jedimasterben Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Could have sworn it was the 200A for some reason. 1 Quote Link to comment
picoreef78 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Looking good!! Anything wrong with the stock Cacdlights PLS 100? That is one big mother of a foam fractionator. Did you get the 18 gallon sump? Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Looking good!! Anything wrong with the stock Cacdlights PLS 100? That is one big mother of a foam fractionator. Did you get the 18 gallon sump? The sump is 18G I think, it's custom dimensions but about what they provide anyway. I had them put custom baffles too. I am only familiar with the Elite skimmer CAD offers, it didn't work on my tank, but then it needed a longer break in period. The person who has it now says it works well for them. Dingbat decided to come out of his cave 4 Quote Link to comment
picoreef78 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I kept the PLS 100, work well most of the tim. (sometimes it decides to just bubble up water) and keeps my levels at 0. Though getting some Cyano and Bubble, but I left the Bio pellet factor off when I was moving some the the plugs around in the back to clean up. Love the crab! 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 RAWR NY Red Bulls vs NYCFC Die suckers!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Well that was a crazy game. 1 Quote Link to comment
picoreef78 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I really miss my days in the city 1 Quote Link to comment
MikeTR Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 ooh wee no frag tree.. nice shots of the tank pretty lady.. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 ooh wee no frag tree.. nice shots of the tank pretty lady.. I need to make a tank video I also need to go to a club now. Get me some dancing. It's been too effin long. Quote Link to comment
BluCrab Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 RAWR NY Red Bulls vs NYCFC Die suckers!!!! 1st ever Hudson River Derby Oi Oi Oi !!! Give it a few years and it'll be even bigger and better. Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 1st ever Hudson River Derby Oi Oi Oi !!! Give it a few years and it'll be even bigger and better. people almost got into fist fights. NYCFC had a whole 1500 people parade/contingent. Hooligans. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 The Katropora So these cellphone pictures represent the sum total of all the Kat coral in my tank. You can argue that I have plenty to frag given the waitlist for this critter but I've never liked to frag the Kat to begin with and I'm hesitant to start till I have at least double this much coral with me. The biggest piece, below, was my grow-out colony and was doing fine until a few weeks ago when it started browning out. I thought it was phosphates or low light. Parts of it were still green but the tips had started to get turd. Markalot suggested an inspection and to my horror I found Flatworms. The reef Gods gave me a break however when it appeared that they were just the stupid FW that smother corals, NOT AEFW. Thank you thank you thank you Reef Gods. No bite marks, just unhappy smothered tips. Several dips and inspections later (which totally stress out the coral BTW) the colony is coloring back up nicely. Tips getting back to colorful, and this pic shows their structure too And just when things looks smooth, my test results today have been stupid. I started seeing burnt tips on the Kittiyagi so Alk tested high. I also discovered schmutz in my red sea nitrate test kit which could explain my crazy nitrate readings. I emailed Red Sea about it. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Cal 250 Alk 12.3 Mag 1000 Nitrate 3.5 Phos 0.16 Alright, LFS tested my water with Red Sea kits. Calcium 350 Alk 9 Magnesium 1120 Nitrate 20 Phosphate 0 ph 8.2 Errbady's been harping on me for parameters. This is for you harpies. Tests are wacky. ALK Red Sea Alk 7.6 New Red Sea kit Alk 6.4 CALCIUM Red Sea Cal 370 New Red Sea kit 420 MAGNESIUM Red Sea Mag 1000 (did test twice second time 1040) New Red Sea kit 1120 Salifert Mag 1470 PHOS Salifert Phosphate between 0.03 and 0.10 Red Sea phosphate 0.36 NITRATE Salifert Nitrate between 5 and 10 Red Sea Nitrate 2ppm Quote Link to comment
Veng Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 So these cellphone pictures represent the sum total of all the Kat coral in my tank. You can argue that I have plenty to frag given the waitlist for this critter but I've never liked to frag the Kat to begin with and I'm hesitant to start till I have at least double this much coral with me. The longer you go without fragging it, the more supply there will be in the long run. Larger coral colonies produce more frags in a month than a smaller colony. Let it grow and grow and then when you don't know what to do with it anymore, then start to frag again. 5 Quote Link to comment
Arce Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Blog - I have free time starting this weekend. Jus sayins. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Blog - I have free time starting this weekend. Jus sayins. Let's do it! Quote Link to comment
Arce Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Let's do it! To the google Docs! 1 Quote Link to comment
BluCrab Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 people almost got into fist fights. NYCFC had a whole 1500 people parade/contingent. Hooligans. I have a nice little scar on my hair line from the Tejano Classico (FC DULLASS vs Houston DYNAMO) match when a white lilly bastard threw a bottle at us as we marched out of their stadium with a win and popped off ORange smoke in their house.. We tend to out # their Holligans 5 to 1 when we invade their pitch back in the good old days.. 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 USTILLBUTTHURT? To the google Docs! INOCEEYOODERE Quote Link to comment
Arce Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 INOCEEYOODERE Wasnt srs. Lol. Be right on. Quote Link to comment
markalot Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Cal 250 Alk 12.3 Mag 1000 Nitrate 3.5 Phos 0.16 How in the world did params get that far out of whack.? 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 don't worry about fragging the Kat, when i head home i can make a few. The colony i have has nearly tripled in size since you sold it to me. Let yours recover, babe 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 How in the world did params get that far out of whack.? Calcium container was empty. ALK seems to be a 2 fold problem, the doser was set to high, but also the new solution I made is good. I find that over time the alk settles on the bottom of my containers or precipitates or something, so it seems like towards the end of the solution, it becomes weaker. So when I test it shows lower alk, so I increase dosing time, then when i put in new solution, the increased dosing time with new solution gave the higher alk. Mag has been at 1000 for a bit. Nitrate and Phosphate are in flux. I don't know why. Phosphate can be explained with me taking GFO offline when it tested 0 at the LFS. Plus I dosed phosphate to get it back up. 1 Quote Link to comment
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