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Ann_A 
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 Posted: August 17 2013 at 6:23pm |
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Phosphates are almost back to normal and almost everything is back to normal. Unfortunately I lost one of my moorish idols today because he was beaten up by the other one.
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Posted: August 17 2013 at 6:30pm |
I'm glad to hear everything is pretty much back to normal. Sorry to hear about the Moorish Idol though.
Please share this link with your dad. http://www.nightsea.com/ It was a real pleasure meeting and talking with him today.
Mike
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Posted: November 28 2013 at 11:50pm |
I think it's about time for an update here...
These are some progress shots of different corals/fish in the tank.
Emperor Angel: July 2013 November 2013
Yellow Montipora Digitata: January 2013 November 2013
Red Monti Cap: May 2013 November 2013
Tyree Mystic Sunset Monti: June 2013 November 2013
Tyree Jedi Mind Trick Monti: January 2013 November 2013
Blueberry Special: May 2013 November 2013
ORA Red Planet: May 2012 September 2012 October 2012 April 2013 November 2013 (after fragging the entire colony over the summer)
Full Tank Shots: February 2012 December 2012 January 2013 March 2013 July 2013 November 2013
And just some other shots…
Tyree IceFire Echinata (November 2013):
Longnose Hawkfish (November 2013):
Tyree Red Dragon (November 2013):
Cali Tort (November 2013):
ORA Pearlberry (November 2013):
Edited by Ann_A - November 28 2013 at 11:52pm
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Posted: November 28 2013 at 11:58pm |
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Lookin good! I'm interested in seeing how that icefire turns out
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Posted: November 29 2013 at 12:42am |
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Thanks! I got it a short time ago from Cole (spike) and it's been doing great!
I also threw the optics back in my AIs so I wouldn't have to run them at such high power because they were overheating. Now I'm slowly bringing them back up to 75% peak intensity. I dropped it down to 25% (from 90% which is what they were overheating at) but have them in the acclimation mode which is supposed to end in January. Flow was recently increased with the addition of a Jebao WP25, which has been a great addition although I'm wishing I'd gotten the WP40 instead. I already have about 70x turnover an hour so I don't think more flow is necessary but I'd like it (borderline insane?).
The biopellets have been working wonderfully as has the rest of the filtration and equipment, with the exception of the horrible stock skimmer (soon to be replaced) my calcium reactor which got plugged up. Now that that's all cleaned up though I have it back inline but I don't dare turn the CO2 on because I can't seem to get my ph over 7.7 anytime during the day or night. All of the parameters have been stable at healthy levels so I don't know why the ph won't come up.
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Posted: November 29 2013 at 3:27am |
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I would think poor air circulation in the house would be a contributing factor to higher CO2. Being in the basement would increase that also since CO2 is a heavier molecule than O2 and N2. Do you have any algae in a refug. to kick up the O2 production in the tank? Any plants down in the room you have it in?
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Posted: November 29 2013 at 10:35am |
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The tank is in my front room on ground floor. I do know that the house has a higher CO2 level which contributes to the low ph. No plants in the room or algae in a refugium. I did run some tubing across my living room to a window with my skimmer air intake connected to it (the joint is sealed) which brought the ph up to 7.9 by the end of the day yesterday. So I'm probably going to buy some sodalime to run the skimmer intake through.
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Posted: November 29 2013 at 12:18pm |
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sounds like you have it all figured out! Let us know how it works out.
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Posted: December 20 2013 at 5:24pm |
I'll upload more pics sometime in the next day or two, but I thought I'd post a quick update in the meantime.
Recently I replaced the stock skimmer with a Deltec MC500 skimmer which has been skimming incredibly well. It's also much quieter and my water temperature has dropped 2 degrees. I still can't get ph over 7.7 but hopefully that will be changing soon (Christmas isn't too far away). Lights are up to 48% and increasing (VERY slowly).
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Posted: December 21 2013 at 1:03am |
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Wow, I took a bigger break from the forum than I though. I remember when you got that tank. Looks great!
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Posted: December 21 2013 at 8:25am |
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Ann, the tank is looking great.
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Posted: December 22 2013 at 11:50pm |
Thanks guys for the nice comments!
Last night I picked up a BIG purple gorgonian (~12" across the entire colony) that I'm still working on identifying but I'm pretty sure it's photosynthetic because the polyps are dark brown and the possible species I've narrowed it down to are all photosynthetic. Either way I plan on target feeding it quite heavily along with my tubastrea colonies and dendrophyllia colony. Eventually I'd like to build an automated feeding system using dosing pumps to "dose" phytoplankton and another food mix or two for the corals multiple times per day.
The deltec has been doing great and skimming so much better than the stock skimmer. It's much quieter and I am seriously wondering why I didn't switch earlier. (this is about 24 hours worth of skimmate during the first week of use - it's now pulling even more)
The new gorgonian isn't in perfect health and I knew that when I purchased it but it was a steal and I'm really not too worried about being able to bring it back to full health.
This is a yellow/brown gorgonian I've had for quite a while now that has been doing very well and growing quickly.
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Posted: December 23 2013 at 6:49am |
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Beautiful photos Ann!
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Posted: December 26 2013 at 4:50pm |
Christmas earned me a BRS Universal Air Filter with their CO2 Reducing Media as well as a new supply of biopellets and a gate valve for the biopellet reactor's recirculating line. Now that the air filter has been online on the skimmer air intake line for over 24 hours now, the ph has come up by 0.2 so instead of 7.4 at 6am today it was 7.6 and now it's sitting at 7.9 at 5pm which is higher than it's been in weeks.
I also added another MP40wES so now I have one on each end of the tank. They are in anti-sync mode on long pulse mode and thus far the corals have seemed to enjoy the added flow and more consistent flow patterns.
Edited by Ann_A - December 26 2013 at 4:53pm
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Posted: December 26 2013 at 5:01pm |
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7.9 is a huge improvement!
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Posted: December 30 2013 at 7:01pm |
Adding kalkwasser to the top-off reservoir got my ph up to 8.0 today. Hopefully it will stay around 8.0-8.2 now. The skimmer has also been working great, and with the biopellets refilled I've been feeding quite heavily without any major impact on my nutrient levels.
The tank has been sitting at these levels for a while now... Ammonia & Nitrite 0ppm Nitrate 0.15-0.25ppm Phosphates 0.035-0.05ppm Calcium 450-500ppm Alkalinity 8.0-9.8dKH Temperature 74-76F (Day-Night)
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Posted: January 05 2014 at 7:38pm |
Thought I'd post a few shots I took the other night while playing around with a new lens adapter for my camera to use some old minolta lenses we have. These were all taken with a 100mm Minolta macro mounted on a Sony A200.
Longnose Hawkfish
Emperor Angelfish
Powder Blue Tang
Edited by Ann_A - January 05 2014 at 7:39pm
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Posted: January 05 2014 at 7:46pm |
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Cool pics ! the powder blue tang looks like he's throwing a kiss funny
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Posted: January 05 2014 at 9:29pm |
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Nicely done and there is some great detail too.
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Posted: January 07 2014 at 9:13pm |
Just a few more shots from tonight...
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