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#1
12/28/2007, 12:56 PM
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What do you consider to be the top 5 most important things in a reef tank?
Hey guys, I just wanted to see what you believed was important in your tanks.
 reamber,only 5 
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#2
12/28/2007, 01:01 PM
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Lighting, water quality( salt included) ,skimmer, test kits, and patience
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12/28/2007, 01:35 PM
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water quality [testing], records-keeping and use thereof, stability in all params [decline headed off by use of timers, float switches and chemistry log], lighting appropriate to type, and phosphate management---as in 0.
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12/28/2007, 02:37 PM
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Water, rock, stability, money and time.
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12/28/2007, 05:26 PM
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1. money
2. understanding wife/girlfriend 3. ability to hide the cost of new purchases to wife/girlfriend 4. getting frags from fellow reefers 5. REEFCENTRAL (maybe this should be #1)
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12/28/2007, 05:46 PM
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1. A locgical Reef Plan - to include goals of tank
2. Maintaining a Calcium of >450 and Alk of 10dKH 3. Lighting - MH DE Electronic with Phoenix 14K lamp 4. 20% Weekly water changes 5. Diligence with reef husbandry and keeping #2 above stable. Everyone swears by water quality, but no one defines it. I have discovered that there is no value more important to the success of a stony coral reef tank than maintaing a stable alk and calcium. If you can keep these stable, then all the other values will remain stable too.
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#10
12/28/2007, 06:22 PM
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I think the most important habit to form in reef keeping is:
CONSISTANCY[SIZE=3] If your not consistant in whatever you do, you could add anything, MOD anything and calcualte anything, your tank parameters will deviate in one form or another. I believe you must form a habit/routine then LOG everything possible of your tank. Only then can you assimulate an environment that will be suitable to your setting. Todays word is: CONSISTANCY[B][SIZE=3] |
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12/28/2007, 07:11 PM
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#1 FLOW, and CIRCULATION...cant believe no one has said this yet..Water quality doesnt mean poop if the water isnt moving..
#2 HUSBANDRY...again good flow means nothing if the water is crappy #3 LIGHTING...Lots of these little coral creatures are photosynthetic #4 STABILITY, mainly ALK, CAL and MAG...Stable parameters will dictate heathly water quality.. #5 KNOWLEDGE, as with knowledge comes patience..
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12/28/2007, 09:53 PM
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Number One ingredient to put into a reef tank: TLC!
You've got to enjoy it or everything you do will be in vain.
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tests as of 1/04/08 Ca>480ppm, I'm bringing it down dKH=9, ok PO4=0ppm, ideal 1/06/08 after a water change Ca= 480ppm, still a little high pH= 8.2, I'd like it at 8.3 NO3= 10ppm, acceptable |
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#15
12/28/2007, 10:36 PM
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Quote:
ABSOLUTELY..... |
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