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[woodyarmadillo]

Psa: this flow is what works for me. I have a ton and could actually use more in a spot or two. It may take a bit for things to get used to it so keep an eye out and perhaps increase daily in Increments. I don't know if that makes a difference but I don't want anyone to "shock" any acros or whatever.

Agreed. And @steveschuerger I am a newbie that has no idea what I’m doing but I’m finally keeping a few Tenuis alive so I’m just excited. Also I was already running the Nero from 30-50% random with 3 spread out hours of pulse mode through the day. I just bumped it up a bit more to 60. That combined with the RFG seems to keep things kind of random and decently strong in my little nano. I’ve also been pointing my Nero at the surface and at 60% the polyps on my Tenuis are not getting completely blasted. Just occasional strong flow from a couple different directions.

 

[billyocean]

Agreed. And @steveschuerger I am a newbie that has no idea what I’m doing but I’m finally keeping a few Tenuis alive so I’m just excited. Also I was already running the Nero from 30-50% random with 3 spread out hours of pulse mode through the day. I just bumped it up a bit more to 60. That combined with the RFG seems to keep things kind of random and decently strong in my little nano. I’ve also been pointing my Nero at the surface and at 60% the polyps on my Tenuis are not getting completely blasted. Just occasional strong flow from a couple different directions.

 

[Thuan]

Agreed. And @steveschuerger I am a newbie that has no idea what I’m doing but I’m finally keeping a few Tenuis alive so I’m just excited. Also I was already running the Nero from 30-50% random with 3 spread out hours of pulse mode through the day. I just bumped it up a bit more to 60. That combined with the RFG seems to keep things kind of random and decently strong in my little nano. I’ve also been pointing my Nero at the surface and at 60% the polyps on my Tenuis are not getting completely blasted. Just occasional strong flow from a couple different directions.

Glad to hear. I also have my gyre and jebao slw-30 pointed upward as well.

 

[billyocean]

Doesn't hurt to have some for surface agitation and some for mid/low level too

 

[robanister]

Just wondering how everyone gets their ph measurements and calibrates. I just bought the seneye and it is way off and needs to be adjusted. Showing drastic readings on senseye. uncalibrated probe in a while ph on Digital aquatics and separate handheld meter. should i calibrate all. then take readings and then adjust the senseye to the midrange or how would you do it.

 

[Kasrift]

Psa: this flow is what works for me. I have a ton and could actually use more in a spot or two. It may take a bit for things to get used to it so keep an eye out and perhaps increase daily in Increments. I don't know if that makes a difference but I don't want anyone to "shock" any acros or whatever.

We chatted about this before and I'm in agreement with you. You need good flow for acros and it needs to be random. @woodyarmadillo for your size tank you could run your Nero lower. I posted my schedule once. To make it indirect, have it run across the top of the tank.

I have a Nero 3 and a very oversized gyre with the Red Sea ReefWave 45 in a 32 gallon for reference for flow.

 

[stoney7713]

Just wondering how everyone gets their ph measurements and calibrates. I just bought the seneye and it is way off and needs to be adjusted. Showing drastic readings on senseye. uncalibrated probe in a while ph on Digital aquatics and separate handheld meter. should i calibrate all. then take readings and then adjust the senseye to the midrange or how would you do it.

I have a cheap pH pen, I use a reference solution to check calibration. I usually have to do a calibration every few uses.

You can't calibrate a test kits, so in theory a digital pH reader would be more accurate in case of testing errors. I do use a test kits occasionally to make sure I'm still on track and cross check.

I also have a Seneye but I don't use it regularly for pH, I've noticed once you adjust it, it holds fairly well for 3 weeks then drifts a few tenths, then 30 days is up. What it does do it helps you to see trends, daily swings.

I like the Seneye as a par meter, it is handy. I've been increasing par lately and as a par meter is invaluable.

It could definitely help when cycling a new tank, monitoring ammonia, but so could a seachem ammonia badge.

