GraffitiSpotCorals

Along with clearer water and more light penetration. Hope to see future updates, been a while since I have seen the tank in person.

I figured those would be the reasons you hadn't thought about one. Look at some of the tanks, they are stunning! Plus you get to feed so much more and IMO that is what helps bring better colors.

Bruce, you erned the reef keeping title. You are dedicated and keep a clean system which allows hundreds of people to get cheap frags of stuff that grows extremely well! Excluding the purple monster, but I am glad you got frags of it back out as well. How can you worry about getting better color if you don't check po4 and nitrate? IMO your tank would look great with a biolepet reactorñ

Hook up the fulidized calcium reactor media man. Let me know.

No ideas? Also it seems bard to find a saliferts kit, what's up with that?

Rw4 doesn't need as much cleaning, has a better flow pattern and so far keeps its flows power longer than the wp models did for me. But vortech would be best

I normally have a decent potassium level in my instant ocean but I let the mixed water sit for three weeks and the potassium level was 320 or so. What could have happened there?

Wow just went to check for his thread and its still being bumped and selling corals. I hope he got the aefw taken care of... I also noticed a member from here talking to him about frags. Dip and or qt your corals guys.

I use Bayer for aceopora dips now though, a weak revive solution would leave some aefw moving around or squirming on the bottom. I want them dead if they are there, so I can see them. Sometimes they will stay attached to an acro unless you really baste it.

Good bump! I got rid of aefw using revive as my dip when I was doing my dipping proccess. It worked OK for me. I would not suggest using a weekly dip on all acros if you have large colonies with areas you can't see because the aefw will migrate to that area like they know you can't see them. Horrible pest, and I agree with tony, that it will demolish your spirit for the hobby. But if your to paranoid about pests that can ruin it too. Be prepared and have a plan for every possible pest if your keeping species specific tanks. I have seen and bought frags from very well known people on forums that had aefw on their corals. Just because an person is "popular" doesn't mean they take the proper precautions to keep the frags they are selling you pest free. And money will make people sell infected corals, simple as that. My favorite quote from a popular forum seller... "But you would not have bought it if I told you I had a aefw problem..." I highly doubt he told ANY the other hundred or so people he sold to either.

+1 and if I have to use it I do not put it on the very tip of the adapter or threads, where the threads start. I leave one thread clean. This way the dope gets pushed in the threads and outside of the fitting and doesn't push dope inside the fitting where it comes into contact with water. The dope will still seal the threads as it gets screwed together. I like to use home depots male adapters more than Lowes. Lowes threaded fittings do not taper as much as home depots brand and most of the time need to be threaded all the way into the fitting. I like to still see a couple threads when I get a tight seal. Sometimes even when you thread Lowes adapters all the way you get leaks and you can even do it hand tight, all the way past the last thread. Not good.

They are dead silent. I can't hear mine on 100% with my head 1 foot away. Night and day, they also don't have to be aligned with the dry side, the old ones would shake and make noise if they were off alignment. They move more water and even feel twice as sturdy on the tank since they have new back pieces as spacers instead of the turn and fit back. Great move by vortech to make what was good, great.

Yea, the flow on the vortechs spreads out nice and covers a good area. The gyre really has a long linear path for about two feet, then breaks up and fans out a bit. It does move water around the tank well, so for larger tanks I would probably keep it running.

Glad you hashed it out with them. You will love the new qd vortechs. I can put my eat up to the back of the motor and I don't hear anything til I am not even a foot away. On 100%!! No spinning the fan to align it so it doesn't vibrate either. It feels twice as sturdy attached to the tank as well. My gyre is currently sitting on top of a waterchange trashcan. Not sure if I will add it back or not. Not enough flow options and the reverse mode was weak sauce and the main reason I bought it. Look forward to seeing the build come along. What kind of corals will you keep?

Red planaria, treated with exit, they are the ones visabke on your glass pictured above. Red bugs, treated with interceptor, visable on acropora as small orange bugs. Aefw, only on acropora, treated with multiple dips of every acropora weekly for 5 or more weeks. Other in tank treatments are being experimented with but are not very friendly to your livestock or tank health from what I have read. Also not as effective IMO, because your not inspecting each colony weekly to be sure anything is gone. If you collect acropora you should read up on these pests so you don't get them. And so you can prevent spreading them unknowingly.

I think there is a lot of confusion about what pests are what and what treatments do what in this thread...

Red bugs and only affect acropora, and won't be noticeable anywhere else. Red planaria are visable on the aquarium glass and you use flatworm exit to treat for them. Do a little reading about it online and you can find pics to confirm what you have.

No I make my own stands and sumps. I wouldn't pay for one of their stands or canopy's.

I got a rimless from glass cages 36" 24" by 19" high. The tank looks great with extra bracing at the bottom inside. But they wrapped it with stretched plastic to hold it together after gluing and didn't use any spacers to keep the plastic off the silicone so now I have two smudge spots on each corner... :( other than that the seems look good. No bubbles or imperfections. One thing I thought was weird was the glass on the sides doesn't sit on top of the bottom panel. They go down flush to the stand, maybe that's why its braced in the bottom. Basically an inside eurobrace on the bottom. I think the bad reviews were from large tanks they built a while ago that would blow out seams. I haven't read any on smaller tanks.

Hahaha, yea I did. Not sure why he did that. I think his coral looks more like Jacksons "rainbow" tenuis more than anything. That's if it holds its color. I did tell him I would pay for it if it holds a color close to the Disney acro though. Not out to take and not give.

Thanks man I will text you after work today.

I am using instant ocean, which measured 380 or 400 last time I checked from what I remember. Maybe a bit higher.

Does anyone close have a good potassium test kit I can use to test against mine? I am using saliferts. I dosed everyday last week with brightwells and measured today and it was lower :(

Here is their vendors Walt Disney. Polyps look green to me, its a pretty fresh wild acro. I will take pics once mine is ready.

We will find how how similar his acro is to the actual Disney acro. I have my fingers crossed but my hopes are not high.