Tis what I heard, we'll see. I need to order a new po4 tester.
It's pretty interesting seeing all the bubbles come up inside the reactor (breaking down things into nitrogen gas as the end state).
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Tis what I heard, we'll see. I need to order a new po4 tester.
It's pretty interesting seeing all the bubbles come up inside the reactor (breaking down things into nitrogen gas as the end state).
Nice, your idol lives!
Mine is at about 13 months. 15 if you count the two months that Jen at New Wave had it.
I keep expecting to come home and find it dead as that is what the internet says will happen....the internet is always right, right?
Mine is at about 13 months. 15 if you count the two months that Jen at New Wave had it.
I keep expecting to come home and find it dead as that is what the internet says will happen....the internet is always right, right?
He sure seems to be doing fine. It's really hard finding the truth in this hobby, as with anything living I'm sure there exceptions to every rule.
First pic makes me laugh, that's a a pretty big Flame Angel for comparison...
First pic makes me laugh, that's a a pretty big Flame Angel for comparison...
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That Goldflake still gets my attention.
What I found funny about the first pic was the huge underbelly of the Scribbled Angelfish.
What I found funny about the first pic was the huge underbelly of the Scribbled Angelfish.
Crappy, NON-PHOTOSHOP'd, iphone pics:
Is that pleurotaenia at the top? What a beast!
Those are some PHAT fish.
Label said Red Saddled (Pseudanthias flavoguttatus) when I got them but I have no clue. Someone was over and they said "I didn't know Anthias got that big...). I have 5 of them, I think they eat some of the Lyertail's.
Hard to capture depth/dimensions on the iCrap shooter. This is the dominate female Lyertail for comparison (male has been hit or miss lately, I think I'm on my third dude lately).
The big Bimaculatus Anthias is cool looking, I tried to get a pic and failed on that one.
Label said Red Saddled (Pseudanthias flavoguttatus) when I got them but I have no clue. Someone was over and they said "I didn't know Anthias got that big...). I have 5 of them, I think they eat some of the Lyertail's.
Hard to capture depth/dimensions on the iCrap shooter. This is the dominate female Lyertail for comparison (male has been hit or miss lately, I think I'm on my third dude lately).
The big Bimaculatus Anthias is cool looking, I tried to get a pic and failed on that one.
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Anthias???
There's a gorgeous Mimic Tang in there!!!
There's a gorgeous Mimic Tang in there!!!
That's Pseudanthias marcia. I originally thought they were fairly rare in the hobby because you can't find one if you try, but I think that suppliers just don't know what they're selling.
The caudal fin on that thing is awesome.
No3 drama update.
Tank high range, tank low range, effluent output of no3 reactor, tank po4, reactor po4.
Conclusions- almost on low range part of the Red Sea no3 test kit....almost! Po4 seems about the same, I'm not really doing anything special for po4 yet. Dosing a very diluted lacl3 mix into the skimmer and the ATS doing its thing. Interesting enough no change in the ATS output or growth patterns yet.
No3 - 8 or so. Po4- .5-1 or so
Tank high range, tank low range, effluent output of no3 reactor, tank po4, reactor po4.
Conclusions- almost on low range part of the Red Sea no3 test kit....almost! Po4 seems about the same, I'm not really doing anything special for po4 yet. Dosing a very diluted lacl3 mix into the skimmer and the ATS doing its thing. Interesting enough no change in the ATS output or growth patterns yet.
No3 - 8 or so. Po4- .5-1 or so
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You're results are better than mine at the moment!
Which begs the question of why you're not able to keep any corals.
Which begs the question of why you're not able to keep any corals.
So close to low range no3! I don't know what to do once the tank gets in the 1-2ppm range, not sure if I should turn the flow of the reactor up or down at this point. So I turned it up, wide open right now.
Tank low range | Tank high range | Reactor output low range
Tank low range | Tank high range | Reactor output low range
If the tank gets too low you could always feed more? I wish i had a bunch of corals that I needed to get rid of to see how they do!
Is your plan to turn your display into a reef? Or I saw you were getting a 40 breeder started, are you thinking of going satellite reef with that instead? I'm assuming the 450 has a bunch of non reef safe fish at this point?
Is your plan to turn your display into a reef? Or I saw you were getting a 40 breeder started, are you thinking of going satellite reef with that instead? I'm assuming the 450 has a bunch of non reef safe fish at this point?
You'd think I'd have more of a plan than I do...
I think it's two fold and see what happens. Certainly plan on loading up the 450 with inverts/coral I just wish I have more of a QT method. So I'm setting up a 40g breeder just not sure if it will be a 'frag' tank or more of a sudo reef/frag tank (e.g. I put live rock in it etc.). I'm thinking at this point make it more of a sudo reef and just don't but any corals I don't plan up putting in the 450. With the sudo reef, see if I really like corals or not. I've spent more time lately than I should have thinking about a total reboot of the 450 into a full reef.
Non-reef save fish in the 450 truly are only the butterflies (depending on one's definition of reef safe with angels). I can pull some/all of them, just worried about the aiptashia coming back (have a file fish and copperband butterfly, maybe leave them and just pull the semi and raccoon)
I think it's two fold and see what happens. Certainly plan on loading up the 450 with inverts/coral I just wish I have more of a QT method. So I'm setting up a 40g breeder just not sure if it will be a 'frag' tank or more of a sudo reef/frag tank (e.g. I put live rock in it etc.). I'm thinking at this point make it more of a sudo reef and just don't but any corals I don't plan up putting in the 450. With the sudo reef, see if I really like corals or not. I've spent more time lately than I should have thinking about a total reboot of the 450 into a full reef.
Non-reef save fish in the 450 truly are only the butterflies (depending on one's definition of reef safe with angels). I can pull some/all of them, just worried about the aiptashia coming back (have a file fish and copperband butterfly, maybe leave them and just pull the semi and raccoon)
The part about the tank getting low on no3 - really has to do with the ability to feed the bacteria in the reactor and balance that with a low enough flow to create a oxygen deprived environment. Too much flow, too much oxygen, too little flow not enough food source (no3), too low of food source in the source water (low no3) combined with high flow (to present more no3 to the bacteria) equals too much oxygen... yea now I have a headache too.
The orp in this thing has progressed from -270 to +250 now basically, the tank is +275 more of less so I think the low oxygen environment ship has sailed.
The orp in this thing has progressed from -270 to +250 now basically, the tank is +275 more of less so I think the low oxygen environment ship has sailed.