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Old 12-03-2012, 05:50 AM
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wow, just caught up with your latest photos and.. wow.. You've got quite the nice collection there and all doing fabulous! So now that you've pretty much got her dialed in, what's your husbandry like these days? That is, water change amount and schedule, dosing, additives, etc.
Thanks again. I'm just fortunate that most things are going well. Right now I am fighting a war against cyano. I've tried chemi clean and I think that it made it worst so I am now trying other methods like using Zeozym, coral snow and i am adding MB7 and vinegar with it. I think it may be the biopellets as I did not have had it this bad before.

I've learned a lot from people I've met along the ways and applied their methods to mine.

Water change: 20% every three weeks... I would like to do 20% every two weeks if time permits. I see vast improvements when I went from four to three.

Dosing: DIY Alk, CA and MG right now... Planning to go with CA reactor soon... Probably in a yr.. Just want to use up what supply I have left still before switching.

Carbon:changed every two weeks and I top up the biopellets when it gets low in the reactor. I am thinking of adding back GFO if I can't fight off the cyano

Skimmer: clean the skimmer cup once a week and the whole skimmer twice a yr..

ATO:but not currently using it as I am able to top off daily right now ( why I don't use it as it gives me a reason to spend some time with the tank). I do plan to use it if I do get go away for a few days, holiday etc... Having the salinity levels being consistent helps...

Feeding: feed frozen food every two or three days and if feed nori and dry pellets daily ( but lightly, of course).

Other Dosing:
add Zeozym twice a week ( I am adding daily right now) starting dec 5th
Coral Snow nightly
Vinegar daily
MB7 weekly
Biomate weekly

I am planning to make some changes soon particularly on the rockscaping... Now that I have a better idea of how each of the SPS are growing I can redo the Tank. Thank goodness I have kept my 90 gallon in the garage. I won't be keeping all the corals so I am planning to have a second/ frag tank in the garage soon. Planning on this now... Devating to getting a new 4 ft long tank but shallower... 18 inches instead of 24? Considering changing the main lights and use the current lights for the garage tank...

Any advice and recommendations?
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Old 12-03-2012, 05:55 AM
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It looks and sounds like you've got everything under control :-) My advice would be don't change a thing LOL. I have a feeling that wasn't the advice you were hoping for though
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Old 12-03-2012, 05:58 AM
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It looks and sounds like you've got everything under control :-) My advice would be don't change a thing LOL. I have a feeling that wasn't the advice you were hoping for though
Thanks again. I guess that if it ain't broken dont fix it.
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Old 12-03-2012, 06:02 AM
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Thanks again. I guess that if it ain't broken dont fix it.
That's the idea, but you and I both know that in this hobby that's a hard rule for us with OCD to follow
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Old 12-03-2012, 06:14 AM
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That's the idea, but you and I both know that in this hobby that's a hard rule for us with OCD to follow
LOL...you figured me out... Now Brad is gonna bug me even more.... I think I have close to 80 corals frags in the tank... Prob more now... Reason more to plan the second tank... Since I am going with a less rock approach, I can save the remaking live rocks for the second tank... So just need a new tank ( unless I keep my 90 but I am thinking of using the 90.

So here is my Christmas wish list...

- two mitras or two radion (pro)
- vertex alpha 200 skimmer ( or BK)

I have extra power heads, return pumps, phosban reactors and heaters so I won't need to spend on these...
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Old 12-03-2012, 01:31 PM
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. Now Brad is gonna bug me even more.... I think I have close to 80 corals frags in the tank... Prob more now...
What are you suggesting? That I call you a frag whore? 'cause that's not something I would call you. Many others might, but not me. Nope.

As for new tank, I still can't figure out why you have an empty 12 foot wall in your room..just sayin'

And don't forget, I have another "frag" here for you. Ok, it's a colony, but Rich calls it a frag lol
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Old 12-17-2012, 06:22 AM
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Learned that I do not have cyano ( thanks, Brad!) instead have red turf algae. I went nuts on water changes, chemi clean and Zeozym and more water changes the last 4-6 weeks...

So, went the the LFS and picked up five mexican turbo snails and eyeing on a rabbit fish to work on the red turf.

After another 20% water change today I checked the PO4 level with the Hanna...
.23... Almost fainted... Did another test again and the same result...
Then it hit me... I forgot to divide by 1000. Need to convert from ppb to ppm.
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