90 Gallon Reef Setup... Update April 22, 2009...Oceanic Corals with Pics! - Page 12

Rbacchiega · #**111** 04-14-2009, 05:38 PM

Right now just sticking with Vodka following the guidlines in the RC Magazine.

Lorenzo, go to the old issues of RC mag and hit the chemestry section...it should be in there somewhere. It even has a nifty little chart for quick refference.

Right now I'm dosing 0.8mL Vodka (approx 100 gallons water volume) once a day. In 2 more days that bumps up to 1.3mL I believe...

fishytime · #**112** 04-14-2009, 05:45 PM

See...thats how it starts....first its .8ml and the tank is like "I can handle it"...then its 1.3ml and the tank is all "bring it on!"....next thing you know the guy at the vendors is like "that Randi sure has a problem"....

I cant deny that skimmer cup though....looks really nice and nasty.

lastlight · #**113** 04-14-2009, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

I cant deny that skimmer cup though....looks really nice and nasty.

I had joked in another thread about doing shots of skimmate and now I read this. Perhaps there's a market for my soon-to-be-patented skimBong or something.

Lotta sticks there. Hard to believe that tank's gonna be starved for space some day if you added no more.

lastlight · #**114** 04-14-2009, 07:39 PM

So I scroll up for kicks. the last SIX people to post to this thread are all online. We a bunch of slackers or WHAT?

fishytime · #**115** 04-14-2009, 07:56 PM

Believe me, I wish I was working.

Rbacchiega · #**116** 04-14-2009, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

I had joked in another thread about doing shots of skimmate and now I read this. Perhaps there's a market for my soon-to-be-patented skimBong or something.

Lotta sticks there. Hard to believe that tank's gonna be starved for space some day if you added no more.

Too bad I'm adding two more frags tonight and three more from Oceanic in the next little bit....

...helllooooooooo lotsa frags for sale/trade in a year....

JDigital · #**117** 04-15-2009, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by lorenz0

i need to look into vodka dosing, sadly it would be one shot for the tank..... 1/2 the 2/6 for me lol

btw, where is a good article/guide lines for it?

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/index.php

Rbacchiega · #**118** 04-15-2009, 03:59 PM

thanks Josh.

Rbacchiega · #**119** 04-17-2009, 04:31 PM

First day of dosing 1.3mL of vodka. This will be what the tank gets daily for the next week.

When I picked up the zeovit reactor from Sean (Kwirky) I also nabbed his test kits. Here's the readings as of 9:00am this morning:

Temp: 77.2 (this raises to 79.4 during the time the MH are on)
Salinity: 1.025
KH: 12 (elos)
pH: 8.3 (elos)
Nitrate: 0 (salifert)
Mg: 1290 (salifert)...looks like I'll need to add a bit
Ca: 300??!?! (Salifert) upped the ammount of calcium I'm dosing.
Potassium: 300mg/L (KZ)... a little on the low end, looks like I'll need to get some Kbalance or something like that.

Rbacchiega · #**120** 04-22-2009, 07:39 PM

Floating the new corals from Oceanic - ponape birdsnest, sunset monti (seeeeexy) and true undata (drool worthy) - as I type this and HOLY MOTHER am I stoked! Packaged GREAT, Frags are HUGE and colours are incredible.

Will post pics when they are done settling in, but all in all, 100% happy with Ians service and product.