I'll share pics of the plan once I start but staying true to my very low maintenance routine. Eventually i want to get rid of my current livestock tank since it's not a tank I want to maintain once everything's backed up and or growing in the larger tank. Besides its a total temporary system which is too close to my new sump and I fear eventually I will cross contaminate some ich into the main display. The qt tank will be 20 feet away from my large sump so not concerned there
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Ash's 400 Gallon Reef
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Hypo is going well. No issues and fish are not showing any spots so I know it's working. Moreover I calmed down algae feeding and turned of my uv to see if hypo is really doing its thing. I have 1 month left to go so really hope I can keep it out from inverts or corals. I am ok to Qt for 45 days but the droplets next to my sump is something I can't really see or prevent
It’s the little things in life. Having a dedicated sink makes clean up easy.
yeah definitely a game changer, For 20+ years I was dumping water down toilet or waiting for everyone to go to sleep then using the sink to clean stinky skim mate. Big system its needed since i have to clean skimmer every 1-2 days.
I got my QT setup but probably shouldnt have thought to use my vectra m1. Very hard to calibrate with a 1" drain and it keeps overflowing, The 1" drain barely takes enough water without making alot of noise and even when the vectra is a 3% power its too much flow for the drain. hopefully i can figure this out since I want to get some corals in my QT ASAP
Thanks Bob
If all is clean 30 days - mainly for aiptasia. Starting from the left. 1 Pinky the bear (my guess). 2. Bleeding Tree abro. 3. WWC Nuclear grapes, 4. pink lemonade, 5 anacropora. These are just tester frags i have the backups in the main system. Hopefully they color up quickly! I have to add T5 and get the Alk down, its at 9.8DkH and they are coming from 7.9DKH tank. Until i get ALK low my acros won't be happy!
Same here. mine actually happiest around 7.
Yeah I generally keep it the same! I'd go to 6.5-7.5 if fritz mixed that low. - I found Acros are less prone to bleaching or RTN at this levels and can take on very high Phosphates and they seem to color up fine. Surprised when I read ppl saying their corals brown out when phosphates are too high, i just think its just a combination of few variable that have to be in line for color. I needed 3 big boxes of salt to bring my salinity back up - Reefcrystal was $40 for bucket so used 60% of that and 40% of fritz, still the Alk was very high. I think i will keep Reefcrystals handy for when I have to remove some water for new corals and keep fritz for waterchanges.
Yeah, that like natural seawater and Acros love that stuff, elevated elements work great i think for LPS and softies who are more robust.
I became a believe in low alk when a coral i got from Reefco that i tested the bagged water and it was 5.5DKH. Thinking he was going to have a tank crash I called the owner and then he told me it is lower than he wants but he tends to get very good color when its at 6.5DKH. Before that I was chasing that 8.5-9.5DH, now I am perfectly fine letting it to go 7.3 DKH before making any adjustment to my doser.