 

[AKL1950]

Just wondering how everyone gets their ph measurements and calibrates. I just bought the seneye and it is way off and needs to be adjusted. Showing drastic readings on senseye. uncalibrated probe in a while ph on Digital aquatics and separate handheld meter. should i calibrate all. then take readings and then adjust the senseye to the midrange or how would you do it.

I use trident for continuos monitoring and then test it with a test kit every few weeks. I just use an API test kits. Not real confident in it, but it usually show 0.2-0.3 higher than what trident says, so I just monitor trident and worry if it drops below 7.8.

 

[Thuan]

Just wondering how everyone gets their ph measurements and calibrates. I just bought the seneye and it is way off and needs to be adjusted. Showing drastic readings on senseye. uncalibrated probe in a while ph on Digital aquatics and separate handheld meter. should i calibrate all. then take readings and then adjust the senseye to the midrange or how would you do it.

I use Salifert. I open all my windows when I wake up 5:30am for work. Been measuring my ph every days, and it's consistent at approx about 8.2.

 

[Joe462]

i don't monitor pH

 

[SBB Corals]

Friday parameters

 

[billyocean]

Friday parameters

What tank is what? I know the goni tank is high p04...

 

[ryshark]

Friday parameters

I was just about to ask, which one is the SPS tank

 

[SBB Corals]

What tank is what? I know the goni tank is high p04...

This is all 4 tanks the goni tank po4 is the 240

 

[SBB Corals]

I was just about to ask, which one is the SPS tank

Sps tank is the 540

 

[SBB Corals]

What tank is what? I know the goni tank is high p04...

Ahh the 540 is sps tank

The 600 is torch and mushroom

The 360 is sps

The 240 is the goni/ mushroom

The 360 is high currently on po4 and no3 becouse we emptied of all corals and used the 10 lights on it for the rwp ny show so it was no lights for 4 days. We just put the lights back on

 

[Joe462]

@SBB Corals, If you started selling the frag plugs you use i would buy some. Pretty random but i asked about them a while back. I contacted them and they just asked what company i'm buying for, i responded that i'm a hobbiest and they didn't respond, lol. after looking through their facebook looks like they only sell to vendors/businesses. Keep us in the loop if you start selling some.

 

[SBB Corals]

@SBB Corals, If you started selling the frag plugs you use i would buy some. Pretty random but i asked about them a while back. I contacted them and they just asked what company i'm buying for, i responded that i'm a hobbiest and they didn't respond, lol. after looking through their facebook looks like they only sell to vendors/businesses. Keep us in the loop if you start selling some.

That's a good idea we will try and sell some on our next live sale

 

[steveschuerger]

We chatted about this before and I'm in agreement with you. You need good flow for acros and it needs to be random. @woodyarmadillo for your size tank you could run your Nero lower. I posted my schedule once. To make it indirect, have it run across the top of the tank.

I have a Nero 3 and a very oversized gyre with the Red Sea ReefWave 45 in a 32 gallon for reference for flow.

I have just the Nero 3 and a 326 gph max Mighty Jet for the return pump running at min pulse. Reduced the Nero back down to 45 max . Corals look a bit happier. Yah, I’ve been thinking of aiming at least the return at the surface for a bit more indirect agitation. In case people are curious here’s what I’ve got the ReeFi lights set for now. And a few pics of the corals.

 

[robanister]

I have a cheap pH pen, I use a reference solution to check calibration. I usually have to do a calibration every few uses.

You can't calibrate a test kits, so in theory a digital pH reader would be more accurate in case of testing errors. I do use a test kits occasionally to make sure I'm still on track and cross check.

I also have a Seneye but I don't use it regularly for pH, I've noticed once you adjust it, it holds fairly well for 3 weeks then drifts a few tenths, then 30 days is up. What it does do it helps you to see trends, daily swings.

I like the Seneye as a par meter, it is handy. I've been increasing par lately and as a par meter is invaluable.

It could definitely help when cycling a new tank, monitoring ammonia, but so could a seachem ammonia badge.

Did you have to adjust the ph on seneye on initial use ? Thanks for the drift heads up. does it drift up or down?