TheKleinReef Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 All the new corals from the last order held their color and are growing well. But older corals are in flat out stall mode. No growth, no color changes, nada. 😕 I’ve had a paletta pink tip that’s been the same size for over a year. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 3 tests in all came back 0.0 on the high range kit. either I’m bad at testing this, or this 0.0 is my problem. 1 Quote Link to comment
Orangutran Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 On 11/27/2021 at 3:51 PM, TheKleinReef said: 3 tests in all came back 0.0 on the high range kit. either I’m bad at testing this, or this 0.0 is my problem. Is this nitrates? Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Orangutran said: Is this nitrates? yeah. sorry. I have the hanna ULR phosphate and the hanna high range nitrate kits 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 Myagi color is improving dramatically! now only if my katropora, paletta pink tip, and mille will follow suit. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 haven't tested alk in a few weeks since it was sitting at 8.3-8.5 for 8 weeks..... my alk is currently 6.7 (3 hanna tests and a RS to double check). welp. things are growing. some how have to gradually get it back up remotely since I'm headed to chicago for the holidays. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 quick iphone FTS for yah. december 2021 by roger klein, on Flickr color is improving steadily. still some pale SPS, but my nitrate bottomed out so that's probably why. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 Merry Christmas to myself 😛 3 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 On 11/20/2021 at 3:26 PM, TheKleinReef said: Here’s this stupid algae I can’t shake. Even with 0.06 phosphate 😩 posted another thread elsewhere and god some good insight regarding the nutrient chemistry. i'm starting to think that the po4 and no3 balance is off. I tested nitrate and it measured 0 three times. proceeded to test phosphate and got .15 Phosphate has been measuring around .04-0.06 since October. don't feel like dumping food in, and from what I'm reading KZ stuff won't touch my nitrates. Looking into additives. Quote Link to comment
jservedio Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 My nutrients have been similar to yours with the new tank where my P is good, but rising, and having trouble keeping my N up - mostly because of hair algae on the new rocks and glass. It bottomed out a few times and lost color as well with some of the acros. Thankfully, it rebounds in a week or two after you fix it! I've been dosing NeoNitro through the ATO and keeping my N perfectly stable at 5ppm which is helping keep my P more stable. Hopefully once you get it stable and add some more fish, you can stop dosing all the other stuff! I've been dealing with the same thing from lack of fish and using AB+ to try and make up for it, but it's just not as good as fish poo! Dealing with new tank issues sucks! 1 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 49 minutes ago, jservedio said: My nutrients have been similar to yours with the new tank where my P is good, but rising, and having trouble keeping my N up - mostly because of hair algae on the new rocks and glass. It bottomed out a few times and lost color as well with some of the acros. Thankfully, it rebounds in a week or two after you fix it! I've been dosing NeoNitro through the ATO and keeping my N perfectly stable at 5ppm which is helping keep my P more stable. Hopefully once you get it stable and add some more fish, you can stop dosing all the other stuff! I've been dealing with the same thing from lack of fish and using AB+ to try and make up for it, but it's just not as good as fish poo! Dealing with new tank issues sucks! I don’t think I’ll add many more fish, I just don’t have the aqua scape that would allow for more fish. Maybe a sand sifting goby. I whole heartedly believe in a few of the KZ products, but they might be geared toward one specific thing that it’s not helping my problem. I ordered some b-ionic nitrate to try. I could up my AB+ too. I cut back thinking it was fueling the algae but now that I think about it, once I reduced the dose the algae got worse. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 We have detectable nitrate!!!! nitrate: 0.1ppm phosphate: 0.05ppm alk: 6.2dkh Still yikes but I couldn’t do anything while i was on vacation, just glad it’s stable. Now I can slowly get that back up to 8.5 where it was since august 😅 ca: 440ppm looks like I got the feeding regimen down. I’m also not gonna change the filter socks as often, gonna let those dirty up a little more. taking pics rn. Standby 3 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 1, 2022 Author Share Posted January 1, 2022 Will do macro shots later. Too lazy 3 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 I'm thinking about changing my lights. Not a fan of the radions. I thought I would be, but wow that discoball effect it gnarly and I can't find diffusers anywhere. Might go back to T5. Here's the flickr like for a higher res picture. january FTS by roger klein, on Flickr I mounted the SPS frags and siphoned out a lot of the alage, so I need to take another one. Also got a lot of macro shots I need to edit and post. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 Mounted the frags. 🙂 5 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 Thought I’d throw this pic up. The texture on torch corals is so cool. 3 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 Macro shots, (click on link to see full res) Green slimer: January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr Jason Fox Barney: January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr The King Purple Bonsai: January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr WWC Yellow Tip Tort: January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr Red Dragon: January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr Dragon Soul Torch: January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr TSA Blue Slimer (Staghorn): January 2022 by roger klein, on Flickr Most of these shots were shot at high ISO, high SS. I need to take some time and do true maco/focus stacking. I'm just very lazy. 5 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 PE has dramatically improved. Since I noticed the decreased PE I've made these changes: 1. 3 rounds of interceptor treatment to eradicate redbugs one week apart 2. fine tuned KZ additives to 3x a week 3. dropped acropower for KZ's aminos 4. added phyto to the dosing regimen 2x a week 5. purchased hanna HR nitrate checker, added nitrate additive to dosing regimen as well. Hard to say what the big factors were. My gut says the interceptor, nitrate, and phyto have made the biggest impact. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 Watching this bonsai go from v ticked to almost happy has been a rewarding couple months! first pic is 11/2021 second is 1/2022 excited to see this in another month 6 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 Ugh. I’m bad at keeping nitrates. nitrates back at 0ppm phosphate is at .05 alk: 8.6 ca: 440 mg: 1350 pH: 7.8-8.0 depending on time SG: 1.026 im gonna put the nitrate additive on a doser. dumping in food goes against my soul. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 I'm gonna have to frag the slimer, it's like 1/8" away from the katropora. the bases are like an inch apart too. I thought that would be enough to allow for encrustation, but..... nope. sighh 2 Quote Link to comment
Squid_reef Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Amazing shots 👌 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 looking for some classics: hawkins echinata a. suhuarsonoi a. abrotanoides palmers blue millepora northern lights granulosa lokani turaki anyone have some i can buy/trade? or know someone who is selling. some are gonna be easy to find (hawkins, palmers, but the others aren't so common). I also added chapters to the first post, crazy how little i did to this tank after setting it up the way I wanted. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, TheKleinReef said: looking for some classics: hawkins echinata a. suhuarsonoi a. abrotanoides palmers blue millepora northern lights granulosa lokani turaki anyone have some i can buy/trade? or know someone who is selling. some are gonna be easy to find (hawkins, palmers, but the others aren't so common). I also added chapters to the first post, crazy how little i did to this tank after setting it up the way I wanted. I just shot over your list to my buddy farmerty to see if he can fill some of the list. He's currently in love with smooth-skin acros, smoothies as they're affectionately called, and has plenty of varieties. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Nitrate is now on a doser. starting at 2mL per day just to see what that does. Won’t likely do much in 80g but I’m gonna play this tuning game slow. Week by week until I find the amount that can keep my tank between 5-10. also picked up a small tunze nano stream for the skimmer section as the detritus down there was getting bad. Will likely get another for the return pump section. I was debating on using a line from the manifold do do this job but this seems more logical. Quote Link to comment
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