- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
Looks great. What are the new lights?
Sunny's 350G Build
- Thread starter sunny
- Start date
Here are some pics under new lights.
Sunny
Wow amazing bro..
- Location
- New Jersey
- Location
- Deer Park,Long Island,11729
Randy
Just simple T5 for now till I can get enough money to get 10 radions.
Those simple T5's look GREAT!
Congrats
- Location
- New Jersey
Those simple T5's look GREAT!
Congrats
LOL. Thanks Mike.
- Location
- New Jersey
OMG - Sometimes, efficient can be too efficient.
So I was home sick today lying on my couch looking at the tank and I notice my Toxic Green Tort colony is not happy. I move up closer and see it is STNing like there is no tomorrow. What happened here? Everything else looks fine but I can see all white body inside out. Hmm, now I am pi$$ed.
I start testing the water parameters. Nitrate, PO4 are 0. Ca is at 450. Alk is reading 6.8. WHAT??? 6.8? I test ALK and Ca twice a month at least. How can ALK be at 6.8? It was at 9.0 2 weeks ago. This is a Sailfert Kit I test with. I am in disbelief and run out to purchase another test kit. Wife is on my case "You are sick, you took a day off where are you going? "My corals are sick. I have to do something.." Oh Well.
I buy a new Sailfert test kit and test Alk again. Ha! it is indeed a 6.8/7. WTF happened here? I start to dig further. I dose using BRS pumps which are controlled by my Apex. I check the dosing time and they have not changed in months. I test the pumps and they are dosing fine as well. Stumped not sure what happened I look at the outlet for Alk dosing in Apex. It says OFF if pH > 8.29. Hmm. I remember putting that in there 2 years ago just to avoid over dosing ALK. But my pH is always at 8.2 - 8.23. Curious I check the pH in last 7 days and I find out it is 8.3 - 8.33
How is that possible? Alk is at 7 and pH is at 8.3? Something is not right here. What can it be? What changed?
Skimmer and Lights. It cannot be the lights because I know since changing to T5 my corals have not adapted to them yet. So the corals are not happier for sure to use up more ALK. I know this because my Ca levels were at 500 2 weeks ago so corals were not using any Ca for the first 2 weeks after changing the lights. This is when ALK was at 9.0 where I normally keep it.
Well, it has to be the skimmer. The skimmer is performing so well that there is a increased amount of oxygen in the tank. It is also skimming a bit wet than my SRO 8000xp. This is raising the pH to over 8.3 and as a result at least for past 1 week Apex is not dosing any ALK.
Viola! I never thought changing the skimmer will cause ALK headaches.
I hope no other colony shows sighs of stress. I might loose the toxic green tort colony though :-/
Sunny
So I was home sick today lying on my couch looking at the tank and I notice my Toxic Green Tort colony is not happy. I move up closer and see it is STNing like there is no tomorrow. What happened here? Everything else looks fine but I can see all white body inside out. Hmm, now I am pi$$ed.
I start testing the water parameters. Nitrate, PO4 are 0. Ca is at 450. Alk is reading 6.8. WHAT??? 6.8? I test ALK and Ca twice a month at least. How can ALK be at 6.8? It was at 9.0 2 weeks ago. This is a Sailfert Kit I test with. I am in disbelief and run out to purchase another test kit. Wife is on my case "You are sick, you took a day off where are you going? "My corals are sick. I have to do something.." Oh Well.
I buy a new Sailfert test kit and test Alk again. Ha! it is indeed a 6.8/7. WTF happened here? I start to dig further. I dose using BRS pumps which are controlled by my Apex. I check the dosing time and they have not changed in months. I test the pumps and they are dosing fine as well. Stumped not sure what happened I look at the outlet for Alk dosing in Apex. It says OFF if pH > 8.29. Hmm. I remember putting that in there 2 years ago just to avoid over dosing ALK. But my pH is always at 8.2 - 8.23. Curious I check the pH in last 7 days and I find out it is 8.3 - 8.33
How is that possible? Alk is at 7 and pH is at 8.3? Something is not right here. What can it be? What changed?
Skimmer and Lights. It cannot be the lights because I know since changing to T5 my corals have not adapted to them yet. So the corals are not happier for sure to use up more ALK. I know this because my Ca levels were at 500 2 weeks ago so corals were not using any Ca for the first 2 weeks after changing the lights. This is when ALK was at 9.0 where I normally keep it.
