Rainbow Monti Question

[BoomCorals]

Have you tried macro algae for lowering nitrates? Is your skimmer collecting skimmate?

 

[Backreefing]

BTW Quinn the Boomberry acropora you sold me 5 months ago has really changed into a pretty peace , like the pics I seen of it . Cool !
Sorry you can have your thread back

 

[Backreefing]

And the rainbow monti you sold me has grown very well. I cut it up and gave a peace away to . It looks great under t5 blue + .

 

[Austin Lee]

Water change is all that can be done immediately.
Years ago at about 9 months my nitrates stabilized on my aquarium. I think the larger the aquarium the longer it takes . But it will happen.

yeah, I've been doing weekly water changes minimum (usually twice weekly). Weird though, I'd think the opposite to be true that a larger tank would stabilize faster since smaller tanks have more fluctuations and faster (especially in the beginning). Mine is a 25g.

 

[Austin Lee]

Rip cleaning your tank may take care of your nitrate issues. I was having the same problem with my rainbow before. Here are a rainbow and electric grape after rip cleaning.

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sorry, i've never heard of that before. What do you mean by rip cleaning?

 

[Austin Lee]

Update: moved the monti to about midway up the tank from the sand bed and with

Have you tried macro algae for lowering nitrates? Is your skimmer collecting skimmate?

not yet. and yes, but it's pretty watery. Just moved the skimmer cup up in hopes of it becoming more solid.

 

[Backreefing]

Larger aquariums take longer to build up oxygen free bacteria in the rocks and gravel that consume nitrates, converting it into nitrogen.
All aquariums are different.

 

[Austin Lee]

BTW Quinn the Boomberry acropora you sold me 5 months ago has really changed into a pretty peace , like the pics I seen of it . Cool !
Sorry you can have your thread back

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hey I am all for seeing awesome coral

 

[Austin Lee]

update: moved the monti midway up the tank into higher par & higher flow and within minutes am seeing slight PE. Here's to hoping tomorrow it'll be back to normal!

 

[Chad Sepulvado]

It’s on the sand bed. It should be higher up.

 

[Mtb_reefer]

sorry, i've never heard of that before. What do you mean by rip cleaning?

There is thread on it somewhere. It’s basically a 100% WC and a deep clean, but with a focus on keeping bacteria and hopefully not going through a secondary cycle.

 

[Sabellafella]

Here’s one from the day after I posted the thread!

Absolutely turns brown in too little light. Turns pale when phosphate is low(or with heavy gfo) my main colony is doing well in 100 maybe less par, frags are very bright including the base gets very blue up over 300 par. Overall pretty darn hardy for me. When you got it, did it loose its color? Or got it in that condition?

 

[Austin Lee]

Absolutely turns brown in too little light. Turns pale when phosphate is low(or with heavy gfo) my main colony is doing well in 100 maybe less par, frags are very bright including the base gets very blue up over 300 par. Overall pretty darn hardy for me. When you got it, did it loose its color? Or got it in that condition?

I've had it since 6/8. It looked pretty good when I got it and honestly right up until last weekend.

 

[Austin Lee]

bumping this because I was actually able to test Phosphate finally today (0.02). If anyone has any idea about if this would have an effect on it I'd appreciate it.