184g basement 8ft reef

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by rishu_pepper

Nice fish collection so far!

Has any of the angels nipped at your corals though? My cousin's emperor in Hong Kong ate all his coral and now he has a FOWLR...

ok now he is a problem lol, what a jerk fish.. started to eat anything fleshy, aswell as kick up sand and scare all the smaller fish. I swear he almost got a chromis..he was returned.

Lesson learned, sort of, decided to try a less destructive fish and still play with fire. I exchanged for a Tomini Tang, a Powder Brown Tang, a bi color blenny and the fire - a coris wrasse...I know he might eat my clean up crew and move stuff at the worst, i can glue and replace crew. i have heard some dont bother anything, we will see how badly i get burnt.

pics to follow..

[rishu_pepper]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

ok now he is a problem lol, what a jerk fish.. started to eat anything fleshy, aswell as kick up sand and scare all the smaller fish. I swear he almost got a chromis..he was returned.

Lesson learned, sort of, decided to try a less destructive fish and still play with fire. I exchanged for a Tomini Tang, a Powder Brown Tang, a bi color blenny and the fire - a coris wrasse...I know he might eat my clean up crew and move stuff at the worst, i can glue and replace crew. i have heard some dont bother anything, we will see how badly i get burnt.

pics to follow..

Ouch! That's too bad, an emperor is such a beauty...at least it's returned to a place where it won't get your corals.

From what I've read (I have no experience with this) PBTs are very ich-prone. Hope yours is a nice and healthy fish!

[Roskoreef]

Added a small uv for general fish health a few days ago, they all seem more active in the day and feed more agressively.




got this guy back in...

[Roskoreef]

Tomini Tang at dusk

[Roskoreef]

updated fish list:

10 blue chromis
2 spotted mandarins
2 Coral Beautys
golden rabbit
lieutenant tang
orange shoulder tang
tomini tang
blonde naso tang
clown tang
red fairy wrasse
bi colour blenny
flounder
juvenile blue ring angel
ocellaris clownfish
magnificent angel
harlequin sweetlips







better pics to come..

[Roskoreef]

acheived a long milestone, decided to celebrate with a doser for 2 part. I went with another dos because down the road i want to dose the main zeovit stuff, so with the .1ml accuracy and easy scheduling through apex i feel it will be worth it...mainly apex scheduing as i want to be able to leave for a week at a time in the future.



they stack nicely -



i still need to pick up a magnesium tester, but im not dosing right now so that can wait. My levels are:

Calcium 550
Alk 132 ppm - 7.39 dKH - 2.64 meq/l

My calcium is high, could be the tester (Hanna) so 500-600, still high. Tonight i will dose only alk when ph drops at about 10 or so to bring calcium down slightly, then i will be able to dose calc and alk and figure out what my tank is using on a daily bases. is this correct?

next task - build a maintenance cabinet over my sump to organize all of this..



corals, a new sand anenome,

[reefwars]

Adding Alk won't bring your calcium down by anything noticeable , it will only raise Alk. if you want to bring your calcium down then just don't dose anything and let it fall , as consumption happens in line with alkalinity your calcium with be use up in Ratio.

Once your calcium is where you want it then start dosing it again , dont dose on calcium numbers dose on alkalinity numbers if dosing 2 part.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

i still need to pick up a magnesium tester, but im not dosing right now so that can wait. My levels are:

Calcium 550
Alk 132 ppm - 7.39 dKH - 2.64 meq/l

My calcium is high, could be the tester (Hanna) so 500-600, still high. Tonight i will dose only alk when ph drops at about 10 or so to bring calcium down slightly, then i will be able to dose calc and alk and figure out what my tank is using on a daily bases. is this correct?

Yes, you are correct. Calcium will not drop a lot, but it will a little. You should raise alkalinity to get closer to balanced calcium and alkalinity ratio. It should always be balanced, but calcium at 550 ppm is off the chart, and I wouldn't raise alkalinity more than about 10 or 11 dKH with that many SPS in the tank, and I wouldn't increase more than 1 dKH per 24 hours. Then dose neither until they fall together down to where you want them. You will need to make sure you magnesium is at least 1300-1400 ppm to have elevated calcium and alkalinity. If magnesium is low then you risk calcium carbonate precipitation (aka snow in your tank).

Although I agree with you that it could be the Hanna Calcium Checker. I find it very easy to get a false high reading on that device.

Here's a really good article by Randy Holmes-Farley on calcium and alkalinity. Scroll down about halfway and read Corrections for Zone 4. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/11/chemistry

[reefwars]

I also have issues with the Hanna calcium I find it not a good test at all compared to how well the others work