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10-14-2008, 01:39 PM
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#41 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Hey guys  .......I just found the calculator page. Yoo Hoo........this is so cool. I know, I'm a rookie, I still need your input to encourage each step I take. I don't want to screw this up now!
Sue
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46 gal.BF 75#LR 40#LS 2 maxi-jet PH's, heater, a noname skimmer. 36" Current Sunpod 2-150w MH 14k with lunars. 3 blue-green chromis, 2 maroon clowns, 1 lawnmower blenny, 1 fire shrimp, 1 Peppermint shrimp, 6 various snails, 2 sandsifting starfish, 1 cucumber. GSP, Orange Monti, Purple Digi, Pink spaghetti leather, Yellow Sun coral, various shrooms, Purple clove polyp, various colored button polyps, Toadstool leather and a beautiful maroon SPS I can't remember the name of. Born 5-23-2008 | 
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10-15-2008, 08:28 PM
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#42 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Well guys, I had my first loss  . I knew my BTA was not getting better, so I said goodbye. My clowns tried to take my hand off as I removed it from the tank. I know they feel worse than I do. They just houver over where it was. I think they are looking for it, because they are tail sweeping the sand away from it's rock. The largest clown picks the larger pieces up in her mouth and moves them to the other side of the tank. There is also some macro algae growing branches reaching toward the spot and she tried all afternoon to push them to the other side. Everything else in the tank looks great. I think I'm OK 
I did a 20% water change after I removed the anemone (at 2:30 this a.m.) and tested about 10:00. My params are:
Temp 78.6
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
PH 7.8 dosed 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
dKH 6 dosed 3 oz. epsom salt
Phosphate 0
Calcium 480
Magnesium 1012
I now have a ground probe, running carbon and have a Koralia 2 and 3 ordered. And I have no intensions of purchasing another anemone until my tank is older. It's one week away from being 5 months. Hopefully I will be able to keep things stable now.
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10-15-2008, 11:02 PM
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#43 (permalink)
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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sorry you lost the BTA 
did you get a mag test kit to get the reading of 1012ppm? Im kinda wondering how accurate that math is | |
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10-16-2008, 03:08 AM
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#44 (permalink)
| | PICTURE POLICE
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Sorry for the loss. Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | 
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10-16-2008, 12:28 PM
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#45 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by That Guy  sorry you lost the BTA
did you get a mag test kit to get the reading of 1012ppm? Im kinda wondering how accurate that math is | Yes, yes, yes.........Your a darn GENIUS!!  Now doesn't that make you puff up like a banty rooster   !!!
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10-16-2008, 12:32 PM
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#46 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Thank you, That Guy and Luna...........It was really hard to say goodbye, but I have all my other life forms, and their doing GREAT!
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10-16-2008, 12:38 PM
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#47 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Reno, NV Age: 26
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Sorry about your loss. Keep running the carbon, make really sure none of the tentacles came off and are still in the tank, and watch everyone closely.
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40g: T5/MH/LED, Octo BH100F, AC70, 2X Koralia 1's, 70+lbs rock, 50lbs sand Livestock: Mated Pair O. Clowns, Blue Hippo Tang, Eyelash Blenny, YT Damsel, Skunk Shrimp, Turbo's, Hermits, Corals: FGSP's, Misc Zoa's, Torch, Pink Cloves, Shrooms, Pulsating Xenia
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10-16-2008, 12:42 PM
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#48 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Thanks Packleader........Sue | |
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10-17-2008, 09:11 PM
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#49 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 109
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Thought I would update my params:
Temp 78.6
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
Amm. 0
PH 8.0
Ca. 500
dKH 8
KH 143.2
Mag 1436.73
Everything looks happy, me too . Have been trying to figure out why nitrates are showing.......Could it be from increasing the number of feedings a week to my sun coral? It has just taken off! Life is good 
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