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01-18-2009, 03:58 PM
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Thanks for the great explanation Mike, well detailed like always makes you wonder on how some of the tank survive/ Any ways back to the review.
I have been gone away for a hockey tournament since last Sunday. so i didn't dose ULTRA MIN S. OR FEED THE CLAM FOOD. I did do a 10 gal water change on Sat before i left. 16 Jan. - Dosed Ultra bak starting 1ml as instructed - dosed ultra min s 1 ml to. My alk dropped from 8.0 to 6.1 dkh so i dripped from suppertime til the next morning to get it up again. here are the levels so far. lost one of my big clam crocea when i got home the fish were having a great day. CAL 495 ALK 6.1 TEMP 78.3 SALINITY 1.025 PO 4 0.01 heated test MAG 1350 Nitrates 10-15 PPM  PH 8.2 JAN 17 dosed Ultra Bak 1ml dosed ultra min s 1ml fed small amount of clam food lowered lights on the tank 3 " took off Phosban due to running Ultra Bak since they both take out PO 4 Good new I'm seeing some pretty good PE from the new frags since they had 1 week to get used to the tnak since i was gone. today im going to snap some new pic when i get a chance to post before and after... Jan 18 ultra Bak 1 ml ultra Min s 1ml fed clam with ultra min s 1ml together if that 10 gal water change pictures to follow today i hope if i get soem time .
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01-20-2009, 11:09 PM
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not much to view here
Jan 19th dosed ultra BAK 1ml and Ultra Min S 1ml Jan 20th Ultra Bak 1ml again Ultra Min S 1 ml small amount of Clam Food Added 4 large colonies of acro's red /Purple Humilis Deep water acro Tri color baby blue and white. acro Purple Acro tested PO 4 after 5 days of dosing Ultra BAK at 1ml for my 150 gal system. tested 15 days ago i think that was at may be 0.01-0.02 now i see is all white so i guessing tha its working maybe those salifirt tests its hard to read unless you have a digital one all corals are doign great the clams are coloring up and the SPS are doing that too. So Mike do I start adding 2ml per day or keep it at 1 ml per day for the tank
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01-26-2009, 03:32 PM
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If you can give me the heat test PO4 reading as of today i will then give you new dosing guidelines
Need photos too. Things to watch white film on glass - excess use of ultra bak Dont over feed clam food or minS Other than that all seems well. |
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01-26-2009, 10:40 PM
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sounds great Mike i will get that for you after supper long day at work, jsut got home had to go for a run to burn off some neg feelings....
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01-26-2009, 11:01 PM
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ok back sooner then i thought just incase that you got my message on here.. i will post a new one tested @ 80F and the PO 4 is IMO
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01-26-2009, 11:04 PM
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 present after 2 weeks of dosing BAK I think so far that that colors are darken up with is nioce lots of the acro's are swoing deeper colors like the purple stag... I have just started Carbon in my phosban reactor I hope that is ok so far.. 
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01-27-2009, 12:45 AM
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Its all looking so good
 You can increase the bak after one week to 2ml and watch the tank daily, if the corals get too bright then increase the Min-S |
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01-27-2009, 02:07 AM
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ok then i will increase to 2 ml and ten watch for the brighten colors then ,the white stuff isnt on the glass either....
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01-27-2009, 11:00 PM
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JAN 22
Started to dose 2 ml per day for now of ULTRA BAK , noticing some of the SPS reacting to the food GOOD. JAn 23 Ultra Bak 2 ML small amount of clam food Added some Carbon to the tank with the phosban reactor. tank is looking alot clearer now. Jan 24 Ultra Bak 2 ml the sps are starting to color up less signs of struggle with the SPS. Jan 25 10 gal WAter change tested Nitrates 15-20 PPM 1 ML CLam food 2 ML Ultra Bak Jan 26 2 Ml Ultra Bak Tested PO 4 .01 fed light Jan 27 2 Ml again of Ultra Bak 1 Ml Ultra Min S The tank is looking alot clearer and bright today in the corals, the clams dont seem to have the punch the maxima look blah...
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01-27-2009, 11:06 PM
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Hiya
I guess you have reduced your feeding of the clam food as you say they are off colour. Also the high Nitrates will effect the clams colour they hate any nitrate. Find the nitrate cause. Increase the Min-S to 2ml a day and let me know how often you are feeding ultra clam You are now in the process of fine tuning your system.  Add 2ml of min-s as of today |
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