Surfzone's 30g

Surfzone · Apr 23, 2020

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45ZoaGarden · Apr 23, 2020

Surfzone said:
lol oh i don't have an algae scrubber on the tank.

Didn’t you have one on the old tank? Maybe I’m thinking of someone else ;Dead

Surfzone · Apr 23, 2020

45ZoaGarden said:
Didn’t you have one on the old tank? Maybe I’m thinking of someone else ;Dead

I've not ever had a scrubber on this tank. My weekly water changes seems to be good enough export

45ZoaGarden · Apr 23, 2020

Surfzone said:
I've not ever had a scrubber on this tank. My weekly water changes seems to be good enough export

I was thinking of something to help with the algae. Maybe an urchin or something to help keep it from coming back

Danduhman113 · Apr 23, 2020

If you ever come up to wilmington NC let me know

Surfzone · May 15, 2020

Well I found out what was causing the low pH in my tank. It would appear that it was well past time to change my pH probe. Once I did that my pH has been between 8.2 and 8.4. I also keep a window open in the room to help keep pH up and I have a CO2 scrubber on the intake of the skimmer.

I'm due to do a water change later today and will test the water tomorrow to see where all my levels are. I've learned to keep a double check on the trident. I've gotten some strange reading from it. like Alk jumping from 7.2 to 9.5 and calcium going from 450 to 585 range, but Mag has been consistent and on par with my manual testing. Because of this I have taken trident control of the Calcium reactor off line and have it running all the time and tune it to deliver the right amount of Alk and Calcium. Since doing this my Alk has stabilized at 7.5 on my Hanna checker and on my trident it stays in the 9 range.

I have turned down the lighting on my Radion from 2 hours of 100% to 3 hours of 75% in hopes that this will stop the coral death that I've been having. I got a few tester corals to see how they do with the new lighting situation. I also intend to increase the 75% by an hour weekly until i get to 6 hours a day with an hour ramp up and ramp down period.

45ZoaGarden · May 15, 2020

Surfzone said:
Well I found out what was causing the low pH in my tank. It would appear that it was well past time to change my pH probe. Once I did that my pH has been between 8.2 and 8.4. I also keep a window open in the room to help keep pH up and I have a CO2 scrubber on the intake of the skimmer.

I'm due to do a water change later today and will test the water tomorrow to see where all my levels are. I've learned to keep a double check on the trident. I've gotten some strange reading from it. like Alk jumping from 7.2 to 9.5 and calcium going from 450 to 585 range, but Mag has been consistent and on par with my manual testing. Because of this I have taken trident control of the Calcium reactor off line and have it running all the time and tune it to deliver the right amount of Alk and Calcium. Since doing this my Alk has stabilized at 7.5 on my Hanna checker and on my trident it stays in the 9 range.

I have turned down the lighting on my Radion from 2 hours of 100% to 3 hours of 75% in hopes that this will stop the coral death that I've been having. I got a few tester corals to see how they do with the new lighting situation. I also intend to increase the 75% by an hour weekly until i get to 6 hours a day with an hour ramp up and ramp down period.

Did you re prime the lines and calibrate when you swapped reagents?

Surfzone · May 15, 2020

45ZoaGarden said:
Did you re prime the lines and calibrate when you swapped reagents?

yes

45ZoaGarden · May 15, 2020

Surfzone said:
yes

That’s weird....

45ZoaGarden · May 15, 2020

Mine has changed a bit when I swapped reagent but it was never by over .2dkh for alk and 10 ppm for ca

Surfzone · May 15, 2020

I've been thinking of taking the thing off line and getting rid of it. i got it to monitor the big three but the only one I can rely on is Mag.

45ZoaGarden · May 15, 2020

Surfzone said:
I've been thinking of taking the thing off line and getting rid of it. i got it to monitor the big three but the only one I can rely on is Mag.

Mine has been off since December. I’m home a lot and can monitor the tank myself. And I don’t feel like hunting for reagents again.

Surfzone · May 15, 2020

45ZoaGarden said:
Mine has been off since December. I’m home a lot and can monitor the tank myself. And I don’t feel like hunting for reagents again.

I'm home a lot too running an online aquarium store so doing daily alk testing is no big deal for me either. And I feel you on hunting reagents. I got 3 months left so probably after that I'll take it offline.

45ZoaGarden · May 15, 2020

Surfzone said:
I'm home a lot too running an online aquarium store so doing daily alk testing is no big deal for me either. And I feel you on hunting reagents. I got 3 months left so probably after that I'll take it offline.

I’ve thought about selling mine for what I paid plus shipping. It’s a cool gadget if I go on vacation etc but it’s just meh for when I’m home 99% of the time.

Surfzone · May 26, 2020

Bought some Zoas for the tank
AOI

Buttkisser

Tasers

Bubble Buster

Surfzone · May 26, 2020

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45ZoaGarden · May 27, 2020

Good choices on the chalices! Some of my favorites!!!

Surfzone · Aug 17, 2020

so my Chalices have all slowly died and I'm not sure why. I'm getting an ICP test done to see if there is a chemistry problem in the tank. The tank grows coraline very well , but stony corals are my issue. My Clam is doing well and growing very well. Zoas are growing very well a little slow but that is probably due to my nitrate and phosphate levels. My fish are doing well and eating at least 3 times a day. I also started feeding nori for my flame angel and lawn mower blenny. They both got rather thin, and I like fish to be nice and rotund.

WATER:
Alk -7.1
Calcium - 505
Magnesium - 1450
Nitrate - 4.0
Phosphate - 0.03

I know the calcium is a bit high, but I've always had a high calcium level. That seems to be where my calcium levels like to be.

Surfzone · Aug 31, 2020

I did some water testing today and came up with
Alk 7.7dKH
Ca 424ppm
Mg 1360ppm
PO4 0.01ppm
NO3 4ppm

I've also submitted an ICP test to see if anything is going wacky in my tank. I'm still having trubble with stony corals. Right now I have two ORA corals: purple A. nana and a pink Stylo. the Stylo seems to be doing alright but the Acro seems to be receding at the base. I've also lowered my Calcium level by turning off the Calcium reactor and just manually dose Alk. I'm still getting slow growth out of my zoanthids, but my clam has never been better. it has a white spot on its mantle due to the lawnmower blenny perching on it, but other than that the clam is growing just fine.