tj51 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 This site was recommended by a member of both DFWMAS, and your club. He had nothing less than glowing praise for your organization, so I decided to join. I live in Dallas, am a member of DFWMAS, am married, currently "between" jobs, and my tank is as follows: 42 gallon stretch hex 4 x 96w PC 10 gallon sump 50 lbs live rock live stock: 2 mated clarki clowns (laid eggs last night), a red wrasse, a yellow wrasse and a scotter blenny corals include: some branching hammer, frogspawn, some leathers and a large amount of zoas (collecting "named" zoas) I'm in week three of vodka dosing so my water is pretty clean at this point....finally nitrates are low! I look forward to spending times on your forums and catching what tips about this hobby I can. Tj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Welcome! We need pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ACampbell Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Welcome Tj. We're glad you joined us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKarshens Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Glad you joined us! Pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Glad you joined us! Pics! welcome! pics! (is there an echo in here?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjohn Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I'd also like to hear your vodka dosing regimen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearAquarium Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I am interested in the Vodka dose as well. Sound very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I'd also like to hear your vodka dosing regimen. my dosing regimen is ~5 shots a night...oh you mean my tank..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj51 Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 sorry for the late reply, been busy (lol honey dos) had nitrates around 60 - 80 ppm.....did 10% weekly w/c, etc., but couldn't get 'trates to a reasonable level. Used AZ NO3 but that pretty much fed the cyano. Read an article in ReefKeeping (link below) about vodka dosing, and though scary, my tank is so small the beginning dosage was .15 ml. so I thought what the heck. Day 4 doubled it to .3 and for the past 2 weeks after that I've added .5 (so now I'm dosing 1.8 ml.). The carbon from the ethonal also feeds cyano and I had a breakout during week 2, but as my nitrates started falling, so did the cyano. At the beginning without the AZ NO3 my 'trates took a small surge to 30 - 40 ppm (I hate API with the amber, so I went to salifert last week). But for the last week, week and a half they have been under 10 ppm (under .5 today). No side effects on livestock (except they keep running into the glass lol j/k), but each week as I increase the dosage I get a small amount of cyano on my glass. Skimmer pulled out a lot of skimmate at first and I had to clean it daily, but now it's back to normal. I also heard the extra bacteria the vodka creates absorbs oxygen, so I took an extra powerhead and point it straight up to break the water more then just my sump return. Although criticized by some, I like to give my fish a good meal (before my wrasse took a carpet dive, I was splitting a frozen cube between 2 clowns, 2 wrasses, and a scotter blenny). This allows me the opportunity w/o nitrate side effects and is cheap, as I've been doing this almost a month and not even out of the neck of a $5 bottle. I don't drink, so I like to laugh about my fish outdrink me. Also interesting (and probably no relation) but my clarki clowns are only 6 - 8 months old and the female just laid her first batch of eggs. Maybe the vodka makes em horney. http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish are not Sea Kittens Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 ...t my clarki clowns are only 6 - 8 months old and the female just laid her first batch of eggs. Maybe the vodka makes em horney.http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-08/nftt/index.php Or maybe it just loosened her up or maybe the male clown slipped her some roofies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj51 Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 (edited) Glad you joined us! Pics! Don't have tank pics ready, but here are a few of my zoas (id help/confirmation would be great) Edited March 8, 2009 by tj51 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kkiel02 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Cant really help with names but those are some sweet zoas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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