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12/19/2006, 01:46 AM
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Hey Melev! I had a Refugium/Sump made by you and shipped to North Dakota a while ago. Everything was going smooth until I started working 90 to 100 per week! Not much time for anything else after that. Things have calmed down since then and I am ready to take on the beast of GREEN HAIR ALGAE! I have started a new post and will welcome any suggestions anyone has to help me get my tank re-born! Thanks to all!
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#952
12/19/2006, 01:48 AM
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#953
12/19/2006, 07:08 PM
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Corals..
 water to sterile.. add more food! ..They probably missing the extra nutrients in the water....
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#954
12/19/2006, 07:13 PM
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Let me get this straight. You think I'm not feeding enough? YOU? I thought you were one of the millions that got on my case about excessive food in the tank.
I tend to agree though. My water parameters are pretty darn impressive. I really should add more food so that they can get out of whack once again, so I have another excuse to not get my woodwork done. 
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#955
12/19/2006, 07:17 PM
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hey melev idk if i missed it somewhere eles on the thread or your sight but do u use epoxy to attach corals or frags to rocks if so what epoxy do u use because i need to find good epoxy
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#956
12/19/2006, 07:39 PM
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On July 10th, I cleaned out and refilled the Lifereef Calcium Reactor. Using the entire container of ARM, it filled the reactor up to about 2" from the top. Here it is today.
 I'm amazed how much media is gone. I'd say 2/3 has been used up in 5 months. Last week I was going to disassemble and clean it up, but since Alk and Ca readings were good, I'm leaving it to run a little longer. While I was in that section of the sump, I took a few pictures of the prop section.   Surabaya A. sp continues to grow nicely.  Frags of Devils Hand for new DFWMAS members 
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#957
12/19/2006, 07:44 PM
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Looking good!
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12/19/2006, 11:31 PM
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crowded in there!
Everything looks great as usual Marc. BTW, One container of ARM gets me about 2" in my reactor! 
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12/20/2006, 02:48 PM
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Okay that is just Sick marc, your sump has better looking Coral in it, then in some peoples display. Way to go!
Jonathan Your reactor is a beast. Now about this wood work.......you spent all that time painting what better way to finish out the 2006 year then to finish your wood work!
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12/20/2006, 06:10 PM
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Some of these corals will move to the new tank. I just need some time to build it. Then maybe later I'll have time to do that woodwork.
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12/21/2006, 01:09 AM
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Marc-
A wife would facilitate completing the woodwork. Mine is hounding me all the time. "If you spent just half the time finishing the woodwork that you spend messing with that silly tank, it would be done by now!"I promised everything would be done in 6 months, I have 2 months left........... Oh, did I mention I have a 10g nano sitting on my desk now too? No woodwork required!!
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12/21/2006, 01:56 AM
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I think that silly wood would just get in the way. Like a wife.
J/k!!! (Divorce humor) /Here are some actinic pictures I posted tonight in that other thread. http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...41#post8798141
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12/21/2006, 03:36 AM
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Melev, I am interested in that Surabuya aqua-cultured coral. I have some just like it, and wonder what you do to get it to grow... its a very slow grower for me. What kind of light/flow does it get?
FWIW, I think the closest anyone else has come to identifying it was as 'red bonsai'.
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12/21/2006, 03:47 AM
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Am i missing something here? Will you upgrade once again? Or just setting up a second tank or? Looking great anyway!
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12/21/2006, 05:55 AM
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 This was back when my tank was just a toxic soup of phosphate (reading 3.0 that summer), and the coral took it hard. I ended up cutting off all the branches because only the core still had tissue. Earlier this year (May, I think), I set up the propagation section in my sump and then later put the coral in there. Flow-wise, the water going through my sump is somewhere around 3000gph (estimated), and the prop zone has a MaxiJet 1200 moving 295gph through the frags against the current. The light is a DE MH bulb that runs about 8 hours a day. I'm pleased that I didn't lose this coral. I'm sure I'll have to mount all these little fraglets onto something better if I hope to have branches growing out of the puddles one day. Growth right now is pretty impressive, as my pictures over the past month or so has indicated. It should be interesting to see how things develop.
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12/21/2006, 05:57 AM
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I'm excited to do this because the water quality will be stable, and the only thing I'll need is a light. Everything else will be maintained by the main tank (skimming, filtration, phosphate removal, calcium addition, top off, heat / cooling...) It's gonna be awesome!
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12/21/2006, 12:22 PM
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12/21/2006, 09:02 PM
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Melev,
If you add that tank to your setup, will you have to get another Phosban Reactor? They are rated for 150g and you have 2...if I can recall correctly. That would put you over 300g over total water volume, right? Do you think that will really matter? Are you adding any fish to that new tank? Just passing something along that I just thought about! |
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12/21/2006, 09:10 PM
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I talked with Julian Sprung about his Phosban Reactors. It turns out one can run 300g, even though they are called 150 (on the box).
I'm increasing water volume, and shifting corals around. It will have a sandbed to help denitrify, and possibly clams. I will be adding the clowns from the Clown Cube, but my tank only has 12 fish currently so I don't see this as a problem.
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#974
12/21/2006, 11:06 PM
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hey melve i finnaly got my tank check out the thread and let me no what you think
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1000178 |
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