120g Acrylic Acropora Addiction (1 Viewer)

[Bradlincoln]

This is one of my favorites. I grew this from a tiny frag 10 years ago then shut the tank down. I’ve tried it three times in my current tank with no success. Sometimes it seems that the coral you like most becomes the hardest to keep.

 

[spsick]

Couple things waking up despite the dinos. Both of these acros were stagnant for better part of a year. And a tiny but lovely Goni taking off

 

[asifiqbal2]

Gorgeous as always

 

[Varig]

“Photoshopped”

 

[spsick]

Why I’ll never give up T5 even if fancy tenuous look blah under it. No filter under full spectrum.

 

[Varig]

Da BLUE.

 

[spsick]

This bubblegum monster is one of my favorite corals and it’s crazy these are worth basically $0

 

[Varig]

Just goes to show, it’s not all about what other people like. I 100% agree. That’s a super cool piece.

 

[spsick]

Current FTS after a cleaning

 

[spsick]

Switched to Fritz salt and Dino’s went away in a week. I can only think the iron in the salt was feeding them

 

[Varig]

Yay! Bye bye devil dinos

 

[spsick]

Saltilocks update:

Couple weeks in to using Fritz and seeing some coralline go white. Parameters were drifting a bit low but nothing I haven’t seen before. Not sure if there’s some element missing and I’m due for an ICP so I’ll see. Probably also run one of a new batch of Fritz salt since there isn’t one available anywhere online.

Ca- 390
Alk- 7.0
Mag- 1260

 

[Jposch]

Saltilocks update:

Couple weeks in to using Fritz and seeing some coralline go white. Parameters were drifting a bit low but nothing I haven’t seen before. Not sure if there’s some element missing and I’m due for an ICP so I’ll see. Probably also run one of a new batch of Fritz salt since there isn’t one available anywhere online.

Ca- 390
Alk- 7.0
Mag- 1260

Both forest lake pets and sealevel have this salt on hand last I stopped by. I believe they each had both red and blue boxes.

 

[Varig]

"Salitlocks," I love it. When you say parameters drifted low, are you referring to the ones you posted? Or also things like nutrients? Didn't you mention something about phosphate levels several weeks/months back? Delayed reaction on the coralline? I remember a video from Abe when he talked about how things in our tanks tend to only show the signs of change after weeks/months, and that dummies like me that change 4 things at once then don't know what actually helped turn things around

In any case, the ICP sounds smart. And if you get some results on a fresh batch of Fritz, I wonder if the person on R2R that has the "definitive" salt ICP thing would consider adding in your results to their table.

 

[spsick]

"Salitlocks," I love it. When you say parameters drifted low, are you referring to the ones you posted? Or also things like nutrients? Didn't you mention something about phosphate levels several weeks/months back? Delayed reaction on the coralline? I remember a video from Abe when he talked about how things in our tanks tend to only show the signs of change after weeks/months, and that dummies like me that change 4 things at once then don't know what actually helped turn things around

In any case, the ICP sounds smart. And if you get some results on a fresh batch of Fritz, I wonder if the person on R2R that has the "definitive" salt ICP thing would consider adding in your results to their table.

Nutrients have been very stable since I started dosing a couple ppm of calcium nitrate a couple times a week. Parameters above are tank parameters.

I know Ryan (salt test guy) did 2x ATI ICP for each salt. I ain’t doing that lol but it will be good to have a baseline for stuff like strontium.

 

[Reefer Oz]

I love this shot.

Did you just plop a clam on a rock in the middle of your Turbinaria?

 

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I love this shot.

Did you just plop a clam on a rock in the middle of your Turbinaria?

Yep! Seemed like a good idea as maximas love light and I don’t have may places with high light it wouldn’t get blasted by flow.