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… cut out a ton of the undergrowth

Time to open up some swimming space for the fish, and be able to scrape the glass.

Probably fine for now, but it’s easy enough to just get some more voss bottles and drill a smaller hole. With the large hole, evaporation changing the concentration may be a concern.

the tubing that comes with the kamoer is too small to use with the bulkhead. The “drew’s doser” tubing from BRS is the closest replacement for kamoer tubing that has a larger outer diameter. But soft tubing in general is not great to use with those bulkheads, and you’re better off just running the tubing directly into the container.

Got ICP results back, and everything looks pretty good. Iodine and molybdenum are slightly elevated, so I might need to cut back and the TM trace A dosing a bit.

When daily dosing 2 part you should dose roughly* equal parts, and just base the dose on alk consumption. Daily calcium consumption can be hard to see when testing. When making parameter correction doses you will only dose what you are correcting. A sudden drop could be from precipitation. But you may want to verify your calcium with a standard titration test (red sea/salifert). I love my trident and hannah checkers, but those 2 are notoriously bad at calcium. I’d just recommend confirming calcium, make correction doses, and resume dosing at equal parts.

Longnose hawkfish is one of my favorites. Their less active swimming/perching seems to draw less aggression. If you have very small shrimp perhaps an issue, but i’ve never had issues with my fire shrimp and longnose.

I definitely agree with the KISS system, my dosing and filtration is pretty basic… but I like to monitor the heck out of what’s happening. The trident isn’t for everybody. There certainly is a bit of nuance with running the trident, it’s not a set it and forget piece of equipment. It’s a tool. You have to be in tune with the tank and the trident. It has become a trust but verify relationship. But I must give it’s deserved credit in the tank I have been able to accomplish.

Dosing about 50ml less per day. Was dosing 280ml pre-issues, now dosing 230ml a day and alk is still rising a bit.

The shortcake colony is gone. I have 2 frags of it that still have tissue, but they look like garbage. With a large colony now missing, alkalinity demand has plummeted. Really have to appreciate the trident for events like this. Trident controlled dosing is doing its thing and reduced dosing, preventing more issues for the rest of the tank. All other corals are still looking good.

salinity certainly may be a contributing factor, it’s constantly creeping up due to how much 2 part i dose. I’m at 1.027 currently (but that’s fairly consistent)

Very generous, thank you. I have plenty of nice stuff to trade if i do lose it. But hopefully the death will stop before the entire colony is lost. It is a sense of relief knowing the same lineage is surviving around wamas!

yep, that’s the walt disney

… what it used to look like:(

welp, it appears the nutrient wobble pushed the strawberry shortcake over the edge. It’s always been the canary coral in my tank, losing color when it’s not happy. But this time it’s lost basically all color, no polyp extension, and beginning to rtn. All other corals look fine at the moment, but i’m keeping a close eye on everything. I don’t think the nutrient spike was the sole contributor, i suspect reduced flow and detritus settling within the colony may have been the bigger issue. Perhaps a bacterial imbalance from the added nutrients as well. I’ve cleaned my power heads and flow is definitely improved in that area. I’m super bummed, it’s one of my favorites.

2nd water change and Po4 back down to .23

I didn’t know the feeder control profile would work with the Plank!? Can you control the length of the on cycle? Does drum rotations equate to amount of time on? I got the OSC figured out, but if i can get it to work with the feeder profile that seems even better

so apparently i forgot about 24 hour time in the off statement… 1pm is 13:00. oops Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Recently had my second AFS auto feeder die and refused to buy another, so decided to get the Avast Plank feeder this time. Aside from being massive, it seems like a much better solution to feed a precise amount, and it is silent! (unlike the AFS) Now to the problem… the plank is just on/off, and to get a timer down to seconds with apex you must use the OSC command. But my comprehension of OSC command sucks. I intended to have it feed 1 time at noon for 10 seconds. Since it is silent, I did not notice for several days that it was feeding at additional times. So perhaps the neptune AFS obnoxious noise is actually a beneficial feature lol. My nutrients under normal circumstances are on the high side at about .2 Po4 20 nitrate… now i’m up to .35 Po4 30 nitrate. Here’s the command I used, anybody know the proper command to turn on for 10 seconds at noon? Do I need a “Set Off” statement? Fallback OFF OSC 000:00/000:10/059:50 Then ON If Time 01:00 to 11:59 Then OFF

The nem incident and reduced lighting almost certainly brought demand wayyy down. I think the answer is as simple as that. Just monitor and correct… but don’t over correct! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

oof that sucks, so sorry:( But nems are pretty resilient, so it might be ok. You may want to turkey baste all around the tank to make sure you get any remaining pieces. Hopefully all will be well.

yep that’s the colony it came from. how’s your frag looking?

I got the new version of the Orphek orange filter, which are larger and fit over the lenses well. The photos are with the orange filter but no other post correction. I still need to play with the phone more to see how raw mode works.