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roni

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  1. Thanks all, fingers crossed. We'll certainly see over the next couple weeks. I guess I'll be selecting for very hardy corals. Yeah, this hobby is humbling at times (at least for me). Up to 5.5 now.
  2. Yeah, life's been busy. 1 day in May that I wasn't working or traveling. A myriad of tank issues: 1) impeller issue with my skimmer, required a pricey slow arriving order from bubble king 2) calcium reactor issues, no support from deltec so it was a figure it out yourself thing. more on that... 3) have some fish in qt that died in a system crash (at the retailer, but still sucks). So, last night after having a little time to stop and think through things, I decided to investigate the alk surge more carefully. In retrospect, I should have done this on sunday but I didn't. I had wondered why by ca/mg hadn't gone up a tone with the alk and why my ph was relatively unaffected. I had assumed that when I was purging the calcium reactor of air (per the manual), I had accidently dosed the effluent into the system and caused the alk surge. However, alk with everything off wasn't coming down like I would have expected. So last night I got out my hanna meter and ran alk with both a current reagent as well as an old reagent. 4.2 and 5 respectively, rather then 12. Alarm bells finally went off. Thanks to @Abe who is a fantastic local wamas reefer and was incredibly generous to test my water with his trident, I confirmed that the alk was below what the trident would test, which we believe is 6. So, Murphy's law beats Occams' razor. I may have overdosed the system but the trident alk also looks to have failed at the same time, so my fix of shutting down things likely dropped the alk too low. I've got a few acros that have died and/or started to stn. So super fun stuff. I dosed a little carbonate last night at about 11 before getting to sleep and hooked my kalk back up. Still need to figure out what happened with the trident and also make sure that I'm on the right track, though I imagine I'll suffer consequences regardless of if I right the ship at this point.
  3. So, been a rough couple months. Busy at work and had a series of issues arise. The biggest recent issue has been trying to get my deltec calcium reactor to work consistently but in the course of messing with it, I made a mistake and dosed a large volume of effluent into the system, driving the dkh from 7 to 12. I turned off the reactor and also cut the kalkwasser addition to the tank but the dkh is still sitting pretty high 4 days out. I'm surprised to not see it drop but wanted to see if anyone had had something similiar and how they approached things.
  4. hard to say you shouldn't fiddle with things but ultimately, the color and growth speak for themselves. I wouldn't mess too much with a good thing.
  5. That's a clean fixture! Are those the aquaticlife or something else?
  6. Looking great! it's unfortunate that they are both such slow growers. Hope yours do well. I had a PM for about a year but never was successful longterm with it. I've heard HOTO is something that has to be seen in person to appreciate how blue it is!
  7. Man, you've made a lot of progress. Sounds like you've got your lighting set up. Will be interested to see your experience with the noopsyche. Ultimately, par is par as long as the lights are reliable.
  8. Sorry to hear about the skimmer. I've had some hiccups with my bk recently and have heard good things about the nyos, though a bit crazy that a little ozone would damage it so much!
  9. Looking good. Everything looks so clean! I get from a guy on R2R. I think there are some folks that also sell locally but he does a subscription and sends me a regular bill, which is probably easiest. If I wasn't lazy, I would probably culture. Mine comes about every 10 weeks or so. Shoot me a pm and I can send you his info if you want.
  10. Stunning! Chris is the gig master. I need to come over sometime
  11. haha, that is certainly beyond the scope of things I can probably pull off. I'll settle for enjoying yours
  12. I will also work for cookies...Looking forward to seeing the scape and your progress!
  13. did you already receive a prototype? Yeah, definitely interested about your experiences. My plank is fantastic but this would certainly add another facet to automating and standardizing feeding, especially on vacation.
  14. reefbuilders' feature on them. i'll probably be a guinea pig. https://reefbuilders.com/2022/03/21/automatic-frozen-fish-food-feeder/
  15. Looking good, definitely a clean look! I hear you on the snails. Got a few nerites from ipsf and found one on the cabinet headed towards the carpet!
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