TheKleinReef Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Orangutran said: I feel your frustration with the PE! I have tried SPS for years on and off, but like you said, they don't come out after a few days. Having said that, I got a few frags 3 weeks ago, and they are still out! 🙂 Although I probably just jinxed myself!!! If it matters, I alternate doses of Reef Roids, AB+, and Brightwell amino. oh yeah! i have brightwell aminos too on and off. that did work the first few doses, then PE went away after a few days again. I wonder if my potter's angel is nipping? but even before i had the fish i didn't have PE. Quote Link to comment
Orangutran Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 On 8/25/2021 at 1:28 PM, TheKleinReef said: oh yeah! i have brightwell aminos too on and off. that did work the first few doses, then PE went away after a few days again. I wonder if my potter's angel is nipping? but even before i had the fish i didn't have PE. Yeah, probably not the potters, when I had one, it would just eat algae all day! BTW, in the last few days you're the second person I met on NR that has a potters! I hope they are able to captive breed them one day! My favourite fish! Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 Anyone have a good guide to interceptor treatment. 100% sure I got the red bugs from fishofhex. No wonder the prices were good. Sigh. Dipped the colonies that were covered in red bugs but I want them gone. Quote Link to comment
Orangutran Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 On 9/18/2021 at 5:44 PM, TheKleinReef said: Anyone have a good guide to interceptor treatment. 100% sure I got the red bugs from fishofhex. No wonder the prices were good. Sigh. Dipped the colonies that were covered in red bugs but I want them gone. No way-- Sorry to hear! I had a valida frag that had no PE, and I found red bugs on it! I did a quick search on treatment, and it was just too much work so I chucked the frag in the hopes it didn't spread. Good luck with your colonies! Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 Does anyone have a pill or two of interceptor I can snag from ya? Vet wouldn’t give me it 😞 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 On 9/21/2021 at 5:40 PM, TheKleinReef said: Does anyone have a pill or two of interceptor I can snag from ya? Vet wouldn’t give me it 😞 Bumperino Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Vet prescribed interceptor! Redbugs about to gtfo! 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 Radion question. what’s the difference between the schedule intensity and the point intensity? scheudle intensity is currently at like 45% but when I hover over a point it says 20%. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 august fts by roger klein, on Flickr i should take an updated one.... lol 3 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 Few updates. Picked up a Hanna checker for phosphate. Got the ULR one. Tested four times and got (0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.9). Not quite sure what I’m doing wrong. I’m gonna assume it’s the 1.0 because I actually have some algae and the sps look a little drab. Only gripe I have with this checker is powder should never be in a packet. Too hard to make sure it’s all in there. But maybe I just need to get more familiar. also picked up TM Elima-Phos Rapid (LaCl) to knock the phosphate down a bit. I dosed 1mL for the roughly 90g system I have. I’ll check later today to see what the new phosphate reading is. did my second dose of interceptor last night as well and woke up to do a 15g water change and swap out the carbon. I haven’t seen redbugs since the first dose, but I’m not sure about the life cycle of the redbugs so 3 treatments it is just to make sure. I have enough for 4 though. I’ll take some pics at lunch! 3 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 1mL of TM ElimaPhos dropped phosphate from ~1.0 to ~0.05. A bigger drop then recommended, but it didn't seem to stress anything out. I added another 0.5mL to see If I can get the phosphates to 0.02. I'm still having trouble with some of the SPS looking a little drab, a few seem to be in a stagnant state entirely (paletta pink tip, pink lemonade, and one i forgot the name of), they encrusted then never really grew any more. I also wasn't paying attention to the Hanna Salinity probe calibration and it drifted quite far. After I calibrated it again, my tank tested at 1.023. oops Hopefully now I can get things back on track. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 dose 3 of interceptor is today. have a bunch of corals from my buddy in illinois coming on tuesday. (rainbow welso, dragon soul troch, new york nicks torch, hammer, frogspawn, and some zoas he wants to get rid of). super excited to have some LPS again. Tank needs some movement. will test phosphate again today. I have pics, but haven't offloaded them from the z6. