DereksReef77
Active Member
Ok so a little about my tank.
125 gallon w 55 gallon sump
Reef octopus skimmer ran 24/7
1 yellow tang, 4 clowns, and 2 bartlet anthias. Snails and 1 crab lol.
Salt Instant Ocean
ATI 8 bulb powermodule (old unit no leds)
Actinic
Blue+
Blue+
Coral+
Coral+
Blue+
Purple+
Actinic
Light schedule is 9 hours a day starting with 2 1/2 hours with all bulbs except the coral+ then 4 hours all bulbs then 2 1/2 hours all bulbs except the coral+. Entire light schedule is run at 100% intensity.
Parameters are:
1.026
Mag 1400
Alk 8.75
Cal 440
Nitrate 5
Phos .03-.1
Temp 79
All testing done with salifert test kits.
I use brs dosers for alk and cal (brs 2 part) and dose each for 30 min 4 times a day. Dosers were installed like 2-3 months ago. Tank has been running for at least 3 years since entry into the hobby. First saltwater I set up. Everything that has been in the tank has been doing great and I never did anything besides maybe a 10-15 gallon water change every couple of weeks and feed the fish. So since all my sps were growing and doing great I figured what the heck nows the time to get some high end frags so thats what I did. When I got them I did the Bayer dip and all that and got them in the tank and I will say I babied them and didn't have them in enough par so I moved the frag racks to the center of the tank. They started to look much better and measured par with my par meter and was getting like 200-250 par. I will state that the bulbs were very old like 2 years old so I thought I should change some and ended swapping out 2 blue+,purple+,and a coral+. Corals seemed fine with the change and actually looked a lot nicer. So I started researching more here on r2r and almost everyone is saying 350par+ for acros so I started moving frag racks higher up to get into the higher par numbers but I started to notice less polyp extension which doesn't happen in my tank. Polyp extension is always huge in my tank 24/7. Also noticed that they started to get pale colors so I moved them back down to200-280 par. Alot of them look pretty good to me now but I also started testing strontium and potassium as my research indicated and I got potassium of 350 and strontium of 0-3 with salifert test kits. Made a batch of sw last night so I can do a water change later tonight. Im going to test for those 2 elements in the new sw to see where the numbers ar at for IO salt. Anyways I bought brightwell aquatics and dosed both last night. I will include pics of my frags so maybe I can get some input as to what you guys think. Thanks
Thats half of them lol.
125 gallon w 55 gallon sump
Reef octopus skimmer ran 24/7
1 yellow tang, 4 clowns, and 2 bartlet anthias. Snails and 1 crab lol.
Salt Instant Ocean
ATI 8 bulb powermodule (old unit no leds)
Actinic
Blue+
Blue+
Coral+
Coral+
Blue+
Purple+
Actinic
Light schedule is 9 hours a day starting with 2 1/2 hours with all bulbs except the coral+ then 4 hours all bulbs then 2 1/2 hours all bulbs except the coral+. Entire light schedule is run at 100% intensity.
Parameters are:
1.026
Mag 1400
Alk 8.75
Cal 440
Nitrate 5
Phos .03-.1
Temp 79
All testing done with salifert test kits.
I use brs dosers for alk and cal (brs 2 part) and dose each for 30 min 4 times a day. Dosers were installed like 2-3 months ago. Tank has been running for at least 3 years since entry into the hobby. First saltwater I set up. Everything that has been in the tank has been doing great and I never did anything besides maybe a 10-15 gallon water change every couple of weeks and feed the fish. So since all my sps were growing and doing great I figured what the heck nows the time to get some high end frags so thats what I did. When I got them I did the Bayer dip and all that and got them in the tank and I will say I babied them and didn't have them in enough par so I moved the frag racks to the center of the tank. They started to look much better and measured par with my par meter and was getting like 200-250 par. I will state that the bulbs were very old like 2 years old so I thought I should change some and ended swapping out 2 blue+,purple+,and a coral+. Corals seemed fine with the change and actually looked a lot nicer. So I started researching more here on r2r and almost everyone is saying 350par+ for acros so I started moving frag racks higher up to get into the higher par numbers but I started to notice less polyp extension which doesn't happen in my tank. Polyp extension is always huge in my tank 24/7. Also noticed that they started to get pale colors so I moved them back down to200-280 par. Alot of them look pretty good to me now but I also started testing strontium and potassium as my research indicated and I got potassium of 350 and strontium of 0-3 with salifert test kits. Made a batch of sw last night so I can do a water change later tonight. Im going to test for those 2 elements in the new sw to see where the numbers ar at for IO salt. Anyways I bought brightwell aquatics and dosed both last night. I will include pics of my frags so maybe I can get some input as to what you guys think. Thanks
Thats half of them lol.
