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Awesome! Which company did you guys use?

Cleaned her up last night :-)

Reactor still available?

I have a 3rd gen vertex in-180 skimmer, that while performing great. Is too much skimmer for my water volume and all the skim ends up in the riser tube, not the cup. If you have a skimmer to small for your system, maybe you want to trade? It's in flawless working order.

if not I may just sell it but figured if someone was in the right situation it'd be a cool deal.

austin

Nice rose!

Just a friendly bump. The aquamaxx nano reactor is a fantastic piece of equipment. You won't be disappointed with it. I've sold a ton of them and every person running it is very happy. It's what I'll be running on my 60g cube as well.

This is a killer deal, anyone with 60g or less should jump on this reactor.

Flow as a factor.... I have no dead spots in my tank. No corals are being hit with direct flow, but they all receive various amounts of turbid random flow through the whole tank. It's not flow.

Eventually I will put an additional mp10 on the tank, but until I feel it's needed, it'll stay in the box.

I have a lot of flow in the tank between my mp40 and return lines.

Nice pic! what camera are you using? What type of dog is that?

I went with the radion hoping I wouldn't have the lack of reds/blues/other colors a lot of people complain of with just the white/blue/rb led mixture. I'm sure it's something else, I just can't figure out what yet.

I'll have to convince brad to bring me a couple more frags out of his tank to see if they do better than the ones I was bringing from Mh. thanks guys.

Brad is a class act. I can't recommend doing any kind of buying/selling/trading with him enough.

Anyone locally running radions on their sps tank, and having good success?

I am not having the greatest success keeping color, or seeing any growth with mine. Trying to figure out if I need another, have it too bright, or what.

My lps does awesome on the sand bed(red, green goni, Blue scoly, alien eye chalice, Miami Hurricane chalice).

I have a hyacinthus that was a gorgeous pink/red when purchased, now is just a mix of red brown, but is doing alright. My OT frag turned brown then rtn'd. I have a red planet from Brad(Thanks man) that seems to be doing well so far, but it's only been in there 4 days, keeping color and great PE though. I have a tyree green/purple rim monti doing okay, but the rest of the sps frags/colonies I've gotten have either browned out, or browned out and started rtn'ing. If I move them back to the store and put them in the 240 cube under halides, they color back up.

I test CA/Alk/Mag daily, and it's all stable. No3 and Po4 are 0-1 and .04 respectively. Almost zero nuisance algae growth, clean the glass weekly.

Alk is at a constant 8.5

Calc stays at 420-430

Mag at 1300.

I use all elos test kits and the Hanna photometer Po4 checker.

Using Reef crystals salt. Doing a 10g water change weekly.

Aquamaxx gfo and biopellet reactor.

Mp40 for flow on reefcrest at 70%.

Vertex in-180 skimmer.

I would assume if I was bleaching them, they wouldn't brown out first. Thus my general opinion is that it's not enough light.

It's a 60g cube with 1 radion over it. Artificial mode, ramps up to 100% for about an hour over a 12 hour total light period.

I may grab the Ai from work and switch it out for a month, to see if I have any different results.

Any ideas?

I know we have successful led sps tanks, but anyone running radions successfully? If so, mind uploading your light graph for me?

Looks like mainly Bali aquacultured to me, which I absolutely love and have had great luck with.

I have the same coral in the first picture. Any idea what it is?

Nice pictures. What lens/camera? Are you using a tripod? I think I see a little image shake and a tripod setup with a timer on your camera would really help.

One of the only things I can't find. Anyone have a frag for sale?

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Swf is completely recovered from the copper incident and is stocked up on coral again.

I didn't think it was so bad aquascaping my 60 cube. Of course I started with dry rock.

Brain spawned

My first suspect is the sand bed. IMO, rock can be reused, but reusing sand somehow leads to the problem you're having. I have known/spoken to a lot of people who have moved their tank, any almost 100% of them that reused the sand bed had continued nitrate problems until it was removed/replaced. Something happens when sand beds are moved and it's not a good something.

Deep sand bed in the tank? When moved, did you guys just reuse the sand? How long has the tank been setup before you got it?

Great pics mike, Toby.

Is the Oregon tort rtn'ing, or is that new growth? If you're getting really good growth, it definitely points to low nutrients. Sps can grow awesome but will lack that deeper/richer color in those conditions.

Dennis, his nitrate and phosphates are undetectable, and he has a very well running refugium. I don't believe it's his phosphates, or his lighting. Alk at 9 is okay, but I'll agree I prefer it at 8-8.5. It's my opinion that he has too low of nutrients and not enough fish load/food for the corals to eat. Brown coloration is a sign of higher nutrients, but pastel is from lack of food for the zooxanthellae. I.e a zeovit system.

It's a hard balance between low nutrients and enough food to balance that perfect color, but it's definitely possible.

How old is the tank? How long have the sps been in it? Are they colonies or frags? If you are not using GFO, I would definitely get that going. Be careful with the GFO if just starting out with it, it is powerful stuff. You might want to simultaneously start lowering your alkalinity to around 8 dKH to get it more in line with a "low nutrient" tank. How are you supplementing Ca and Alk? Ideally, IMO, a Ca reactor is the best for this if your tank is mainly SPS. If dosing two part, then dosing pumps dosing maybe 10 times a day is ideal. There is a little acronym I like to remember; "SPS" stands for, "Stability Promotes Success". Keep everything consistent. The other thing I would suggest is adding some actinic lighting. My preferred actinic supplementation is VHO using the URI Super Actinic R bulbs. Put a couple of them up there some how. Maybe mount them with a reflector off of your pendants. Kind of like "wings". Then just sit back, be patient and watch that tank take off.

 

HTH

Dennis