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 Posted: October 21 2010 at 8:25pm |
Just tested again, and ammonia is zero! But now my Nitrite is going up.
Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: slightly above zero, but less than 0.25 Nitrate: 0 PH: 8.1
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Posted: October 21 2010 at 9:10pm |
Here is a picture of the brown algae starting to grow on the rocks, sorry the picture is not very good
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Posted: October 22 2010 at 11:37pm |
Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: almost 0 Nitrate: 0 PH: 8.1
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Posted: October 23 2010 at 11:51am |
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Parameters still the same today. The nitrite is being suborn and staying just off zero.
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Posted: October 23 2010 at 12:39pm |
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That is typical as the nitrite bacteria are slower growing.
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Posted: October 23 2010 at 6:01pm |
Thanks... it has been so long since I have cycled a tank I couldn't remember.
It is strange I am even seeing a cycle since I used the rignt now bacteria. It is supposed to cycle in the first 24 hours. But I guess I can't complain too much. That ammonia and nitrite spike was not very big, especially since I stocked the entire tank at once...
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Posted: October 24 2010 at 2:46pm |
Ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate are all zero now... 
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Posted: October 25 2010 at 8:08pm |
Not much to tell, all parameters staying the same.
I did change the rock around to give more room for my flame angel to swim between the rocks.
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Posted: October 26 2010 at 8:52am |
That reefscape looks very good. I believe I can see a few coral. Some Caulerpa would complete the picture helping the scape look less barren.
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Posted: October 26 2010 at 11:00pm |
Thanks. Yes, I have two corrals, a hammer, and I can't remember what the other one was.
But it does look barren, Caulerpa would add too it for sure.
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Posted: October 31 2010 at 5:55pm |
Added some LS, a piece of LR, and a few more corals given to me from vadryn.
Thanks!!!
All parameters are still the same, except the temperature raised up to 79 due to turning the heat on, and the room with my sump gets very warm. My giant green polyp withdrew for a day, but is now starting to come out. I don't know if that was due to the temperature or not. I may need to put a fan in that room to keep the temp down.
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Posted: October 31 2010 at 7:53pm |
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I really like your rockscape. I disagree about the caulerpa, I think macro in the display looks terrible, thats what refugiums are for.
Edited by reefguru - October 31 2010 at 8:15pm
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Posted: November 02 2010 at 6:51pm |
Thanks!!
I am not very good at taking pictures. They look very bad. But here are some more.
I think the reason my coral was unhappy was that he did not have enough water flow where I moved him to. I moved it to a little higher flow area and it opened right up and is looking great again.
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Posted: November 03 2010 at 9:49am |
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Is that a PennPlax algae scraper I see there?
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Posted: November 03 2010 at 10:11am |
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No, it is an aquarium systems algae scraper. It is a very old scrapper, and does not float, but works ok.
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Posted: November 03 2010 at 11:37am |
Well I have to say I am very happy with the way this system is working so far. My next stage of the experiment is more long term. I plan to do very few and very small water changes, or mayby none at all... I am thinking I will probably do a 5-10% change every 6month, or every year.
However I am guessing that I will have to add something to keep the corals happy, and I may have to worry about the alk, and calcium levels.... I am really looking forward to what Bob has going on here:
Or I may just add some ph rock to my pipe full of arogonite. You can see the description here: http://www.memory-doctor.com/Aqua/PHadj.html it would add 28 trace elements, but not strontium.
Anyway, I am fairly new to what I need to add for corals, in fact I have never added anything other than just water changes. So any suggestions ?
here are my water parameters which have been constant for a while now.
temp: 75deg (goes up to 80 when I have my house heat turned on) specific gravity: 1.024 PH: 8.1 Alk: 11 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 0
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Posted: November 05 2010 at 3:41pm |
I decided to do another tank video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7BYDWQCoyI
All water parameters are still the same.
Edited by Davidwillis - November 05 2010 at 3:42pm
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Posted: November 06 2010 at 8:48pm |
I have been noticing my flame angel seems to be getting HLLE. I thought I could see something a few weeks ago, but now I am sure it is getting worse. It is probably due to me not feeding very well. I have just been feeding some flake food.
Does anyone have some good suggestions for food a flame angel would like that will provide better nutrition than my cheap flake food?
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Posted: November 08 2010 at 5:31pm |
I just added 17 coral frags to the tank, so I decided it was time to get testing kits. I got a calcium, and phosphate.
< ="-" ="text/; =utf-8"> Temp: 75deg specific gravity: 1.025 PH: 8.1 Alk: 12 calcium: 300 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 0 phosphate: 0.5
It looks like my calcium is a little low, and my phosphate is high....
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Posted: November 08 2010 at 6:48pm |
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Calcium is your bigger concern of the 2. Either do some big water changes or start dosing.
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