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02-26-2008, 07:10 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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Yep...Ca, Mg and Alk all the important ones.....they wouldn't stay right and I've never been able to keep Zoanthids (for some reason). Sorry, but about this problem, I'm probably the worst person to give advice...  I stay confused. I'm just trying something different.
GEEK...you wanna help Mission out????.... | 
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02-26-2008, 07:37 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Congrats cuttingras! Wow, most women receive chocolate and flowers, but you receive corals!!!!!! AWESOME!
As for your problem missionsix66, calcium can become a problem with maintaining as cuttingrass touched upon. Alkalinity and magnesium can also affect calcium levels as well as the amount of corals, Tridacna Clams, Halimeda plants and coralline algae.
Other factors that equate into calcium stability in a tank are as follows:
Temperature- will reduce calcium levels due to increased carbonate ions concentration
Photosynthesis-lowered CO2 increases carbonate concentration, thus decreasing calcium levels, alkalinity and magnesium as well.
pH- higher levels of pH will increase carbonate calcification, thus eventually reducing calcium level.
Salinity-higher salinity levels will reduce alkalinity levels thus affecting calcium levels.
Kalkwasser or two part additives are your best bet in terms of alkalinity and calcium levels mainly, but other variables are also key such as time adding these additives(day time versus nighttime) dosing vinegar with kalkwasser, incorporating reverse daylight program with the addition of a refugium housing macroalgae etc. _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Cerianthid Stars Hermits snails Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria Kenyon Tree Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa)
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02-26-2008, 07:45 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Awesome pics>>>>>> _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, rainford goby, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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02-26-2008, 07:54 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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Originally Posted by coral reefer  Congrats cuttingras! Wow, most women receive chocolate and flowers, but you receive corals!!!!!! AWESOME! |
He thought about the chocolates and the flowers, but he knows me. Though I do love chocolate and flowers, my butt doesn't need the chocolates and the flowers would just die. I got a pretty smart guy(it's only taken 25 years for the perfect present  ) | |
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02-26-2008, 10:44 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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(Karma to you -  )
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Looks like you have a nice young'un sprouting off Sarcophyton. Lop it off and shove in hole elsewhere in tank....Then you will have two growing.
I think two together looks a bit unbalanced, plus they will expend lots of energy competing for light. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott")
Last edited by omard; 02-26-2008 at 10:54 AM.
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02-26-2008, 11:53 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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Thanks for the kind words Omard! I'm looking as I type, for a razor to do that. Do I need to dip either in iodine or just do it in the tank and let them be? | |
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02-26-2008, 12:25 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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Nice pics, good luck in the toadstool chop _________ http://www.3reef.com/forums/image.ph...ine=1200113573
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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02-26-2008, 12:36 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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Fragging Lobophyton and Sinularia
I'm going to go by this thread... Karma to ya Inwall for a very useful thread! | |
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