Anirban's Aquaforest journey

hotnickz07 · Nov 17, 2016

I keep all AF additives in my refrigerator. NPpro, probios, ABEV and kalium

. Always have.

jsker · Nov 17, 2016

hotnickz07 said:
I keep all AF additives in my refrigerator. NPpro, probios, ABEV and kalium . Always have.

Yes I am going back to that method. What the heck I had to try an experiment.

Anirban · Nov 30, 2016

I am back.....

I did changed my water last week after 2 months. There was no ill effect on the system over this 2 month long period.

Week 8 (before water change):

Salinity-1.025
Temp: maintained at 77 degree
pH: runs between 7.9-8.2
Alkalinity: dKH 7.9 (Hanna)
Calcium: 450 (salifert)
Magnesium: 1335 (salifert)
Nitrate: 4 ppm (red sea)
Phosphate: 0 (hanna)
Potassium: 370 ppm (salifert)
Iodine is in range.

After water change

Week 1 :

Salinity-1.025
Temp: maintained at 77 degree
pH: runs between 7.9-8.2
Alkalinity: dKH 8.2 (Hanna) ( I am wondering why this went up since the cold weather settled in)
Calcium: 430 (salifert)
Magnesium: 1290 (salifert)
Nitrate: 2 ppm (red sea)
Phosphate: 0 (hanna)
Potassium: 380 ppm (salifert)
Iodine is in range.

I will be off for almost a month starting next week an trying to pull all thing together. I currently have a GHL doser which is dosing component 123 and the 4th one NP PRO. I have another DP4 which I will use to dose Potassium, Koral colour and Acropower. I put my APEX feeder and I got one battery powered air pump (in case something goes wrong). Now need to make a lot of water for ATO and emergency water change.

Anirban · Nov 30, 2016

I also played a bit with my rock work as I had a feeling that they were blocking the flow in the tank. So I modified them a bit. Also I added one fancy structure for my high end SPS mounting.

jsker · Nov 30, 2016

Looking good, I just did a water change after 3 weeks and going to try the vibrant to rid the red slim starting tomorrow.

Anirban · Nov 30, 2016

jsker said:
Looking good, I just did a water change after 3 weeks and going to try the vibrant to rid the red slim starting tomorrow.

Thanks, I found Vibrant works in a unique way. Like I used to have only cyano nothing else. I treated with their twice a week treatment. After first dose I saw within next 48 hours the red colour almost went away and it became darker blackish in colours. After that I continued to dose it for next 2 weeks and it was disappearing after every treatment. During this time I also observed that my glass is not requiring regular cleaning like I used to do. Finally after 3 weeks I cleaned the tank floor by scrubbing it and the cyano just disappeared. But I have feeling if someone have different variety of algae it generally works on single species at a time. Now I decided to keep dosing it once a week and half the recommended dose. I really hope it works for you too.....

helen ann · Nov 30, 2016

Anirban said:
I also played a bit with my rock work as I had a feeling that they were blocking the flow in the tank. So I modified them a bit. Also I added one fancy structure for my high end SPS mounting.

Nice!!! ... Love that rockscape!!! Are those my plugs up there?!?!?

Anirban · Nov 30, 2016

helen ann said:
Nice!!! ... Love that rockscape!!! Are those my plugs up there?!?!?

If you want some of those I can send some of them..but they are generally hardy and non fancy ones....or some are totally new which I am trying to colour up. You should keep an eye on the new structure because thats where every new and showpieces will go.....

helen ann · Nov 30, 2016

Anirban said:
If you want some of those I can send some of them..but they are generally hardy and non fancy ones....or some are totally new which I am trying to colour up. You should keep an eye on the new structure because thats where every new and showpieces will go.....

Ohhhhhhhhhhh not only will I be keeping an eye out but will be stalking!!!

Anirban · Nov 30, 2016

helen ann said:
Ohhhhhhhhhhh not only will I be keeping an eye out but will be stalking!!!

lol now I have a stalker...yeah that structure already holding SC orange passion, TCK Pikach, thunderbolt, RR Vinh, JF Flame, JKR rainbow milli. I will add my recent RR Prime and all the WWC cyber sale goodies?

fragit · Nov 30, 2016

Two questions for you... are you dosing the NP Pro to keep your nitrates up? And 2 did I just read correctly you have frags your trying to unload? As you may have read in the AF tank thread I was having some issues. I will be needing to start my SPS collection again soon.

Anirban · Nov 30, 2016

fragit said:
Two questions for you... are you dosing the NP Pro to keep your nitrates up? And 2 did I just read correctly you have frags your trying to unload? As you may have read in the AF tank thread I was having some issues. I will be needing to start my SPS collection again soon.

Hey, I have no idea why should and how dosing NP PRO will help keeping nitrate up???

