So for those of you following along, you may have noticed my sand is going absolutely crazy. Well it was going absolutely crazy. One of the consequences of having such a shallow tank is that even if I am creating a gyre flow pattern, the force with which the water returns across the bottom of the tank is great enough to pretty much take my sand bed and try to pile it all underneath my gyre itself.
Welp we solved that problem. I thought about going completely bare bottom, but it's just not my thing, so 4 pieces of 24x12 tile did the job.
Also worth mentioning that Alkalinity has finally dropped enough that I can start dosing my Triton Core7 Other Methods stuff. My dKH this morning was exactly 8.04 and with dosing over the last few days I've held my Calcium pretty stable and it was at 430ppm this morning. As it stands right now my tank is uptaking in the neighborhood of .1dKH per day. According to the dosing instructions on the bottle I should dose 2ml/100l. From the calcium that I was dosing I'm guestimating my water volume at right around 100g which works itself out to about 378l which works itself out to around 5.somethingsomethingsomething yeah whatever, 5ml it is.
Another thing to note, Diver's Den had a Purple with Yellow tipped H. Mag last night!!!! Those tips look white to me, but the description said yellow so we'll see when it gets here. Either way one down, probably 1 to go.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversde...ref=4282&subref=AI&cmpid=E-_-TR-_-DDN-_-PRDCT
My clowns are going to be so darn excited to have a home back I'm betting I'm going to have to beat them off of it while it settles in. That's the beautiful thing about clowns and natural hosts. It surely doesn't take them long to find the nem and hop right in. Hopefully it entices them to start spawning again as they haven't done so since they lost their home.
I also took advantage of the Ecotech sale and picked up 2MP40s over the weekend as I always felt they were priced too high, but at 15% off I feel they're much more in line with what I consider a good price for what they are.
Oh I almost forgot, ordered some PODs as well.
And for those wondering how my current Fuge is doing, here's a side by side of the picture I posted on the 29th and one I took this morning. This is a week and that is a 40 gallon fuge.
For those of you who remember I added biopellets to the system on August 24th. They recommend starting at 1/3 desired amount and slowly increasing. Well I had been checking on them every couple of days and yesterday noticed they had stopped tumbling all together. Keep in mind I'm using them in a regular BRS reactor and not one designed for pellets. None the less they started to clog and were basically all just sitting still as the little mj1200 that comes with those things just couldn't push enough water in there to make them tumble....so I tapped off my return line, increased the flow from my Jecod 8000 and put the rest of the pellets in there that are supposed to be. I'm going to give it a week and if they start clogging again, I may run a reactor full of carbon prior to the biopellet reactor which should act as a decent filter for catching any of the gunky stuff which seemed to be causing the pellets to clog up. This is kind of one of those thing where I wish I could just stick some type of screen filter almost like a fuel filter on a car in front of it to keep the gunk out and just the water in, but I think I can accomplish the same thing with the carbon and I've always got carbon running when I have zoas or Nems in a system anyways so...
Either way today is maintenance day. I need to take my RODI container outside and clean it, remove most all of that Chaeto...etc.
