SuncrestReef

The PAR meter is only available to paid Supporting Members of PNWMAS. If you'd like access to it, you can become a member for $24/year, which also includes additional benefits. See: https://www.pnwmas.org/forums/topic/48002-how-to-become-a-paid-supporting-member/

On the Eighth Day of Giving my reef club gave to @Reef Chard ... Finnex 500w Heater with Controller! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

Trident Controlled Dosing will make small adjustments to increase or decrease the base amount the DOS delivers, but only when the test results are within the limits you defined. Once the results exceed the limits, the DOS reverts to delivering the base amount and the Trident no longer adjusts it until the next test result falls back within the limits. This is by design, so in case a test result is way off, it doesn't instruct the DOS to do anything drastic. Read this document for details on how it's designed to work: https://www.neptunesystems.com/getstarted/trident/tridentdos/

On the Seventh Day of Giving my reef club gave to @Raj ... BRS Coral Propagation Kit! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

Some of our members live in or near Eugene. Perhaps they can chime in with advice? @talkalot82 @EMeyer @AnglersReef @Lexinverts

OK, I sent @CuttleFishandCoral Jeff a message to place a gift certificate on file for you. Congrats!

You can send a PM, or simply start your own thread on the forum.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Please clarify.

On the Sixth Day of Giving my reef club gave to @Brittany ... a $50 Gift Certificate to the LFS of your choice! Congratulations! Since you're outside the Portland Metro area, send me a PM to coordinate which store you'd like for the gift certificate. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

On the Fifth Day of Giving my reef club gave to @nkaihani ... Hanna HI 782 Nitrate Checker! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

I’m surprised that none of the winners have responded yet. 🤷‍♂️

On the Fourth Day of Giving my reef club gave to @Smiles ... Auqa Gadget ReefRack 50 Expandable Frag Rack! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

On the Third Day of Giving my reef club gave to @Yourmedic ... Flipper Magnifying Glass! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm. (this post was accidentally deleted, so reposting now)

On the Second Day of Giving my reef club gave to @psychofireman ... IceCap Clip-on Camera Filter with Macro Lens! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

Also, if you're new to the Apex, be sure to read my whole series of Apex tutorials to get the most out of your new setup: https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/authors/suncrestreef.93940/

If you have a spare bottle of calibration fluid, feel free to calibrate. But if you don't, then I'd just wait until you replace all the reagents before calibration. The primary goal is to maintain stability. So even if the numbers are slightly off from your other test kit, as long as the Trident can help you maintain stable levels you will be much better off than without it. Before I got my Trident, I always tested Alk every day at 9am, and I thought my parameters were pretty stable. But after getting the Trident, I quickly discovered that the alk swings quite a bit throughout the day as the lighting cycle triggers the corals to increase and decrease the demand. Look at this Trident graph showing the daily swings, but my daily 9am readings in red. Checking the parameters frequently reveals patterns that are otherwise unknown: I used this data to adjust my dosing schedule to dose more during the day and less at night to counteract the daily swings. Read more about my Trident experience and findings here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/trident-hands-on.596716/

FYI: The prizes start out small, and get bigger and better each day. I'm selecting the winners by using the Google random number generator, telling it to choose a number between 1 and 85 which corresponds with the number of entries. Good luck, everyone!

On the First Day of Giving my reef club gave to @Blexey ... ReVive Coral Dip! Congratulations! Your prize is available at Cuttlefish & Corals. The next drawing is tomorrow at 5:00pm.

Welcome to the Twelve Days of Giving!!! On the Twelve Days of Giving, my reef club gave to me... Day Prize Description Winner 1 ReVive Coral Dip @Blexey 2 IceCap Clip-on Camera Filter with Macro Lens @psychofireman 3 Flipper Magnifying Glass @Yourmedic 4 Auqa Gadget ReefRack 50 Expandable Frag Rack @Smiles 5 Hanna HI 782 Nitrate Checker @nkaihani 6 $50 Gift Certificate @Brittany 7 Coral Propagation Kit @Raj 8 Finnex 500w Heater @Reef Chard 9 Duetto Dual-Sensor ATO System @ocboat 10 Nero 5 Powerhead @VanillaMoon 11 VorTech MP10QD Powerhead @Esheafer 12 ReeFi UNO LED light @Algaewarrior Winners will be announced each day at 5:00 PM beginning December 1, 2021. Prizes will be available for pickup at Cuttlefish & Corals in Portland, or if you are outside of the Portland Metro area, send me a PM to coordinate shipping your prize. Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you for supporting PNWMAS.

Your account expires tomorrow. To be eligible, it needs to be valid through the end of the raffles on December 12th. You can renew by following these instructions: https://www.pnwmas.org/forums/topic/48002-how-to-become-a-paid-supporting-member/

Yes, mine runs every other Wednesday at noon, then it sends me an email status report. Pretty cool.

With one day left before the deadline to enter our 12 Days of Giving raffles, so far only 52% of the paid PNWMAS Supporting Members have entered the raffles. That means there are 58 paid members who are eligible to enter the raffles, but either are not interested in winning great prizes, maybe are being generous to give up their chance to let others win, or simply don't know what they're missing out on. For the 63 members who have entered, you have pretty good odds of winning one or more of the 12 mystery prizes! Watch for the winners to be announced each day beginning on Wednesday, Dec. 1st at 5:00 PM.

Got it. Sorry I missed your entry yesterday.

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The Display is compatible with all models of Apex.