fishmanmike01

Man that sucks. Been there tho. A few years ago my father picked up a 210 with more corals than would fit into 3, 50 gal stock tanks. Within weeks everything was lost. It's a truly painful and heart wrenching experience. So sorry for your losses.

double post.

Stopped by the Premium Aquarium today and walked out with an amazing pin tail wrasse pair, royal flasher wrasse, and a leopard wrasse to boot! This slow acclimation is killing me! Hurry up.

I have 6. Cherish every moment brotha.

Time to re spark this thread.

If I had the coin I'd snatch it up.however Renting a beach house for the coming weekend for our anniversary in nowhere near cheap. Between you and Jorge I'm beating my head against the wall.

I have a nice 400w metal halide. Like the kind you'd hang in a shop. Hardly used.

When I was new to the hobbie I started keeping a list for my 65 gal. Needless to say, I stopped at 5k. It's insane how fast it adds up.

I know where I'm going this weekend!

Patience grasshopper.

I alway wipe them down really well prior to going in. Since I was using both vials to do the repeated tests, each was only ever held by the cap.

So I decided to run my calcium reactor differently that usual. By this I mean not using my apex to control the solenoid. Anyhoo I've been watching my alk slowly increase (via Hanna) to where I'd like it to sit until today I got a weird low result. So I thought hmmm. I'm going to test the same sample again based on what I've read in a previous thread. So I did and here's what I got. 1st. 151 2nd. 168 3rd. 161 4th. 157. All from the same sample within 5 min. I think I've lost faith.

Heck yeah.!!!

Spoken like an expert! I've just recently started to see bright green algae take hold in a few places. Explaines a lot. To answer your questions. I run nothing to control nitrates however I run a small amount of gfo to keep phos in check. Just ran tests again and no detectable nitrates. So... How does one increase nitrates without increasing phos?

With nitrates in that range, what does your po4 look like?

I run blues two hours prior/ post. Whites 8 hours.

Hmmmm. Keep em coming. Perhaps it's my water. Last Check this morning Alk was 8.2 Cal 520 Po4. .08 Nitrate 0 api Mag 1200. This stuff is so frustrating.

Just curious what settings and schedules those using these lights are using? I run 4 over my 210, 16" above the water. 90-100% blues/ 25-30% whites. Having a hard time getting great colors out of my sps.

Thought this was funny.

Yup. They'll do that to ya.

Looks good Chris. I like the rock work, looks more my style.

Man I want this so bad. Crappy timing tho, anniversary is coming up. Why is it the great deals come by ever time it's the least convenient.

Let me know if you decide to sell.

Always better with more volume IMO. Before purchasing my home I had a setup with 4 tanks all sharing a common sump. As Clark stated just be sure the sump can handle the loss from all tanks. Otherwise.... Rock it!