My 72 Bowfront Build Revised Thread

120reefkeeper · Jan 8, 2017

I'm so glad your now on the other side of this. [emoji4]

So let's recap.

1. What do you believe started the crash?

2. What were the indicators that you were indeed having a crash and what did you do??

3. What was it that you did or didn't do in order to stop the crash and reverse it?

4. What have you learned from this experience? [emoji4]

jsker · Jan 9, 2017

Great questions @120reefkeeper

What do you believe started the crash

After back tracing my steps, it came down to running my bio pellet reactor too slow and the reactor and pellets started causing hydrogen sulfide production. I had read an article and the article suggested that running bio pellet at a slow tumble is better then running them fast tumble.

What were the indicators that you were indeed having a crash and what did you do??

My corals started looking weak in color and started resending. I started to walk my change back word slowly to see each result. This took time for the reason I wanted to find what was causing the problem.

What was it that you did or didn't do in order to stop the crash and reverse it?

Lastly I took the bio pellet reactor off line and the corals stopped dying and went back to basics before running the bio pellets.

What have you learned from this experience?

That you ask a lot of questions. I learn that not to run bio pellets to slow, would I run bio pellet again? yes but for short periods and at a fast tumble for short time frames. I was using the pellets to help with green hair algae and cyano algae and now I am back to running carbon and trying a different product to control my nutrient load.

120reefkeeper · Jan 9, 2017

Excellent answers my friend! You never know who you might have just helped!

jsker · Jan 10, 2017

The Lucky number are 1/10/16
Ca 450
Mg 1340
Alk 8.4
PO4 .02 ppm
NO3 8 ppm
Salinity 1.0249
temp 78.3
PH 8.3

DLHDesign · Jan 10, 2017

Numbers look nice!

jsker · Jan 10, 2017

DLHDesign said:
Numbers look nice!

Thank you, and the nice things is that they have been steady for the past 2 weeks.
Tank is coming back to life and the Red cyano is gone. I miswell walk away from reefing right now and I can say that I had a success

120reefkeeper · Jan 10, 2017

jsker said:
The Lucky number are 1/10/16
Ca 450
Mg 1340
Alk 8.4
PO4 .02 ppm
NO3 8 ppm
Salinity 1.0249
temp 78.3
PH 8.3

That's what I'm talking about!

jsker · Jan 10, 2017

120reefkeeper said:
That's what I'm talking about!

That's right buddy

DLHDesign · Jan 11, 2017

jsker said:
I miswell walk away from reefing right now...

Walk... away...? I don't understand those words...

(And I had to look up "miswell"; because I'm 'merican... I shall now endeavor to use the term "miswell" more often.)

jsker · Jan 11, 2017

DLHDesign said:
Walk... away...? I don't understand those words...

(And I had to look up "miswell"; because I'm 'merican... I shall now endeavor to use the term "miswell" more often.)

You can tell my northern root by some of the words I use

DLHDesign · Jan 11, 2017

jsker said:
You can tell my northern root by some of the words I use

I'm sure that my Cali comes out as well, so no worries. Likely more when I talk than type as I can "correct" my typing... ;-)

Is it "miz-well" or "miss-well"? I'd had to mispronounce Canadian slang. No one would get mad at me, of course (Canada!), but I'd hate to look silly doing so. Because that would be very... er... American... :-|

jsker · Jan 11, 2017

DLHDesign said:
I'm sure that my Cali comes out as well, so no worries. Likely more when I talk than type as I can "correct" my typing... ;-)

Is it "miz-well" or "miss-well"? I'd had to mispronounce Canadian slang. No one would get mad at me, of course (Canada!), but I'd hate to look silly doing so. Because that would be very... er... American... :-|

Miswell link I like how the urban dictionary uses it in an example

Have a great day!

jsker · Jan 14, 2017

The winning numbers are 1/14/17
Ca 460
Mg 1380
Alk 8.4
PO4 trace to .02 ppm
NO3 8 ppm
Backed of 1 ml dosing on the 1+3+ so now I am at 36 ml daily total dose, but broken up in 9 ml doses 4 times a day. I found that my my numbers are staying steadier and I am dose lest by spreading out the dose.

I am thinking of setting up auto water changes with sea water in the future

fragit · Jan 14, 2017

Following along jsker! Glad you got things straight. I'm bailing on the AF balling and going back to BRS. I'm gonna do a modified AF program of my own design.

jsker · Jan 14, 2017

fragit said:
Following along jsker! Glad you got things straight. I'm bailing on the AF balling and going back to BRS. I'm gonna do a modified AF program of my own design.

That is another thing I like about reefing, seeing what work on different systems.