Well, it has to be the skimmer. The skimmer is performing so well that there is a increased amount of oxygen in the tank. It is also skimming a bit wet than my SRO 8000xp. This is raising the pH to over 8.3 and as a result at least for past 1 week Apex is not dosing any ALK.
Viola! I never thought changing the skimmer will cause ALK headaches.
I hope no other colony shows sighs of stress. I might loose the toxic green tort colony though :-/
Sunny
Sunny, if your home is getting more ventilation than it normally does, your ph can rise a little higher. 8.3 is in a normal range in my experience. Definitely change that Apex program to 8.6 or so. It's always something with these SPS tanks. I hope the green tort pulls through.
- Location
- New Jersey
Thanks Rich, I hope it makes it as well.
- Location
- New Jersey
Who says Chromis are peaceful??
I have had a blue reef chromis in my reef for 3 years now. Not the regular chromis you see, but the one sold as blue reef chromis by Live Aquaria. They sell them as peaceful fish.
For the past 4 months this 2.5 inch fish has been chasing all the anthias and wrasses in my tank. I have been trying to catch it for 4 months and the smart a$$ would just not go near the trap. I would sit and just see him chase all fish around, to the point where flame wrasse, rhomboid, all anthias and radiant started hiding all the time. What a mean fish to have.
I staved the tank for 5 days and finally last night I had the SOB trapped in the trap. What a relief. No not for me only but my wrasses greeted me this morning saying the same thing.
Be careful of what you put in the tank. Chromis are step sister of a Damsel. A $15 fish can eventually be responsible for harassing a $200 fish to death.
I have had a blue reef chromis in my reef for 3 years now. Not the regular chromis you see, but the one sold as blue reef chromis by Live Aquaria. They sell them as peaceful fish.
For the past 4 months this 2.5 inch fish has been chasing all the anthias and wrasses in my tank. I have been trying to catch it for 4 months and the smart a$$ would just not go near the trap. I would sit and just see him chase all fish around, to the point where flame wrasse, rhomboid, all anthias and radiant started hiding all the time. What a mean fish to have.
I staved the tank for 5 days and finally last night I had the SOB trapped in the trap. What a relief. No not for me only but my wrasses greeted me this morning saying the same thing.
Be careful of what you put in the tank. Chromis are step sister of a Damsel. A $15 fish can eventually be responsible for harassing a $200 fish to death.
- Location
- New Jersey
Time for an update.
- Location
- New Jersey
Named SPS?
I have been asked many times if I have any named SPS. Well I bought some in past years and never really cared what they were as far as I liked them. So I was curious on what I bought in the past and what has actually survived and grown into colonies. After checking all my PMs and emails in past 3 years, here is what I came up with. Correct me if you think something is not what I think it is. I crosschecked almost all of them with images online.
Tyree Purple Monster
Ultimate stag in the front, red tip stag in the back
Rainbow Milli
Blue Hoki
Sunset Milli
Aussie Blue tip Yellow Stag
Rommells Watermelon Acro
Aussie Blue Blaze Tenius
Lime in the sky
Tyree Oregon Tort
Sunny?s Gorilla Tenius
Granulosa?
Sunny
I have been asked many times if I have any named SPS. Well I bought some in past years and never really cared what they were as far as I liked them. So I was curious on what I bought in the past and what has actually survived and grown into colonies. After checking all my PMs and emails in past 3 years, here is what I came up with. Correct me if you think something is not what I think it is. I crosschecked almost all of them with images online
.Tyree Purple Monster
Ultimate stag in the front, red tip stag in the back
Rainbow Milli
Blue Hoki
Sunset Milli
Aussie Blue tip Yellow Stag
Rommells Watermelon Acro
Aussie Blue Blaze Tenius
Lime in the sky
Tyree Oregon Tort
Sunny?s Gorilla Tenius
Granulosa?
Sunny
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- Location
- New Jersey
Closing out 2015 with what the tank looks like today, Dec 31st
Sunny
Sunny
- Location
- Staten Island New York
Closing out 2015 with what the tank looks like today, Dec 31st
Sunny
Sunny,
Sweet!!!!
Happy New Year to you and your family!
Regards
Angel
- Location
- New Jersey
Happy New Year!
- Location
- New Jersey
Thanks Rich. Happy New Year.
- Location
- Long Island, NY
Incredible tank. One of the best I've seen. Really remarkable.
- Location
- New jersey
One of the best reefs I have ever seen. Collection of fish and corals are top shelf.
- Location
- New Jersey
Thank you.
- Location
- New Jersey
Thanks Mike, appreciate the kind words.
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