29g Low Tech Lps/softies

[gregswimm]

LEDs came it!!

Makes the zoa POP!!

 

[GAB99]

light specs? pls?

 

[Xraymark]

Nice. Need a FTS obviously.

 

[gregswimm]

I have a 12x1W 6500K and a the other is 4x20K+8x455nm if i remember correctly.

http/www.ebay.com/itm/190717625020?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

I plan on getting another blue and a daylight bulb for the fuge


I went to the LFS and got some SW. Less expansive than I remember, either that or it was another store. /shrug

Also, what's an FTS (i know it cannot be a Financial Tracking Service lol)?

 

[gregswimm]

I had some stinging Hydra growing on my zoa rock. So I fragged what I could off it and and deciding what to do with the rock.

Tank as of now

 

[Xraymark]

FTS, full tank shot. Which you have provided.

You know everybody goes on about trying to hide their equipment and have a clean tank look, but yours looks really cool with all the equipment showing. It would not look out of place in the TARDIS.

 

[gregswimm]

Cool thanks. I plan on re-scaping today/scrubbing some of this die off. I want to make the rocks more compact, add ledges, height and get them off the glass for ease of maintenance. 15ppm of nitrate blehh.

The chunk of LR in the middle of my tank has some polyps on it. I have IDed it as a type of acro, I really want to save it lol. I added a pump on a timer 30min on/off to add some opposite and fluctuating flow. I hope it works.

As far as my coral stocking end result. I hope to get a plate monti, attach it high up on the glass on one side of the tank, under the moni I want to do some NPS, mainly my hitchhikers (my Oculina patagonica, Polycyathus isabela, and Phyllangia sp.), some pulsing xenia somewhere in the middle and some Stylophora + Echinophyllia on the far other side. This is still very tentative.

 

[Xraymark]

Sounds good. I've read nps's can be labour intensive with their feeding. A plate monti would be great.

 

[gregswimm]

Yea, I'm doing 2x a day feedings on the NPS as it is anyway. I also do a 2.5g wc after each feeding, I guess we shall see how long I can keep this up .

Any ideas how I can use that coral skeleton in the middle of my tank? It's the one that makes the cave in the middle. I have a feeling it shouldn't be covered by another rock but how would well would corals encrust it? Would they follow the contour or grow right over the bumps?

Also, it appears as if my first attempt at fraging was a success, despite the fact that I glued some polyps + the superglue bottle to my glove lol.

 

[Xraymark]

Your a frag master.

Aquascaping live rock can be bit of a nightmare. That piece you are on about has good hight. I'd be tempted to stand it up and use it as a pillar and clue corals to it. Hard to tell until you see it place.

 

[gregswimm]

Done, I think I might see if I can swap that acro skeleton, I bought it without really thinking how I could use it. I looked cool at the time lol.

I also forgot to take out my CUC, I may or may not have burred some of them

 

[gregswimm]

Well, injecting CO2 to the HOB fuge has dropped it's ph to 7.7, the DT is still at 8.0. Dosing some micros in the fuge, carbon filtration leading to the DT, hope I don't break anything lol.

 

[GAB99]

why would you dose CO2 the ph is really low it needs to be somewhere around 8.2-8.4

 

[gregswimm]

I'm dosing CO2 to encourage vegetative growth in my sump for nitrate/phosphate export. Most of it is getting gassed out in the DT. My pH was already kinda low before CO2, I'm attributing it to die off. I'm not using my tap anymore but when I was the dKh out of the tap was 8.5 after adding reef crystals it only went up to 10 dKh with 510ppm calcium. I have yet to test my Mg, but I'm willing to bet it is lower then it should be and could very well be the culprit.

 

[gregswimm]

Ya, so I decieded to test with chems and drop my cheep pH meter. 7.4 in the fuge and 7.8-7.6 in the DT. FML