Hydrored's Planet 210

[Redfoxtang]

Update-

replacing awc setup in garage to larger tanks, been waiting 5 weeks for them to show up so in the mean time I prepped out what I could including running new lines. Some of this is temped in until I transfer the fmm and all that jazz once the tanks get here. I went with a reef octopus varios 4 for the recirculating pump.

Couple coral shots-

Looking great!!! What is that second acro? JF Jolt?

 

[Hydrored]

Looking great!!! What is that second acro? JF Jolt?

Orange Passion purchased from TSA, it’s one of those corals that is pretty in person but any photo I take with an iPhone comes out washed out

 

[Hydrored]

New 65 gallon tanks are installed

 

[Mark Lang]

Well, the heater is going back, no idea why @Innovative Marine would build heaters for large tanks and provide a 56" cord. Will not reach from the control cabinet to the mid chamber. Total disappointment

Edit: @Innovative Marine reached out to supply a longer cord, hopefully it works out!

WAs IM able to supply an extension? I wanted to install IM, but can't for same reason you cited.

 

[Hydrored]

WAs IM able to supply an extension? I wanted to install IM, but can't for same reason you cited.

Not yet.... Still waiting on a date

 

[Hydrored]

Not yet.... Still waiting on a date

IM got back to me and said they will now be using a 96” total lead starting in May and will be able to provide extensions then

 

[Hydrored]

Bad news on the tank, noticed a translucent spots on a few fish and cloudy eyes on the trigger and fox face. Removed the chromis and did a FW dip and found flukes. All my fish have gone through quarantine so no idea where they came from. I have added frags over the past month so who knows

Treated the whole tank with prazipro today, hopefully it all goes well as this is my first time doing anything like this in a display. Some coral look ticked but nothing extreme

it’s the one thing I absolutely hate about this hobby, especially when you have no clue how you ended up with it. Setting up multiple quarantine tanks and pulling all of the fish and rocks is not something we are willing to do. I used to have a coral quarantine but my wife has zero interest in having another tank again and I’m right there with her.

Really my first major setback since setting this tank up, especially infuriating as the tank has never been more stable and growth has been outstanding

 

[Hydrored]

Lost 1 of my 8 chromis I’ve had for years. Water change was done and all other coral and fish are fine. Second dose on Tuesday

 

[Hydrored]

Tank is covering from prazipro nice, only the Duncan is still angry. SPS did great through the whole process, only down side is Cyano came on even stronger after prazi for some odd reason, honestly don’t even care about it with the coral doing great and growing.

 

[Hydrored]

Nothing new to report, coral is all doing well and growing, cyano is almost all gone. I'm back to the office full time now so the tank is on cruise control.

Alk consumption has leveled out but nutrients have been creeping up a bit, tank is happy so I’m not going to mess with it. My wife tends to feed a bit more than me, so I’m not surprised with me being back to work

I was able to treat myself to a new car that arrived on Tuesday, I’m currently just enjoying that and working a ton

Happy reefing!

 

[Hydrored]

On Friday my new car was in a photo shoot, here are a couple photos-

 

[Hydrored]

Still very little time for the tank, nutrients are getting up there but everything has been growing great. Going to up the auto water change a bit. Crappy photos incoming

 

[Hydrored]

Got tired of the Stratons not sitting square so I stained a piece of maple mocha to match the stand and mounted the 4 Stratons. Finally all level and the same height-

 

[Hydrored]

Still dealing with higher nutrients but the walt has been growing like crazy with great PE.

I have been thinking about still upping the par a bit to try and pull some more colors I ordered an all tenuis box from battle corals and can’t wait to see what Adam picks

overall the growth and coloration has really picked up but my phosphates are at .20 and Nitrates at 16-25. Not sure to really mess with them or not but getting a bit of algae growth here and there

@Charlie’s Frags i’m curious on your feedback on the nutrients. I have Lanthum on hand as well as GFO just not sure how fast to lower or if even worth it.

Im back to traveling full time and my wife always tells me she’s not feeding too much but the test don’t lie lol

I’m still selling off most of my LPS to convert to mostly SPS since tank has stabilized over the last year.

 

[Hydrored]

I picked up an unnamed Tenius from TSA live sale for cheap and looks like a TSA Blood Moon? Here is the pic from WYSIWYG-

And also this guy-

 

[Hydrored]

 

[ScottB]

Hey,
Just made it through your build thread. Looks great.

