BBMarlin

What's been happening?

The nuisance algae we get in our tanks make huge amounts of DOC compounds that are detrimental to corals. You need to physically get the algae out of your tank. Once you do it shouldn't take long for your corals to bounce back.

I think I let a few colonies get too big for my 80G tank, had an ALK spike in the summer and lost a couple of those colonies. Ever since then it’s been a struggle to get things to stabilize even though my parameters are stable, STN across the board on all coral compounding the problem. Last ditch effort are 30-40% weekly water changes, which looks like might be helping…we’ll see.

Cool thanks

I contacted them and within 1 minute they emailed back, they are indeed plusrite!

thanks! I made the mistake of ordering a "Coral Blue 20000K" off ebay and the bulb is GREEN.

Well it has been running below 5 for the longest until I finally tested. I've been bringing it up over the last 2 mos. Had a couple of spikes maybe to 8 during this time while I have tuned my dosing schedule. I do carbon dose via biopellets, I'm wondering if my sweet spot is like 6? Anyone else running biopellets run low alk?

for the burned tips you can use lugal solution(iodine) and it will help your sps

Interesting. I can't remove the coral, are you saying to treat the tank?

mine went haywire due to a battery falling into the tank... -most- of my corals survived, but the GSP died along with the Xenia... Oddly, I cant seem to get rid of either of them in my wife's tank..

Interesting, I didn't know a battery could impact Alk. My dosing pump line had lots of junk/build up effecting the flow. Alk has been all over the place until I finally corrected the problem. Test test test your water!

Well done sir!

welcome

Contact the manufacturer? Worth a shot I think

agreed

check out user id

trust_deals on ebay his MH bulbs worked great over my tank before I went to LEDs

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I sure like the radion pro, but man is it going to be pricey!

I am glad I went to led lights over the 2- 500watt mh's I had the house and tank stay WAY cooler. If I did it again I would buy them and not DIY. And I am a DIY kind of guy.

nice

THats cool!!!

thats awsome

2014?! wow....

those will be outdated pics

Bio makes a good point . . .

x3

Patrick is currently no longer visiting ARC. Please PM me if you need something, we are working on GREAT things!

Was wondering the same thing myself. I hope there wasn't anything personal on any of the posts. His information on macro algae and natural reefing was interesting, even though I don't use either. It's nice to see the other side of things.

I've been happy with reefs 2 go as well.

same here. well packed and better than advertised.

Keep in mind their invert system is directly tied to their fish system. Therefore, I'd inquire about the QT procedures of their fish as diseases in the water could come into your tank via CUC.

Awesome! pics?

Yes, we are working on it.

Adding new Di did the trick for me. Haven't seen tha since!

Gha! Dang auto correct!

We have our tank next to window. Started to have gha, we keep the blinds closed now.

I'll buy it from ya if you would like to get rid of it. To be fair, there is aproblem with the syringes that came with the kit's, I believe hanna has announced that. Also you must use ro/di water with zero tds and the ro/di water can't have a high ca content or that can also affect the reading's.

I think it's ridiculous how the checker uses .1ml of sample. By using such a small sample they are introducing a propensity of high user error into the equation.