The benefits of feeding my tank like crazy, although, I think some of my issues are related to feeding too much LRS? I’ve cut back on the LRS and increased the TDO and flakes, which the anthias love. Are you dissing your dailies?
I’ve been meaning to ask how your tank has been doing? I’m sure everything is loving the halides?
I still do the dailies. My last ICP came back pretty spot on too. It’s a nutrient issue for me still. I may cut my bio brick in half and place part in the cycle bin. Maybe it’s working too well. I’ve got nitrates registering but still low, phosphates never register on the low range phosphate. I need to get the phosphorus Hanna kit.
Absolutely loving them. I had a pretty major swing from an oversight on my end. Alk dropped into the 6 dkh range. Then I over corrected the reactor before going out of town and came back to it being 9.5 dkh. Slowly letting in mellow for now but so far so good.
I would totally lose the bricks. I’m now feeding LRS 2-3 times a day, my auto feeder (2 types of NLS pellets) goes off twice daily and I hand feed flakes and TDO 3-4x a day and I barely register nitrates. I’m actually back to dosing 1ppm nightly and my PO4 is 0.12ish the last time I checked. I haven’t been dosing bacteria though, which I need to start doing again. PNS Probio and yello sno together really do a great job at controlling nutrients in a healthy way, so I’m going back to dosing prodibio and PNS every other week. I should be getting my scopus and tomini tangs soon (trading my yellow tang) and I would like two more Ignitus. Hopefully the addition of those fish will get me back to not dosing sodium nitrate?
Oh man, that sucks! Yeah, tenuis can be a little finicky, especially the fresh ones. My WD just changes colors from more green or less green, but grows like a weed. The other rescue tenuis is a completely different story though. The tenuis that I got from Adam (Battlecorals) is growing, but it’s pretty light in color, so I haven’t found it’s sweet spot yet. Meanwhile, the ultra violet, doomsday and Malaysian pieces are all doing well. My deep red, magenta millie is slowly coming back, which is a miracle.
Reef Brite pendants (without xho’s) and 250w ballasts. Using Hamilton 14k SE bulbs.
Exactly! The last time I ran halides I was using 150w iwasaki 6500k over my 15g. Mostly leathers and brains (goniastrea type).
Kessil needs to knock boots with ReefBrite and make a strong single point light source LED in a large MH style reflector......will it ever happen? Probably not! But I feel like that would be the best way to maintain shimmer of the Kessil (mimic halide) while also reducing the negative - shadow effect of the small footprint of their current line-up. I think it could be done very well in a ATI like foot print. Like a very wide Reefbrite. make them a few inches shorter than standard lengths. 21/33/45/57/69" ect. Cause who needs a light the same length of the display really?
I’m using an apex on my 90g and a doser 2 for dosing sodium nitrate, EasyBooster and spsEvo. I would’ve gone profilux on the 25g, but I absolutely hate their programming. It’s so 80’s. If they would adopt the Hydros programming, I would be GHL all the way. Their quality is great and they don’t look cheap, like the newer apex. But for the 25g build I’m going with Hydros, especially now that they are going to add a wired outlet strip. I have a wave engine and it rocks! The fact that I have my mp40’s and gyres in sync (or anti sync) is awesome and well worth the money of the unit.
Totally agree! I think if they focus on the reflector (and it has to be substantial) then they may have something. I still love and always will, because they are the only light that gets close to the appearance of halides. Until LEDs can mimic the gold standard of halide/T5, I’m going to stick with old school technology.
