Pete polyp's 29 mixed reef

Pete polyp · Jun 6, 2014

markalot said:
Awesome Pete. You know that aluminum stuff can cause all kinds of issues. I use it as well, and make sure not to tumble it, just rinse and plop in an HOB filter.

Yep, I nuked all of my acro last September by using too much.

Pete polyp · Jun 6, 2014

Thanks for the compliments

Pete polyp · Jun 9, 2014

I'm so frustrated at this tank right now. The more I feed it the stronger the nutrient export is. I'm feeding three times a day with rods original and once or twice a night with coral frenzy or reef roids.... This is what it gets me

About a week ago my phosphate checker started showing phosphates. So I used about 2tbsp phosphate sponge for about 24 hours and it seems to be in check.

Before phosphate sponge

48 hours after phosphate sponge

I really don't know what to do about the nitrates. Maybe I need to start dosing nitrate or get more fish.

Tahoe61 · Jun 9, 2014

Pete everything looks really great, why are you concerned? Do you think you can get more color? Excuse me if I missed the explanation.

Pete polyp · Jun 9, 2014

Not more color, but trying to keep the colors I have been able to pull out. I had really bad colors for the first year when I had 0 nitrates. I moved the tank and the nitrate went up to 1 ppm and the colors were drastically improved.

0ppm

After 1 month 0.5ppm-1ppm

Ryan2428 · Jun 9, 2014

Big difference

Pete polyp · Jun 9, 2014

The first picture was actually taken with my dslr and the second with cell phone. Here's a dslr pic from last week

mfief · Jun 9, 2014

Very nice color after the move

revhtree · Jun 10, 2014

Yes good color!

Pete polyp · Jun 10, 2014

Thanks guys

Pete polyp · Jun 11, 2014

Last Halloween the kids got some LED finger lights. Some are red, some are green, some are blue. Of course I confiscated the blue ones for personal use haha. I use them to look at the tank at night to see more color pop. They sure have a great actinic color to them and really bring out the colors you can't see during the day with t5. Here's my Yuma under the spotlight

inkedsparkster · Jun 11, 2014

That's an awesome pic!

Pete polyp · Jun 12, 2014

Thanks. These LED lights really do bring out certain colors. They are only 50 cents too!

Pete polyp · Jun 12, 2014

It really is an amazing Yuma though. Something the LED didn't bring out is the yellow mixed in. Here she is under no tank lighting, only ambient sunlight in the room

Ryan2428 · Jun 12, 2014

Pete polyp said:
Last Halloween the kids got some LED finger lights. Some are red, some are green, some are blue. Of course I confiscated the blue ones for personal use haha. I use them to look at the tank at night to see more color pop. They sure have a great actinic color to them and really bring out the colors you can't see during the day with t5. Here's my Yuma under the spotlight

dont be showing off stuff i have orderd from u at least till i get mine on tuesday lol

Pete polyp · Jun 14, 2014

Well, I was spot feeding this morning and the Cali tort wasn't in it's spot. It fell into a chalice, so I'm sure it's beat up pretty bad.... Just waiting for the lights to come on and see if it's even going to be salvageable.