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    Posted: January 02 2017 at 9:25pm
Contestants have until the end of the day Friday, January 9th to complete and answer the following.

1. Please post a current picture of your frag.

2. Have you tested your water recently? (i.e. calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, nitrate, phosphate, nitrite, ammonia, salinity, etc.)
For each test completed please share your results. (If tested multiple times, please share
the date you tested and what your results were.)

3. What methods do you use for nutrient export? How often? How often do you the media or clean it?


Edited by Krazie4Acans - January 03 2017 at 7:15am
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Points: 1222 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2017 at 9:36am
Unfortunatly i am not going to be able to continue with the competition. I am moving offices and will not be able to take my tank along with me. Good luck to everyone else in the compitition.
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Points: 1965 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2017 at 8:57pm

Looks sad lately. I'm not finding time to feed much, and that is all I do for the tank these days.
I toss bunches of caulerpa when it grows too much.

Edited by MadReefer - January 04 2017 at 7:21pm
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Points: 1115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2017 at 8:21am
Coming today if I can make it home before lights go downt. Also been struggling a bit, I added new media to my calcium reactor and well my alkalinity was all over the place for about 5 days. Learned best to leave it alone until it calms down, kinda like me when I don't get the coral I want I carbon dose vinegar daily and run cheato with heavy skimming. I feed a ton of food for my fish as well as feed corals daily.
Alk 8.5
Calc 425
Mag 1350
NO3 trace at best
PO4 .02
Salinity 1.026
Temp 77.5
Sump lit 24/7 with the brightness of the sun at noon
I will add pics later




Edited by Reefer4Ever - January 04 2017 at 6:55pm
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12/23/16
Po4 - 0.08
SG - 1.026
Mg - 1320
Ca - 390
KH - 9.1

1/02/17
Po4 - 0.11
SG - 1.026
Mg - 1320
Ca - 390
KH - 8.4

My primary means of nutrient export is a large growth of caulerpa in the sump.  I trim about half of it every 3 weeks or so.  I add a small bag of gfo to the sump as well when the Po4 gets too high, which I promptly did after returning from my holiday vacation.  I still struggle with hair algae so I've been researching additional nutrient export options.  Dennis speaks very highly of carbon dosing and I've been toying with the idea of an Algae Scrubber if I can figure out a good configuration to add to the sump.

-Dave


Edited by HumuHumuForever - January 06 2017 at 11:42pm
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Contestants have until the end of the day Friday, January 9th to complete and answer the following.

I'm hoping the deadline was until the 9th, because Friday the 9th doesn't exist. Friday was the 6th. Rule 2) i)        "Requirements must be completed by the 7th or 22nd of each month or participant will be disqualified." So I'm still in it! Whew! I was worried for a minute!

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2. Calcium - 400
Alkalinity - 8.7
Magnesium - 1600
Nitrate - 5
Phosphate - unfortunately 0.00
Nitrite - N/A
Ammonia - N/A
Salinity - 1.0265

3. What methods do you use for nutrient export?
- I use a protein skimmer. That's it.

How often?
- The protein skimmer runs 24/7.

How often do you the media or clean it?
- I empty the skimmer collection cup twice daily and clean the neck and collection cup every 3 days.

Edited by evan127 - January 07 2017 at 1:14pm
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I haven't tested since my last update, nutrient export is mainly done by skimming and removing macro algae.




Edited by christhjesus - January 07 2017 at 11:58pm
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