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05-13-2008, 05:01 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31
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 |  A double check on water parameters
Here's my latest water parameters just taken:
Temp - 82 (usually had is set at 79 but halides warm up to 82 by the end of the day)
Phosphates - 0
nitrates - 0
nitrites - 0
ammonia - 0
Calcium 360
dKH - 6
PH - 8.4
I'm working on raising the calcium and going to use a buffer tomorrow morning to start bumping up the dKH.
I also have some cpu fans going to blow across under the halides but everything in the tank right now looks really healthy --- just getting some acropora in soon and like the reassurance from anyone else.
Current live stock
Fish - yellow tank, damsel
Coral
Frogspawn, Xenia, zoo's, toadstool, leather corals, shrooms, star polyps
Inverts
Clam (new to the tank), carpet anenome, cleaner shrimp, coral banded shrimp, pepperment, hermits, snails, feather dusters everywhere
Have a sump full of cheato and a small ball in main tank for tang.
Any thoughts improvements on chemistry for the water let me know, but trying to slowly bring up calcium and dkh.
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90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam,
6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs | 
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05-13-2008, 05:57 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 315
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Yah YAh YAh, 0 ,0 , 0 ,0
Like what should you be working on with those numbers.
I'm jealous.
The ones you are working on are correct.
\Cheers
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Tank Stuff:
46Gal, 1 AC110, CPR Skimmer, VA Reactor, CL t5 ho 4 x 60 w w/lunar lights , 50 lbs LR, 60lbs LS
FISH:
1 Coral Beauty, 1 Flame Angel, 1 Flame Hawk, 1 Clown Goby, 1 Damsel, 2 Chomis, 1 Black Sailfin Blenny, 1 Royal Gramma
CORAL:
Mushrooms, Anemone, Feather Dusters
INVERT:
hermits different kinds, 2 turbos, 4 Nassarius Snail , Bumblebee, Banded Coral Shrimp, 2 Emeralds, 1 Sally Lightfoot
Params:
Temp 78, PH 8.3, Alk 2.9, Ca 480, Sg 1.023, Dkh 10, Mg 1400, Am .15, N2 .5, N3 10, P4 .05 | |
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05-14-2008, 04:05 PM
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| | Kole Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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05-14-2008, 04:17 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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You did not post the magnesium level ? Get that checked and then get the DKH to 10 12
Calcium 450
Magnesium 1400 all others look fine what you have is O.K but for better growth and to create water parameters many nuisance alga's do not like then I'd just kick them up a few notches. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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05-14-2008, 04:22 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 28
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Yep looks good. dKH 8-12 and Calcium around 420. _________ 75gal hex, 2-40w T12 48", odyssea 48" 4x65w PC's w/ lunars, 50lbs LR, 80lbs LS, gold banded maroon clown, dog faced puffer, juvenile blue angel, 2 dominoes, 1-4 stripe damsel, yellow watchman gobie, lawnmower blenny, mano, purple chromis, mexican turbo, astrea and red foot snails, striped, red and blue legged hermit crabs, coral banded shrimp, white and purple bubble coral(very little), red and green mushrooms, orange gorgonian  Tanks, No Thanks. We Free Dive! | |
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05-14-2008, 04:25 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Lookin good!
What salt mix are you using?
I recently switched from Instant Ocean to Reef Crystals...Ca went from ~320 to ~380-400 more then enough for a non-sps tank.  _________ 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 - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | |
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05-14-2008, 04:27 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 28
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be careul when u raise your dKH cause prolly will raise pH as well. | |
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05-14-2008, 04:29 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 28
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Also if u wanna dose, B-Ionic doses calcium as well as dKH. | |
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