Kayman's Reefer 250

[Poodges]

On 1/16/2022 at 7:00 PM, Kayman said:

Video of the new wrasse. 

 

https://youtu.be/Mx2eG-AmqdI

 

 

Nice wrasse.  They are peaceful, pretty and useful in a reef tank.  Great choice.  Just beware when adding more CUC; they will go hard after free falling hermits and snails.

[Kayman]

1 hour ago, Poodges said:

Nice wrasse.  They are peaceful, pretty and useful in a reef tank.  Great choice.  Just beware when adding more CUC; they will go hard after free falling hermits and snails.

Thanks! Yeah I used to have a Six-Line in my old tank and he did the same thing when adding smaller snails. Eventually gave him away to someone with a much larger system. I was close to picking up a cleaner shrimp at the same time as the urchin but they all looked too small so decided against it. 

[Kayman]

Nothing new to report. My two acros still aren't showing any real polyp extentsion but all my parameters have been pretty steady. My alk has moved between 8.1 and 8.3 for the last 2 weeks so hopefully they perk up a bit soon.

 

My parents came over for dinner yesterday and my dad took this nice picture of the tank. Hope you all had a nice weekend!

 

[Kayman]

Well my tank survived a week long vacation with really no issue thankfully. My two acros don't seem to be doing well and are pretty pale/bleached so might just move on from that idea and go more softies. My parameters seem to hold steady but I am struggling to get nitrates up so I've really upped my feeding as of late.

 

A picture of the not so happy acros.

 

After vacation I also picked up 2 baby clowns and a nice rock of hairy mushrooms with a cool tunicate on it. I also got a freak hair pavona coral. So far this week the tank has been looking really good overall.

 

[Kayman]

Picked up an ICP test and was doing all my tests today to compare to what their results are. I guess at some point in the last few days my dosing pump had come unplugged and so my alk was down to 6.7 so that's not going to help the acros!

 

Going to wait to send the ICP test in now until I get my levels back to normal on my tests. It's always something....

[Kayman]

Got my levels back in order now and so sending out the ICP test tomorrow. I also picked up some NeoNitro and NeoPhos to try and bump levels up a bit, mostly nitrate.

 

Here are today's measurements, we shall see how they compare to the ICP. Happy with everything other than nitrates.

 

Salinity: 1.026

Temp: 78.3

Nitrates: .02 (basically 0)

Phosphate: .05 

Alk: 7.3

Calcium: 410

Magnesium: 1410

 

Also I have problems...

 

New orange lepto (i think) 

 

The room

 

FTS 3/4

[Kayman]

Got my ICP test results back. Not 100% sure how to read them but seems like my Alk, Salinity, Nitrate and Phosphate are all lower than I thought if I am reading this correctly. Anyone have any recommendations?  

 

93%93%

Major elements93/100

 

Minor elements97/100

 

Pollutants100/100

 

Base elements100/100

 

---

Show 102550100 entries

Search:

Symbol	Value	Calculated reference value	Difference	Result	Actions
Base elements
Salinity	33.68 PSU	35.00 PSU	-1.32 PSU		View
Carbonate hardness	6.64 °dKH	7.50 °dKH	-0.86 °dKH		View
Major elements
Chloride	19203 mg/l	18899 mg/l	+303.8 mg/l		View
Sodium	10331 mg/l	10499 mg/l	-168.8 mg/l		View
Magnesium	1399 mg/l	1255 mg/l	+144.1 mg/l		View
Sulfur	859.4 mg/l	878.1 mg/l	-18.71 mg/l		View
Calcium	442.4 mg/l	401.8 mg/l	+40.55 mg/l		View
Potassium	378.3 mg/l	389.4 mg/l	-11.09 mg/l		View
Bromine	92.22 mg/l	63.95 mg/l	+28.27 mg/l		View
Strontium	9.76 mg/l	7.64 mg/l	+2.13 mg/l		View
Boron	5.23 mg/l	4.20 mg/l	+1.03 mg/l		View
Fluorine	0.89 mg/l	1.24 mg/l	-0.35 mg/l		View
Minor elements
Lithium	424.6 µg/l	162.3 µg/l	+262.3 µg/l		View
Silicon	158.9 µg/l	95.45 µg/l	+63.49 µg/l		View
Iodine	44.04 µg/l	62.04 µg/l	-18.00 µg/l		View
Barium	10.22 µg/l	9.54 µg/l	+0.68 µg/l		View
Molybdenum	3.41 µg/l	11.45 µg/l	-8.04 µg/l		View
Nickel	0.76 µg/l	0.48 µg/l	+0.28 µg/l		View
Manganese	u.	0.95 µg/l	-0.95 µg/l		View
Arsenic	u.	1.43 µg/l	-1.43 µg/l		View
Beryllium	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Chrome	u.	0.48 µg/l	-0.48 µg/l		View
Cobalt	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Iron	u.	0.48 µg/l	-0.48 µg/l		View
Copper	2.52 µg/l	0.48 µg/l	+2.05 µg/l		View
Selenium	u.	0.48 µg/l	-0.48 µg/l		View
Silver	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Vanadium	0.94 µg/l	1.43 µg/l	-0.49 µg/l		View
Zinc	4.55 µg/l	1.91 µg/l	+2.64 µg/l		View
Tin	2.22 µg/l	0.48 µg/l	+1.74 µg/l		View
Nutrients
Nitrate	0.87 mg/l	2.00 mg/l	-1.13 mg/l		View
Phosphorus	0.95 µg/l	14.32 µg/l	-13.37 µg/l		View
Phosphate	0 mg/l	0.04 mg/l	-0.04 mg/l		View
Pollutants
Aluminium	12.61 µg/l	0.10 µg/l	+12.51 µg/l		View
Antimony	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Bismuth	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Lead	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Cadmium	u.	0.19 µg/l	-0.19 µg/l		View
Lanthanum	u.	0 µg/l	+0 µg/l		View
Thallium	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Titanium	u.	0.10 µg/l	-0.10 µg/l		View
Tungsten	u.	0 µg/l	+0 µg/l		View
Mercury	u.	0 µg/l	+0 µg/l		View

[Kayman]

Anyone else's rock flowers seem to always looking like they are about to prolapse? Ha mine seem healthy, don't move, open up plenty but always look like this.

 

I also won this octo over the weekend in an auction. My LFS does biweekly auctions and I don't think this is going to be good for my wallet...

 

 

[Kayman]

I feel like I've been doing too many things to the tank lately. I'm now dosing phosphates, nitrates, aminos, red sea AB+, and red sea trace elements. All these are pretty new in the last 2 months so I have decided to kind of ignore the tank for a bit. I did a waterchange on Sunday and am planning on not really touching anything until the end of April. Hopefully this will help corals settle in and start looking a bit better. We shall see!

 

[Kayman]

Welp I failed my plan...

 

While drinking some wine with the wife I saw my local shop had a nice blue Alveopora which I had been looking to try since Gonipora has failed in the last. Next thing I know I bought it online and the next day went to pick it up. While there of course I also bought a lobo and a feather deaster...doh!

 

The lobo sadly has looked like shit and like it's not going to make it for some reason, maybe too much shipping stress lately 🤷‍♂️

 

My acros have started coloring back up from being almost totally white too so that's some good news!