reef Posted October 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 these gobies are cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 deffinatly. i love saltwater fish. But its all to complicated for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted October 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 cloudy tank day Goniopora. one year on. gone are the days that you could not keep them Corals are just humming at the moment. light reduction seems to have done wonders. i reduce some lights to 250w. Coral went thru a rough patch a month ago for some reason. all my pocilopora went brown and acros lost a bit of colour. Big changes happened when i started to add some reef booster again. seems i may have been starving my corals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 I keep telling everyone that reefbooster is good shit :lol: I dose it twice a week now!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted October 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yea it does seem to do something. I dose only once a week as it can cause algae. I only dose 1/2 the reconmendated dose. Dosing at night seems best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Yes I dose after the lights go out. Haven't got algae at the moment keeping an eye on it then will drop back to once a week, only doing it twice because I should be doing two ampoules so I dose one twice a week can't see the point in putting two in at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDM Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Glad to hear your colours are back reef, what’s with the cloudy tank? Sand stir up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Reefbooster is very milky, makes your tank go cloudy for 15min, so you know its good :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Alois That gobie at the top of this page is very cool What sort is it and are you able to get them? How do they get on with other fish - he looks a bit fearsome (well he probably would if you were a fish) He is stunning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 what’s with the cloudy tank? Its dosing of aragmight calcium. i dose it at night. still cant keep up with kh. tank is too loaded with sps corals. i add about 9 table spoons of kh buffer a day. What sort is it and are you able to get them hard to get & too expensive. over $150 i would say. not on the Maf list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbles Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 hard to get & too expensive. over $150 i would say. not on the Maf list. Is that a no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 yep, its a no. Never seen them on a stock list anyway. seen them on web sites in the USA for about $100usd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinity Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Alois That gobie at the top of this page is very cool What sort is it and are you able to get them? How do they get on with other fish - he looks a bit fearsome (well he probably would if you were a fish) He is stunning! http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/gobies ... prawngoby/ Here you go skippy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 i add about 9 table spoons of kh buffer a day holy cow whats wrong with your co2 from your calcium reactor? is it not able to keep the alk up? over sixty tablesppons seem excessive even for a large tank. you must have massive growth to bind all that carbonate somewhere! :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 whats wrong with your co2 from your calcium reactor Its not going. i have to clean it and add a few bits as too much co2 was going in my tank causing algae, Will have to get on to it as its a pain to add the stuff every day. sure coral growth is ok, there is over 100 acros so that would explain the huge uptake of carbonate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Its not going no wonder you need that much then, just shows how much a Ca reactor pumps into tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Seems very high Reef...I only add 7 tablespoons per week and I wouldnt have thoght you had 10 times more stock than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracker Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Is it KH buffer or BS??? If its buffer, then it shows you half of it must be placebo to bulk it up....more money for them to make.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 I wouldnt have thoght you had 10 times more stock than me Don’t forget the clams which number over 8, then you have some hard coral which are really big, and then you have a sump full of acros. It all adds up. Can’t think where else it goes. I tested everyday for a week and it drop significantly each day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Seems very high Reef...I only add 7 tablespoons per week and I wouldnt have thoght you had 10 times more stock than me. different acro's have different requirements also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetskisteve Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Dont tell Layton your not using a reactor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I refuse to use a reactor, no matter how big of a tank I move to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puttputt Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 I'm not losing anything, but i am gaining convienience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 but i am gaining convienience by dosing weekly? that's convenient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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