You read correctly but not fully......I do have some SPS which I can frag but they are just basic nothing fancy. my fancy ones are currently too small to frag. They are encrusted but not full grown colonies...

fragit · Nov 30, 2016

Anirban said:
Hey, I have no idea why should and how dosing NP PRO will help keeping nitrate up???
You read correctly but not fully......I do have some SPS which I can frag but they are just basic nothing fancy. my fancy ones are currently too small to frag. They are encrusted but not full grown colonies...

Yeah I actually read the NP Pro description on the AF web site tonight. Trying to figure out how to drive my nitrates up. It says it's a polymer to increase bacterial growth to consume nitrates. So that is very confusing. I will pm you when I have everything figured out for some sticks.

Anirban · Dec 1, 2016

fragit said:
Yeah I actually read the NP Pro description on the AF web site tonight. Trying to figure out how to drive my nitrates up. It says it's a polymer to increase bacterial growth to consume nitrates. So that is very confusing. I will pm you when I have everything figured out for some sticks.

What confuses you friend? Its a biopolymer which is food source for bacteria. The bacteria will then use up the nitrate and phosphate. Its simple.

fragit · Dec 1, 2016

Anirban said:
What confuses you friend? Its a biopolymer which is food source for bacteria. The bacteria will then use up the nitrate and phosphate. Its simple.

I wasn't confused until I read something in this last page of posts that confused me. Now I can't find it. Hmmm must be exhaustion from being up all night with the baby.[emoji53]

Anirban · Dec 1, 2016

Hallucination is a common syndrome after baby....

jsker · Dec 1, 2016

Anirban said:
Thanks, I found Vibrant works in a unique way. Like I used to have only cyano nothing else. I treated with their twice a week treatment. After first dose I saw within next 48 hours the red colour almost went away and it became darker blackish in colours. After that I continued to dose it for next 2 weeks and it was disappearing after every treatment. During this time I also observed that my glass is not requiring regular cleaning like I used to do. Finally after 3 weeks I cleaned the tank floor by scrubbing it and the cyano just disappeared. But I have feeling if someone have different variety of algae it generally works on single species at a time. Now I decided to keep dosing it once a week and half the recommended dose. I really hope it works for you too.....

Thank you for the input, I have the red cayno only also. I am also hoping the will rid my issue for good with the virbrant. I am dosing 1+2+3+ Pro Bio S, Gfo in a reactor and thinking for dropping some Zoevit into my sump tray until life bio fil is available. I went of line with my bio pellets on the 11/21/16 and looking to use the Media/Zoevit to keep the nitrates in line. I use lanthanum chloride base product to get my Po4's down and that worked well and with the GFO I am at .02 steady for the past two weeks.

Anirban · Dec 1, 2016

jsker said:
Thank you for the input, I have the red cayno only also. I am also hoping the will rid my issue for good with the virbrant. I am dosing 1+2+3+ Pro Bio S, Gfo in a reactor and thinking for dropping some Zoevit into my sump tray until life bio fil is available. I went of line with my bio pellets on the 11/21/16 and looking to use the Media/Zoevit to keep the nitrates in line. I use lanthanum chloride base product to get my Po4's down and that worked well and with the GFO I am at .02 steady for the past two weeks.

Biopellet never helped me actually it always complicated my issues. I run zeolite and it seems to work well since my zeovit days. I think AF has some issues with Bio fil as its taking forever to launch them but who cares. 1 litre of siporax combined with zeolite and live rock is enough for bacteria. May be I will add 1 more litre once I come back from holidays. The issue is if we put more bacteria they will take down the nutrient more so very less available nutrient which I don't like. I will suggest when you dose the vibrant try to cut back the Pro bio S to half as they both work in similar way and together they can reduce the nutrient quite fast. I always wonder why you have such a high PO4 and NO3 issues all the time.

jsker · Dec 1, 2016

Anirban said:
Biopellet never helped me actually it always complicated my issues. I run zeolite and it seems to work well since my zeovit days. I think AF has some issues with Bio fil as its taking forever to launch them but who cares. 1 litre of siporax combined with zeolite and live rock is enough for bacteria. May be I will add 1 more litre once I come back from holidays. The issue is if we put more bacteria they will take down the nutrient more so very less available nutrient which I don't like. I will suggest when you dose the vibrant try to cut back the Pro bio S to half as they both work in similar way and together they can reduce the nutrient quite fast. I always wonder why you have such a high PO4 and NO3 issues all the time.

I am not running a ULNS and I am looking for the right balence.

Anirban · Dec 1, 2016

jsker said:
I am not running a ULNS and I am looking for the right balence. Thank bio pellets for for about 3 months then the negative effects started taking effect.

Me too...I don't like the pastel looking corals and I think they too dont like it much.....