TinpanVA
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I has made a 12x12x12 rimless tank into a quarantine tank. It's been up and running for just over 4 months now. I've been fragging off some of my NoTG and some zoas as "test" frags to make sure all is good to go with the system.
Once the frags are in the tank they don't really brown out, but they do lack the pop and luster of how they look in my display tank. The polyps on the NoTG never extend and the zoas only half open. They will stay like this for months until the slowly fade and die off.
The tank did cycle in the begining, and nothing was added until it was stable and no trace of ammonia. The calc and alk are a little high but stable. The downside to using RSCP salt. I do 1 to 1.5 gal water changes weekly. The lights are homemade LEDS from rapid LED, with uv, blues, whites and moon lights. I have these controlled via a small remote control where full strength is 15 "clicks" of the remote. I'm not really sure the light has much to do with.polyp extension but the current setting is 7 clicks on blues, 3 on white, 5 on uv, 8 on moon lights. So maybe 50% ish?
Flow is provided by a HOB filter, the ac50, which I would have thought would be plenty. No skimmer as I'm doing weekly waterchanges. Corals shouldn't be starving as I also have a lawnmower blenny keeping the lawn mowed and providing the poop.
I have a spare mp10 I could put in there but feel that's going to be way too much flow. Since I've hit that brickwall of figuring this out I need some fresh ideas and new perspectives.
Edit : I've also added a chip of my Monti to the tank, same thing going on, no polyps.
Bring it on peeps!
Once the frags are in the tank they don't really brown out, but they do lack the pop and luster of how they look in my display tank. The polyps on the NoTG never extend and the zoas only half open. They will stay like this for months until the slowly fade and die off.
The tank did cycle in the begining, and nothing was added until it was stable and no trace of ammonia. The calc and alk are a little high but stable. The downside to using RSCP salt. I do 1 to 1.5 gal water changes weekly. The lights are homemade LEDS from rapid LED, with uv, blues, whites and moon lights. I have these controlled via a small remote control where full strength is 15 "clicks" of the remote. I'm not really sure the light has much to do with.polyp extension but the current setting is 7 clicks on blues, 3 on white, 5 on uv, 8 on moon lights. So maybe 50% ish?
Flow is provided by a HOB filter, the ac50, which I would have thought would be plenty. No skimmer as I'm doing weekly waterchanges. Corals shouldn't be starving as I also have a lawnmower blenny keeping the lawn mowed and providing the poop.
I have a spare mp10 I could put in there but feel that's going to be way too much flow. Since I've hit that brickwall of figuring this out I need some fresh ideas and new perspectives.
Edit : I've also added a chip of my Monti to the tank, same thing going on, no polyps.
Bring it on peeps!
