[Please Help. Corals Looking Bad.]

Looks like alk dipped when you were away. Measure daily and adjust accordingly.

[Shipping Live Creatures]

Fedex makes you send a trial shipment, if you want their permission to send live fish or corals. I did that, nothing too hard.

 

Many people just package really well and hope for the best without letting the carrier know.

[sulfa drugs in fish QT?]

Sure, both are used for qting marine fish, just at different dosage.

[Alert: Reef Raft Live Sale]

I like their frags. They do really well for me. I had issues with the tank, and all rr frags pulled through. I got a few signature pieces during last sale - all alive and well, growing nicely. Never has been dissapointed with non-signature pieces either. I should take a pic of Minions, going on for its' second year in the tank, it is orange, maybe the only orange colored stick I have seen

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

Thank you, Laura and Dave.

 

Didn't happen to get a Reef Raft Ultimate Orange Passion.

 

No, i did not.

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

Hi Matt,

 

There are no real updates. Tank is doing well. I got some reefraft frags a month ago, they are coloring up in the frag tank.

 

Found out today that a.tenella made it to the protected list. Excited to see my colony grow

 

[Yummy Acro]

I'm just curious on if anyone has reef raft acros in their tanks right now and how do they look?

I have a few frags. Shipment was delayed, 48 hours in transit. Two frags died the first day and were never replaced by rr. The rest look ok, nothing to write home about. I would take nice LA aquaculture frags any day over this

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

Thank you.

 

Suharsonoi came as a small colony from LA. It is a slow grower.

 

Tank gets to 81f in the summer, sometimes it might go to 82, but then the controller shuts halides down.

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

Blueface was about 4". He nips at new frags, especially deepwater variety, but looses interest in a day or two.

 

Here is one of the more recent pics

 

[local guy wins May tank of the Month on RC]

marinap

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Nope

[Can't seem to raise Mg]

If you measure 800 mg in the mixed water, you need to supplement that water to bring mg up to 1200 before the waterchange.

[Can't seem to raise Mg]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-07/rhf/index.php

[Can't seem to raise Mg]

You need to add over a kilogram of mg to raise the level to 1200... Use reef calculator to determine correct amount and dosage schedule

[Id help please]

Could be this

 

http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0927

[SUPER PET EXPO DISCOUNT TICKETS!! THIS WEEKEND!]

Thank you, John. We will see you there.

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

I like seeing what is going on in the back of the tank...

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

Stunning tank. How long have you been growing out most of your coral?

Turaki and pink lemonade, for example, were grown to their current sizes from 2" frags in three years

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

Thank you all.

 

Also, I forgot you were having the phosphate "issues." Did you ever test this out, or get them down to how you would like them?

 

You mentioned that you noticed a difference in color and growth with the high po4 levels?

I did get them down, would not have it any other way. We added more rock when new sump was installed and continued with gfo.

[Rick and Marina's 225G SPS tank]

We installed new sump by ArtfullyAcrylic last December. We are vey happy with this sump, tank is doing well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SPS ID]

Looks like a. granulosa, ReefRaft Oblivion is similar to Cherry Corals Hellboy, both are really nice corals.

[What to do about sustained phosphate and nitrate problems?]

I am leaning toward taking everything apart and starting over….

That's what I would do. Sorry to hear about all the troubles.

[Staring at an uphill battle]

Maybe degrading was a wrong word. I just know that copper level will not be stable, and you need to measure the concentration at least daily. Each tank is different, and the levels will fluctuate differently. I also used coppersafe, not cupramine before.

[Staring at an uphill battle]

The point is that copper degrades pretty fast, hence the directions state to repeat the dosage. You need to figure out how fast it degrades in your tank. You do not want to add more without measuring first. HTH

[Staring at an uphill battle]

I would measure first and then add 48 more, if needed. Have you acclimated the fish to copper at 1/4 strength first?

[Staring at an uphill battle]

You repeat the original amount of drops after 48 hours. If you are doing waterchanges, you need to add appropriate amount of drops to replace the amount lost with every waterchange. More importantly you need to measure copper level in the tank with a kit designed for the particular copper med that you are using.