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Old 08-07-2010, 01:28 AM
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dude your tank is on crack. love the difference in one year. what do you do weekly/ monthly for maintenance?
Hey Laurier,

I just do weekly water changes (the only ones I've ever missed is when I've been on vacation. Then it had a 10 day period without a water change. I've used 5 different kinds of salt on this tank already. Started with instant ocean, then bought a half pail of H2Ocean from Fencer, then switched to reefer's best, then mixed reefer's best with Salinity (Seachem), then went to Reefer's best mixed with Brightwell, and lately I've been mainly H2Ocean. It only takes me about 7 minutes to do a 40 gallon water change so it's no big deal.

Other than that, I've filled my calcium reactor once. I empty my external skimmer collection cup weekly. I've cleaned the skimmer 4 times in the year.

Every 3 days clean the glass with the magnet. I've only used the magnet with the razor attachement twice in the last year. I've never vacuumed the sand or rock.

I haven't changed any bulbs yet but I'm about to.

I feed and dose zeo daily. Mainly pellets and flake in the last few months due to laziness of not defrosting frozen food.

I think that's about it. I haven't test parameters in 2 months I think. I just watch the corals.

Oh yeah, I frag lots as corals grow to touch each other. Sometimes it's weekly - gets annoying.
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Old 08-07-2010, 03:05 AM
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Oh yeah, I frag lots as corals grow to touch each other. Sometimes it's weekly - gets annoying.
Really makes me wish we were neighbors or something! Congrats on having one of the sexiest looking reefs I've seen Dez. Bored or not you da man.
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Old 08-07-2010, 03:46 AM
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Really makes me wish we were neighbors or something! Congrats on having one of the sexiest looking reefs I've seen Dez. Bored or not you da man.
Thanks Brett. In time corals do grow. It usually starts out slow but once you have more than one branch, the growth is exponential.

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Wow! Amazing growth!
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