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Thanks! Got home late last night after everyone else was in bed, and found something yellow and long nosed in my frag tank! He is fat and healthy, I'll put a pic up later

Have to agree, I still can't see it. Looks normal to me also, natural colours. But who am I to know? I am certainly many multiples lower than "Eistien"

Thankyou. This quote seems fitting :- Quote - "Occasionally, I say what other people are thinking, but are too afraid to post. " :lol:

Galileo? Da Vinci? Edison? Eistien? Yes Layton, you're just like them. Quote "Eistien" - Minor triviality like spelling is obviously beneath such genius.

Nice looking tank!

Another Alastair! Layton will not like this! :lol: And Tang, awesome progress, I like the aquascaping and now it's cleaning up, plus a bit of pink appearing, an excellent tank!

One thing about you Layton, you have a talent for degrading any thread into an argument.

Likewise, my tinkering has done more damage over the years than I want to think about! But it's a learning thing, we have to do it. I think Kramas post hit the nail on the head.

No offence at your negative remarks. I am saddened, but not surprised.

I think you got your agroglasses on again Also, looking at the pics, I don't see anything weird. I am very confident if I looked at the tank in real life, that's what it would look like.

Greg I've posted mine on this forum before, haven't had any pshycos coming around. Well, not from the forum anyway! :lol:

Looked pretty natural to me?

Proof at last! The Leave It Alone system gets great results! :lol: http://zeovit.com/forums/showthread.php ... #post85348

Ha Ha yes that was pretty funny! Better than the Great Iron Debate! :lol:

Yes I think you are right a big volume of water to a small no. of corals will keep up better supply of trace elements, dilute toxins, plus other benefits. Like every rule in this hobby though, there is always someone who is breaking it & getting great results. Puttputt, I would like to try & squeeze in a visit to check out your tank before the opportunity is lost. Could you pm me your address & phone number? And Layton, I'll hand it to you THIS TIME ONLY, your post was funny! :lol:

Yes pretty obvious from a chemistry point of view that both higher pH, and higher alkalinity (within normal limits) would make calcification easier. In fact I've broken the zeovit rules over the last few weeks and bumped alkalinty up, first to 10, and then to 12, just for a try. It was immediately obvious there was more new growth at the tips. However i got some strong advice from the zeo gurus that i'm asking for TN to do this in a zeo tank, so have returned alkalinty to 8.0 Had a nice burst of coraline too.

Well wish I was like you guys I'd like a bit more growth, although I did have to throw some pink monti bits in the garden last week after failing to give them away. Some of the ones I wish would grow faster are only pretty slow though.

You a Melbournite Greg, right? If so pm me your address it has been suggested to me that I pay you a visit during my holiday. I'll bring my camera there is some interest here.

Well Cookie pm'ed it to me, how he found it i don't know? I used to think Layton was the king of search! :lol: Anyhow it's a good read for people wanting to set up good conditions for growth, so here it is. For some reason the last little bit doesn't work right so it has to be copied & pasted to your browser. http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgat ... hits=200&="OS21N-03"

Actually, just had another look at your dose rate - Quote "initial dosing was 1ml per 100 litres for the first 4 days then twice weekly after that". Not a high rate, to me anyway, I would consider that totally safe. It's less than what I'm dosing now.

Yes I'm REALLY careful with potassium dosing, didn't lose anything but had a negative effect ( browning & just not looking right somehow ) when I dosed according to what I saw people saying in a zeo thread. Pretty sure if I continued more serious harm could have resulted. Now I dose it, but at a lower rate than what they do in the US. I think their dose rates are based on people using ASW that is deficient in it, but we are using NSW that already has the right amount, more or less. I'm still convinced of the value of potassium, but in very small doses. So what happened to you may have involved potassium, although if it did, the potassium could not be the only factor, as how you describe what has happened is not the normal symptoms of potassium overdose. IMHO it was other factors, but the potassium may have been there in the mix somewhere, or may not, who knows?

There was a quote from an article saying growth increased by 25% for each 0.1 pH increase starting at 7.8. Unfortunately I did not read it properly at the time i was hoping to find it again.

Interesting your pink pocci is still doing OK Chimera. I've found those a hard one. Other thing I'm interested in, have you noticed any effect, good or bad, from the big water change?

Layton you pretty upset about that, huh? Really it was just a joke, and the 20% of the time you are NOT thinking about zeovit, I wouldn't have a clue what you are thinking about. There is no trick. But hey, I CAN tell when a guy can't spell :- Quote "put you're mind reading...." Was it you posted it by any chance I know you did the alkalinity one? And thanks for the help Dogmatrix it may have been Garf although it looked a bit more high tech than most of their stuff. Oh well, not a major if i can't find it I know the main thrust of it.

A while back someone posted part of a study showing that sps growth rate is increased at increasing pH levels. Who was it I'd like to see that again? There was another about the relationship between alkalinity & growth, but it is the one about pH and growth I would like to see. Anybody can help?