Ben's SPS Dominated 120

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Hooked up a new toy today. I really like Avast’s “you built” option. Significant savings, and it was a breeze to put together.

 

[Smarkow]

Hooked up a new toy today. I really like Avast’s “you built” option. Significant savings, and it was a breeze to put together.

Bug fan of avast as well, and putting together the kits (at least for me) is a !*BoNuS!* not just cost savings
The probe holder in theirs is great, do use ORP to monitor?

 

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Bug fan of avast as well, and putting together the kits (at least for me) is a !*BoNuS!* not just cost savings
The probe holder in theirs is great, do use ORP to monitor?

I do monitor ORP, but I don’t really pay too much attention to it. It definitely has dropped a little since I hooked the reactor up though.

 

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Interestingly within days of me adding that reactor, kalk is no longer enough to keep up with my alk/cal demands...I guess it's a good problem to have, but now to start shopping for a calcium reactor...

 

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A couple of classics...

PC Rainbow

Garf Bonsai

 

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File fish did a great job cleaning up my aptasia, but he's always been a bit of an SPS nipper. Didn't care too much as PE remained pretty good, but he recently graduated to LPS. The torch I got a couple of weeks ago has been suffering so into the overflow he goes...

 

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SCOP Growth.

3.12.19

10/28/19

 

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It should be noted that the green coral in the background of the second pic is the same voodoo majick as the nub in the first pic. Not sure what happened, but both that one and the PC rainbow next to it bleached out really badly overnight a few months back. Th PC rainbow was fine in a week, but the VM is taking it's sweet time coming back to me.

 

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Bubblegum Digi

Fox Flame

Pinky The BEar

Goni

 

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Three Amigos

 

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My sons been begging for a magnificent fox face for a while. I surprised him with this guy for his birthday

 

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I think I've finally hit the sweet spot with everything in the tank. Things have really started taking off.

Princess Peach 10/12

12/17

 

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Bill Murray
I can see new growth on this one daily. Pretty crazy...

9/24

12/17

 

[CoralWealth]

very nice!

What do you think helped you hit the sweet spot, anything specific? More water changes, dosing something different?

 

[declanisadog]

very nice!

What do you think helped you hit the sweet spot, anything specific? More water changes, dosing something different?

Thanks! I think the biggest thing was adding the Kalk Reactor. I never had problems with keeping my alk or calcium stable, but my PH has always been low/all over the place. Keeping my PH higher seems to have made all the difference in the world.

 

[CoralWealth]

Thanks! I think the biggest thing was adding the Kalk Reactor. I never had problems with keeping my alk or calcium stable, but my PH has always been low/all over the place. Keeping my PH higher seems to have made all the difference in the world.

What is it now?

 

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it floats between 8.1-8.4. It used to frequently drop to 7.6.

 

[declanisadog]

very nice!

What do you think helped you hit the sweet spot, anything specific? More water changes, dosing something different?

Something else just occurred to me...Nutrients. I went a couple months without testing nitrate/phosphate, and when I did, they were at 2 and .02 respectively. I added a couple of fish, and stated feeding a lot heavier. I haven't tested recently, but it seems to have helped with color at least.

 

[CoralWealth]

very true, same thing happened to me. I wish I could get my PH up that high

 

[declanisadog]

very true, same thing happened to me. I wish I could get my PH up that high

I was adding kalk to my top off water, and it was never enough. Adding the stirrer was a game changer for me.