kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff - Page 4

kien · #1 02-20-2010, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Carmen

Hey I'm available for babysitting!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Carmen

BOTH!

I'm more than willing to share. There's plenty to go around.. apparently

Leah · #2 02-20-2010, 06:32 AM

You are willing to share the guy's, uh Carmen don't forget your friends

Kien should we mention the crabs here or no?

kien · #3 02-26-2010, 01:12 AM

Oh how I love this hobby! So 6 plus months of great growth and general SPS coral vitality and now a couple of them have decided to start STN'ing on me...

So far they aren't beyond saving but I can clearly see blotches developing at the base where they are losing cells.

If I had to guess, and I suppose that's what I'm doing at this point, I would blame it on the bio pellets. I've been using them for about two months now and they have pulled my nitrates down to zero after 4 weeks. I assumed that my fish load would be enough to sustain my SPS but maybe not. Maybe the corals are starving? Looks like I need to look into supplemental feeding.

Nothing else has changed in the tank. All params are in check.

Delphinus · #4 02-26-2010, 05:39 AM

Good luck sorting it out ..

karazy · #5 02-26-2010, 01:44 PM

you should try dosing rotifers and oyster-feast

Carmen · #6 02-26-2010, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

Oh how I love this hobby! So 6 plus months of great growth and general SPS coral vitality and now a couple of them have decided to start STN'ing on me...

So far they aren't beyond saving but I can clearly see blotches developing at the base where they are losing cells.

If I had to guess, and I suppose that's what I'm doing at this point, I would blame it on the bio pellets. I've been using them for about two months now and they have pulled my nitrates down to zero after 4 weeks. I assumed that my fish load would be enough to sustain my SPS but maybe not. Maybe the corals are starving? Looks like I need to look into supplemental feeding.

Nothing else has changed in the tank. All params are in check.

This can be such a frustrating hobby, can't it Kien? I hope that is it for the stning...save what you can and hope it's just those. Your tank is incredible so you are doing something right...just a little bump in the road.

kien · #7 02-26-2010, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Carmen

This can be such a frustrating hobby, can't it Kien? I hope that is it for the stning...save what you can and hope it's just those. Your tank is incredible so you are doing something right...just a little bump in the road.

Yup, definitely challenging at times. This morning I found my gorg laying on top of my lobo which is a very powerful stinger. Half my gorg is dead

kien · #8 02-27-2010, 12:40 AM

doh! I just found out that I haven't been running my carbon for a couple of weeks now. Yikes! I guess I unplugged it a couple of weeks ago while rewiring things around and forgot to plug it back in. The carbon is pitch black and it is hard to see under the dark stand so I just assumed it was running. Anyway, hope this was it. Carbon is supposed to help remove unwanted chemicals I think? Like for example the nasty chemicals that corals use during chemical warefare? So maybe without the carbon stripping it out it was building up in my tank and started affecting some of them.

kien · #9 03-01-2010, 05:45 AM

One of my brains decided it wanted to have some lunch today. He usually opens at night but I have never ever seen him open during the day before!

kien · #10 04-14-2010, 08:00 AM

So if you've been following along you'll know that I run a Profilux II to control my various aquarium equipment. Well, the Profilux 3 came out not too long ago and I jumped on the upgrade bandwagon pretty much right away. Got a smoking deal on it from my favourite LFS (Red Coral Aquariums - thanks Kevin!!). Haven't had a chance to install the it until now though..

Ever wonder what the guts of a Profilux looks like?

The hardware upgrade itself was pretty easy once I found the instructions (online). One complaint I do have though is the fact that every set of instructions I found said in step 1 to remove the top of the controller, but none of them said how to do that! It took me a little while to figure it out. Those blue tabs just click in and out of place, then the top and bottom halves slide apart. No screws involved.

Anyway, here is the reassembled controller with the Profilux 3 upgrade installed.

The hardest part about the whole thing was actually reapplying all the settings as the upgrade pretty much wipes them all out. Good thing I wrote down everything.

And here we are back online!