New House...New Tank!

[Justin]

Glad you're making a comeback. I wish I could keep my alk as stable as yours has been the last two weeks.

Can't wait to see that bubblebath uni grow and color up.

Thanks man. I'm glad that things are finally turning around for me.

[Justin]

*Knock on wood*

My tank has been doing extremely well. I am currently still using 2 part for my dosing needs but I fear I may need to go to a combination of 2 part and my calcium reactor again if the growth continues to increase. I originally thought to myself that I should go back to a reactor once my consumption exceeds 200ml /day. That has since passed and I am still reluctant to go back to the reactor for fear of messing something up. Currently this is my dosing schedule and times of dosing using the Apex DOS:




What I think I might need to do is slowly go back to a Calcium reactor once I reach probably 500ml/ day and get my Alk dialed in with the reactor and use my 2 part Caclium to offset the difference. Currently I'm only dosing 74ml/ day to maintain a 7.5 dkh but I'm dosing about 382ml/ day of Calcium to keep my Ca at 1450 ppm. A huge difference but with no clam in my tank, I can only assume that my sps and Coraline algae are consuming Calcium at roughly 400 ml/ day!!!!

Here are some pics of corals for everyone to check out. I also was super lucky and won a raffle for some unique newly released frags from Oceanlife Aquariums in Houston, courtesy of Nick Nguyen:

Walt Disney - color is still off but it is growing and fuzzy as ever



Rainbow Tenius I thought I lost from OLA


Orange Spathulata from Golden Basket


OLA Summer fest in my tank

Nick's original pic


OLA Dragonite in my tank


Nick's photo


OLA Tutti Fruiti in my tank


Nick's photo


OLA Daydream in my tank