You've had great success move to ABC+ w/Colors, but did you increase your Reef Energy at near the same time? You've mentioned working up to your current large dose. I was thinking about Coral Foods recently and it made me wonder if some of your success was move to heavy feedings of Reef Energy rather than the Colors? Random thought.
Bummer about reagents, but that seems like a small bounce. I try to always test in the mornings prior to feeding to get the most consistent numbers, my evening test numbers had much more variation.
Looking forward to January project
Do you want my ABC+ & Colors if I switch to Triton? I'm almost pulled the switch on ordering a GHL doser, it's gonna happen soon.
Well,
The Reef Energy is the longest product of the Red Sea program that I've used and it's the only coral food that I dose.
When I had scoly's that need to be spot fed. I would shut off all flow and spot feed them Reef Energy, with a syringe and it did the job.
And (lol) your critters can't take the Reef Energy away from the scoly's. They can smell it, but they can't steal it.
RedSeaKev was real excited when I was posting about the ABC+ and sent me a pm with his email so I could talk to him if I needed to. The ABC+ is real popular in Europe and other parts of the world but no so much in the US. So Kevin was pumped.
We still talk but it's usually about how each other and how our families are doing.
So he and
@SPR1968 talked me into slowly upping the Reef Energy dose and I started upping the dose at the first of the year when the Holidays were over and I had time to mess with it.
Shuan and RedSeaKev shut off their skimmer's for about 3o mins and I shut mine off for hours. One time, I shut it totally off to see what would happen. So when the lights came on the next day the reef still had some green hue, but by 2pm with all lights on, photosynthesis had totally kicked in and the coral's absorbed the remaining Reef Energy in the water column and the water was back to clear. So if I forget to turn the skimmer back on, I don't worry about it and I have forgot
Anyways, I'm holding 80 gallons and I can't remember the starting dose. Right now I'm up to 20ml per evening of each part.
I don't dose it on Thursday evenings. That's the night that I fire the flow up and lift out the detritus and the coral polyps extent out to try to capture the detritus. Then I do the water change on Friday night and suck out the remaining detritus with the Python.
So over the time that I started the ABC+. I also did the Kessil lighting mod and was upping the Reef Energy dose.
Now, If this test fails we're going to put our heads together to figure out away to automate the ABC+ powder by means of an auto fish feeder or something else
But, I don't think it will fail. I think we've nailed the lighting and organics with the Colors program.
Give me some time and I'll reply in our pm, regarding your ABC+ and colors.
If your ready to automate with the GHL pumps, then your ready
