☆☆ - Spring Grow-Out Class 3 - The Points & Says WOW Nice Efflo Picture Entries - ☆☆

[Outlaw Corals]

June photo, no progress, been dealing with high nitrate the past few weeks i had a few pieces brown out on me including the Efflo, finally got the nitrates back down and I’m starting to see some pieces coloring back up already, just wants to get them a little bit lower and start using Bacto Balance to keep my nutrients stable

Phosphates 0.5
Nitrates 25
Alk 8.6
Cal 470
Mag 1440
Ph 8.4
Salinity 1.025.5
Temp 75.8

 

[SEPDXReef]

June! @Reefing102 @Jasonak@Troylee and @Mschmidt

 

[Miami Reef]

@Reefing102 @Jasonak @Troylee and @Mschmidt

June

 

[GaultBrew]

June pics. @Reefing102,@Jasonak,@Troylee,@Mschmidt

 

[Ghostbuster]

June submission. @Reefing102 @Jasonak @Mschmidt @Troylee

Looking healthy; left side is healing nicely

 

[Reefer Matt]

How about creating a hashtag for the judges to follow, rather than tagging four people everytime. They’d still get a notification, but it’d be easier for us to post, imo.

 

[bbak]

June entry @Reefing102 @Troylee @Jasonak @Mschmidt

 

[Redfoxtang]

@Reefing102 @Jasonak @Mschmidt @Troylee

Not much going on with this one

 

[JayM]

How about creating a hashtag for the judges to follow, rather than tagging four people everytime. They’d still get a notification, but it’d be easier for us to post, imo.

Agreed.
Hashtag “Efflo Grow Out”?

 

[dewy]

@Reefing102 @Jasonak @Mschmidt @Troylee

 

[Mr4000]

June @Reefing102 @Jasonak @Troylee and @Mschmidt

 

[Reefing102]

June
@Reefing102 @Mschmidt @Troylee @Jasonak

Decent encrusting underneath.

 

[Minifoot77]

@Reefing102 @Mschmidt @Jasonak @Troylee
I didn't run parameters this weekend.. june entry

 

[Justdrew]

Here my missed June entry in the just for fun category.
@Mschmidt @Troylee @Jasonak @Reefing102

 

[Minifoot77]

Here my missed June entry in the just for fun category.
@Mschmidt @Troylee @Jasonak @Reefing102

Where did those tiles come from?

 

[Justdrew]

Where did those tiles come from?

The large one the efflo is on is a travertine tile from Lowe's. 3"x6" cut in half. The others are on 2x2 from Amazon.

Breakable Coral Frag Tile 4inch 10pcs with Free Aquarium Glue White frag Rack Plugs​

Amazon.com

 

[Mschmidt]

Here my missed June entry in the just for fun category.
@Mschmidt @Troylee @Jasonak @Reefing102

In For July though.

 

[Outlaw Corals]

So I guess I am the first to officially throw in the towel, I was hoping to at least make it halfway through for my first time in a contest, good luck guys I guess I’ll be watching from the sideline

 

[Mschmidt]

So I guess I am the first to officially throw in the towel, I was hoping to at least make it halfway through for my first time in a contest, good luck guys I guess I’ll be watching from the sideline

Can you frag or glue over the necrosis?

 

[SaltyArms]

So I guess I am the first to officially throw in the towel, I was hoping to at least make it halfway through for my first time in a contest, good luck guys I guess I’ll be watching from the sideline

I’m hoping to avoid this myself. My efflo has browned out badly and I’ve lost a lot of my mini colonies and frags… I finally figured out what was going on…

I started running a mastertronic for PO4 and NO3 testing about 6 weeks ago and when I switched over my numbers were in line with what I’d been getting with my Hanna meters. PO4 was around .13-.15 and NO3 was low in like the 2-3 area… so I started dosing some nitrate to try and bring them up a bit. Over the last while, PO4 has been rock solid at .15-.16… cool…

I went on vacation end of last month, tuned up the auto feeder and mixed up some benepets, pellets, reef jerky, etc into it trying to give some variety since I wouldn’t be here to do frozen/coral foods and if PO4 started to climb Id turn down the Plank via my apex.

The whole time we were gone PO4 was pegged at .15-.16 which was perfect… stoked. I get back, and things weren’t going as well as they seemed. Lost some mini colonies and several different nicer acro frags. To boot, a lot of pieces are super brown and/or STNing from the bottom up. I start investigating and couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Thought maybe it was a response to me not dosing my moonshine dailies or feeding coral normally… and the. I pulled out my trusty Hanna testers.

PO4 at 1.07 and NO3 at 25. Mastertronic is still reading .15-.16. and 5ish respectively. Found the problem.

I was looking for answers last night and think I found the PO4 testing problem. Redsea Pro PO4 kit tops out at .16 resolution… so… it was just higher than the test can resolve and the Mastertronic couldn’t tell.

Still looking for answers on the NO3 discrepancy.

Meanwhile I’ve lost probably 20 frags and 4-5 mini colonies that were 8ish months of growth. Probably 10 of the frags are from Adam where my mom got me a gift card for Christmas and that turned into a killer battle box. It also cost me a JF solar flare colony that I’d nursed back to health and a TCK lemoncake colony that was my first successful acro. So I’m really not pleased with myself.

Anyways…my efflo is a big ball of brown right now. Hopefully yall are all faring better and had a great 4th!