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Red Sea Max 130.

Hockeynut

NJRC Member
I try to re calibrate every time I use it, most times it is still on but I still test most every time. I used to use a swing arm and since I made the switch my salinity has been more stable. The swing arm just isn't that accurate.
You can buy pods at reef to go on line for 20 something dollars I have and they come pretty lively and very few dead.
Where do you live ACC sells pods you can culture like Nikkit said, I have cultured them on my window also.
I wouldn't wait to long the pipe, and manderin won't last long without them.
You can add a sump without drilling your tank if that's a concern with a hang on overflow it will be easier to have enough pod in your system with a sump.
On a second note I forgot I would slow down with how much I was adding to the tank you can crash your whole system by adding to much to fast, slow and steady is defiantly the way to go in reef keeping.
 
I think you need to calibrate.them before every use but im not sure, I dont use one

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Yeah, I'm not sure either I bought mine from someone and I didn't get instructions or anything. So I just use my hydrometer.
I try to re calibrate every time I use it, most times it is still on but I still test most every time. I used to use a swing arm and since I made the switch my salinity has been more stable. The swing arm just isn't that accurate.
You can buy pods at reef to go on line for 20 something dollars I have and they come pretty lively and very few dead.
Where do you live ACC sells pods you can culture like Nikkit said, I have cultured them on my window also.
I wouldn't wait to long the pipe, and manderin won't last long without them.
You can add a sump without drilling your tank if that's a concern with a hang on overflow it will be easier to have enough pod in your system with a sump.
On a second note I forgot I would slow down with how much I was adding to the tank you can crash your whole system by adding to much to fast, slow and steady is defiantly the way to go in reef keeping.

Yeah I've been culturing some pods for a couple months now. So, I'll try to use those. Yeah I'm done adding fish, I've got all the ones I wanted. I'm really putting my red sea to the max lol.
 
If you need help calibrating the refractometer, let us know. They are pretty easy to calibrate with calibration solution.

I am not the best at IDing anthias, and your photos are out of focus which does not help, but they look to me like they could be bartlets. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+20+1128&pcatid=1128
That is a good thing. A 34 is not a great size tank for them, but you will have a better chance with Bartlets than you would have had with some of the larger species.
With the pod culture, get yourself a fine 50 micron mesh, and strain the culture through it, or through a cheesecloth, so that you are adding pods and not phosphates and nitrates. I usually ad the plankton that grows into my tank along with the culture, but when I was keeping a nano and adding pods, I strained it. You may want to try the baby brine as well, that, plus a pod culture, helped get our mandarin in our 30g nano fat enough to try to switch to prepared foods several years ago.
 
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Some good news, my mandarin is eating pellets willingly. Whew. Bad news, my pipefish and clam died :( I've lost my blue agaves and darth maul zoas too. They both came off the plug and they're no where to be found grrr.
 

Hockeynut

NJRC Member
How many polyps on each frag were there? I don't like singles I bought single polyps before and had the same thing happen. No more singles for me I feel two or more have a better chance JMO
 
yeah yours are doing great. I wish they would just multiply faster haha. Let me know if you get any new zoas I'm actually looking for a red speckled zoa
 
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update:
I lost one of croceas. I think it was sick and then all the nassarius snails kept bothering it. I tried to save it but the snails managed to get to the clam and eat it. I still haven't really found why the clam was being eaten by these snails.

I also lost one of the anthias. He stopped eating the pellets for some reason, and then the next morning I couldn't find him. Really sad to lose that one.
 
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