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It’s that time again…. Testing time! I did a full 15g water change last night and I wanted to get full parameters documented for a 7 day test on my all for reef consumption. I have been having alkalinity consumed faster than calcium so I want to see exactly how much it’s dropping on my current dosing schedule. I should have a good idea by day 3 or 4.
Tonights test results are,
Sg -1.026
Ph -8.15
Po4 -.08
No3 -8.3
Alk- 8.4
Mag-1380
Cal-440
 
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And some coral to drool over
Neon green willow toadstool
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Ora long polyp toadstool
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Ora neon green toadstool
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Space invader chalice, JF twin spot psammicora and Halloween leptastrea
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Meteor shower cyphastrea, green turbinaria, orange richordea and red acans
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Stylophoras and neon green capanella
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Neon green and purple frogspawn
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Lots of platygyra
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Not quite sure about this one
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Pectinia
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Ora Joe the coral
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Neon green milli and qcc dark side milli
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Qcc Lazarus acro
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Random green acro in front and Bali green slimmer in back
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Cali tort
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Random teal and blue tenius
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Garf bonsai
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Rr Nauru spiral Monti with Ora yellow tip staghorn and qcc Lazarus acro
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And last but not least, wwc purple monster zoa
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Yesterday I went to the LFS to get a clown for the thunder dome and the manager gave me four more neon green capnella frags. Since I have a big one already I was hoping I could pass a couple of these along to fellow reefers in the area. First picture is my colony, second is the sweeeet little frags
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Also, today was test day. I think I finally get my all stabalized. Had to bump up my daily All for reef dose to 14/ml a day.
Sg 1.026
Ph 8.15
Po4 .05
No3 7.1
Alk 8.1
Mag 1380
Cal 440
 
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Tonight I added a ecotech versa to the system for top off water. The plan is to get it dialed in to where I only have to manually add every once in a while. Eventually I want to use this setup for kalkwasser, but for now I’ll just get to know it for a little while and get used to how it works. I put a 1/4” Murdock bulkhead in the screw on lid of a 5g hedpak jug with a piece of rigid acrylic tubing that I can easily swap from jug to jug as needed.
 
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My capnella decided to throw a “bud” off today. I found this weird looking ball floating around. Luckily I caught it and put it in the bin with the rest of the capnella babies. You can see the stump where it budded from.
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FTS
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And my top off jug hooked up to a versa. I’m planning on putting my all for reef in the closet on a versa as well. The kamoer f1 that’s already hooked up will be connected to a 1000ml bottle of acropower now. I’m going to give it a try instead of the brightwells coral amino that I have been using.
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Tonight’s water parameters:
Sg 1.025
Ph 8.15
Po4 .07
No3 8.1
Alk 8.1
Mag 1400
Cal 440
 

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I also purchased this backup batter unit that also doubles as an emergency UPS with a 10 millisecond switch over time. With their calculations, it should run my 6.3 watt gen 3 korallia power head for 73 hours. I keep it set at a height in the tank that when the power goes out and the display drains down to the sump the korallia will randomly suck air therefor providing circulation And oxygenation. I got a steal on the ups unit, amazon has a $100 off Cupon going so it was $260.
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June update! I have since added a second versa to dose my All for reef. I installed both pumps on the back side of my closet door which is right beside the tank.
I also have switched from bright well coral amino to acro power which I now have hooked up to the kamoer f1. I’m up to 18ml daily on the AFR and I’m dosing acropower 12 ml twice a week. So far things seem to be liking the stability the versas doing the topping off and AFR. Still undecided on the acropower, I have noticed a little better polyp extension and better color.
Water parameters
Sg 1.026
Ph 8.2
Po4 .12
No3 12.2
Alk 8.3
Mag 1440
Cal 430
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6-16 tank update! , Last week phosphates hit .15! I know most would enjoy that level but it was a tiny touch high for my liking and the tank wasn’t the most vibrant. So after added high capacity GFO from BRS to my carbon reactor at about a 10-15% ratio. After one week my parameters are as follows.
Sg 1.026
Ph 8.2
Po4 .11
No3 10.2
Alk 8.2 mag 1350
Cal 440
I also traded in a few nuclear green capnellia frags, a Hollywood stunner colony and some other random stuff to a LFS
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that scored me enough credit to get this sweet little WWC Jell-O shot acro
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This PC Rainbow frag
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And this pink chalice frag
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Tank update! I have moved a few things around and have begun running small amounts of the BRS high capacity GFO in my filter sock. I would like to keep my phosphates in check right where they are.
Tonight’s water parameters
Sg 1.025
Ph 8.2
Po4 .15
No3 15.7
Alk 8.1
Mag 1350
Cal 450
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