AJ_Tsin Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 Interesting, so they responded by giving them less intensity?? Well yes, I believe I was blasting them with too much prior. 8 Bulbs on a very shallow tank with ULNS was causing a bit of lightening and more specifically some of the accent colors being washed out. Since this change a lot of this has come back or brightened. Here are a few more from last night: Pearlberry Pink Tipped Mille Multicolor Matrix Orange Passion finally encrusting more Red Diablo Sibulata 7 Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Not Flickr, but new photos with just 2 ATI Blue + lighting things up. Color is really improving since raising the light. Jawdropper looking dope. Avenger encrusting Wicked Sunrise tips are getting very bright. Pretty in Pink Really colouring up Tierra del Fuego encrusting quickly and colouring up. Wolverine has totally encrusted the plug and onto the rock Nauti Spiral Growth is awesome FAL Wolverine has fully covered the plug and is turning very yellow. Maricultured Secale seems to be holding color ok and is already encrusting. New Page quote, just because. 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 New Page quote, just because. Thanks. Hah. Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 In Other News: My company just posted another sketch video this one is about the World Cup: If everyone reacted to everyday contact like soccer players do on the field. Id love if you guys like and share thing thing if you are into it. 5 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 Just did my tests tonight. Haven't tested in about 2 weeks. Don't you love when everything is perfect... Stable, dialled in, colourful and growing. All is well in the SPS world right now. For what its worth, switching to Red Sea Blue bucket has has a phenomenal impact in stability with NSW conditions. Highly recommend to anyone going for ULNS and NSW. 3 Quote Link to comment
NanoTopia Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Just did my tests tonight. Haven't tested in about 2 weeks. Don't you love when everything is perfect... Stable, dialled in, colourful and growing. All is well in the SPS world right now. For what its worth, switching to Red Sea Blue bucket has has a phenomenal impact in stability with NSW conditions. Highly recommend to anyone going for ULNS and NSW. I will admit RedSea Salt (blue bucket) is very consistent, I switched to KZ Reefers Best Salt to try it out for a few months. so far I am happy but I might go back to RedSea again when the box is finished. Raised my salinity from 34 to 35, too early to tell but corals seem to be looking better. Good to hear all is well with your box of water Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 In Other News: My company just posted another sketch video this one is about the World Cup: If everyone reacted to everyday contact like soccer players do on the field. Id love if you guys like and share thing thing if you are into it. Sooo in other news this video has gotten 800,000k views since I posted it two days ago and its all over the internet. It's great for my Company Fourgrounds (We produced it, I wrote and directed it). Thanks to you here who shared it. 4 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The pink in this makes me weak in the knees. 10 Quote Link to comment
4x5 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 In Other News: My company just posted another sketch video this one is about the World Cup: If everyone reacted to everyday contact like soccer players do on the field. Id love if you guys like and share thing thing if you are into it. Haha! That's awesome. 2 Quote Link to comment
VABumpkin Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 lol I liked the Suarez reference 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 Apex orderd. Above video got over 2 million views in 3 days so I am celebrating... 2 Quote Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Sps look beyond amazing !!! Lmaoooo the bar scene and the grocery store scenes were hilarious lol Quote Link to comment
Arkayology Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Dat RR Wolverine.... It looks so good. I wish I could get a frag from you. 2 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Sps look beyond amazing !!! Lmaoooo the bar scene and the grocery store scenes were hilarious lol Dat RR Wolverine.... It looks so good. I wish I could get a frag from you. Thanks guys. Apex should come sometime midweek this week. I am pretty excited to get that all set up. 2 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 Apex LAB, and KZ K-Balance and B-Balance are "Out For Delivery" Should be in my hands this morning. Tonight this build goes Digital. 3 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 18, 2014 Author Share Posted July 18, 2014 So I have installed the Apex and things are all up and running and its relatively programmed at this point. I currently do not have my Lights installed on the unit as I put it in the basement and the lights are upstairs, and my Vortech MP-10s are the old version which I don't think can be controlled by this? Anyone know anything I don't? Plan is to eventually get a second Apex Powerbar run a USB cable upstairs through the plumbing holes and use that to control the MP-10s and the ATI light. Overall very happy with the setup. The shop I ordered from in Canada actually messed up and sent me a LAB ORP probe instead of the LAB grade PH probe. This is the 3rd order in a row that they have messed up or something didn't happen smoothly, so after a bit