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 Hallo. New corals came in today and omg. a dragon soul torch under TSA's blue program is nutty. I was thinking about going back to AB+ but now I don't want to switch programs. Secondary question: I have a Tunze Osmolator ATO and it works fine for a few weeks, but every once in a while it won't detect the water level. It makes the piece of mind of an ATO non existent. I did notice when the water level is below the sensor, the lights on the controller are blinking green. I'll use my fingers to wipe the sensor down and then the buttons turn orange and the pump kicks on. It'll reach the sensor then the light holds a solid green.... It's annoying for how expensive this thing is. Any input on why this is happening? Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 2 hours ago, TheKleinReef said: Hallo. New corals came in today and omg. a dragon soul torch under TSA's blue program is nutty. I was thinking about going back to AB+ but now I don't want to switch programs. Secondary question: I have a Tunze Osmolator ATO and it works fine for a few weeks, but every once in a while it won't detect the water level. It makes the piece of mind of an ATO non existent. I did notice when the water level is below the sensor, the lights on the controller are blinking green. I'll use my fingers to wipe the sensor down and then the buttons turn orange and the pump kicks on. It'll reach the sensor then the light holds a solid green.... It's annoying for how expensive this thing is. Any input on why this is happening? Let’s see the torch! no idea on the ato, sorry, I only had their float switch version. It worked for almost a decade before it died. But now moved to xpaqua dual optical one. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 I’m gonna let them settle a bit but this is 4 hours after adding them. Will mount them today. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 Quick lunch time iPhone shots. Camera is charging. Need to get some cool pics of these new lps especially that brain. omg that picture compression quality nerf lol 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Best way to upload high quality images? I used to use Flickr but that didn’t seem to work as it used to. Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 14 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: Best way to upload high quality images? I used to use Flickr but that didn’t seem to work as it used to. I used to use Flickr, but haven't been using it for a long time now. that's a good question, maybe @Christopher Marks will be able to provide a few services that N-R can link to for photos. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 4 hours ago, mitten_reef said: I used to use Flickr, but haven't been using it for a long time now. that's a good question, maybe @Christopher Marks will be able to provide a few services that N-R can link to for photos. PS. that kat you gave me is very pale and brown. 😞 Trying to figure out why. I have some macro pics to upload here I have a sit to upload to and link from. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 fts 11/2/21 by roger klein, on Flickr Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 dragon soul by roger klein, on Flickr melanarus by roger klein, on Flickr YEKT by roger klein, on Flickr ORA skyline granulosa by roger klein, on Flickr spongodes by roger klein, on Flickr WWC yellowtip by roger klein, on Flickr JF Barney by roger klein, on Flickr Garf Bonsai by roger klein, on Flickr brown katropora by roger klein, on Flickr big sad this is brown. it came so colorful 😞 green slimer by roger klein, on Flickr blue stag by roger klein, on Flickr toxic green hammer by roger klein, on Flickr trach by roger klein, on Flickr trach by roger klein, on Flickr 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Phosphate is 0.07 alk 8.3 ca 440 mg 1280 SG: 1.026 pH: 8.4 why my color poopoo. Phosphate maybe? haven’t put gfo back in since I did the interceptor 3rd dose last week. Maybe I should do that. Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 31 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: Phosphate is 0.07 alk 8.3 ca 440 mg 1280 SG: 1.026 pH: 8.4 why my color poopoo. Phosphate maybe? haven’t put gfo back in since I did the interceptor 3rd dose last week. Maybe I should do that. What’s nitrate like? I think @markalot used to mention the Katropora likes high nitrate. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 1 hour ago, mitten_reef said: What’s nitrate like? I think @markalot used to mention the Katropora likes high nitrate. No clue. I’ve never owned a nitrate kit 😅 but I dump so much coral food and KZ stuff in there it can’t be that low. Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 17 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: No clue. I’ve never owned a nitrate kit 😅 but I dump so much coral food and KZ stuff in there it can’t be that low. How often do you have to scrape glass? This is a very poor “test”, due to ppl varying tolerance for less-than-clear glass. But when I’m low on nutrients, I can go for over a week or even 2-3 before truly needing to scrape. But if the water has higher nutrients load, every 2-3 days I’ll be at the scraping point. And most ppl I talk to with colorful acros, they tend to scrape dirty glass often, think 1-3 intervals. Quote Link to comment
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