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In my opinion all of those fancy bottles of "Strontium" and "Coral Snow" and "Zooplex" are a useless money grab (At least for a few of them). A successful reef needs good water changes, a proper nitrate sink, good light, flow and above all else STABILITY.
So for things always on hand Salt, RO water and Carbon. Levi |
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I would research what you need, depending on what you decide, will also decide what type of light you need. Let us know what some of your decisions are and then we can maybe add our 2 cents worth for you. Personally I am one of those guys that use the Zeo products with the new NP BioPellets and all I can say is they do work. Others may disagree, but these decisions are yours to make and no one elses. Have fun!
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Setup: 180G DT, 105G Refuge (approx. 300lbs LR, 150lbs Aragonite) Hardware: Super Reef Octopus SSS-3000, Tunze ATO, Mag 18 return, 2x MP40W, 2X Koralia 4's Wavemaker Lighting: 5ft Hamilton Belize Sun (2x250W MH, 2X80W T5HO) Type of Aquarium: mixed reef (SPS & LPS) with fish Dosing: Mg, Ca, Alk |
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I will be keeping alot of Soft Corels and I am using a T5HO Nova Extreme 6 bulb light. I am also using a 30 gallon sump
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For soft corals, you should be fine and really not needing anything else but good water changes, using a salt like Instant Ocean or H2O. Also the lights should be great. Just have the necessary test kits avalaible to make sure of the following: - Calcium - 400-450 - DKH - 9-11 - Nitrates - of course as low as possible - Ammonia - again, as low as possible - Use a refractometer for measuring your salt - 1.023 - 1.026 - Temp - 78-80 F I hope this helps
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Setup: 180G DT, 105G Refuge (approx. 300lbs LR, 150lbs Aragonite) Hardware: Super Reef Octopus SSS-3000, Tunze ATO, Mag 18 return, 2x MP40W, 2X Koralia 4's Wavemaker Lighting: 5ft Hamilton Belize Sun (2x250W MH, 2X80W T5HO) Type of Aquarium: mixed reef (SPS & LPS) with fish Dosing: Mg, Ca, Alk |
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This might be a stupid question but as a new reefer myself, I have purchased all them fancy bottles of chemicals needed in reef keeping. My concern is that won't the protein skimmer and carbon just remove most of the chemicals anyways before the corals can absorb them???
Do you guys keep the protein skimmer and canister filters running when you dose your tanks? BTW: Thanks kien for the Calcium and Alk tutorials! Love the threads! |
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260g mixed reef, 105g sump, water blaster 7000 return, Bubble King SM 300 skimmer, Aqua Controller Jr, 4 radions, 3 Tunze 6055s,1 tunze 6065, 2 Vortech MP40s, Vortech MP20, Tunze ATO, GHL SA2 doser, 2 TLF reactors (1 carbon, 1 rowa). http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50034 . Tank Video here http://www.vimeo.com/2304609 and here http://www.vimeo.com/16591694 |
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Yes, I think we can probably both agree to disagree here :-) I don't think that it will always happen. There are lots of people that are perfectly happy with their saltwater fish tank with a few softies. I for one would not subject a newbie to reef chemistry 101. You pile all of that up with everything else and it can seem quite daunting and possibly discouraging.. when all they really want is to keep a few saltwater fish and some softies maybe? I'm not suggesting that we don't need to teach/learn it but maybe not on day 1/ground zero.
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