Sancho Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Today is NOT my day, but the tank looks good Total autopilot. All I do is feed the fish, clean the glass every 3 days, and fill the ATO every 8 days. This brain coral Moved it to the shade a while back, no effect. Bought it like this: And within a week it turned like this. Its been all bleached and fat for months now Thanks! Except poor Mr. Brain, who is still as bleached as can be! Its bleached but still alive and looks happy. Some Corals really look good and do well under LEDs some dont. I still think its getting too much light. Try feeding at night. It has feeding tentacles you just havent seen them. Like a lot of LPS they also like kinda dirty water. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Its bleached but still alive and looks happy. Some Corals really look good and do well under LEDs some dont. I still think its getting too much light. Try feeding at night. It has feeding tentacles you just havent seen them. Like a lot of LPS they also like kinda dirty water. Sure I'll try to feed it more. I can't get lighting reduced anymore... The radion is on the lowest intensity its ever been on AND the brain is under a ledge so mostly shadowed Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Alk is 171ppm. That's about 9.2 I think Link to comment
righttirefire Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 What test kit do you use that gives ppm? Red sea is meq/l and dKh Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 What test kit do you use that gives ppm? Red sea is meq/l and dKh I was using Hanna. Gives PPM, and I have a little chart that converts it roughly. I think my last two water changes brought it up- that's good. MikeTR said I should be a bit higher, so that's perfect Link to comment
righttirefire Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Oh... I just tested my tank... parameters are fine. Lol! I'm bringing up my dKh. I mix into my top off water... it's come up .1 a day for a week. But it's still low, but acceptable for running chemipure. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Oh... I just tested my tank... parameters are fine. Lol! I'm bringing up my dKh. I mix into my top off water... it's come up .1 a day for a week. But it's still low, but acceptable for running chemipure. I can't make myself test regularly unfortunately. I just think if something is weird do a water change and it'll be back to normal! I should be raising my Alk supplement though. 12ml daily of each part is given my Ca 500+ and KH 8.2ish Link to comment
Wretched Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Your tank is coming along nicely! Nice job! Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Your tank is coming along nicely! Nice job! Thanks Wretched! I can't wait until I have colonies like you Link to comment
Wretched Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Thanks Wretched! I can't wait until I have colonies like you At the rate you're going, you're looking pretty solid! Link to comment
righttirefire Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I haven't tested in months. But with the 7 new sps I decided to start testing again... my to acros still look terrible. No pe. But look alive still... not bleached, but no pe You can see the pe to the left and front, both montis. The green I believe is a milli. No pe, until 9 hours in the light cycle. But look "good" and the purple tip to the right should look like this Parent colony Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 FYI, multiply alkalinity ppm by 0.056 to get dKH. 171ppm = 9.576dKH Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 FYI, multiply alkalinity ppm by 0.056 to get dKH. 171ppm = 9.576dKH Thanks! Its sort of silly the Hanna Colorimeter doesn't do that for you! It would have been so simple; "Press button again to get measurement in dKH") Link to comment
outerorbiter Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Hey Harry you still running the IM reactor? How were the chemipure blue packs in it? Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 Hey Harry you still running the IM reactor? How were the chemipure blue packs in it? Yessir! Chemipure packs in it work great... My only issue was that I was running both 45g worth of chemipure in the reactor AND 45g worth in the media basket. That was too much and my nutrients dived. But now just running the Nano Packets in the reactor works great Link to comment
outerorbiter Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Ok cool you rather run the chemi pure or do a mix of carbon and gfo. Looks to be the same but mixing my own would be cheaper. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 Ok cool you rather run the chemi pure or do a mix of carbon and gfo. Looks to be the same but mixing my own would be cheaper. I like chemipure blue more because it has all three "big ones" in terms of chemical filteration. Purigen, GFO, & carbon Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 It doesn't have Purigen. Purigen is a Seachem product. Link to comment
outerorbiter Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 It doesn't have Purigen. Purigen is a Seachem product.What all is in it? According to product labels it must have magic dust in it. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 It doesn't have Purigen. Purigen is a Seachem product. Right but its another version of it; a knockoff phosphate absorbing resin. What all is in it? According to product labels it must have magic dust in it. Its Carbon, GFO, and a phosphate absorbing resin. Purigen is a brand of phosphate absorbing resin made by Seachem Link to comment
outerorbiter Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Very familiar with purigen. I used to run it all the time back in the day. Maybe before you existed Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 Very familiar with purigen. I used to run it all the time back in the day. Maybe before you existed Haha probably It doesn't have Purigen. Purigen is a Seachem product. Blue basically has purigen in it. I know its not "Technically" Purigen, but it has a media that does the equivalent. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 What all is in it? According to product labels it must have magic dust in it. I doubt it has changed at all from the carbon/GFO mixture in CPE. It doesn't do anything that Boyd claims it can do, the shit on the description is so far fetched, they may as well also say that it makes your fish literally shit gold. Right but its another version of it; a knockoff phosphate absorbing resin. Its Carbon, GFO, and a phosphate absorbing resin. Purigen is a brand of phosphate absorbing resin made by Seachem Purigen does not adsorb phosphate (it is an adsorption resin, not an absorption resin). It adsorbs select organic molecules to its surface. The 'special' resin inside CPB is an ion exchange resin. It trades one of its ions (which Boyd will not release) for an ion of select organic molecules, therefore it releases something into the water that the manufacturer doesn't want you to know about. You won't catch me using it (or any other Boyd products, either). Link to comment
outerorbiter Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I doubt it has changed at all from the carbon/GFO mixture in CPE. It doesn't do anything that Boyd claims it can do, the shit on the description is so far fetched, they may as well also say that it makes your fish literally shit gold. Purigen does not adsorb phosphate (it is an adsorption resin, not an absorption resin). It adsorbs select organic molecules to its surface. The 'special' resin inside CPB is an ion exchange resin. It trades one of its ions (which Boyd will not release) for an ion of select organic molecules, therefore it releases something into the water that the manufacturer doesn't want you to know about. You won't catch me using it (or any other Boyd products, either). Tell us how you really feel Ben Link to comment
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