Scott's 270g aka Project Mayhem

reefermadness · #1 07-15-2014, 01:24 PM

Really love these updates. Everything looks so good and healthy.

Scythanith · #2 07-15-2014, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by reefermadness

Really love these updates. Everything looks so good and healthy.

Thanks Darryl, I may have to ask you the names of a couple of the Acropora sp. when they get a bit bigger. I have the names of what I bought, I'm just not sure which is which since I moved them from the 40g.

Scythanith · #3 08-27-2014, 02:37 AM

I just did another flatworm treatment regime before heading out to work. I siphoned oh I'd say 4000 or more flatworms and then treated the tank with a double dose of Flatworm Exit. It worked well, I followed the instructions (aside from the double dose) and everything looks great!

I am getting great growth and just ordered some new RR sps that I hope to get in the tank once I get home.

Check out the re-growth over the middle of the monti. Look back at the old pictures to see the previous recession.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

And some simple candy apple reds

Scythanith · #4 09-01-2014, 07:20 PM

Just ordered an Apogee MQ-200 and the sensor

Now I can have some sort of quantitative measurement for the corals!

Scythanith · #5 09-15-2014, 04:08 PM

So my RR sps are showing up today and here are my test results from this morning:

Mg 1350, Ca 400, Alk 7.9 dKh, phosphate 0.04ppm, Nitrate 0.2ppm, s.g. 1.025

My apogee meter showed up and I will start testing today or tomorrow

I also picked up a couple nice chalices and some zoo's from the LFS. They are sweet!

Scythanith · #6 09-16-2014, 06:34 PM

Details:

Mitras 6100HV running in High Efficiency mode with max output at 80% (brightness set to 70% in Light composer)
Initial PAR numbers:

~280 at water surface (9.5" from lights)
~150 9" down from water surface
~80 20" down from water surface in somewhat shade

Mitras 6100HV running in High Efficiency mode with max output at 100% (brightness set to 95% in Light composer)

~480 at water surface
~250 9" down from water surface
~120 20" down from water surface in somewhat shade
~150 on bottom of tank

So the important question is do you think bringing up the average PAR values by 50% is a bad idea? Seems a little drastic to me. I am thinking maybe dial them back to a 25% increase and see how things react and then go back to the 95% brightness. Suggestions, opinions, etc?

Scythanith · #7 09-16-2014, 06:50 PM

I went ahead and dropped total brightness down to 82%. That put the PAR numbers all ~25-30% higher than original. I will see what response that gets and then go up from there hopefully. The whole reason i want to go up is from the reading I have been doing on PAR values around some of the SPS I'd like to keep.