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My tank is ok... it's still running... The nicest tank in the West is only a short drive from you... Quote:
These shots were just taken earlier this month... Guess I need to update my signature... I've stopped running bio pellets for a couple mths now but I will dose vinegar two or three times per week. Nitrates has been .2 or lower and phosphates are between .01 and .02 for the last two years. I am still dosing a couple Zeo products but I have been slowly converting over to Aqua Forest. I'll post some coral pics later, Cheers!
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Looking nice! The corals have grown out nicely within.
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That's interesting that you ditched the pellets. Curious as to why? Were they causing a problem ? I'm actually thinking about switching to a different carbon dosing method too. My pellet reactor is acting up. Mostly the pump as it's not fluidizing my pellets as well anymore. I'll probably switch to vinegar or vinegar-vodka. |
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Ya, I have all my photos on a hard drive and debating whether or not I want to re-upload them somewhere else like Flickr or even the Canreef photo gallery, but as you said, that's a hellofa lot of work.. but going back through my build thread, a lot of those posts are useless now without their photos
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If you do change, why not just dose only vinegar and see how the tank reacts to it first before adding vodka?
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Nice. Ya, my biopellets ended up in the same scenario where they took forever to deplete, which kind of makes sense if your tank has super low nitrates (and phosphates). I do still like the simplicity of just leaving the pellets in the reactor and forgetting about them for a year as they do their thing and tumble away :-) That said, mine are struggling to tumble due to a faulty pump so I either get a new pump for the reactor or use one of my spare dosing pumps to dose vinegar instead. I suppose I could just do vinegar without the vodka. I've never done either but I've read up on both.
Your tank looks like it has all of two fish in it? I see a cardinal and a tang. Is that all you have in there??? :-) |
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There are more fish in there... lots of leopards and a few fairy wrasses... they have all went to bed when I was taking the pics in the evening...
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At the end of the day I may just get a new pump. Would be a lot easier than working up to figuring out what my vinegar dosing rate would be. |