My 90 gallon tank journey

[justingraham]

Got a new addition he or she has added so much movement to the tank glad I got it once again @tsm corals by far has the best fish this was about an hour after acclimation

 

[prsnlty]

Very nice!!!

 

[justingraham]

Very nice!!!

Thank you it's called a kathrines fairy wrasse so I told the wife I brought home kathrine she was not happy until she found out it was a fish

How is ur tank doing?

 

[GoVols]

Thank you it's called a kathrines fairy wrasse so I told the wife I brought home kathrine she was not happy until she found out it was a fish

Lol
You ain't right!!!

 

[prsnlty]

Thank you it's called a kathrines fairy wrasse so I told the wife I brought home kathrine she was not happy until she found out it was a fish

How is ur tank doing?

Lol, too funny!!!

Eh, the same. Lost a couple more and Los still closed. I'm just giving it time now. At this point what I lose I lose what I don't I don't.

 

[justingraham]

Lol, too funny!!!

Eh, the same. Lost a couple more and Los still closed. I'm just giving it time now. At this point what I lose I lose what I don't I don't.

Well when mine are big they are urs so u better hope I don't mess up

 

[prsnlty]

Well when mine are big they are urs so u better hope I don't mess up

Lollol. I think you're doing real good Justin [emoji23]

 

[justingraham]

Lollol. I think you're doing real good Justin [emoji23]

Why thank you yesterday I was thinking the same thing I was like wow I can't believe how good everything looks and how good my fat fish behave this has been by far my most enjoyable tank

 

[justingraham]

Does anybody else have a problem with missing nori?

She's my favorite cat-fish who's about to get a sister

 

[justingraham]

Well because our lives have been so good lately hardly any problems we decided it was a good idea to adopt a kitten

Her name is primrose and kitty my hood rat cat hates her. She hasn't peed on the floor yet so that's good

 

[GoVols]

Well because our lives have been so good lately hardly any problems we decided it was a good idea to adopt a kitten

Her name is primrose and kitty my hood rat cat hates her. She hasn't peed on the floor yet so that's good

Justin,
That's awesome.

They'll be buds in no time.

 

[justingraham]

Justin,
That's awesome.

They'll be buds in no time.

Yea well not right now

I have some updating to do in a little while

 

[GoVols]

Justin,
How are the cats getting along?

 

[justingraham]

The first week or two not so good but now they are playing with each other so all is well.


Couple other updates on the tank a couple of my corals are bleaching out two weeks after vacation. It started at the tips and slowly took over two or three of them. All my params are stable so I'm kinda at a loss as to what it could be. I had some red cyno going on so I thought maybe that was the cause dosed red slime remover and man that stuff kicked but. No more red slime but the corals are still bleaching. There has been No spikes at all so I don't know I'm about to send out a triton test.
Fish are fat and happy.

Added another mp10 and went thru my wav and light schedule and adjusted my mp schedule to match. I am moving some water in this tank. I was sent a tlf nori holder not the clip by @locitto fish don't quite understand it right now.

I re ran some wires for my cabinet. My flow monitor never worked for my carbon and I was thinking it was because of electrical interference. I was correct.

I set up an apex solenoid for my trash can topoff unit. I also made my rodi unit a five or six stage??? Who knows I don't. But when my trash can is low on water see below I made a bracket for my pmup with a low level sensor on it when that triggers open my solenoid kicks on until my top sensor is triggered which is right below my float valve. Had some problems with the solenoid and apex got in touch with me and sent me a new one they did awesome and I appreciate it tons.

The other day one of my brand new reefbrite replacement halide bulbs blew. It was in for two weeks. So far that's two bulbs that blew in eight months I'm not happy to say the least luckily I had a back up going to get in touch with tulio on Tuesday because as of right now I think I'm going to look for another bulb. Any recommendations on 250watt de bulbs?


I'm also thinking about changing out my return pipe from the one inch to the one and a quarter to see how much flow I will gain. Hopefully it's enough to where I'm only running my return pumps at 70% instead of 85.

Since @GoVols showed his testing center here is mine

Funny story well not really funny sad and cute. My new cat is from a shelter we were told that here one paw would fall off and well it did. But she was so cute with her cast I even signed it

And this is her watching pets with me

Till next time

Justin

No pictures of corals as I'm mad at them right now

 

[GoVols]

Justin,
I'm sorry about the bleaching and it could go back to the big ROX dump.
It may have sucked in all your organics from your water column but you did the best that you could do.
+ you've had some bulb issues too.

It does not make it better but we've all been there and you'll get'r her turned around.

Understand your frustration and you put your heart into your reef.

 

[justingraham]

Govols or anyone really I need ur help with my coral situation

Ok so I'll do my params.
Alk 7.8
Magnesium no idea
Calcium 480
Potassium 440
Trate is 16 was higher started dosing no pox
Phate is .03
Sg .26 with a refractometer calibrated with tlf
Temp 78.3-78.6 the last week
Ph 8.0-8.3
Orp 326
Tds 0 I did run it up to 1 for about 20 gallons of water.
No stray voltage.
Lights I think are fine have had problems tho recently with bulb problems
Flow 150x turnover an hour so in my mind not enough but more then most

It started with my montis and birdsnest and now has slowly started hitting just the tips of some of my other corals my hammer isn't as big as it usually is.

My thoughts is a metal of some sort when this started happening my one bulb blew out so I thought it was sending bad radio wavs out cause it was only happening on that side around that time I added a flipper scrapper I have left that in the tank maby that's the cause I have no idea and I'm kinda stumped and drained any help would be great guys

 

[GoVols]

Justin,
I'm just shooting in the wind ... but if you just started the NoPox and your organics are too low then you can get burnt tips but it usually takes a high alk to do that, unless your nitrates have dropped too fast from the NoPox.

 

[justingraham]

The tips started before the nopox

 

[justingraham]

My trates were a little high so that was one of my wrong guesses

 

[KJoFan]

I don't have the answer for you, but I can tell you that I was having some nutrient issues (based on testing alone, no other coral/algae issues) in my tank and started messing with NoPox, and lanthanum chloride and even some biopellets for a hot second and what ended up happening was burnt tips/recession/death of the few sps I had in there, growth of hair algae, some green slime and cyano. So...I cut all that crap out and am going to stick to water changes alone. I siphoned some sand and back chambers (AIO) of the tank and plan to do 20% changes weekly for awhile and see what happens.

This is no help other than my point is that it seems like as soon as I started messing with nutrient reduction methods things seemed to go awry and nutrients were getting out of balance. So, I guess, be cautious with the carbon dosing and more often than not, there is no better "cure" than good old water changes to get the ship righted.