My 110 Gallon Peninsula SPS Tank

sweet ride · #1 08-28-2011, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Myka

Tests ok, as in 0? Or did they carry a value?

Ah ha, I knew it would show up as pH. You have big fish in there? Some tangs maybe? How do you treat your sandbed? How deep is it? Any conchs or other stirrers/sifters? What kind of sand? You buy it new?

test all came back with zero or no value. what do you mean by "Ah ha, I knew it would show up as pH"?

Ya I have 3 tangs in the system. what do you mean by how do i treat the sandbed? The sandbed is around 1" to 1 1/2" deep. I have nassarius snails & cerith snail, I also have 3 wrasse as well as 2 clown fish that keeps the sandbed stirred up. I have sugar size and yes they were purchased new.

Myka · #2 08-28-2011, 10:19 PM

How do you treat it as in, what do you do with it? The sandbed is probably trapping more crud than you think. I vacuum mine with a gravel vac while doing waterchanges. Makes a big difference. I think your low pH is probably caused by a large bioload.

sweet ride · #3 09-02-2011, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Myka

How do you treat it as in, what do you do with it? The sandbed is probably trapping more crud than you think. I vacuum mine with a gravel vac while doing waterchanges. Makes a big difference. I think your low pH is probably caused by a large bioload.

because am using sugar size sand, vacuuming it is out of the question. I have tried this several times and because of it's size all the sand just end up in the bucket with the water.

any recommendation in helping me raise the ph without affecting the alk or ca?

sweet ride · #4 09-02-2011, 02:45 AM

As the system recovers I would like to share a handful of pics of the corals that are starting to recover.

fishytime · #5 09-02-2011, 02:59 AM

those macro shots are amazing!

fishytime · #6 09-02-2011, 03:03 AM

how exaclty again are you maintaining your DKH?

sweet ride · #7 09-02-2011, 04:28 AM

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those macro shots are amazing!

Thanks for the compliments fishytime!!!!

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how exaclty again are you maintaining your DKH?

I've always used BRS 2 part, but as we speak I've also added BRS Kalk to help with significant PH drop.....

Parker · #8 09-02-2011, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet ride

pics of the corals that are starting to recover.

Those are recovering corals? Well now I'm depressed....

Sunee · #9 09-02-2011, 02:23 PM

Your photography skills are incredible! Glad to see the corals are recovering. What is the coral in the last picture! Thanks.

sweet ride · #10 09-02-2011, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

are you baking your sodium bicarbonate?........

Actually I use Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash) from BRS.

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Those are recovering corals? Well now I'm depressed....

don't be as am sure the rest of your system is doing much better than mine!

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Your photography skills are incredible! Glad to see the corals are recovering. What is the coral in the last picture! Thanks.

Thanks for the kind words Sunee!

The last photo is a picture of Meteor Shower Cyphastrea. when this was given to me in the beginning of the year there was barely 3 polyps!