in university I lived off of ramen noodles at 50cent a pack. They are good for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Man your salinity looks low. Do you always run it at 1.021? Or is that due to evaporation without topoff? Just curious.

ya i was suprised when i got that reading. I do run a tunze ATO so i don't know where the drop came from. trying to push it up to the 1.025-1.028 range again

kien · #6 09-30-2009, 05:29 AM

Oops, what I meant to suggest/ask was was it perhaps due to salt creep
rather than evaporation. Evaporation should raise salinity not lower it hehe. I think of salt creep as a form of salt
evap. :-)

anyway.. Two weeks worth of salt creep perhaps.

lorenz0 · #7 09-30-2009, 05:35 AM

ya that could be why, never had an issue before and i usually just whip it off (which i get alot of) but it was a month since my previous water change

its the old reef tank story right now

when i took those previous pictures it was looking the best it has been in months (had an hair algae issue i was fighting and finally won) and than this. well on the side note my corals are getting great growth and the zoas are coming close to considering fragging in the next 2-3 months

lorenz0 · #8 09-30-2009, 05:21 AM

lol ya i ate kd as a diet when i was first in college 4 years ago and now its a once in a while thing. plus my microwave died on me about a month ago. i miss working.

the tank was doing great and than i cleaned off all the glass of the coraline algae, stopped dosing nitrate destroyer (which i believe is the cause) and this hit me. its on some of my skirts of my zoa's but i am sure once i turn my lights back on for friday i should be ok. i guess this is what happens when you neglect it for a couple of weeks so i am not over ****ed about it.

figured out my maxijet was just plugged. just cleaned it and KZ carbon is now running. and a water change is waiting to be done tommorrow when i get home.

here is my new bulb configuration for this round of bulbs

Aqua Science 22,000k
KZ coral light new gen
KZ fiji purple (yes i know algae loves red spectrum)
Aqua Science 17,500k
KZ coral light new gen
Aqua Science 22,000k

lobsterboy · #9 09-30-2009, 06:01 AM

yeah that birdnest is looking great. and is that the red planet frag ?

lorenz0 · #10 09-30-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by lobsterboy

yeah that birdnest is looking great. and is that the red planet frag ?

i can't believe i almost sold the birdnest to. had another member over and he decided it was to big for his cube. yep, thats it in the second picture, it has grown a massive base and you can barely see the puddy now. its actually growing about as fast as my birdsnest. amazing little piece.