25gal Starfire

lorenz0 · #1 01-18-2011, 10:04 PM

Transfer was completed 2 weeks ago. I have been having issues dialing in my flow. Also my devils hand hasn't been looking the greatest in the past couple of days ever since I fed the acans "acanplus." I'm having "new tank syndrome" and I am just not sure about my route. Every day I keep thinking about putting SPS in it. Here are a few pic's I look with the new cam:

silentcivilian · #2 01-18-2011, 10:08 PM

Let it commence... oohhhh... ahhhh... ohhhh....

(when dont you wonder about a sps tank.. really.. what you need is two tanks

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lorenz0 · #3 01-21-2011, 04:49 AM

Ummm biopellets. Its looking like I am having a nutrient issue. Might resort to running these. Doing more research to seeing how my system will deal with it. Looking at running 125ml of pellets in the reactor

kien · #4 01-21-2011, 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by lorenz0

Ummm biopellets. Its looking like I am having a nutrient issue. Might resort to running these. Doing more research to seeing how my system will deal with it. Looking at running 125ml of pellets in the reactor

come to the dark side, we have cookies and bio pellets!

lorenz0 · #5 01-21-2011, 06:40 AM

I like cookies. Well I am going to do a waterchange tomorrow. Pending results I might pick some up.

Just looking into effects on acans and gorgonias

silentcivilian · #6 01-21-2011, 07:03 AM

Triple check the parameters too... thats screwy that the devils hand looked so angry in your tank, and in under 120min in my tank had full extention and the red tissue pigment back in it. Somthing aint so straight there. Even more so that you have the more intense lighting setup

Delphinus · #7 01-21-2011, 03:21 PM

One tank with pellets I had my gorgs in and they were fine. The mulm that the pellets shed might actually be good food for them. However this was a very high bioload tank.

Careful with the Acans though. I tried pellets on another tank which was already low bioload and close to zero nitrate reading on a steady basis (I wanted to see if I could "starve" out the caulerpa in there), and it had some very nasty effects on my LPS. All my LPS bleached out as did my carpets. 8 months later my purple carpet is only now showing signs of improving. My Acans bleached out badly as did my bubble coral and I actually lost a few Acans instead of them recovering. To add insult to injury it didn't do boo to slow down the caulerpa infestation.

My take away lesson is that you definitely want a non-zero nitrate reading before adding the pellets. Adding them to an already low nutrient environment can definitely strip too much out too quick.

riceboy · #8 01-21-2011, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

come to the dark side, we have cookies and bio pellets!

lol there's cookies, i was not informed of this

kien · #9 01-21-2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by riceboy

lol there's cookies, i was not informed of this

What do think all that baking soda was for?!?!

I have a healthy collection of LPS (torch, bubble, acans, elegance, frogspawn) that seem to be doing fine living with a years worth of pellets. One thing that I have noticed over the past year is that my zoa garden seems to have slowed down in growth. Still thriving just not spreading as quickly as it once did.

lorenz0 · #10 01-21-2011, 07:12 PM

See that is what I am seeing. its a hit or miss with acans. Could always start with a low dosage. Are you still running carbon kien?

btw, you must be cooking alot of cookies to be going through that much baking soda