Pancho's Reef S-500 Roller Coaster

[GoVols]

Today FTS.

Looks great, Pancho

Got some serious sps plating going on, up top... ;Wideyed

 

[PanchoG]

Looks great, Pancho

Got some serious sps plating going on, up top... ;Wideyed

Thanks Freddie!

i love my purple monti and my setosa montipora.

 

[GoVols]

Thanks Freddie!

i love my purple monti and my setosa montipora.

lol
Ripped out about 5 pounds of monti's last year.

Our family is doing well, thanks for asking.

Pancho,
Are you in Murfreesboro or Mexico?

 

[PanchoG]

lol
Ripped out about 5 pounds of monti's last year.

Our family is doing well, thanks for asking.

Pancho,
Are you in Murfreesboro or Mexico?

Hello Freddie, good to hear your family is doing well. I’m in Murfreesboro, grounded ;Writing. I have not left US since March last year. However I will move back to Mexico in July! so finally I will be again a proper reefer ;Smug.

 

[GoVols]

Hello Freddie, good to hear your family is doing well. I’m in Murfreesboro, grounded ;Writing. I have not left US since March last year. However I will move back to Mexico in July! so finally I will be again a proper reefer ;Smug.

Yeah,
Thought your FTS was with your reef's camera... ;Hilarious

Lol
It still looks great!!

 

[PanchoG]

I thought to share the list of equipment and spares I will be taking with me in June: DOS for daily water changes, DDR, new frag rack, AFS and acclimation box. I still would like to buy a pH probe, temp probe, LDK, Eihem heater, and a UVC lamp.

After reading people experience with Trident and given the fact I only test the water once every two or three weeks I decided against it and I can use that money for fish and corals.

 

[Crabby48]

Happy to hear you will get to go home in July. Can’t imagine the joy it will bring you and your family. We will be expecting many photos.

I love my trident. That said if your tank is pretty stable it isn’t needed but will give you a piece of mind. Having mine from the beginning of dosing I was able to keep an eye on it as it used more or less during the week.

 

[PanchoG]

Two torch frags with two heads arrived yesterday, life is improving.

 

[PanchoG]

A video with the Nest cam.

 

[PanchoG]

One of my chalice is “melting”, I have no idea why. It’s been in my tank for more than 7 months and parameters are stable and good. I read that raising Mg a little may help, time will tell.

 

[Crabby48]

Sorry my friend. Looking good otherwise

 

[PanchoG]

Sorry my friend. Looking good otherwise

Thanks buddy.

 

[PanchoG]

I got a newcomer, I wanted a watchman goby but got a OSG instead. He already found a friend.

On the other hand, the chalice is improving. ;Woot

 

[najer]

I looked at the chalice before pic, I think it got damaged, you might have a new chalice on the floor!

 

[PanchoG]

I looked at the chalice before pic, I think it got damaged, you might have a new chalice on the floor!

I hope so! It could be a good frag swap.

 

[PanchoG]

I was continuing with the preparations to get more spare parts or upgrades however this guy appeared in my screen first and I had to buy it as I am Back to the Future fan.

 

[PanchoG]

Old pic but love the colors.

 

[PanchoG]

Some crappy news, the neon dottyback bullied my new diamond goby and he jumped through the net... I guess he was too small or too timid, I hate when they jump.

In the positive side the chalice is recovering and the new torch are doing good also. As I am still dealing with high nutrients NO3 5 ppm and PO4 0.5 ppm I am planning to get a better fuge light to encourage chaeto growth.

The clock is ticking, 3 months more and I’ll be enjoying the tank with a glass of tequila.

 

[PanchoG]

After some digging and some advices I set up my lunar settings from 9PM to 11PM using 5% in the UV, V, RY and B channels. However I set the lunar cycle to start at 8PM to reduce the total light, so my lights will vary depending the moon phase from 8PM to 11PM. This IMO is low intensity, however it stretches my photoperiod to 14 hrs, I hope this will not stress the corals but to promote coral development.

 

[najer]

After some digging and some advices I set up my lunar settings from 9PM to 11PM using 5% in the UV, V, RY and B channels. However I set the lunar cycle to start at 8PM to reduce the total light, so my lights will vary depending the moon phase from 8PM to 11PM. This IMO is low intensity, however it stretches my photoperiod to 14 hrs, I hope this will not stress the corals but to promote coral development.

Nice, that middle section is using light, just stretched the twins to 13 hours from 12!