Lookin good!
I finally made it down to Pacific East today. The clam selection was a little on the limited side with most of their smaller clams being up at the Harrisburg Frag Swap. But I did end up with a maxima and 7 other frags.
Here are the pics immediately following their Revive dip. I’ll post some updated ones in a few days after they’ve recovered.
All the frags and the new clam.
The new maxima is mostly gold/brown but he has streaks of blue. Very neat to see so many distinct colors so I had to grab him.
I’m assuming it’s an Aussie Acropora of some sort. It’s base is mostly brown but all the tips are distinctly blue.
Another Aussie Acropora. This one is yellow with blue grown tips.
Super pumped about this Goniopora. It’s pink/red with yellow eyes.
Another Goniopora. This one is a hot pink.
These Zoanthids were wicked. Bright, bright yellow eyes with a brown/black skirt.
This Chalice has a blue/green base with pink eyes and little yellow specs.
Finally I couldn’t pass on this little monticap. It’s the red/pink base with the yellow polyps. I’ve seen it floating around the DRC and I’ve wanted a piece for awhile.
Any Goniopora tips? It’s my first time with them.
Night time royal blues kicked on. These frags are great.
Great looking frags, good luck with them! They have such a huge selection, it’s very hard NOT to see something to like.
The 0,1 messes me up. I should read this as .09 or 1365 magnesium, correct?
You go by where the plunger is. The amount of air from the tip is accounted for already.
you have .10 ml left in the syringe or you have used .90 ml if going the other way.
Thanks guys. So follow up questions, should I add some magnesium?
what test kit is it?
SALIFERT
1350 is fine IMO.
Took a trip up to ASR today. Pretty happy with this 30+ polyp frag of Rastas! : )
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Hey, guys. So I know it’s been a while but I wanted to post on a big overhaul I’m planning tomorrow.
When I first set the tank up I used some concrete paver stones that we all assumed were inert and reef safe. After nearly two years of mediocre results, I’m questioning that assumption. The pavers themselves have little speckles of different minerals/metals or who knows what in them. Some of them have discolored leading me to believe that they may be leeching iron, rust, silicates or something into my system. I may be chasing a red herring but I’m planning on pulling the pavers tomorrow.
I was doing 10% water changes with rodi for the first year and increased to 70 gallons (25%) monthly for the last six months. I’ve been testing salinity, PH, calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, temperature, nitrates, and phosphates monthly. Everything tests where it should. I have good flow, and I think it’s unlikely that the tank is receiving too much light but I’m considering downgrading the halides drop 250 to 150 watt if this doesn’t work.
Think it would be worth it to send a water sample away for analysis to see what I’m missing?
Just about everything is alive but nothing is thriving. It’s not where I expected to be at this point.
Could be the pavers but it seems a little unlikely. The halides were the third or fourth lighting you’ve used, right? Corals take a while to adjust to those changes. On the order of months. You might want to sit tight for a bit and see how it goes.
Just for completeness, what are your test values and what kind of test kits are you using? You could do a Triton test if you want but people tend to chase after things needlessly based on the results.
I run 79 degrees, 1.027 35ppt , 440 calcium, 10 DKH, 1350ish mag, no detectable nitrates, nitrites but I do get a reading on phosphates. it’s marginal but there. Imy using a refractometer calibrated with 2 different solutions and rodi, Salifert mag and API titration for the rest. Is there a heavy metals test kit?
Jason are you still running the algae scrubber? I don’t remember if you done this yet or not but have you tried taking the scrubber offline? Maybe your tank is, “too clean”. I know it’s hard to believe but I think it is possible to have a tank that is too clean. I am not an expert and don’t have any experience with scrubbers but it is just a thought.
Yeah, I’m running the scrubber. Also running the skimmer, carbon and go. I doubt I’m too clean.
You could run some poly-filters to see if they detect any metals
Poly-Filter turns color when removing metals or solvents.
Aqua to Dark Blue: Copper or Copper salts.
Orange: Iron.
Bright Red: Aluminum.
Bright Yellow: Ammonia, Amines or Solvents.
I am finally starting to get growth, after upgrading to the 120, when I was in the smaller tank I could not get the nutrient levels right, too low nitrates and too high phosphate, things would live but not grow or look great, now in this tank I have been able to keep nitrates between 1 - 5 and phosphate between .02 -.06 and have seen good growth that has eluded me for years.
IME phosphate above .08 stops growth in SPS