of polite complaining, I suggested they ship me the PH probe and let me keep the ORP as well. They agreed and apologized for everything (which is the first time in all of the mess-ups that they admitted something was wrong and made an offer to fix it with something more than just correcting their error...) This being said I have the PH probe coming today which will have to be calibrated and installed, and I already have the Temp and ORP up and running. The fact that I got a free ORP probe out of the recurring shipping mess-ups is pretty nice. I am unsure if the gesture will regain my business and keep me as a customer. I owe them at least one more chance, however at the same time I basically had to argue for this gesture and explain to them what in my opinion is customer service... Anyways it's a long story and in the end it worked out nicely. I also started adding K-Balance and B-Balance to my design regiment. These are not new additions in principle as I was dosing Brightwell Potassion and Strontion, these are just the K-Z equivalent with a little more Zeo "Magic." 4 Quote Link to comment
pismo_reefer Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 You owe them nothing. 3 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 Apex is all up and running. Cleaned up my basement wire mess dramatically. Left some space on the board for some upgrades down the line as well. 3 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 That video is awesome...gonna have to show my husband that. It's sooo his type of humor . Gonna have to look into the Red Sea blue bucket too. SPS looks great!!!!! This thread is one of my favorite spots for an SPS fix . 2 Quote Link to comment
Chris! Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 This thread is one of my favorite spots for an SPS fix . I know, I am still considering moving to Canada just for the sps! 3 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 That video is awesome...gonna have to show my husband that. It's sooo his type of humor . Gonna have to look into the Red Sea blue bucket too. SPS looks great!!!!! This thread is one of my favorite spots for an SPS fix . Thanks, let me know what he thinks. It went crazy online over 4 Million views. Great exposure for my production company. The blue bucket is great for NSW conditions. Glad you like the sticks. I know, I am still considering moving to Canada just for the sps! Haha. Awesome. 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 Thought I would post my current ZeoVit Dosing regiment as I have made some tweaks again. Dosing/Maintenance Schedule Total NET Water Volume ~55g Feeding NLS Pellets daily PE Mysis Rinsed and Soaked in Selcon (Once in a while) Polyp Labs Reef Roids mixed w/Selcon (Once in a while) Daily 0.15 ml K-Z ZEOStart 2x daily (total of 0.3 ml) 7ml Ca, 3ml Alk, 10 ml Mg (BRS Two Part) 1 ml K-Z Pohls Xtra 2 Drops K-Z Coral Vitalizer Intermittent 2 Drops of K-Z Sponge Power 3-4x weekly 2 Drops of K-Z ZeoBak 2x weekly (Every other day for two weeks after ZeoLite Exchange) 2 Drops of K-Z Potassium Iodide Flouride 3x weekly 2 ml K-Z Coral Snow 2x weekly (once immediately after water change, once midweek) 2 Drops of K-Z BioMate 2x weekly (w/ Coral Snow) 2 ml K-Balance 2x weekly 2 ml B-Balance 2x weekly 2 Drops Amino Acid High Concentrate 1x weekly 2 Drops Cyano Clean 1x weekly Maintenance 10% water change weekly (Vacuum sand bed bi-weekly) Change Filter Floss 2x weekly 250 ml of ESV Activated Carbon in media bag changed every 30 days 500 ml K-Z ZeoLite in Vertex Reactor running 60 g/h change 90% every 6-8 weeks Blast Rocks w/ Turkey Baster (Several times weekly) 4 Quote Link to comment
gena Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Thanks, let me know what he thinks. It went crazy online over 4 Million views. Great exposure for my production company. The blue bucket is great for NSW conditions. Glad you like the sticks. He loved it . Yeah, I'm thinking I need closer to NSW conditions now that I have a doser. Definitely going to look into that salt. 1 Quote Link to comment
xlzerolx Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 7ml Ca, 3ml Alk, 10 ml Mg (BRS Two Part Hello AJ, Do you have the CA and Alk mixed at different concentrations? I always thought that corals took up calc and alk in a close to 1:1 ratio? I am still dialling in my dosing. After checking the calcium initially and adjusting, I have only tested for alk in order to adjust my dosing of kalk to keep up with day to day consumption. Wanted to know if I had things wrong 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 Hello AJ, Do you have the CA and Alk mixed at different concentrations? I always thought that corals took up calc and alk in a close to 1:1 ratio? I am still dialling in my dosing. After checking the calcium initially and adjusting, I have only tested for alk in order to adjust my dosing of kalk to keep up with day to day consumption. Hey, They could be different as I have since made a fresh batch of ALK Buffer and the CA mix I am using was mixed from my previous build years ago. There is a chance they could be different concentrations, not sure. If anything though Calcium would be a higher concentration if a bit of water evaporated over the years, doubt it though. If this was the case it should be opposite. I am almost out of Calcium mix and will have to make more so that may level things out. I am not sure why this is the case but when I was dosing 7 ml of each the Alk was rising and calcium would stay the same on a week to week basis. 1 Quote Link to comment
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