Grim's 210g (Final update.)

Grim, your tank dissapoints me (sarcasm)..you better hand over that tank to me. I promise it will be in safe keepings

 

Can you provide a current stock list of fish please? If you dont mind.

 

haha, Thanks guys!!! She's really coming around! The colors are great and growth has been just as good! No deaths since the salinity event and most everything except my wellso has recovered fully.


Current Fish:
Yellow Tang
Sailfin Tang
Naso Tang
Vlaminji Tang (about to get removed to free up bioload for wrasses and because I caught her taking bites out of my acans)
Flame Angel
Midas Blenny
Male Red Sailfin Dragonette
Lawnmower (rock) Blenny
4 Blue/green chromis
3 flasher chromis
Longnose hawkfish
Blue devil damsel (been around since my first SW tank lol)
2 Royal Gramma
1 flasher wrasse, i think it's a mckoskers... not for sure though just got it from the lfs

I'm showing no problem algaes and crystal clear water
0 nitrate (red sea low end test)
0 phosphate on Hanna ppm
400 Calcium
8.5 dkh Alk
1300 Mag


have I mentioned lately just how much I LOVE my algae scrubber? Because I haven't had an algae problem or a n03/po4 reading since it fully developed!

 

Got my hands on a nikon d70 dslr with an 18-70 lense and a 60mm lense. Now to figure out how to use it! Any tips?

 

Do not use the flash for a starter. Make yourself familiar with "A" (aperture priority) setting.

I use the D90, and I love it.

 

Nice, TY!! I am having some trouble with the memory card I think. All the pictures I have taken are showing "corrupted" I can't view them on the computer or on the camera... I'll figure it out soon enough though!

 

So, 3 nights ago I started dosing Kalk saturated pure vinegar at a rate of 11 mils a day spread over 1 minute an hour for 10 hours. I am doing this for a few reasons. First of all to strip the little bits of p04/no3 that are left in my system out. (I'm undetecable, but I'm sure there is still some in there somewhere) And to add kalk so I can slow down my 2part consumption a little.

Vinegar allows a full reaction to the Kalk so I'm getting the max potential out of it. This also gives me a carbon source for the bacteria. 2 birds, one stone and healthier corals!! So far everything looks great! I may be crazy but my water was crystal clear yesterday and corals somehow seemed even more colorful!! I'm going to be extremely conservative with this method.

I plan to add another hour and that will add 1 more minute of dosing (1.1mils) each day after 2 weeks and again 2 weeks after that... But that plan is completely dependent on what I'm seeing with the corals.

 

^^sounds like a good plan, Grim! Looking forward to the results.

Try formatting the SD card using the D70's menu. Might help

 

love the frag tank!

 

Got most of the lighting re-done!! I'm back to running 5 AI modules (I had one in my closet) and am running them end to end. Much better in terms of shadowing. I still don't have the 2 ati bulbs.. and the vho's are mounted so high that they don't seem to have much visual effect in the tank... I may swap them for t5s of a different color instead...

They through to much visual noise into the room. I am going to have to fashion something to close the gap between my tank or try t5s.. I think that's going to make it worse though... Any ideas?