mari.harutunian

Sounds about right... I've only had this rodi system for 5 months and my corals became irritated a few weeks ago. Isn't the cartridge that needs to be replaced the soonest still good up until 6 months? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's the ammonia from the rodi. This is the ammonia level in the tank currently. Zero? Close to zero? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It will take 7 hrs for the new rodi to finish flushing... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nitrates in the display..... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The ammonia in my RODI.............. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just got calibration fluid with a used setup I bought. Guess I'll try that out when I get home. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why? How does it affect my readings? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I really appreciate it It's the Red Sea pro reef foundation test kit. And I said hydrometer but meant refractometer. No moving bar. Just like a telescope. Calibrated with rodi water and tightening of a screw. Rodi reads 0 always. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you that's so nice the stunner is one of my favorite pieces. I got a 4" disc for $5 at the fall frag swap. Chalices are supposed to be more expensive though? Salinity is 1.025 and the hydrometer is calibrated. Alk and calcium are from Red Sea test kit(not expired/brand new) calcium 460 and alk 11.2 two days ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interesting... so the Hollywood stunner chalice is losing flesh. Two cheap birdsnests. Many new frags I got died including another birdsnest. Some bleached and are in the five gallon and I'm not sure if they are alive. No soft corals have died. Only the chalice and sps. Torch, bubble coral, and frogspawn are okay. Cleaner shrimp is also okay surprisingly. Fish are fine(a pair of clowns and a sixline) . Snails and hermits good. I fed the tank pretty hard before I kicked my maintenance and feeding into shape. Same time I reduced the photo period. I only have 3 small/ young fish and a bunch of inverts. There has never been a biological filtration problem before. Nitrate was on a gradual downward trend. Ammonia hasnt registered. No nitrite. Should probably test now. I'll test my rodi for ammonia too. No large organism has died. All fish accounted for. All inverts too. New red brittle star.. think it'll live? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Reduced the photo period to 8 hrs and reduced the intensity to acclimate new corals. I'm assuming algae has been dying off so much that it caused a nitrate spike. One month ago my nitrate tested 5. That was before the change in photoperiod. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Please take a moment to mourn my tank. It died so young.... ....did a 5 gallon change bc that's all I could manage with my rodi for now. Making water now. Will change out as much as possible in the morning.... moved some of my corals into this small 5 gallon tank with 0 nitrate. I've basically been doing constant water changes on that tank just from coral acclimation this last week. New rodi system will be here tomorrow... currently my rodi is 23 tds. Better than tap I guess. I noticed my sps getting irritated about a week and a half ago. Thought it was alk and salinity. Fixed those. By then the damage was much worse. Couldn't figure out what it was. Thought I tested everything.... just got a red brittle star too... hope it lives. Can't believe my inverts are alive. None of the fish are dead either. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looking at jellyfish tanks is what led me to reef tanks I wouldn't trade for a jelly tank. They seem too boring now... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh sorry. He's close to me since I'm between PA and VA. He looks at the WAMAS forums but I'm not sure if he's a paid member. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fishofhex.com is now officially open for sale. It opened last night and I was one of the first of many to order. Fishofhex, run by Travis, a local member, started as a YouTube page and now has a Facebook and a coral sale website. All corals were grown in his display and have had time to heal and you can see them in his many videos as well as the shipping and fragging processes. The box ships overnight and has insulated foam board on all sides as well as a heat pack which was still warm when I opened the box at 11am. It comes with 5mL of coral rx, an order form, an acclimation guide, and a DOA policy. All the corals are in hard plastic cups with screw on lids. The frag plugs are kept in place by styrofoam pieces. 2/5 frags had fallen out of the foam, and I notified Travis, and he said he started using rubber bands to fix them to the styrofoam a few boxes in. One of the cups leaked but it had been tied off with a plastic bag individually. All the cups are in a plastic grocery bag inside the insulated box and kept in place by newspaper, so even if it hadn't been individually wrapped, water would not have reached the cardboard or insulation. The corals themselves appear healthy. I got a ponape birdsnest, pink birdsnest, montipora setosa, montipora digitata, and green skirted zoanthids. They sustained no tissue loss and none are bleached. I did, however, break one off the plug and knock it into my rocks lol. It's not very happy but it will recover. Travis's profits go towards his next build, which is 300 gallons. He is always looking for feedback and provides great customer service. His prices are incredibly reasonable and 5 frags ship for $30 anywhere in the U.S.. Sorry for such a long and wordy review... Overall, Travis provides healthy coral at reasonable prices with a very safe shipping method. However, the thing I appreciate most of all is that he is always looking to improve and listens to reviews and advice. Hope you guys look at his stuff! He's got some nice acros that will be coming off their healing time sometime in the next few weeks! Tell him Mari sent you

Beautiful fish! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Had a dream this mushroom was 1 ft across... no idea why Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Apparently I have these... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

looks like a favia and a brain? hard to tell in the blue light. When i get a new coral i always research the care requirements first so i dont kill it when i get home. Its hard to tell if your corals are dying because of individual care requirements or from something wrong with the tank water or just the process of buying and acclimating. To account for everything, we need all your parameters(temperature, ph, calc,alk,mag, salinity), your lighting, your additives, and your acclimation procedure( how long, from what salinity to what salinity, and for how long) otherwise its very difficult to determine much.

+1 look up zoa palytoxin before you get them though. I got an red dragon acro as my 3rd coral and it died immediately. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I actually have dragons breath macro in the display tank. It's quadrupled in size in 4 months... gotta get rid of it at some point. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks! I'll order a tds meter. There's probably a lot of sediment in this water... there's like a lot of calcium build up in the pipes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk