Checked the tank on my way to work this morning – totally cleared up. So, good to know. Dose Reefbooster at night, otherwise you may be staring at a cloudy ass aquarium . I think I’ll use one of the ‘feed’ programs on my Aquacontroller to shut down the skimmer and carbon and have them [...]
October 15, 2007
This morning added a vial of Biodigest. One thing I have started to notice after adding Biodigest or Bioptim to the tank is that the water becomes crystal clear and seems to retain this sparkling clarity for a few days. I’m hoping that, as the bacterias are more established, this is how the water will [...]
October 12, 2007
kH ~ 140 (LaMotte) (7.8 or so…) Ca ~ +450 Mg ~ 1300 NO3 ~ 10 / 15 PO4 ~ 0.14 Phosphate up, NO3 is down. Totally overfeeding since I got that tailspot last week, but wanted to be sure he was eating… and he likes Rod Food… big surprise… I’ll try and get a [...]
October 8, 2007
Dosed a vial of bioptim, per my schedule. This is only the 2nd addition of bioptim, since I’m starting with a 3 week schedule of it. Walked up to the tank a couple hours after I added it, and I am seeing polyp extension on a certain acro that I have never seen fully extended. [...]
October 7, 2007
E. stigmatura I haven’t had a fish in this tank for at least 6 months. Last one was a yellow watchman goby that, after a year and a half, just decided to live in the overflow. I got tired of searching and pulling it out everyday, and that’s the last I saw of it. Stopped [...]
October 2, 2007
kH ~ 6 / 6.5 (Elos), ~110 (LaMotte) Ca ~ +450 Mg ~ 1300 NO3 ~ 20 PO4 ~ 0.10 / 0.12 Second dose of Bio Digest added tonight. Next weekend will add next dose of Bioptim. Phosphate lower since last test, but chaeto grew by 1/3rd. I’ll harvest some of it and take a [...]
October 1, 2007
I’ve figured on my schedule for the next couple months. Bioptim every 3 weeks, Bio Digest every 2 weeks. That means I’m due for Bio Digest tonight, since I missed it yesterday. I’ll wait for a while to start the Reef Booster. For now, I’m going to watch the NO3 / PO4 with the digest [...]
September 27, 2007
I used to feed DT’s oyster eggs & frozen cyclopeeze every week or so, along with some squid to the duncan. Last spring I ordered a big sack of live mysis from Reef Nutrition, and dumped them all in. I haven’t been feeding for some time because the food I had thawed while defrosting the [...]
September 21, 2007
pH ~ 8.3 Ca ~ 425 / 450 kH ~ 7 Mg ~ 1350 NO3 ~ 15 / 20 PO4 ~ 0.12 / 0.14 Io ~ 0.05
September 16, 2007
Went ahead with 1st dose of BioClean (Bioptim & BioDigest). Added 1 vial of Bioptim tonight, and will add the vial of BioDigest in an hour or two. Schedule in mind is a vial Bioptim each 3 weeks, and 1 vial of BioDigest every 2 weeks. Here’s my “test patch” of bryopsis… and… The ORA [...]
September 16, 2007
3 gallon water change Ca ~ +400 kH ~ 7 Mg ~ 1200 / 1250 NO3 ~ 15 / 20 PO4 ~ 0.14
October 15, 2007