HIGH END Tenuis Hoarder

[adsf430]

my house has spray foam insulation so its very tight.. so my ph was low for a long time like 7.6-7.9 always. i added a co2 scrubber and its now 7.8-8.2. but i spend alot on media because its last about 2 weeks and starts to drop. so i have my alert set on 7.70. then i change it i did add kalk for awhile to bring up but that was a pain and just a bandage... also had my cal up aroud 500. so no good.

I use aquavitro balance and it works well. Not sure if it's cheaper than replacing media though. It definitely raises PH, for every 0.3ml you use of it, you should use 0.1 ml less alk

 

[TCoach]

Thanks @SBB Corals for sharing all this info. Very helpful as I head into this world of SPS coral.

One thing I have noticed is that you and another commenter are basically running a 4:3 Alk:Ca ratio. Do you find this ratio to hold across multiple tanks? I looked at my 92 corner, and found it true for me (8ml alk to 6ml ca).

Thanks!

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Thanks @SBB Corals for sharing all this info. Very helpful as I head into this world of SPS coral.

One thing I have noticed is that you and another commenter are basically running a 4:3 Alk:Ca ratio. Do you find this ratio to hold across multiple tanks? I looked at my 92 corner, and found it true for me (8ml alk to 6ml ca).

Thanks!

It depends how high (or low) you keep your Alk. Maintaining 10dKh will take more dosing than 7.5dKh.

 

[SBB Corals]

I used to do this for my clam and I think it raised Phosphate, have you noticed this? Also, do you dose acropower?

Good question. Our routine is always somewhat changing as we continue to try and improve the health of our corals. IF we see more Pe then we know it was for the better LOL that is how we monitor color health through PE.

Currently we have cut the Phyto back to 20 ml per day... and also cut the acro power back to 1 ML every 4 days in a 550 Gallon tank... Please let us know if you have any other questions. thank you!

 

[SBB Corals]

Thanks @SBB Corals for sharing all this info. Very helpful as I head into this world of SPS coral.

One thing I have noticed is that you and another commenter are basically running a 4:3 Alk:Ca ratio. Do you find this ratio to hold across multiple tanks? I looked at my 92 corner, and found it true for me (8ml alk to 6ml ca).

Thanks!

Are you talking about how much alk and calc we dose? or the actual numbers like alk at 8 and calc at 470?

If you are talking about Actual numbers of the alk and calc reading

We have not considered this ratio Target for our numbers so not sure if they are more or less stable for those ratios.

They do hold though across our system - but my alk and calc is always up or down depending on how our PE looks.

 

[SBB Corals]

Cool cool. Nitrate and phosphate kept on the low end?

Currently we are keeping no3 at 10 and po4 at .08

We have been doing alot of testing recently and have fallen into this levels.. We change things biased on how the PE of the corals look. and since we dropped the no3 to 10 the PE has been very good. Anything over .12po4 and our corals don't like it as we get less PE (Polyp Extension).

 

[TCoach]

Are you talking about how much alk and calc we dose? or the actual numbers like alk at 8 and calc at 470?

No, your dosing amounts. If I recall correctly, you are doing 170ml Alk to 130ml Ca or ~4:3 ratio. There was another commenter who had a very similar ratio. Just wondering if you are finding that ratio to hold true across your tanks, or just happened to be coincidental. Thanks!

 

[SBB Corals]

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No, your dosing amounts. If I recall correctly, you are doing 170ml Alk to 130ml Ca or ~4:3 ratio. There was another commenter who had a very similar ratio. Just wondering if you are finding that ratio to hold true across your tanks, or just happened to be coincidental. Thanks!

thanks for the clarification. I think it is my Coincidental. but we are seeing this across all our systems. So maybe it is a thing

 

[SBB Corals]

Here is an Updated Video on the Tenuis PE. Daylight shot sorry for the blurry video.. but we thought the PE was worth sharing.

 

[daelie]

No, your dosing amounts. If I recall correctly, you are doing 170ml Alk to 130ml Ca or ~4:3 ratio. There was another commenter who had a very similar ratio. Just wondering if you are finding that ratio to hold true across your tanks, or just happened to be coincidental. Thanks!

This likely isn't a very good way to try and look at it overall. Many of the mixes are mixed to different concentrations so just going for a magic dosing ratio isn't really useful.

You would be better off looking at actual consumption of each element in the tank and deriving a ratio from that.

 

[SBB Corals]

Which coral would you choose?

the coral on the left or the Milli on the right?

 

[xabo]

Both....................

 

[James_O]

Which coral would you choose?

the Tenuis on the left or the Milli on the right?

The Tenius!

 

[SBB Corals]

Both....................

can't choose both only 1?

 

[adsf430]

Gotta go with the milli based on the colors popping

 

[xabo]

Oh alright.....................the one of the right.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Which coral would you choose?

the Tenuis on the left or the Milli on the right?

Froot Loops for sure!

 

[LaxFrags]

milli all the way!

 

[SBB Corals]

Froot Loops for sure!

it's actually not a froot loops. Froot loops is a tenuis and this one I think is a Vermiculata.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

it's actually not a froot loops. Froot loops is a tenuis and this one I think is a Vermiculata.

Buuuuut……your original post was “Tenuis on the left or milli on the right?”