I run trident for alk and backup test with hannah for alk. For phosphate, I use hanna ulr and for nitrate I use hanna hr. I also periodically check the hannas with the calibration solution I bought from them
Advice on aggressive GHA
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Uncle99
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Those are great choices, so 10 and .1 are likely close.
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What about rock, how much, what type.
Cant see that area in the pics….I think I see macro-algae though..
there is a basket of live rock in the sump next to the chaeto reactor. Probably 20lb. And then a piece of rock in the larger frag tank. It is a bit low on rock. I am not running any filter socks on the system. Haven't for years due to my severe LARS affliction. Perhaps I should run them again. The skimmer has a CO2 scrubber recirculation
Uncle99
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It would depend on feeding and fish wastes. Rock, (blocks or bricks) sand and the amount of these house those processors which work to keep our system clean.
Is that one whole system, the last two pics I agree, corals look starved and brown.
But in a frag system, usually not a ton of fish, maybe a algae type, some snails.
I have to toothbrush mine every couple of months.
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How are waters processed, returned to each tank, equally?
Three tanks look normal, nice corals, one does not, is that what your talking about?
What about lighting? Same PARs and spectrum?
I don’t see a lot of fish so your rock likely fine.
Three tanks look normal, nice corals, one does not, is that what your talking about?
What about lighting? Same PARs and spectrum?
I don’t see a lot of fish so your rock likely fine.
both the 46 and 60 gallon are at around 300 par while the 29 biocube is at ~100 par for LPS. Yes the 60/46/29 are all on one sump with three gravity overflows into that sump and the the 2X 20 gal frag tanks are water exchanging with the same sump but not through an overflow due to their height but with DOS pumps running at highest setting. The dos pumps are regulated by an LLS and calibrated to equilibrate in and out. The room has limited space and I needed to utilize the space below the 46 which cannot feed by gravity overflow into the sump which is too high.
Yes the last 2 pictures are mostly zoas all closed up due to me scraping the heck out of the algae invading that tank.
Yes the last 2 pictures are mostly zoas all closed up due to me scraping the heck out of the algae invading that tank.
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