Rob&Gab SPS collection

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

oh and we are gonna be mixxing salt for the new 120Gallon

just bought a 200G instant ocean reef crystals orange box. anyone if its any good. We are gonna be doing a full cycle on this new 120 till about july. wanted to no if this salt is any good. Thank you!

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

MistaOrange · Mar 13, 2014

Rob&Gab said:
oh and we are gonna be mixxing salt for the new 120Gallon just bought a 200G instant ocean reef crystals orange box. anyone if its any good. We are gonna be doing a full cycle on this new 120 till about july. wanted to no if this salt is any good. Thank you!

I've only heard good things about reef chrytals & wish we could get it here...

MistaOrange · Mar 13, 2014

Quention if I may... Are you running just frag tanks or both frag & DT? Awesome sticks btw...

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

Shallow tank Anemone and SPS and zoas/ Frag tank to hold Frags we buy and some that we have no room after i clip in the DT.

and a DT as well.

MistaOrange · Mar 13, 2014

Cool was just wondering as you only post frag shots & hardly any FTS... Saw the 120g build going to be awesome to see the progress & good to see people do cycles as some people here tend to know best & don't do cycles because they dosing bacteria... So what the tank still needs to do a cycle regardless...

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

yes very true.! also i post FTS once in a blue every week is boring inless we do something crazy to teh tanks aquascape. i Dont only Post Frags silly But close ups of some colonies.

the closer you are the better IMO

Gets you front and center. so you can see what i see.

fisharefriends · Mar 13, 2014

Reef Crystals are great but have you ever gave esv a shot kid?

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

no i havnt ever did salt mixing before this will be our first go around with salt.

fisharefriends · Mar 13, 2014

Well esv is harder to measure out but it also contains the two part additives as well it may lessen the need for you to dose ...

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

we love hand dosing. We just have to see what is high in the reef crystals. i think it is CAL but im not sure or can be ALK. i will see in about a week .

Pete polyp · Mar 13, 2014

If I remember correctly mine mixed up at 480, 11, 1300. I recently switched back to io

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

oh wow thats pretty high ALK, that was for the Reef crystals? orange box? you using the Purple Box now? what does that test at normally ?

MistaOrange · Mar 13, 2014

Rob&Gab said:
yes very true.! also i post FTS once in a blue every week is boring inless we do something crazy to teh tanks aquascape. i Dont only Post Frags silly But close ups of some colonies. the closer you are the better IMO Gets you front and center. so you can see what i see.

Well thanks for sharing your view with us you have some awesome coral something to be proud of... Yes I'm jealous as we hardly get any of those wicked colours here but when we do the sell quickly... Sigh... LOL

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

Originally Posted by fisharefriends
Hey kid what are those zoas in post 83 to the bottom right of pic in back row...?
In the first pic..

copy and paste the link . too much work looking threw the thread lol.!

seeeeeee i did reply. ! page 16.

Rob&Gab · Mar 13, 2014

top right is PZZ domentoes and bottom right is my clementines.

fisharefriends · Mar 13, 2014

No you told me to send a pic to your email the other night kid lol

Pete polyp · Mar 13, 2014

Yes I started with instant ocean (purple box) and had to dose quite a bit. I switched to reef crystals (orange box) and rarely dosed. IO I was testing at 350, 6, 1120. I switched back so I could dose more often. I noticed a decrease in growth (particularly sps) when I used RC. My acans actually stopped growing at all as well. Zoa and paly sure did take off though. Long story short, I get much better results when I can dose my 2 part. I'm using oceans blend and it contains every major and minor trace element. I really like this stuff and will continue to pay more for it rather than diy 2 part and mag.

Pete polyp · Mar 13, 2014

One other thing about reef crystals is the inconsistency between batches. People report parameters all over the place, like 10-14 dkh, 425-500 ca. It also takes longer for it to mix than instant ocean. I have actually witnessed a fresh mix of reef crystals precipitate calcium in the bucket while mixing it.