milesmiles902

How about this? Take a picture of your corals that are living now, then if you do something, such as a water change....take another picture. Later on, you can post them both here.

0.1-1 alkalinity change shouldn't do too much. I thought Red Sea had high concentrations and might be causing parameter swings. Bulkreefsupply is saying similar things, https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/red-sea-coral-pro-salt.html It doesn't matter if you use it, but keep the percent water changes relatively low at ~5-15%.  I made a little table for you on how to gauge the parameters:

It's a learning experience and will get easier with time. Just don't throw money at something you continue fail at. Try one SPS for a month, then two, then thousands of SPS. You'll get it.

Also, the doser is coming soon.

3 hours ago, Lexinverts said:

Currently, I’m mixing 3.75 g of trisodium phosphate per L, with 10 ml dosed per day in my 60 gallon system. That raised my phosphate to .1 from undetectable.

pro

I see my old coral! Whooo!

Please give them a good home.

Scrub that cyano/bubble algae off too 

That's not bad. You got it. Personally, I said it before and I'll say it again. There has only been one person in my entire life and that's @badxgillen who can hand dose and do it to a T. Every other professional, has a calcium reactor or doser. We're whimps.

Check this out and dose your current amounts divided throughout the day: https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/4/chemistry

Best of luck!

3 minutes ago, Elmorenicholas said:

I was relying on water changes but three days ago started dosing sugar 1/4 tsp a day which seems to be working. Nitrates are slowly going down and algea is slowly going away also. The clamp does have rust spots which is what made me think of it. 

They rust. Don't worry. It wouldn't hurt to use a zip tie, but I had one for years and it didn't cause issues. 

To each their own.

Save up, try a doser. Maybe go an check the calcium and alkalinity of your salt. See what you think.

Consistency is key and once I got a doser. My life changed. Never had to dose and honestly never cared about nitrates and phosphates. I went months without testing my aquarium. No water changes either. Just baking soda and de-icer.

I don't believe the clamp would cause any issues. I bet it's stainless steel, which might leech iron.

One thing I was having issues with when I started was how consistent the SPS was getting alkalinity and calcium. I had very similar stats when I started my aquarium, but didn't realize that water changes make it fluctuate a lot. The stats of Red Sea Coral Pro is a lot higher than your aquarium.

Maybe try a doser or calcium reactor. You could do hand dosing, but nothing was even close to when I got a doser.

I have a strong feeling it's consistency.

47 minutes ago, Elmorenicholas said:

Good afternoon everyone. Need some help. I am having issues with SPS as the forum title implies. First parameters

ALK 8.9-9.1 swing through out the day

Calcium 480

Mag 1500

Nitrates 20

Phos .15

Temp 76.5 -78

Amonia 0

Nitrites 0

My issues is when first adding any sps thwy look great. However they are slowly dying off after 2 to 3 weeks. No tissue loss. They just gradually lose polyp extension and color and die off. My par levels are good and nothing is burning either.  LPS corals look great. Zoas look ok but dont open all the way. Thw one possibility I'm thinking is that I have a metal clamp in the water on my return pump. I'm wondering if this is leaching and causing my issues. Could anyone help with some ideas. I'm kind of lost for probable causes. 

Just depends on the metal. If you can identify the metal, we can probably tell you if it is a problem. Iron really isn't an issue, along with many other metals. Copper is an issue.

Also, how often do you do water changes?

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30 minutes ago, Sailingeric said:

 I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

I saw your boss on this forum. He said you do twice as much work as him. That's why he hired you.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01030-y/

http://pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu/browse/family-noctuidae/subfamily-amphipyrinae/tribe-psaphidini/feralia/feralia-deceptiva/

10 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

Looks like a Deceptive Sallow Moth.  See https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Feralia-deceptiva

You were so on point with that find. 

Up here in Washington, over the years I have seen a few of the Sphingidaes. Brought them to show-and-tell as a kid. 

http://pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu/photographic-plates/

Moths are cool.

Clownfish: What_The_Frag

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1 Day!

19 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

@milesmiles902 After posting the above photo, I realized I had something better.  May I retract the original submission and replace it with this one?

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This might be too graphic for the nature of picture of the month. 

Maybe just leave it to the first submission.

3 days left!

Your ferret is winking at you. It appreciates the pillow offering.

11 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

The tang gets plenty of food.  In fact, while I recorded the video there was a piece of nori on the other side of the tank.  He goes back and forth between eating the nori and then pecking at the shrimp.  It's like some sort of game for him.

Yeah, that stuff happens. I'm sorry to hear it.

I remember finding my starfish with one of it's legs dissolving. I was so unsure about what was happening that I didn't know what to do. Then, one day I got up to use the restroom and found my cleaner shrimp destroying the starfish as it tried to crawl away.

Hopefully, it will soon subside.

Here are the rules:

In reemergence of April Fool's, let's post some funny pictures of either yourself with an animal, a silly characteristic that an animal does or something just plain silly.

Example 1: SuncrestReef's kole tang eating his shrimp.

Example 2: A goby sitting on a perch

Example 3: An upside down starfish

Deadline:

May 1st, 11:59 pm

Edited February 2 by milesmiles

Favorite Pet: householdofpayne

Please vote once!

The winner for February Picture of the Month is: householdofpayne