Custom 230 Peninsula Build

prsnlty · Apr 29, 2015

Love it! I want another

TimSc2013 · Apr 30, 2015

Over the past several months, my torch coral has been slowly dying off...:noidea: The last couple heads show in the picture melted away this past week.

Deep_Six Corals · May 1, 2015

Between last night and today I've read every page of your thread and after reaching the end I kinda feel like I just finished a good book. Bravo friend! Your tank is gorgeous and by the look of those frags and the rest of your livestock, you got this whole reefing thing in the bag. I'm genuinely excited to see more of this tanks progression!

TimSc2013 · May 1, 2015

Miami_reefer said:
Between last night and today I've read every page of your thread and after reaching the end I kinda feel like I just finished a good book. Bravo friend! Your tank is gorgeous and by the look of those frags and the rest of your livestock, you got this whole reefing thing in the bag. I'm genuinely excited to see more of this tanks progression!

I really appreciate the time you took to read my thread and your compliments! I'm not sure that I have it "in the bag" but am having some success and hope to continue as you never know what can happen at anytime!

TimSc2013 · May 1, 2015

Some FTS after the MH shut off...

TimSc2013 · May 4, 2015

In December of 2014, I purchased three Triton test kit packages while they were on sale as I was curious how my water would test out especially as I was seeing loss of coral coloration in my 230G display vs my seperate 100G fish room system. On January 12, 2015 I sent in a sample of each system and based on the results I looked into my dosing quantities of the Red Sea Coral Colors and found an error I had made based on their dosing instructions. It appears as though I was dosing too much, even though I thought I was being conservative and not dosing as much as instructed. Based on this finding, I ceased all dosing of the Coral Color additives. Since that time, my colors have come back significantly and so I sent in the third triton test on the 230G only to see what the difference was, and if I could attribute the color change to any specific tested element. To my surprise, it appears my results have not changed that much but in fact have gotten worse with detection of some heavy metals. The results are as follows:

Element; Triton Setpoint; 100G (1/12/15); 230G (1/12/15); 230G (4/19/15)
Hg; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Se; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Cd; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Sn; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Sb; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
As; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Al; 0 ug/L; 0.24; 0.00; 0.00
Pb; 0 ug/L; 0.00;l 0.00; 0.00
Ti; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Cu; 0 ug/L; 0.00; 0.00; 3.90
Na; 10700.00 mg/l; 11080.00; 10581.00; 10529.00
Ca; 440.00 mg/l; 460.70; 388.40; 479.10
Mg; 1370.00 mg/l; 1367.00; 1416.00; 1279.00
K; 400.00 mg/l; 464.30; 493.80; 460.30
Br; 62.00 mg/l; 62.38; 70.16; 54.74
B; 4.50 mg/l; 3.34; 3.88; 2.88
Sr; 8.00 mg/l; 7.28; 4.29; 7.23
S; 900 mg/l; 912.50; 924.90; 916.00
Li; 200.00 ug/l; 190.30; 220.10; 204.40
Ni; 5.00 ug/l; 1.20; 4.47; 3.91
Mo; 12.00 ug/l; 20.72; 58.53; 59.69
V; 1.20 ug/l; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Zn; 4.00 ug/l; 3.25; 19.46; 30.56
Mn; 2.00 ug/l; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
I; 60.00 ug/l; 81.48; 134.80; 198.69
Cr; 0 ug/l; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Co; 0 ug/l; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Fe; 0 ug/l; 0.00; 0.00; 6.10
Ba; 10.00 ug/l; 59.65; 25.46; 17.11
Be; 0 ug/l; 0.00; 0.00; 0.00
Si; 100.00 ug/l; 84.12; 92.17; 67.20
P; 6.00 ug/l; 6.17; 8.27; 5.03
PO4; 0.018 mg/l; 0.019; 0.025; 0.015

Not sure what to think other than it is interestingly confusingâ€¦lol. I did change all of my RO/DI filters and am keeping an eye out for a shiny penny that hopefully did not get thrown in by my toddler! Any thoughts from the chemistry gurus would be interesting but other than that I am not sure I will do any more Triton testing in the near future.

prsnlty · May 4, 2015

Wow. Did they at least give you, in english, a ballpark of the story or just all the numbers? Because if the individual is not a scientist, how is one to make sense of all those numbers?

TimSc2013 · Jun 23, 2015

Tank has been up and running for 1 year as of today!

prsnlty · Jun 23, 2015

Congratulations and Happy Birthday to your tank!

TimSc2013 · Jun 27, 2015

FTS at one year and already running out of room for new coral...

prsnlty · Jun 27, 2015

Love it! Wish my acros would grow as well as yours lol.

TimSc2013 · Jun 28, 2015

TimSc2013 · Jun 28, 2015

prsnlty · Jun 30, 2015

Very beautiful Tim

TimSc2013 · Jun 30, 2015

Thanks Jackie!

renato120 · Jul 1, 2015

Nice tank! Your anemone doesnt sting oher corals? It looks to close to your Sps

TimSc2013 · Jul 2, 2015

Renato120 thanks for the compliment and question. Yes the anemones do sting the acros. When I first setup the tank, I already had one anemone that hosted two clown fish that I couldn't resist moving.

For a while, the group stayed on a rock at the bottom until the anemone split. It has since split 5 times and three settled at the top where they reside to this day. At first I was extremely concerned that they would sting the acros causing them to RTN and completely die off but I could not remove them from the rocks so I let them be.

The acros have died off where they are in contact but that is it and have continued to flourish. It has been this way for quite a while and I don't see the anemones wanting to relocate. It is actually neat to see the clowns swim between all three so I actually don't mind it anymore.