You mentioned cyano over the course of a few months, but no longer. Curious if you had any ideas about what changes may have helped resolve your cyano issue. (Asking for a friend, of course.)

 

[Hydrored]

Hey,
Just made it through your build thread. Looks great.

You mentioned cyano over the course of a few months, but no longer. Curious if you had any ideas about what changes may have helped resolve your cyano issue. (Asking for a friend, of course.)

Hello @ScottB

So a few observations that I made that helped me solve it.

1. I removed the fact that is was flow related, even in extremely high flow area’s I was growing cyano. Between MP60’s and 2 gyres I have almost no detritus and when I blow the rocks with a baster very little if nothing comes off

2. I noticed it never really grew in thick patches on the real from the ocean rock, I would get maybe a little patch if that. Only grew thick on fake rock.

3. My nitrates were getting lower and lower but my phosphates were staying the same while running a fuge. Corals started to lighten up so I dosed Nitrates up to 10 and noticed the mats started breaking up a bit, and getting stringy. Didn’t solve it but was an observation.

The conclusion I came to knowing those observations was my N/P ratio being off. Once I balanced it to 10-15 nitrates to .08-.12 phosphates the Cyano continued to break up over a couple months.

Concerning the dead rock having the Cyano I started adding some bacterial diversity by dosing zeobak once a week and Cyano clean once a week a few days a part. Oddly enough I noticed better polyp extension when dosing the bacteria. I keep a notebook with any changes and observations, it always seems to help.

I never really ever had Cyano until I built this bare bottom tank, there is something to be said about biodiversity that comes from sand and real live rock.

The tank has been up for little over a year and it took about 3 full months to get rid of all the Cyano sticking with the schedule.

 

[ScottB]

Hello @ScottB

So a few observations that I made that helped me solve it.

1. I removed the fact that is was flow related, even in extremely high flow area’s I was growing cyano. Between MP60’s and 2 gyres I have almost no detritus and when I blow the rocks with a baster very little if nothing comes off

2. I noticed it never really grew in thick patches on the real from the ocean rock, I would get maybe a little patch if that. Only grew thick on fake rock.

3. My nitrates were getting lower and lower but my phosphates were staying the same while running a fuge. Corals started to lighten up so I dosed Nitrates up to 10 and noticed the mats started breaking up a bit, and getting stringy. Didn’t solve it but was an observation.

The conclusion I came to knowing those observations was my N/P ratio being off. Once I balanced it to 10-15 nitrates to .08-.12 phosphates the Cyano continued to break up over a couple months.

Concerning the dead rock having the Cyano I started adding some bacterial diversity by dosing zeobak once a week and Cyano clean once a week a few days a part. Oddly enough I noticed better polyp extension when dosing the bacteria. I keep a notebook with any changes and observations, it always seems to help.

I never really ever had Cyano until I built this bare bottom tank, there is something to be said about biodiversity that comes from sand and real live rock.

The tank has been up for little over a year and it took about 3 full months to get rid of all the Cyano sticking with the schedule.

Thank you. The N/P imbalance rings a bell; I think my outbreak roughly coincided with some carbon dosing to lower my nitrate levels from 20-30 down to 5-10. Having been through dinos, I don't let my PO4 stay below .1.

I then stopped carbon dosing, but my nitrates have not really come back up. Perhaps I will dose some sodium nitrate for a while. It is not in my display, just in my frag system so I am not that bothered. Sticks don't seem to mind it either.

 

[Hydrored]

Thank you. The N/P imbalance rings a bell; I think my outbreak roughly coincided with some carbon dosing to lower my nitrate levels from 20-30 down to 5-10. Having been through dinos, I don't let my PO4 stay below .1.

I then stopped carbon dosing, but my nitrates have not really come back up. Perhaps I will dose some sodium nitrate for a while. It is not in my display, just in my frag system so I am not that bothered. Sticks don't seem to mind it either.

I have been keeping LPS for years, this is my first time venturing with sticks, and have generally tried keeping nutrients lower. I have noticed since my nutrients are higher coral has been growing and polyp extension has been great, but alk consumption has lowered a bit and coraline growth has slowed down. I hope there comes a day when my nutrients just stay stable, I always seem to have the issue of lower nitrates and higher phosphates

My phosphates need to come down but I'm scared to death to use GFO or LC

I love this hobby but at times it can make me crazy, balancing act with a mixed tank does not help at all either.