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    How accurate does a TDS meter need to be?

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    Take "GroTheory "brand TDS meter out of box. I bought it off Amazon. It was highly rated.  Put it in the solution HM Digital 1000ppm TDS Calibration Solution  It reads 1300. Retested after rinsing and drying probes but same result.

     

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    Reset it? Replace batteries? Heard you need to stir probe in solution.

    The seller contacted the factory in  China I'm my behalf:

     

    "Hi Scott, Thank you for your reply. The factory replied that if the TRS Meter displays about 1000, it is relatively standard, but if the TRS Meter is bought and placed for more than 1-2 days, there will be an error in the value. If you meet any thing, you can contact us at any time. Best regard! "

     

    I think something got lost in translation. 

     

     

     

    Funghia in their natural state

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    Looks like they would be nice red plates in our tanks. It is sad to see so much dead coral and no small fish that’s for sure. How did the fish population look on the reef?  The pics seem like not many out there. I wonder how much longer thoes acropora colonies will last. 
    I saw dead funghia on healthy reefs but on sick ones too.

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    Funghia in their natural state

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    On the North shore of Bali the other day (I know you have cold rain back there not trying to rub it in) swim out about 200 yards maybe --everywhere funghia plate corals. All the size of dinner plates or soup bowls. And just about all of them are pale white, the color of bone not single bit of flesh on them. Dozens in the small area that I swam. I did see one the size of a dinner plate with a bright pink color. It was beautiful. Two years ago in Raja Ampat I saw the thing same thing. A handful had a patch of flesh.

     

    Wamas taught me when the flesh dies, babies are born on the stoney remains. I'm thinking in their natural environment they spend 99% of their life growing to full size and then stay like that for a very brief period --maybe 5% of their life. Could explain why we see a lot of things die in our tanks. No?

     

     

     

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    An interesting quarantine process

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    I have no quarantine but I dip most frags with bayer pesticide and examine the frag very carefully with a big magnifying glass. I once saw a zoa eating nudibranch on a frag and killed it before it became a problem. Not a perfect method but it helps.

    Clownfish in a Haddoni Anemone

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    On 4/1/2019 at 9:05 PM, gioNVA said:

    Depends on which clownfish you have.  Haddoni anemones are not natural hosts for true percula.   I had a tank full of true perculas that I bred and the haddoni I had was ignored.  Ocellaris sometimes accept haddoni as a host and I've seen it a few times.   

     

    I wish I had one thin dime for every harem of clownfish I saw on the reefs of Indonesia hosting a carpet anemone. 

    Waving Hand Xenia shrinking

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    Yes, that's right I'm having trouble growing Xenia. Also, my cheato is shrinking. My zoas and other soft corals are fine although the zoas, the GPS and the clove corals are growing slowly. There is no trace of algae on the rock. If the problem is too-clean-water then what do you do? Make it dirty? Overfeed? Add a fish?

    Cheato Shrinking under red light

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    Why has my  chaetomorpha shrunk from a basketball size clump to almost nothing? I have a regular plant grow bulb and a red light grow bulb ("ABI 25W Deep Red 660nm LED Light Bulb Bloom Booster for Flowering, Fruiting, and Grow Spectrum Enhancement",   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071Z12H67/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1)   I guess the obvious answer is low phosphates. Is the red light thing nonsense? Maybe phosphates are low because of the cheato but then shouldn't it have grown bigger? More light? Add another fish?

    Moving established tank lessons learned?

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    8 hours ago, AlanM said:

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    It's a good idea to leave the sand and a few inches of water in the tank.  There will be a lot of gunk in the sand if it has been up for a while.  When you get home you may want to rinse it pretty well by stirring and siphoning.  

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    This and of course rinse it with tank water not fresh.

    Nitrate Spike

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    3 hours ago, MaeganWink said:

    Yes, they are all similarly stocked. I know the HOB filters aren't the best, but they're all I could manage to start, considering my school only gave me $250 to do all three tanks...I've gone well into my own pocket money at this point xD Grants are an option I'm working on for improving equipment, but it is what it is at the moment. 

     

    With HOBs it depends. I had a newly setup 20 Long turn green once.The water was so green that you could not see through to the other side. A HOB with carbon floss cleared it up in a day.

     

    Also, a year ago I had bad nitrate spike and  I could not for the life of me find the source. Ran my finger on the inside of the freshwater reservoir and felt a slime. TDS showed 300 in the reservoir. Cleaned the reservoir out, refilled it, tested it to zero TDS and did water changes. Nitrates went away. 

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